-31st October 2005 Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.99
+8th January 2007 Claws Mail 2.7.0
- SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
- http://claws.sylpheed.org
+ CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
+ http://www.claws-mail.org
-Sylpheed-Claws is an extended version of Sylpheed, a GTK+ based,
-lightweight, and fast e-mail client
+Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
+email client.
-Notes for this release:
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-* The binary is now 'sylpheed-claws' and not 'sylpheed'
-
-* The default config dir is now '~/.sylpheed-claws'. The user will
- be prompted to perform an automatic migration of configuration
- options to this new directory.
-
-* A new default internal icon theme has been added, based on the
- Gnomaws theme.
+Claws Mail was previously known as Sylpheed-Claws.
New in this release:
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-* Every Alert Panel now has keyboard accelerators.
+* The --select option can now also select emails by Message-ID
-* An 'Only once' button has been added for overriding Offline mode
+* Attaching files from 'mailto:' URIs (&attach=...) is now possible.
+ A dialog is displayed to make sure that the user is aware that the
+ mail will contain attachments
-* Installation Wizard:
- Added Local mbox.
- Added IMAP subdir.
- Moved IMAP subdir from Advanced to Receive tab.
- A welcome message has been added.
+* 'New Message format' has been added to the Compose/Writing options,
+ this works like the Quote format and the same symbols are supported
-* Messages are now sorted by Date by default
-
-* An offline switch has been added to the Trayicon plugin
-
-* Speed improvements to IMAP have been added.
-
-* When replying to an ML post with a Reply-To set on the poster's
- email, set the ML address in the To field and the Reply-To address
- in the Cc: field.
-
-* A warning dialog has been added on Mark all read, with a pref to
- prohibit it from re-asking.
-
-* GnuPG support:
- The noticeview is now shown on the message/rfc822 part in addition
- to the text/plain part.
- The privacy icon in the noticeview is now clickable and also uses
- key C to perform the signature check.
- The Trust field has been moved into Full info display.
- When trust is less than full, don't display a warning icon.
- Visual feedback is provided in the statusbar when checking
- signature.
- The PGP/MIME signature file is now named 'signature.asc'.
- The dialog for entering a passphrase has been improved.
-
-* Local deletion of news posts has been added.
-
-* A file selector has been added for selecting an account's Signature
- file
-
-* Many window sizes are now remembered.
-
-* The presense of marked msgs in unexpanded subfolders is now indicated
- by the icon of the parent folder.
-
-* QuickSearch:
- The message list is reset when the dialog is hidden.
- The 'Sticky' option, for keeping the search activated across folders.
-
-* The Subject is now set when forwarding multiple mails.
-
-* When a default Cc or Bcc is used, a check is performed to make sure
- the To header has also been set.
-
-* In the filtering dialog a warning dialog is shown if the rule was
- not saved.
-
-* The file and directory Browse buttons, ("...") have been improved.
-
-* When double-clicking an attachment the "Open with" dialog is
- presented if no command was found for the file type.
-
-* The X-Face has been added to the message view and can be toggled by
- '/Configuration/Preferences/Message View/Text options/Display
- X-Face in messageview'.
-
-* The message list context menu has been reworked.
-
-* When replying to a mail sent by yourself, Reply excludes your own
- address from the list of recipients. 'Reply All' and 'Reply to
- sender' still work like before.
-
-* When the Folder Preference 'Default To for replies' the entry in
- the Compose window is presented in bold text.
-
-* The About window has been reworked.
-
-* In the Themes preferences the list of themes is now alphabetically
- sorted.
-
-* updated translations: British English, Catalan, French, German,
- Italian, Norwegian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, and Spanish.
-
-* Bug fixes, including the following:
- o bug 826, 'X-Server hangs when right-clicking a PGP
- encrypted message'
- o bug 827, 'sylpheed-claws-gtk2: "Welcome" setup wizard after
- a permission error gives up & forgets itself.'
- o bug 828, 'Ignoring headers with spaces around = sign'
- o bug 829, 'Non-working "Encrypt message by default when
- replying to an encrypted message"'
- o bug 833, 'Autocompleting from addressbook fails with
- extended chars'
- o bug 834, 'Pressing CTRl-D on a message marked as locked
- crashes sylpheed.'
- o Fix mbox import/export buglets
- o fix disabled Execute menu item
- o Fix selection of current theme in prefs
- o Reselect "None" Privacy system when selecting an account
- with no privacy system defined
- o IMAP: Fixes related to mail subdir, creation and deletion
- of folders
- o IMAP: Don't allow creation of folders in NoInferior folders
- o IMAP: Fix bug when moving a folder
- o Fix pref corruption on folder move.
- o Fix corruption of column titles in summaryview
- o Fix SSL manager buttons' layout resizing when window size
- changes
- o fix news folder Folder Properties
- o Fix encoding issue in Save all and in overwrite-
- confirmation alertpanel
- o jPilot: Fix encoding
- o gnomeprint: Fix date format
- o Actions: fix crash on menu creation due to '/' in the
- action menu name
- o Fix updating of 'n items selected' count in summaryview
- when deselecting
- o Fix building on Solaris
- o Fix cursor position if quotation gets rewrapped.
+* Reworked the About dialog, including the addition of a new page,
+ 'Features', which indicates which of the optional features are
+ compiled in and which are not. A 'Release Notes' page was also
+ added
+
+* Added history combo for all search fields (message and text)
+
+* The 'mark_as_read_delay' option is not hidden anymore and can be
+ found in Configuration/Preferences/Summaries
+
+* Added global and per-folder preferences to set the default
+ alternate dictionary
+
+* Allow spell-checking to use both current and alternate dictionaries
+
+* Added an hidden option 'addressbook_use_editaddress_dialog' to
+ embed the contact editor in the addressbook window in contrast to
+ a separate dialog
+
+* Added a hidden option 'unsafe_ssl_certs', to allow storing
+ multiple SSL certificates for a given server/port. You will be
+ asked to accept unknown certificates. Unchecking this option will
+ require you to re-accept previously known certificates
+
+* Allow copying of folders between mailboxes
+
+* Better automatic account selection for mailing lists (searches for
+ the email address in the Delivered-To header also)
+
+* Made the "Synchronise" menu item inactive when there's nothing to
+ synchronise
+
+* Use Message font in Writing and Quoting preferences, as well as in
+ Templates
+
+* Added more HTML symbols to the html to text converter
+
+* Save the addressbook's window size on closing
+
+* Better checks for syntax errors are applied to Templates and Quote
+ formats
+
+* Added a check to avoid trying to use a non-existent folder as
+ default inbox
+
+* Enable setting SSL via STARTTLS from the set-up wizard
+
+* Added handling of ":port" in server addresses in the set-up wizard
+ to specify a port to connect to
+
+* Bogofilter plugin: added an option to print the X-Claws-Bogosity
+ header in emails handled by the Bogofilter plugin (in MH folders
+ only)
+
+* Bogofilter plugin: added an option to whitelist senders found in
+ addressbook
+
+* Bogofilter plugin: Allow storing of Unsure mails in a specific
+ folder to make better teaching easier
+
+* Bogofilter plugin: Improved GUI interaction while Bogofilter is
+ filtering
+
+* TrayIcon plugin: added an "Email from account/..." submenu
+
+* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Catalan, Finnish,
+ French, Italian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, and Spanish
+ translations
+
+* Bug fixes:
+ o bug 934, 'sylpheed claws 2.1 doesn't show Exchanges Public
+ Folders'
+ o bug 1052, 'templates %d and %D{fmt} broken but %af works
+ fine'
+ o bug 1055, 'Add the 'cancel receive' in the available events
+ for the toolbar buttons'
+ o bug 1059, 'Better jpilot charset handling'
+ o bug 1064, 'crash @ etpan_certificate_check() when opening
+ an IMAP folder'
+ o bug 1067, 'Claws-Mail uses 100% CPU on an IMAP folder and is
+ blocked on main thread'
+ o bug 1072, 'Claws stops fetching newsgroups from server when
+ newsgroup got deleted'
+ o bug 1076, 'privacy options are displayed even when pgp
+ plugin not loaded / available'
+ o bug 1077, 'sylpheed-claws does not start when IMAP server
+ is unavailable'
+ o bug 1080, 'Using SSL option in wizard for incoming server
+ does not activate SSL with STARTTLS'
+ o bug 1081, 'claws-mail segfaults when going offline while it
+ transfers mails via imap'
+ o bug 1082, 'incorrect / imprecise error message when imap
+ server provides ssl only through STARTTLS but
+ SSL is selected'
+ o bug 1085, 'Apply to subfolder doesn't work'
+ o bug 1088, 'ctrl-h produces repeatable crash'.
+ o bug 1089, 'NUL characters in Subject line are
+ misinterpreted'
+ o fixed encoding of headers in the welcome message
+ o fixed some sensitivity issues in preferences
+ o fixed crash when using Hide read messages with Mark as read
+ delay
+ o fixed parsing of mailcap files with tabs
+ o fixed address comparison when replying to all (it was
+ possible to reply to ourselves if the case was
+ different)
+ o fixed folder's cache update after running an Action
+ o fixed hiding of Quicksearch with Esc
+ o fixed printing of selection, message part, and images
+ o fixed page count in printing
+ o IMAP: Fix failure to get separator on LIST "" ""
+ o change manual's target dir to be LFH-compliant
+ o some compilation warning fixes
+ o don't warn about empty subject when redirecting emails
+ o fix scrolling of log window
+ o partial download: Fix Mark for download/deletion when
+ the relevant header is not the first one
+ o fixed slowness when appending on IMAP
+ o fixed wrong state of test regexp in folder preferences
+ o made desktop and icon files not dependant on GNOME 2
+ o fixed a little memory leak in the addressbook
+ o don't display errors when synchronising IMAP mailboxes that
+ have non selectable folders
+ o When possible, move messages from Queue to Sent instead of
+ copying and deleting
+ o don't use any MimeViewer plugin when showing all headers
+ o tools/maildir2claws-mail.pl: Only substitute 'sent-mail'
+ if it's the full directory name
+ o disable Control-Space (handle it as Space).
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi
-
-* and other code reorganisation, cleanups, and more.
+http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
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-See ChangeLog and README for full information regarding changes in
-this release.
+See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.