-25th September 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.0
+8th January 2007 Claws Mail 2.7.0
- SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
- http://www.sylpheed-claws.net
+ CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
+ http://www.claws-mail.org
-Sylpheed-Claws is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
+Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
-Notes for this release:
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-* Minimum required versions of GTK+ and GLIB is now 2.6.0
-
-* Minimum required version of libetpan (for IMAP support) is now 0.46
-
-* metamail support has been dropped, this is now handled internally
+Claws Mail was previously known as Sylpheed-Claws.
New in this release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-* New plugin: Bogofilter, providing Spam filtering and learning
-
-* Account-based filtering rules. Each filtering rule can now be
- assigned to a specific account, by default it's "All".
+* The --select option can now also select emails by Message-ID
-* Filtering against Address Book. It is now possible add matched
- conditions to determine if any email address in a message matches
- or doesn't match any or all books or folders in the Address Book.
+* 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
-* Quote folding. Quotes in the message view can now be folded, via
- the "/View/Quotes/..." menu. The folding can also be toggled by
- double clicking on the quotes in the Message View
+* 'New Message format' has been added to the Compose/Writing options,
+ this works like the Quote format and the same symbols are supported
-* Re-enabled user-defined Headers in Displayed Headers configuration
-
-* "/View/Go to/Parent message" and "/View/Go to/Last read message"
- have been added
-
-* Made the list views look more modern by add alternating coloured
- lines, replacing the box-type expanders with arrows, removing the
- dotted lines.
- Hidden prefs have been added to enable users to maintain the old
- style:
- 'enable_dotted_lines' for the dotted lines and box-type expanders.
- 'use stripes_in_summary' to enable alternating coloured lines in
- the Message and Folder lists.
- 'use stripes_everywhere' to also enable alternating coloured lines
- in all other lists.
- Note: 'use_stripes_everywhere' replaces the previous hidden option
- 'enable_rules_hint'.
-
-* New hidden pref, 'stripes_color_offset', to change the value added/
- subtracted to normal bgcolor to create the stripes in the summaries
-
-* The Send button on the main toolbar is now inactive when the Queue
- folders are empty
-
-* IMAP: Added a View Log button on auth error
-
-* PGP/Core plugin: it is now possible to create a new key pair from
- within Sylpheed-Claws
-
-* PGP/Core plugin: When encrypting, if only one key matches, and it
- matches exactly, it is automatically used
-
-* TrayIcon plugin: the icon now has transparency
-
-* Enabled text selection for replying from MimeViewer plugins
-
-* The attachments list in the MimeView column can now be scrolled
- using the mousewheel
-
-* In the MimeView column a middle-click will now just open the Mime
- part without showing it in the Message View, likewise, a right-
- click will display the context menu without displaying the part
-
-* The "When entering a folder..." selection option is now used for
- '/View/Go to/Next unread folder'
-
-* A special Return-Receipt message is shown if the message is from
- the user
-
-* An icon has been added to the statusbar to notify of errors
-
-* Added missing icons to the Icon Legend dialog
-
-* Enabled closing of SSL certificates and Folder Sort dialogs with Esc
- key
-
-* Displaying of huge mails can now be cancelled, so the GUI doesn't
- block
-
-* Sylpheed-Claws' internal queue headers are now hidden when showing
- all headers. They'll be present only in Source window.
-
-* Several GUI improvements.
-
-* Faster loading of folders and other optimisations and speed-ups
-
-* Logging has been improved.
-
-* improved sizing of some widgets
-
-* Made the desktop file XDG compliant
-
-* The manuals have been updated
-
-* A Spanish translation of the manual has been added
-
-* Added an action tool, tools/uuooffice, to open uuencoded *.doc files
- with OpenOffice.
-
-* Added an action tool, tools/fix_date.sh, to fix a missing Date field
- in emails.
-
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German,
- Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak and Spanish translations.
-
-* Bug fixes:
- o bug 456 'current message is hidden when the view is
- refreshed and extended search is "unread
- messages"'
- o bug 956 'DnD text with accents in compose text entry'
- o bug 973 'Unicode punctation characters are not recognized'
- o bug 979 'Plugin crashes when exiting sylpheed-claws'
- o bug 988 'Very specific filesystem issue on temp files'
- o bug 995 '"Mark cross-posted as read" doesn't work'
- o bug 998 'last attachment is not accessible'
- o bug 999 'Timing out on TSL cert validation dialog makes
- ugly things happen'
- o bug 1007 'Wrong folder highlighted'
- o bug 1011 'wrong (negative) count on unread messages'
- o bug 1012 'crashed upon sending mail from compose window'
- o bug 1013 'expand selected thread tree'
- o problem with Actions of the format "> stuff >"
- o strict ISO C90 compliance
- o crash setting the priority on re-edit
- o default font size setting after wizard run
- o missing last line in some mail cases (Fixes debian bug
- #381872)
- o Send button sensitivity at startup
- o encrypt bug on IMAP
- o occasional IMAP bug where large msgs were left in the queue
- folder after sending
- o encrypted mail marked as new when saved in normal folders
- o switching to offline, asking if it should be overriden for
- synchronising
- o body quicksearch in non-encoded bodies containing '='
- o replied flag not being set after drafting
- o data loss when copy fails during a move
- o automatic sizing of some dialogs
- o compilation on FreeBSD
- o fix free-after-use in some cases
- (when procmime_encode_content() frees mimeinfo->data.mem
- and turns it to a temp file)
- o fix "real-time" sorting in folder list by freezing/thawing
- o fix can't click forward/backward buttons in the summary
- search
- o miscellaneous printing issues:
- - Bad font for linkified headers
- - Different font if the mail was displayed or not
- o select the mimepart icon when displaying as text
- o fix blocking check of an SSL certificate
- o update folder name label on folder rename
- o workaround possible GTK crash: remove selection clipboard
- before destroying widget, or GTK+-2.10
- o workaround GTK+ Bug 351600 - 'Can't re-click on button after
- sensitivity update'
+* 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
-http://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.
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