-6th May 2013 Claws Mail 3.9.1
+26th March 2017 Claws Mail 3.15.0
CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org
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Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
New in this release:
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-All plugins previously packaged as 'Extra Plugins' are now contained
-within the Claws Mail package. In addition to that, the following
-plugins have been dropped: TrayIcon, Dillo Viewer, and Gtkhtml2
-Viewer.
+* More granular options on when to open a selected message have been
+ added. There are now several checkboxes on the Display/Summaries
+ page of the Preferences which allow a greater flexibility.
+
+* Compose window: Show the total size of attachments on the
+ Attachments tab.
-This release contains the following plugins: ACPI Notifier, Address
-Keeper, Attachment Remover, Attachment Warner, Bogofilter, BS Filter,
-Clam AntiVirus, Fancy HTML Viewer, FetchInfo, gData, GeoLocation,
-Mail Archiver, MailMBOX, New Mail, Notification, PDF Viewer, Perl,
-PGP/Core, PGP/Inline, PGP/MIME, Python, RSSyl, SMime, Spam Report,
-SpamAssassin, TNEF Parse, and vCalendar.
+* Compose window: Bcc has been added to the headers drop-down list.
-* 3 command-line switches have been added:
- --cancel-receiving which cancels the currently running message
- retrieval operation
- --cancel-sending which cancels the currently running message
- sending operation
- --debug which toggles debug output.
+* Folder list: Top-level folders can now be copied. They are created
+ as regular folders in the target mailbox.
-* '/Message/Cancel sending' has been added to the main menu.
+* Folder selection dialogue: Left/right keys collapse/expand rows.
+ Further keypress will move the cursor to parent or first child,
+ respectively.
-* In the filtering and processing condition configuration for Age,
- it is now possible to match based on number of hours.
+* Menu items: 'Mark all unread [recursively]' has been added to the
+ folder context menu, message list menu, and the main window menu
+ and toolbar.
-* The GnuPG signature timestamp is now displayed in the full
- signature information
+* Toolbar actions: Mark, Unmark, Lock, Unlock, Mark [all] read, Mark
+ [all] unread, Ignore Thread, Watch Thread, and Delete Duplicate
+ Messages have been added to the main window toolbar's Actions list.
-* Support for GnuTLS priority string has been added. This is achieved
- via 2 hidden account preferences, gnutls_set_priority and
- gnutls_priority. The former turning the option on or off, the
- latter containing the required priority string.
+* Account compose signature: The value of the signature file now
+ takes a path relative to the user's home directory in addition to a
+ full path.
-* Keep-alive pings are now performed on IMAP and NNTP connections.
+* Icon Themes: Support for SVG themes with icon scaling capabilities
+ has been added. This requires libRSVG 2.40.5 or newer.
-* In the Compose window, the focus is now moved to the message body
- when focus is in the Subject entry and the Enter key is pressed.
-
-* The Delete key can now be used to remove Colour Label hotkeys.
+* Hidden preferences: colours for specifying Tags, QuickSearch, and
+ auto-filled header values have been added, both foreground and
+ background. Respectively, tags_color, tags_bgcolor,
+ qs_active_color, qs_active_bgcolor, qs_error_color,
+ qs_error_bgcolor, default_header_color, and default_header_bgcolor.
-* PDF Viewer: The printed PDF quality has been improved.
+* Hidden preferences: warn_sending_many_recipients_num, if greater
+ than zero, a warning dialogue is shown when the number of
+ recipients exceeds the number given.
-* Fancy HTML viewer: The options dialogue has been completely
- reworked, and disabling remote content is now totally strict.
-
-* Python plugin: Added Cc field to messageinfo objects.
+* GData plugin: This plugin now requires libgdata version 0.17.2 or
+ newer.
-* Python plugin: Added examples.
+* TNEF parser plugin: This plugin now uses an external libytnef.
-* Python plugin: Added a function to get an arbitrary header from a
- MessageInfo object
+* vCalendar plugin: This plugin now uses an external libical, version
+ 2.0.0 or newer is required.
-* Perl plugin: The documentation for insert_perl.pl has been
- improved.
+* Mail Archiver plugin: - updated to support some of the compression
+ formats up to libarchive 3.2.2
-* Basic handling of vcard 3.0 has been added to vcard2xml.py.
+* Several minor UI improvements.
-* A Swedish translation has been added to claws-mail.desktop.
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-* The man page has been updated.
+* Updated manual in English and Spanish.
-* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Finnish, French,
- German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish
+* Updated man page.
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+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Danish,
+ Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål,
+ Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, and Turkish.
* Bug fixes:
- o bug 1137, 'loading plugins with same profile on different
- archs'
- o bug 1684, 'view news messages with large attachements
- segfaults'
- o bug 1963, 'Preferences Templates Information Window Focus
- loss'
- o bug 2340, 'Create block list'
- o bug 2617, 'code cleanup'
- o bug 2624, 'dialog "Action Configuration" cannot be closed'
- o bug 2702, 'Support splitting subject line for small screen
- layout'
- o bug 2774, 'Select folder/New Folder dialog - modal problem'
- o bug 2785, 'Marking mails for deletion reopens internal
- message view'
- o bug 2801, 'Filtering Header:Name list is blank/corrupt'
- o bug 2826, 'replace deprecated gnutls function'
- o bug 2828, 'Use MD5 digest for socket name'
- o bug 2832, 'mail to from adress-book splitt names'
- o bug 2835, 'add_address() in addr_compl.c should allow a
- NULL name'
- o bug 2859, 'Newmail plugin doesn't work if Mail folder not
- present when it is loaded.'
- o bug 2862, 'Segmentation fault when replying to a message
- where the "code conversion" fails'
- o bug 2863, 'Applying has_attachment quicksearch on IMAP
- segfaults'
- o bug 2878 'bsfilter / folder.c:1435 Condition identifier
- != NULL failed'
- o bug 2879, 'Plain text mails treated as encrypted'
- o bug 2882, 'Reverse preference for external content'
- o bug 2885, 'SIGSEGV in hooks_marshal at hooks.c:108'
- o bug 2890, 'html2ps required...'
- o bug 2893, 'ical_yy_scan_bytes has wrong type'
- o bug 2903, 'key 'C' mention harcoded in string'
- o bug 2909, 'Changing folder quickly can cause wrong email to
- be deleted'
- o IMAP: Don't set charset on simple searches. Fixes Exchange
- 2007.
- o Disconnect NNTP accounts too when switching offline.
- o Fix sensitivity of next-unread toolbar button.
- o tools/gif2xface.pl, tools/outlook2claws-mail.pl: Fix
- address.
- o Add missing \n at end of the return receipt last part's
- headers.
- o Make LDAP over SSL work on Win32.
- o Fix crash on action error.
- o Fix trimming of leading spaces in actions.
- o tools/vcard2xml.py: Fix missing file encoding info.
- o fix sensitivity of 'Use both dictionaries' in compose
- window.
- o Fix actions with spaces (and quotes).
- o tools/vcard2xml.py: Lines split over more than one line
- breaks parser; Get email addres correct. Not only
- email;internet.
- o Escape filename/description text of MIME parts, prevents
- error if, e.g., the filename contains an ampersand.
- o Fix 'edit accounts' windows going behind when leaving an
- 'account preferences' window, by re-focusing this window.
- o Fix crash closing PDF information alert panel.
- o Fix default fonts on Windows.
- o Fix ugly icon in XFCE's alt-tab window.
- o Fix untranslated description in archiver plugin
- o fix crasher when using /Edit/Search folder on start-up with
- nothing selected.
-
-For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/
+ o bug 3251, 'A translated In-Reply-To header is sent
+ translated'
+ o bug 3571, 'recipient list lost and truncated'
+ o bug 3574, 'Template addressing'
+ o bug 3582, 'Select folder dialogue does not tell what is
+ selecting for'
+ o bug 3673, 'Be more friendly instead of "configure: error:
+ 'encrypt'-function not found."'
+ o bug 3734, 'undefined symbol error with flex-2.6.2'
+ o bug 3740, 'Templates information dialog can't be closed
+ with WM button'
+ 0 bug 3741, 'Deleting an account doesn't delete imapcache'
+ o bug 3742, 'Attaching file with plus sign in filename via
+ drag and drop doesn't work'
+ o bug 3762, 'redirect fails'
+ o bug 3764, 'Use external libical instead of the internal
+ copy'
+ o bug 3775, 'Error in string at src/mainwindow.c:4726?'
+ o bug 3777, 'Weird news dates for some RSS feeds'
+ o Debian bug 846170, 'incorrect IMAP UID handling'
+ o Allow sending empty messages in Session (just \r\n).
+ o fix some main window menu sensitivity issues
+ o make up/down key navigation obey 'always_show_msg'
+ o fix text selection when double-clicking quoted text and
+ 'collapse quoted text on double click' is turned off
+ o fix 'Go to' moving off current, unopened msg, and dialogue
+ to go to next folder
+ o obey 'always_show_msg' on "no more [...] msgs. go to next
+ folder?"
+ o make Go to/[Next|Prev] sort order aware
+ o don't ignore auto-account selection when forwarding on IMAP
+ and NNTP accounts
+ o on first run, use --alternate-config-dir (if set) on prefs
+ migration. prevents useless creation of ~/.claws-mail
+ directory
+ o fix colouring of auto-filled headers
+ o don't remove the To when changing account
+ o Honour autosave_encrypted preference when using external
+ editor.
+ o Fix 'search folder' not working in some cases
+ o Fix build on OSX.
+ o fix memory leaks
+ o when renaming folder, only update summaryview folder name
+ if the current folder is being renamed
+ o sensitise trayicon's 'get mail' and 'exit'
+ o Handle timezones correctly in vCalendar.
+ o Do not hardcode resolv.conf location
+ o fix building with --disable-deprecated
+
+For further details of the numbered bugs and RFEs listed above
+see http://claws-mail.org/bug/[BUG NUMBER]
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See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.
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