-3rd September 2007 Claws Mail 3.0.0
+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.
-Notes for this release:
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-* Claws Mail is now licensed under GPLv3 or later.
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New in this release:
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-* added Tags feature
- Tags are arbitrary labels that can be applied to messages. It is
- possible to create, edit, remove Tags; apply them to mails;
- filter on Tags or Tag presence; apply or unset Tags via Filtering
- actions; reference Tags in reply Templates.
-
-* Threads can now be sorted by most recent message
- /View/Sort/By thread date
-
-* Added "/View/Show or Hide/Column headers"
-
-* Added 'watch thread' feature
-
-* Enabled the running of folder Processing rules on demand
-
-* Added options to stop/enable writing logs to disc, see Logging
- page of preferences
-
-* IMAP and News: Implement age-based caching: allow the specifying
- of a threshold for the offline synchronisation feature, and whether
- old cached bodies should be removed. Accessible from the Folder
- Properties.
-
-* IMAP: Made multiple copy, (in the same IMAP account), faster by
- matching source/destination message UIDs.
-
-* LDAP: Ability to edit all Person attributes
-
-* Nicer layout of the message part icons
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-* Speed up and clean up rendering of larger msgs
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-* Use progress bar when sending messages
-
-* Made mainwindow's /Help/Manual point to the remote copy if the
- local copy doesn't exist
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-* Replaced some deprecated widgets
-
-* Enabled changing the emphasis color used to highlight the
- newsreader/x-mailer header value when it matches our preferred
- mail agent, (hidden pref 'emphasis_color' added to clawsrc).
-
-* tools/mew2claws-mail.pl
- Added new script that imports a Mew address book
-
-* tools/popfile-link.sh
- Added a new script that will open selected messages in
- POPFile control center, in order to change the message
- status.
-
-* Updated the manual
-
-* Check that Dillo's installed when loading the Dillo Browser
- plugin
-
-* Maemo improvements:
- o Automatically choose the correct application
- to open parts
- o Better way to notify of new mails
- o Destroy messageview after trashing mail
- o Simplified layout
- o Better toolbars, removal of CTree headers
- o Add a specific icon to go back to folder list
- o Improvements to the Wizard, About and icon legend dialogues
- o add an easy way to store data (mails and IMAP/NNTP caches)
- on one of the SD cards, and protect against unmounts if
- needed
- o plug the online/offline system into maemo's interfaces to
- have Claws automatically switch according to the system
- status (on IT OS 2007)
- o use HildonBanners to display status messages
- o force layout to be Small screen
- o put the progress bar in the toolbar
-
-* Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Finnish, French,
- German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese and
- Slovak translations.
-
-
-* Bugfixes:
- o bug 1224, 'The process of Replying to emails with large
- attachments seems unreasonably long...'
- o bug 1246, 'compose becomes increasingly slow replying to
- complex emails'
- o bug 1261, '[DE] coloring messages in overview keys are
- not localised'
- o bug 1267, 'printing mutliple messages opens one message-
- dialog after the other'
- o bug 1275, 'auto-saved draft messages not always being
- removed'
- o bug 1284, 'The html -> text converter ignores entities'
- o bug 1286, 'Can't move a folder into a "Folders Only"
- folder'
- o bug 1287, 'Compile time problem on Solaris (nexenta
- gnu/Solaris) utils.c'
- o bug 1292, 'CM crashes on writing mail'
- o bug 1290, 'Claws Mail crashes if too little memory when
- rebuilding folder tree'
- o bug 1293, 'LDAP address book not working'
- o fix processing progressbar
- o fix re-opening of all composing messages that were opened
- when closing the previous instance
- o fix toolbar prefs crash when no actions exist
- o fix typos around long form expressions in the quote lexer.
- o Quicksearch: Make search run on GDK_KP_Enter too
- o fix missing timestamp update on MH source folder when
- moving mails
- o fix 'o' (Open) shortcut on MIME parts
- o fix two vCard-related crashes
- o fix threads use on BSDs
- o copy all account preferences in account_clone() - some
- were missing.
- o fix 'List URLS'
- o Fix format string vulnerability
- o Fix all potential misuses of format-string functions
- o Address Book: Contacts are now locale-aware sorted in the
- address book
- o use suitable defaults for outbox,
- queue, drafts and trash folders
- o fix loss of subfolders properties when renaming a folder
- o fix Quicksearch's Sticky mode
- o fix signature replacement when it's been wrapped
- o fix cursor offset when quote contains UTF-8 chars
- o fix coloring of pastes as quotation
- o fix wizard crash when Mailbox dir already exists
- o IMAP: fix timeout setting (requires libetpan 0.52)
- o IMAP: better scanning (NOOP instead of CLOSE/SELECT)
- o IMAP: fix unwanted creation of libetpan's stream dump file
- o LDAP: fix possible crash on cache invalidation
- o LDAP: fix port being reset to 636 on SSL
- o LDAP: fix wrong "Connected successfully to server".
- o Maemo: layout fixes
- o Maemo: fix auto-completion
- o Maemo: fix sticking statusbars
- o Maemo: fix the strange "top_application" info at startup.
- o Maemo: fix crash on first launch
- o Maemo: don't opened selected folder when clicking on white
- space
- o Maemo: make Esc close messageviews
- o Maemo: fix message scrolling to the end on opening
- o Maemo: fix reopening same message
- o Maemo: fix opening of mails from keypad in Sent folders
- o Maemo: fix adjustments changes
- o Refresh window when processing
- o Windows: never pass NULL pointers for %s substitutions
-
-For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
+* 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.
+
+* Compose window: Bcc has been added to the headers drop-down list.
+
+* Folder list: Top-level folders can now be copied. They are created
+ as regular folders in the target mailbox.
+
+* Folder selection dialogue: Left/right keys collapse/expand rows.
+ Further keypress will move the cursor to parent or first child,
+ respectively.
+
+* Menu items: 'Mark all unread [recursively]' has been added to the
+ folder context menu, message list menu, and the main window menu
+ and toolbar.
+
+* 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.
+
+* 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.
+
+* Icon Themes: Support for SVG themes with icon scaling capabilities
+ has been added. This requires libRSVG 2.40.5 or newer.
+
+* 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.
+
+* 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.
+
+* GData plugin: This plugin now requires libgdata version 0.17.2 or
+ newer.
+
+* TNEF parser plugin: This plugin now uses an external libytnef.
+
+* vCalendar plugin: This plugin now uses an external libical, version
+ 2.0.0 or newer is required.
+
+* Mail Archiver plugin: - updated to support some of the compression
+ formats up to libarchive 3.2.2
+
+* Several minor UI improvements.
+
+* Updated manual in English and Spanish.
+
+* Updated man page.
+
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Danish,
+ Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål,
+ Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, and Turkish.
+
+* Bug fixes:
+ 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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