-8th January 2007 Claws Mail 2.7.0
+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.
-Claws Mail was previously known as Sylpheed-Claws.
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New in this release:
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-* The --select option can now also select emails by Message-ID
-
-* 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
-
-* 'New Message format' has been added to the Compose/Writing options,
- this works like the Quote format and the same symbols are supported
-
-* 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
+* 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.
-* Added an hidden option 'addressbook_use_editaddress_dialog' to
- embed the contact editor in the addressbook window in contrast to
- a separate dialog
+* Compose window: Show the total size of attachments on the
+ Attachments tab.
-* 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
+* Compose window: Bcc has been added to the headers drop-down list.
-* Allow copying of folders between mailboxes
+* Folder list: Top-level folders can now be copied. They are created
+ as regular folders in the target mailbox.
-* Better automatic account selection for mailing lists (searches for
- the email address in the Delivered-To header also)
+* Folder selection dialogue: Left/right keys collapse/expand rows.
+ Further keypress will move the cursor to parent or first child,
+ respectively.
-* Made the "Synchronise" menu item inactive when there's nothing to
- synchronise
+* Menu items: 'Mark all unread [recursively]' has been added to the
+ folder context menu, message list menu, and the main window menu
+ and toolbar.
-* Use Message font in Writing and Quoting preferences, as well as in
- Templates
+* 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.
-* Added more HTML symbols to the html to text converter
+* 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.
-* Save the addressbook's window size on closing
+* Icon Themes: Support for SVG themes with icon scaling capabilities
+ has been added. This requires libRSVG 2.40.5 or newer.
-* Better checks for syntax errors are applied to Templates and Quote
- formats
+* 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.
-* Added a check to avoid trying to use a non-existent folder as
- default inbox
+* 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.
-* Enable setting SSL via STARTTLS from the set-up wizard
+* GData plugin: This plugin now requires libgdata version 0.17.2 or
+ newer.
-* Added handling of ":port" in server addresses in the set-up wizard
- to specify a port to connect to
+* TNEF parser plugin: This plugin now uses an external libytnef.
-* Bogofilter plugin: added an option to print the X-Claws-Bogosity
- header in emails handled by the Bogofilter plugin (in MH folders
- only)
+* vCalendar plugin: This plugin now uses an external libical, version
+ 2.0.0 or newer is required.
-* Bogofilter plugin: added an option to whitelist senders found in
- addressbook
+* Mail Archiver plugin: - updated to support some of the compression
+ formats up to libarchive 3.2.2
-* Bogofilter plugin: Allow storing of Unsure mails in a specific
- folder to make better teaching easier
+* Several minor UI improvements.
-* Bogofilter plugin: Improved GUI interaction while Bogofilter is
- filtering
+* Updated manual in English and Spanish.
-* TrayIcon plugin: added an "Email from account/..." submenu
+* Updated man page.
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Catalan, Finnish,
- French, Italian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, and Spanish
- translations
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Danish,
+ Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål,
+ Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, and Turkish.
* 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/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
+ 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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