-27th June 2008 Claws Mail 3.5.0
+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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-* IMAP with STARTTLS
- The certificate port on TLS was fixed, however this will trigger
- one wrong 'New certificate' warning on the first connection.
-
New in this release:
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-* Added an option, "Use secure file deletion if possible", which
- enables shredding of temporary files and messages instead of
- just removing them. This is available on the Other preferences
- page.
+* 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.
-* Added an option, "Select the HTML part of multipart/alternative
- messages". This is available on the Message View/Text Options
- preferences page.
+* Compose window: Bcc has been added to the headers drop-down list.
-* Added an option to the 'Create new folder' dialogue which enables
- new folders to inherit the properties of their parent folders
- during folder creation.
+* Folder list: Top-level folders can now be copied. They are created
+ as regular folders in the target mailbox.
-* Added a hidden option, "two_line_vertical", which toggles the
- 2-line view in the message list when using the 3-column layout.
- Defaults to '1', show 2 lines.
+* Folder selection dialogue: Left/right keys collapse/expand rows.
+ Further keypress will move the cursor to parent or first child,
+ respectively.
-* Added a hidden option, "outgoing_fallback_to_ascii", which allows
- the user to specify an outgoing charset/encoding, but still fall
- back to 7bit US-ASCII when possible.
- Defaults to '1', fallback when possible.
+* Menu items: 'Mark all unread [recursively]' has been added to the
+ folder context menu, message list menu, and the main window menu
+ and toolbar.
-* Added support for the Avant Window Navgator (Awn) information
- bubble. This is automatically enabled if dbus is available.
+* 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.
-* Face and X-Face headers can now be added globally and per-account
- from configuration files under ~/.claws-mail/autofaces/. Further
- information is provided in the manual.
+* 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.
-* The SHA1 fingerprint is now shown on the SSL certificate dialogue
- and the labels are now selectable.
+* Icon Themes: Support for SVG themes with icon scaling capabilities
+ has been added. This requires libRSVG 2.40.5 or newer.
-* Several GUI improvements have been made, (Address book, filtering
- dialogue, Actions dialogue, and Account preferences).
+* 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.
-* New icons have been added for 'Reply to list' and 'Cancel'. The
- 'Insert file' and 'Close' icons have been improved, as have the
- tray icons.
+* 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.
-* Added the Trash and Delete icons to the Custom Toolbars options.
+* GData plugin: This plugin now requires libgdata version 0.17.2 or
+ newer.
-* SMTP-only accounts are now not shown in the Receive menus and
- Account lists in filtering/processing, as they are irrelevant here.
+* TNEF parser plugin: This plugin now uses an external libytnef.
-* tools/csv2addressbook.pl
- Support for a gmail exported csv address book was added.
+* vCalendar plugin: This plugin now uses an external libical, version
+ 2.0.0 or newer is required.
-* Updated English, French, and Spanish manuals.
+* Mail Archiver plugin: - updated to support some of the compression
+ formats up to libarchive 3.2.2
-* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French,
- German, and Spanish.
+* Several minor UI improvements.
-* Removed unmaintained translations: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech,
- Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Russian,
- Swedish, and Taiwanese. (New maintainers are very welcome,
- contact paul@claws-mail.org)
+* 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 1447, 'If user tries to close while starting up, it
- will not close ever.'
- o bug 1566, 'too short I/O timeout on OpenBSD'
- o bug 1576, 'Curly brace literals reported as error in
- message template'
- o bug 1581, 'Bad File Format during Import LDIF'
- o bug 1586, '3-pane vertical layout now and then still shows
- sender column'
- o bug 1587, 'can not replay with quote'
- o bug 1589, 'tagsdb file not removed when folder deleted'
- o bug 1597, 'In news folders, "Move Message to Wastebin" icon
- isn't grayed although ineffective'
- o bug 1598, 'Leading slash while translating "Unsubscribe"'
- o bug 1599, 'attach multiple files with the same name from
- one mail to another'
- o bug 1602, 'Crash when sending return receipt for messages
- with no subject'
- o bug 1604, 'found_in_addressbook "From" in "Any" in non
- english local'
- o bug 1608, 'Inconsistent behaviour of mark as read options'
- o bug 1610, 'claws crash after opening/closing preferences
- and window update'
- o bug 1613, 'Various memory leaks'
- o bug 1615, 'hang on FIFO when the other end's not opened'
- o bug 1616, 'strange question while emptying trash'
- o bug 1623, 'exits with segfault when logging in to certain
- imap-servers'
- o bug 1624, '[PATCH] Quick search should be disabled for
- folder view'
- o bug 1628, 'Claws Mail crashes when filtering selected
- messages'
- o bug 1635, 'Last character of message is truncated when
- changing accounts w/ sigs'
- o bug 1636, 'Can't select "properties" on "folders only"
- folders'
- o bug 1650, 'Message line too small after changing columns in
- "three columns" layout'
- o Use g_(un)setenv instead of (un)setenv which doesn't exist
- on IRIX 6.5.
- o Fix 'Delete line' and 'Delete to end of line' on the last
- line.
- o Fix double free when STARTTLS fails
- o Fix ldap deprecated calls
- o Fix debian bug 481856, 'Segmentation fault when verifying a
- GPG signature'
- o Fix cursor placing on signature change
- o tools/thunderbird-filters-convertor.pl
- Fix reading a tb rule that contains something like that:
- \"Sender\"
-
-
-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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