-2nd July 2007 Claws Mail 2.10.0
+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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-libetpan 0.49 is now required for IMAP support
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New in this release:
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-* Added "From, To or Subject" to the QuickSearch types.
-
-* Added handling of the 'a' key to loop through a mail's MIME parts.
-
-* In the Compose window "Add to address book" has been added to the
- context menu of the sender and recipient fields.
-
-* Implemented a proper References filtering condition.
-
-* Added the possibility to cancel receiving in IMAP accounts.
+* 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.
-* Made offline synchronisation faster.
+* Compose window: Show the total size of attachments on the
+ Attachments tab.
-* Added an alternate way to fetch flags on IMAP, which improves
- performance with some servers, (like Exchange).
- See "Bandwidth-efficient mode" in IMAP accounts' Receive
- preferences.
+* Compose window: Bcc has been added to the headers drop-down list.
-* Allow manual sorting of Templates.
+* Folder list: Top-level folders can now be copied. They are created
+ as regular folders in the target mailbox.
-* Templates improvements: easier syntax, add some useful variables.
+* Folder selection dialogue: Left/right keys collapse/expand rows.
+ Further keypress will move the cursor to parent or first child,
+ respectively.
-* Implemented per-account and per-folder compose/reply/forward
- Templates.
+* 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 a QuickSearch option to automatically run a search selected
- from the history.
+* 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.
-* Made the Summaries Preferemces page "when entering a folder..."
- options fully customisable.
+* 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.
-* Added an "Open last opened folder at startup" option to the
- Summaries page in the Prerferences.
+* Icon Themes: Support for SVG themes with icon scaling capabilities
+ has been added. This requires libRSVG 2.40.5 or newer.
-* Changed the Preference "Only mark as read when opened in new
- window" on the Summaries page to "Only mark as read when opened
- in new window, or replied to".
+* 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.
-* Allow disabling mail filtering plugins on a per-account
- basis.
+* 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 an option to the Bogofilter and SpamAssassin plugins to
- enable marking saved spam as Read.
+* GData plugin: This plugin now requires libgdata version 0.17.2 or
+ newer.
-* Added a warning about encryption limits, which can be disabled.
+* TNEF parser plugin: This plugin now uses an external libytnef.
-* Removed the "Download all" preference from POP3 accounts; it
- was useless and confusing.
+* vCalendar plugin: This plugin now uses an external libical, version
+ 2.0.0 or newer is required.
-* Re-organized some Preferences page.
+* Mail Archiver plugin: - updated to support some of the compression
+ formats up to libarchive 3.2.2
-* Replaced the tabbed layout in Account Preferences with pages.
+* Several minor UI improvements.
-* Renamed 'Protocol Log' to 'Network Log'
+* Updated manual in English and Spanish.
-* Added a few cursor improvments while Claws is busy.
+* Updated man page.
-* Added support for CRLF in headers of messages.
-
-* Added support for a few more date formats (RFC3339 subsets).
-
-* The keypad's Enter key now does the same as the Return key.
-
-* Improved LDIF import, better error handling, UI cleanup.
-
-* LDAP write support has been added.
-
-* Use Hildon's file chooser on Maemo.
-
-* Updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, French, German,
- Hungarian, Russian, Simplified Chinese 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 848, 'Redirect breaks GnuPG'
- o bug 1217, 'reentrancy problems with time functions'
- o bug 1248, 'Core dumps after unloading plugin and clicking
- on load plugins'
- o bug 1249, 'Error handling for news errors needs
- modification'
- o Race condition when automatically drafting due to
- insertion on re-edit.
- o Consider "- -- \n" as signature separator (fixes signature
- stripping when replying to PGP/Inline signed emails).
- o Race condition crash when reconnection fails on IMAP.
- o Raising log windows when they are either minimized or in
- background.
- o Occasional crasher when cancelling message sending.
- o Stale news statusbar when scanning fails.
- o A few race conditions when sending/drafting emails.
- o Building of some plugins in Mac OS X.
- o Don't decode leading ENV_ and ~ in P_PASSWORD configuration
- values.
- o Incoming messages from local accounts always get filtered
- regardless of the preference.
- o Use gethostname() instead of uname(), fixes failures to
- determine hostname on some BSDs.
- o Crash if fork() fails when resolving hostnames.
- o Infinite loop when exiting with compose window(s) opened,
- when the draft folder is on IMAP and unreachable.
- o Sizing/alignment of the button bar in plugins window.
- o Copying text from HTML parts.
- o 'make distcheck' failure
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-
-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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