-16th April 2007 Claws Mail 2.9.0
+27th June 2008 Claws Mail 3.5.0
CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org
Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
+Notes for this release:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* 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 a Maemo port
- The Maemo port touches several areas: using the correct APIs for
- a good integration, adding of a new layout suited for small
- screens, Maemo-specific default preferences changes, Maemo-specific
- GUI improvements, etc.
-
-* Added more customisable colour labels
-
-* Added 'Mark as spam', 'Mark as ham', and 'Add to address book'
- filtering actions
-
-* Added a new Quote Format symbol, %A, to insert the sender's email
- address
-
-* Changed the option to display unread message counts next to folder
- names: it is now possible to display the total count of messages
- too. Configurable from Display/Summaries
-
-* If Claws Mail is already running on another display, attempting to
- start it will mention that instead of popping up the window on the
- other display
-
-* Added debugging of filtering/processing rules. Configurable from
- Other/Logging options page
-
-* Added handling of the contextual menu key in compose windows and
- MIME parts list
-
-* Added a "pulsing" progressbar in the label window used when
- rebuilding folder tree, etc, in order to show activity
-
-* Improved "Offline mode override" dialogue to avoid asking
- repeatedly, but still ask on explicit user actions
-
-* Improved the creation of POP/Local accounts when no MH mailbox
- exist: create the default one
-
-* Write folderlist directly after adding/deleting accounts that have
- folders
-
-* Added logging IMAP ALERTs as errors in the log
-
-* Added a way for MimeViewer plugins to implement search in a part's
- body
-
-* Updated, added and replaced some icons
-
-* Added display of any LDAP specified Search attributes
-
-* Added 'telephoneNumber' in the default LDAP list of attributes
-
-* Updated the Face header in the welcome message
-
-* Added the option to minimize to tray in the Trayicon plugin
-
-* Added a wrapper to mairix in the tools folder, tools/mailrix.sh
-
-* Added a script which enables inserting files into the message body
- of a new Compose window from the command line,
- tools/claws-mail-compose-insert-files.pl
-
-* Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, French, German,
- Hungarian, Polish,Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish
- translations
-
-* Bug fixes
- o Fix bug 1111, 'PGP/inline plugin hides text
- around encrypted text block'
- o Fix bug 1134, 'Valgrind macros unhandled
- by Irix's cc'
- o Fix bug 1140, 'wrong return value without libetpan'
- o Fix bug 1143, 'Add number of messages to be
- deleted to confirmation dialog'
- o Fix bug 1145, 'Setting a different name
- for the Mailbox name isn't reflected in
- default account settings'
- o Fix bug 1149, 'crash on logwindow close'
- o Fix bug 1153, 'CM segfaults if IMAP folder is
- selected while scanning prior to update'
- o Fix bug 1157, 'some broken messages confuse
- mime parser'
- o Fix bug 1167, 'Allow not displaying zeros
- in folder list'
- o Fix '+' in mailto URIs for List-* headers
- o Fix decoding of some quoted-printable parts
- o Fix English usage
- o Fix logics issues around the action IO dialog:
- o Fix default inbox weirdnesses
- o Fix unconditional "error happened" when sending via
- command line
- o Fix some race conditions when changing the folder list
- o Fix escaping account names in filtering prefs
- o Fix unsubscription/resubscription after renaming IMAP
- folders
- o Fix wrong action performed when closing the "ask about
- account specific filtering rules when filtering manually"
- dialog by pressing Escape.
- o Fix getting a false error when sending queued message
- whereas the sending was fine (if there are subfolders in
- the queue folder)
- o Fix possible trashing of history and uidl files on disk full
- problems
- o Fix transparent images
- o Fix image sizes in new Message windows
- o IMAP: Fix crash with Citadel
- o Don't scan for new mail on startup if --select is specified
- o Fix possibles crashes when getting text from gtk combos
- o Workaround a bug with GTK+ 2.6.x where
- gtk_combo_box_get_active_text() returns NULL
+* 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.
+
+* Added an option, "Select the HTML part of multipart/alternative
+ messages". This is available on the Message View/Text Options
+ preferences page.
+
+* Added an option to the 'Create new folder' dialogue which enables
+ new folders to inherit the properties of their parent folders
+ during folder creation.
+
+* 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.
+
+* 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.
+
+* Added support for the Avant Window Navgator (Awn) information
+ bubble. This is automatically enabled if dbus is available.
+
+* 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.
+
+* The SHA1 fingerprint is now shown on the SSL certificate dialogue
+ and the labels are now selectable.
+
+* Several GUI improvements have been made, (Address book, filtering
+ dialogue, Actions dialogue, and Account preferences).
+
+* 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.
+
+* Added the Trash and Delete icons to the Custom Toolbars options.
+
+* SMTP-only accounts are now not shown in the Receive menus and
+ Account lists in filtering/processing, as they are irrelevant here.
+
+* tools/csv2addressbook.pl
+ Support for a gmail exported csv address book was added.
+
+* Updated English, French, and Spanish manuals.
+
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French,
+ German, and Spanish.
+
+* 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)
+
+* 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