-2nd July 2007 Claws Mail 2.10.0
+27th June 2008 Claws Mail 3.5.0
CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org
Notes for this release:
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-libetpan 0.49 is now required for IMAP support
+* 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 "From, To or Subject" to the QuickSearch types.
+* 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 handling of the 'a' key to loop through a mail's MIME parts.
+* Added an option, "Select the HTML part of multipart/alternative
+ messages". This is available on the Message View/Text Options
+ preferences page.
-* In the Compose window "Add to address book" has been added to the
- context menu of the sender and recipient fields.
+* Added an option to the 'Create new folder' dialogue which enables
+ new folders to inherit the properties of their parent folders
+ during folder creation.
-* Implemented a proper References filtering condition.
+* 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 the possibility to cancel receiving in IMAP accounts.
+* 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.
-* Made offline synchronisation faster.
+* Added support for the Avant Window Navgator (Awn) information
+ bubble. This is automatically enabled if dbus is available.
-* 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.
+* 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.
-* Allow manual sorting of Templates.
+* The SHA1 fingerprint is now shown on the SSL certificate dialogue
+ and the labels are now selectable.
-* Templates improvements: easier syntax, add some useful variables.
+* Several GUI improvements have been made, (Address book, filtering
+ dialogue, Actions dialogue, and Account preferences).
-* Implemented per-account and per-folder compose/reply/forward
- Templates.
+* 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 a QuickSearch option to automatically run a search selected
- from the history.
+* Added the Trash and Delete icons to the Custom Toolbars options.
-* Made the Summaries Preferemces page "when entering a folder..."
- options fully customisable.
+* SMTP-only accounts are now not shown in the Receive menus and
+ Account lists in filtering/processing, as they are irrelevant here.
-* Added an "Open last opened folder at startup" option to the
- Summaries page in the Prerferences.
+* tools/csv2addressbook.pl
+ Support for a gmail exported csv address book was added.
-* 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".
+* Updated English, French, and Spanish manuals.
-* Allow disabling mail filtering plugins on a per-account
- basis.
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French,
+ German, and Spanish.
-* Added an option to the Bogofilter and SpamAssassin plugins to
- enable marking saved spam as Read.
-
-* Added a warning about encryption limits, which can be disabled.
-
-* Removed the "Download all" preference from POP3 accounts; it
- was useless and confusing.
-
-* Re-organized some Preferences page.
-
-* Replaced the tabbed layout in Account Preferences with pages.
-
-* Renamed 'Protocol Log' to 'Network Log'
-
-* Added a few cursor improvments while Claws is busy.
-
-* 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.
+* 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 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
+ 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