-16th April 2007 Claws Mail 2.9.0
+2nd July 2007 Claws Mail 2.10.0
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:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+libetpan 0.49 is now required for IMAP support
+
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 "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.
+
+* Made offline synchronisation faster.
+
+* 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.
+
+* Allow manual sorting of Templates.
+
+* Templates improvements: easier syntax, add some useful variables.
+
+* Implemented per-account and per-folder compose/reply/forward
+ Templates.
+
+* Added a QuickSearch option to automatically run a search selected
+ from the history.
+
+* Made the Summaries Preferemces page "when entering a folder..."
+ options fully customisable.
+
+* Added an "Open last opened folder at startup" option to the
+ Summaries page in the Prerferences.
+
+* 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".
+
+* Allow disabling mail filtering plugins on a per-account
+ basis.
+
+* 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.
+
+* 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
+
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi