-30th January 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0
+2nd July 2007 Claws Mail 2.10.0
- SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
- http://claws.sylpheed.org
+ CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
+ http://www.claws-mail.org
-Sylpheed-Claws is the extended version of Sylpheed, a GTK+ based,
-lightweight, and fast e-mail client
+Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
+email client.
Notes for this release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-* libetpan >= 0.41 is now required for IMAP support
+libetpan 0.49 is now required for IMAP support
New in this release:
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-Manual
-------
-* A new and completely rewritten manual has been added.
- It is accessible using your browser by clicking '/Help/Manual' on
- the main toolbar.
+* Added "From, To or Subject" to the QuickSearch types.
-Icon legend
------------
-* An icon legend window has been added to the Help menu, accessible
- by clicking '/Help/Icon legend' on the main toolbar.
+* Added handling of the 'a' key to loop through a mail's MIME parts.
-Priting
--------
-* Attached images can now be printed along with the message when using
- the optional libgnomeprintui support.
+* In the Compose window "Add to address book" has been added to the
+ context menu of the sender and recipient fields.
-Command line usage
-------------------
-* '--exit' has been added.
+* Implemented a proper References filtering condition.
-* '--subscribe' has been added.
- Calling sylpheed-claws --subscribe '%s' will ask the loaded plugins
- if they can handle the type of URL passed as a parameter. Thus, if
- using the RSSyl or vCalendar plugins, for example, the user will be
- able to subscribe RSS feeds or Webcals from the browser.
+* Added the possibility to cancel receiving in IMAP accounts.
-* sylpheed-claws email@domain.com is now equivalent to --compose
+* Made offline synchronisation faster.
-* sylpheed-claws proto://blah.com is equivalent to --subscribe
+* 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.
-GUI improvements
-----------------
-* HIG compliant button order has been implemented.
+* Allow manual sorting of Templates.
-* Several dialogues throughout have been improved.
-
-Main Toolbar
-------------
-* Text can now also been displayed next to the icons.
-
-* Quick mail retrieval from any account is now possible due to the
- account submenu which has been added to the 'Get All' button.
-
-Compose window
---------------
-* The spellchecker context menu in the compose window has been added
- to the standard GtkTextView menu instead of replacing it.
-
-* The Subject in the window title now updates instantaneously.
-
-* The mimetypes list in the attachment pane is now alphabetically
- ordered.
-
-Message View
-------------
-* The email and URI parsers have been enhanced.
-
-Quick Search
-------------
-* In Extended mode, a '...' button has been added, this provides the
- user with a dialogue enabling the quick formation of search
- criteria.
-
-* Do not refocus quick search after executing (Esc or Enter). This
- enables using the '/' shortcut key, search for something, then move
- up/down in the message list, and then Esc a search and be back in
- the folder list.
-
-* When quick search is activated, the entry box is given a yellow
- background for greater visibility.
-
-Address book
-------------
-* The LDAP search in the address book now supports wildcard searching
- using '*'.
-
-Preferences
------------
-* The option 'Go to inbox after receiving new mail' has been moved
- from 'Display/Summaries' to 'Mail handling/Receive'.
-
-* The 'Wrap at send' option has been removed.
-
-* Colour preferences have been moved from '/Message View/Colors' to
- '/Display/Colors'.
-
-* The previously hidden option, color_new, has been added to the GUI
- as '/Display/Colors/Folder' containing new messages.
-
-Plugins
--------
-* The spamassassin and spamassassin_gtk plugins have been merged into
- one single plugin, and this plugin is now built by default if the
- requirements are matched.
-
-* The clamav and clamav_gtk plugins have been merged into one single
- plugin.
-
-* GnuPG support: Add support for PKA info if available
-
-* The PGP/Inline plugin now supports Content-Type 'application/pgp'.
-
-* A check to verify that plugins are licenced under a GPL-compatible
- licence has been added.
-
-* The unmaintained mathml_viewer plugin has been removed.
-
-Tools
------
-* Add filter_conv_new.pl.
- Converts the new style Sylpheed filter rules (Sylpheed >= 0.9.99)
- to Claws filtering rules.
-
-Translations
-------------
-* new Greek and Swedish translations.
-
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Dutch, Finnish,
- French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak, Serbian,
- Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese translations.
-
-* Bugfixes:
- o bug 843, 'Inbox cannot be changed for local mailboxes'
- o bug 845, 'sylpheed-claws 1.9.99+ start in minimised state'
- o bug 856, 'reediting messages forgets Request Return
- Receipt'
- o bug 862, 'undo of wrapped, pasted text deletes part of
- message'
- o bug 863, 'windows-1252 encoding option missing from message
- view window'
- o bug 866, 'Show key id when missing'
- o bug 867, 'Report also key trust'
- o bug 875, 'Freeze On Inline Forward of Large Message'
- o bug 882, 'quick scroll in folder list displays wrong folder
- contents'
- o bug 883, 'default inbox does not track folder move'
- o bug 884, ''Send receipt' button visible in queue'
- o bug 888, '2.0.0rc3 not displaying image in message view'
- o bug 896, 'PT_BR locale broken'
- o bug 897, 'message header is resetted if one is copied to
- Drafts'
- o crash when closing description windows using the WM's [X]
- button
- o crash when copying/moving message(s) from and to the same
- folder
- o missing listing of text/* attachments in the message view
- o Filtering ~message, ~headers_part, ~body_part rules
- o possible crash on connection failure when sending
- o crashes in prefs after unloading Spamassassin or Clamav
- plugins
- o spurious displaying on message when "Always open messages"
- isn't set
- o last-used directory for loading attachments wasn't cached
- o assertion failure in msgcache_add_msg
- o cursor positioning not obeying %X
- o don't deselect stuff in compose window before right-
- clicking, with aspell.
- o autosave on IMAP
- o copying/moving between normal and draft/queue in IMAP
- o occasional failure in fetching a mail over IMAP
- o don't remove a draft when sending it, if it is locked
- o wrapping issues
- o prevent mail from being lost without notice when an SMTP
- error happens on trying to send an unmodified drafted mail
- o forget SMTP password if wrong
- o recursive prefs apply
- o attach_load_dir set to PLUGINDIR on plugin load
- o possible crashes on exit and in addressbook
- o allow templates without text
- o deselection of text when right-clicking in Compose windows
- o automatic encoding in some corner-cases
- o 'Get Mail' sensitivity in the Trayicon Plugin
- o 'Trash' sensitivity when receiving
- o don't start the wizard when folders exist, even if they are
- unloaded
- o update the default keybinds
+* Templates improvements: easier syntax, add some useful variables.
-For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi
+* Implemented per-account and per-folder compose/reply/forward
+ Templates.
-* and other code reorganisation, cleanups, and more.
+* Added a QuickSearch option to automatically run a search selected
+ from the history.
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-See ChangeLog and README for full information regarding changes in
-this release.
+* 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
+
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+See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.