-8th May 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.0
+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 a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
+Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
Notes for this release:
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-* S/MIME signature verification has been removed from the PGP/MIME
- plugin as it is now provided by the S/MIME plugin.
+libetpan 0.49 is now required for IMAP support
New in this release:
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-* IMAP users will see significant speed improvements.
-
-* ANONYMOUS auth has been added for IMAP
-
-* In the Compose window all spell-checker options are now available
- from the /Spelling/Options menu.
-
-* Syntax errors in the extended Quick Search are now indicated by
- a pink/red background.
-
-* An encrypt-to-self option has been added to the Account Privacy
- options.
-
-* Sysadmins can now provide their users with pre-filled values in
- the Setup Wizard. See the manual, '6.6. Deploying Sylpheed-Claws',
- for details.
-
-* Various GUI improvements have been added.
-
-* A new command line option has been added: --select 'folder[/msg]'
- This can be used at startup and causes the specified folder/message
- to be selected. 'folder' is a folder id like '#mh/Mailbox/inbox'
-
-* Optional background colouring of quotes has been added. It can be
- configured from the Colour Preferences dialogue.
- GTK+-2.8.x or newer is required for this feature.
-
-* In the Compose window, multiple quote levels are now coloured in
- the same way as the Message View.
-
-* A warning is now displayed on expired SSL certificates and the
- expiration date is shown.
-
-* A hidden option has been added, 'compose_no_markup', this prohibits
- the use of bold and italic text in Compose dialogue's account
- selector.
-
-* LDAPS support has been added.
-
-* The user manual has been updated, and French and Polish
- translations are now also included.
-
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Czech, Dutch,
- Finnish, French, German, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and
- Spanish translations.
-
-* Bugfixes:
- o bug 859, 'problems with cyrilic input in search panel'
- o bug 912, '"new" count randomly set to message count'
- o bug 919, 'libetpan: SEGV when connecting using command'
- o bug 925, 'File accountrc does not store non-ascii
- characters correctly'
- o bug 933, 'Crash re-entering the custom headers list dialog
- in accounts prefs'
- o bug 943, 'Incorrectly parsed email address list in short
- headers on message view and in printouts'
- * src/compose.c
- Fix inserting files not in utf8 when locale is utf8
- * Don't show error dialog when cancelling connection
- * src/summary_search.c
- 'stop' button was sticky when searching in an empty
- folder.
- * src/addressbook.c
- Fix crash with empty columns
- * src/plugins/spamassassin/spamassassin_gtk.c
- Fix missing set_text on unix socket
- * src/send_message.c
- enforce a check for domain in account prefs (a
- sending error could be faced if domain was checked
- but no value set)
- * src/prefs_matcher.c
- Fix values when reselecting a ~test rule
- * IMAP: fix preventing renaming with namespace separator
- * Fix build on DragonFly
- * Fix occasional flicker in folderview
- * Fix crash on redirect (related to the return of the aspell
- menu in compose's toolbar)
- * Fix returned quick search results when search term contains
- an underscore
+* Added "From, To or Subject" to the QuickSearch types.
-For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi
+* Added handling of the 'a' key to loop through a mail's MIME parts.
-* and other code reorganisation, cleanups, and more.
+* In the Compose window "Add to address book" has been added to the
+ context menu of the sender and recipient fields.
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-See ChangeLog and README for full information regarding changes in
-this release.
+* 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
+
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+See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.