-31st July 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0
+2nd July 2007 Claws Mail 2.10.0
- SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
- http://www.sylpheed-claws.net
+ 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.
-New in this release:
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-* A ./configure option has been added, --with-mandir=DIR allowing the
- setting of the man directory location
-
-* 'Send queue' has been added to the folder contextual menu, which
- allows sending the contents of a single queue, as opposed to the
- toolbar's Send Queue, which sends all queues
-
-* '/View/Go to/Next unread folder' has been added
-
-* 'View/Go to/Next marked messages' now traverses folders
+Notes for this release:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-* sftp:// links are now recognised in mails
+libetpan 0.49 is now required for IMAP support
-* A dialogue is presented to the user when dropping files into the
- Compose window, asking whether to insert or attach the file(s). The
- default behaviour can be controlled via a new option in
- Compose/Writing
-
-* Allow attached message parts to be selected, opened, or saved via
- their text label in the message body
+New in this release:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-* Save named inlined attachments with "Save all"
+* Added "From, To or Subject" to the QuickSearch types.
-* An option to change the Folder Type has been added to the Folder
- Properties
+* Added handling of the 'a' key to loop through a mail's MIME parts.
-* Add |i{sub_expr} to Templates, which allows inserting user-entered
- text in a template
+* In the Compose window "Add to address book" has been added to the
+ context menu of the sender and recipient fields.
-* A new option has been added to '/Preferences/External programs' to
- allow "Display as text" on attachments to be done via a script
+* Implemented a proper References filtering condition.
-* An option to 'Never send Return Receipts' has been added to the
- 'Other' page of the preferences.
+* Added the possibility to cancel receiving in IMAP accounts.
-* The Custom Header dialogue in Account Preferences now has a 'From
- file...' button, which enables a Face or X-Face header to be set by
- selecting a file
+* Made offline synchronisation faster.
-* libgnomeprint support : A font for printing can be specified in
- '/Display/Fonts'
+* 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.
-* Add Help buttons to some dialogues, clicking on them will open the
- manual at a suitable section in the configured browser
+* Allow manual sorting of Templates.
-* The option 'Add date header' has been removed, a date header is
- now always added
+* Templates improvements: easier syntax, add some useful variables.
-* The '/Message/Re-edit' menu item has been removed from the separate
- Message View, where it was useless
+* Implemented per-account and per-folder compose/reply/forward
+ Templates.
-* Display an Account's Protocol as a label instead of the unusable
- combo when editing accounts
+* Added a QuickSearch option to automatically run a search selected
+ from the history.
-* It is now possible to move and copy mails from and to the Drafts
- and Queue folders
+* Made the Summaries Preferemces page "when entering a folder..."
+ options fully customisable.
-* More non-English Subject prefixes have been added
+* Added an "Open last opened folder at startup" option to the
+ Summaries page in the Prerferences.
-* The Attachment flag is now set for some inlined attachments
+* 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".
-* Faster recursive quicksearch (show current folder's results before
- searching sub-folders)
+* Allow disabling mail filtering plugins on a per-account
+ basis.
-* Faster send on IMAP
+* Added an option to the Bogofilter and SpamAssassin plugins to
+ enable marking saved spam as Read.
-* Alert in case of authentication error on imap
+* Added a warning about encryption limits, which can be disabled.
-* Better error reporting in GPG plugins
+* Removed the "Download all" preference from POP3 accounts; it
+ was useless and confusing.
-* Faster and better MBOX import/export
+* Re-organized some Preferences page.
-* Save caches on SIGPIPE (like on Xorg exit)
+* Replaced the tabbed layout in Account Preferences with pages.
-* Unified Info/Help/Symbols buttons
+* Renamed 'Protocol Log' to 'Network Log'
-* Honor display-header-pane setting in separate window too
+* Added a few cursor improvments while Claws is busy.
-* Use the user-defined From: in the Return-Path: header when sending
+* Added support for CRLF in headers of messages.
-* Grab Save button by default in Save dialog, which allows saving
- by hitting Enter
+* Added support for a few more date formats (RFC3339 subsets).
-* The online status is checked before resetting mailcheck timer
+* The keypad's Enter key now does the same as the Return key.
-* Show POP3 connection earlier in statusbar
+* Improved LDIF import, better error handling, UI cleanup.
-* Re-read /etc/resolv.conf before connecting to IMAP servers, and
- when switching to Online mode
+* LDAP write support has been added.
-* tools/textviewer.pl has been added, which can be used with the new
- option 'Command for Display as Text' in '/Preferences/External
- programs'
+* Use Hildon's file chooser on Maemo.
-* The Sylpheed-Claws logo has been updated
+* Updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, French, German,
+ Hungarian, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish translations.
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, French, German, Greek,
- Italian, Polish, Serbian, 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
-* Bug fixes:
- o bug 977, 'Can't add or edit imap accounts'
- o bug 978, 'Disconnect from IMAP server when going offline'
- o bug 981, 'sc 2.3.1 segfaults with gtk+ 2.10'
- o Fix double '/Go to/Next ...'
- o Fix signature replacement when changing accounts and
- re-editing, in certains cases
- o Don't report a GPG error when Cancel is clicked on the
- passphrase dialogue
- o Block undo while changing signature
- o Don't freeze the GUI when rescanning local folders after a
- crash/kill
- o Fix default button for rules, actions, templates when
- attempting to close without saving (default was to close)
- o Fix compilation on some systems
- o Fix a race condition when, after an SC crash, rescanning
- folders took more than 0.5 seconds
- o Don't allow the use of inboxes from F_UNKNOWN folders as
- default inbox, vCalendar plugin for example
- o Fixed off-by-one count of current message in the statusbar
- filtering progressbar
- o Fix focus of button in Actions I/O dialogue
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi
-
-* and other code reorganisation, cleanups, and more.
+http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
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-See ChangeLog and README for full information regarding changes in
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+See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.