-8th January 2007 Claws Mail 2.7.0
+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.
-Claws Mail was previously known as Sylpheed-Claws.
+Notes for this release:
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+
+libetpan 0.49 is now required for IMAP support
New in this release:
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-* The --select option can now also select emails by Message-ID
+* 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.
-* Attaching files from 'mailto:' URIs (&attach=...) is now possible.
- A dialog is displayed to make sure that the user is aware that the
- mail will contain attachments
+* Implemented a proper References filtering condition.
-* 'New Message format' has been added to the Compose/Writing options,
- this works like the Quote format and the same symbols are supported
+* Added the possibility to cancel receiving in IMAP accounts.
-* Reworked the About dialog, including the addition of a new page,
- 'Features', which indicates which of the optional features are
- compiled in and which are not. A 'Release Notes' page was also
- added
+* Made offline synchronisation faster.
-* Added history combo for all search fields (message and text)
+* 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.
-* The 'mark_as_read_delay' option is not hidden anymore and can be
- found in Configuration/Preferences/Summaries
+* Allow manual sorting of Templates.
-* Added global and per-folder preferences to set the default
- alternate dictionary
+* Templates improvements: easier syntax, add some useful variables.
-* Allow spell-checking to use both current and alternate dictionaries
+* Implemented per-account and per-folder compose/reply/forward
+ Templates.
-* Added an hidden option 'addressbook_use_editaddress_dialog' to
- embed the contact editor in the addressbook window in contrast to
- a separate dialog
+* Added a QuickSearch option to automatically run a search selected
+ from the history.
-* Added a hidden option 'unsafe_ssl_certs', to allow storing
- multiple SSL certificates for a given server/port. You will be
- asked to accept unknown certificates. Unchecking this option will
- require you to re-accept previously known certificates
+* Made the Summaries Preferemces page "when entering a folder..."
+ options fully customisable.
-* Allow copying of folders between mailboxes
+* Added an "Open last opened folder at startup" option to the
+ Summaries page in the Prerferences.
-* Better automatic account selection for mailing lists (searches for
- the email address in the Delivered-To header also)
+* 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".
-* Made the "Synchronise" menu item inactive when there's nothing to
- synchronise
+* Allow disabling mail filtering plugins on a per-account
+ basis.
-* Use Message font in Writing and Quoting preferences, as well as in
- Templates
+* Added an option to the Bogofilter and SpamAssassin plugins to
+ enable marking saved spam as Read.
-* Added more HTML symbols to the html to text converter
+* Added a warning about encryption limits, which can be disabled.
-* Save the addressbook's window size on closing
+* Removed the "Download all" preference from POP3 accounts; it
+ was useless and confusing.
-* Better checks for syntax errors are applied to Templates and Quote
- formats
+* Re-organized some Preferences page.
-* Added a check to avoid trying to use a non-existent folder as
- default inbox
+* Replaced the tabbed layout in Account Preferences with pages.
-* Enable setting SSL via STARTTLS from the set-up wizard
+* Renamed 'Protocol Log' to 'Network Log'
-* Added handling of ":port" in server addresses in the set-up wizard
- to specify a port to connect to
+* Added a few cursor improvments while Claws is busy.
-* Bogofilter plugin: added an option to print the X-Claws-Bogosity
- header in emails handled by the Bogofilter plugin (in MH folders
- only)
+* Added support for CRLF in headers of messages.
-* Bogofilter plugin: added an option to whitelist senders found in
- addressbook
+* Added support for a few more date formats (RFC3339 subsets).
-* Bogofilter plugin: Allow storing of Unsure mails in a specific
- folder to make better teaching easier
+* The keypad's Enter key now does the same as the Return key.
-* Bogofilter plugin: Improved GUI interaction while Bogofilter is
- filtering
+* Improved LDIF import, better error handling, UI cleanup.
-* TrayIcon plugin: added an "Email from account/..." submenu
+* LDAP write support has been added.
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Catalan, Finnish,
- French, Italian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, and Spanish
- translations
+* 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 934, 'sylpheed claws 2.1 doesn't show Exchanges Public
- Folders'
- o bug 1052, 'templates %d and %D{fmt} broken but %af works
- fine'
- o bug 1055, 'Add the 'cancel receive' in the available events
- for the toolbar buttons'
- o bug 1059, 'Better jpilot charset handling'
- o bug 1064, 'crash @ etpan_certificate_check() when opening
- an IMAP folder'
- o bug 1067, 'Claws-Mail uses 100% CPU on an IMAP folder and is
- blocked on main thread'
- o bug 1072, 'Claws stops fetching newsgroups from server when
- newsgroup got deleted'
- o bug 1076, 'privacy options are displayed even when pgp
- plugin not loaded / available'
- o bug 1077, 'sylpheed-claws does not start when IMAP server
- is unavailable'
- o bug 1080, 'Using SSL option in wizard for incoming server
- does not activate SSL with STARTTLS'
- o bug 1081, 'claws-mail segfaults when going offline while it
- transfers mails via imap'
- o bug 1082, 'incorrect / imprecise error message when imap
- server provides ssl only through STARTTLS but
- SSL is selected'
- o bug 1085, 'Apply to subfolder doesn't work'
- o bug 1088, 'ctrl-h produces repeatable crash'.
- o bug 1089, 'NUL characters in Subject line are
- misinterpreted'
- o fixed encoding of headers in the welcome message
- o fixed some sensitivity issues in preferences
- o fixed crash when using Hide read messages with Mark as read
- delay
- o fixed parsing of mailcap files with tabs
- o fixed address comparison when replying to all (it was
- possible to reply to ourselves if the case was
- different)
- o fixed folder's cache update after running an Action
- o fixed hiding of Quicksearch with Esc
- o fixed printing of selection, message part, and images
- o fixed page count in printing
- o IMAP: Fix failure to get separator on LIST "" ""
- o change manual's target dir to be LFH-compliant
- o some compilation warning fixes
- o don't warn about empty subject when redirecting emails
- o fix scrolling of log window
- o partial download: Fix Mark for download/deletion when
- the relevant header is not the first one
- o fixed slowness when appending on IMAP
- o fixed wrong state of test regexp in folder preferences
- o made desktop and icon files not dependant on GNOME 2
- o fixed a little memory leak in the addressbook
- o don't display errors when synchronising IMAP mailboxes that
- have non selectable folders
- o When possible, move messages from Queue to Sent instead of
- copying and deleting
- o don't use any MimeViewer plugin when showing all headers
- o tools/maildir2claws-mail.pl: Only substitute 'sent-mail'
- if it's the full directory name
- o disable Control-Space (handle it as Space).
+ 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.
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