-8th January 2007 Claws Mail 2.7.0
+17th December 2017 Claws Mail 3.16.0
CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org
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Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
-Claws Mail was previously known as Sylpheed-Claws.
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New in this release:
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-* The --select option can now also select emails by Message-ID
-
-* 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
-
-* 'New Message format' has been added to the Compose/Writing options,
- this works like the Quote format and the same symbols are supported
-
-* 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
-
-* Added history combo for all search fields (message and text)
-
-* The 'mark_as_read_delay' option is not hidden anymore and can be
- found in Configuration/Preferences/Summaries
-
-* Added global and per-folder preferences to set the default
- alternate dictionary
-
-* Allow spell-checking to use both current and alternate dictionaries
+* Preferences: for the 'default selection on entering a folder' on
+ the Display/Summaries page, the first new, first unread, and first
+ marked message options are now sort-order aware.
-* Added an hidden option 'addressbook_use_editaddress_dialog' to
- embed the contact editor in the addressbook window in contrast to
- a separate dialog
+* Preferences: the previously hidden preference to 'Warn when sending
+ to more recipients than []' has been added to the
+ Mail Handling/Sending page.
-* 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
+* Preferences: Toolbars/Compose window: Sign/Encrypt toggle buttons
+ can been added to the toolbar.
-* Allow copying of folders between mailboxes
+* Preferences: Fancy Plugin: allow stylesheet file/folder names to
+ have spaces in them.
-* Better automatic account selection for mailing lists (searches for
- the email address in the Delivered-To header also)
+* Account Preferences: a 'Show password' checkbox has been added next
+ to the password fields.
-* Made the "Synchronise" menu item inactive when there's nothing to
- synchronise
+* Account Preferences: the OpenPGP and S/MIME preferences have been
+ split into two separate pages.
-* Use Message font in Writing and Quoting preferences, as well as in
- Templates
+* Account Preferences: newline characters are disallowed in account
+ usernames and passwords, and warnings are shown to the user if this
+ is attempted.
-* Added more HTML symbols to the html to text converter
+* Compose: more UTF-8 list-item characters have been added.
-* Save the addressbook's window size on closing
+* Address book: a 'Show password' checkbox has been added next to the
+ LDAP server 'bind password' field.
-* Better checks for syntax errors are applied to Templates and Quote
- formats
+* GPG: full key/signature fingerprints are now shown instead of the
+ short versions.
-* Added a check to avoid trying to use a non-existent folder as
- default inbox
+* SSL Certificate Manager: added support for ipv6 addresses.
-* Enable setting SSL via STARTTLS from the set-up wizard
+* NNTP: Fetch XOVER and XHDR data in batches of 5000 and use the
+ statusbar progress meter when opening/refreshing a NNTP folder.
-* Added handling of ":port" in server addresses in the set-up wizard
- to specify a port to connect to
+* CLI: the --insert option has been added to --compose, to allow
+ inserting files from the command line.
-* Bogofilter plugin: added an option to print the X-Claws-Bogosity
- header in emails handled by the Bogofilter plugin (in MH folders
- only)
+* Plugins window: keyboard shortcuts to Load/Unload buttons have
+ been added.
-* Bogofilter plugin: added an option to whitelist senders found in
- addressbook
+* PDF Viewer Plugin: a print button has been added.
-* Bogofilter plugin: Allow storing of Unsure mails in a specific
- folder to make better teaching easier
+* The HTML parser now supports all entities.
-* Bogofilter plugin: Improved GUI interaction while Bogofilter is
- filtering
+* Tools: a simple bash completion helper has been added,
+ tools/bash_completion/claws-mail.
-* TrayIcon plugin: added an "Email from account/..." submenu
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, Danish,
+ Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian,
+ Norwegian Bokmål, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Catalan, Finnish,
- French, Italian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, and Spanish
- translations
+* New translations: Japanese, Polish, Romanian.
* 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).
-
-For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
+ o bug 3266, 'procmime.c: FILE leak in specific circumstances'
+ o bug 3784, 'Very similar strings in src/gtk/about.c'
+ o bug 3793, 'Segfaults when master passphrase dialog is
+ launched in the middle of autocompletion'
+ o bug 3795, 'Fix typo in utils.c'
+ o bug 3796, 'Fix format-security warnings in alertpanel_ use'
+ o bug 3797, 'Unfold quoting renders quotes completely
+ confusing'
+ o bug 3801, 'Broken auto wrapping'
+ o bug 3808, 'vCalendar plugin does not load due to undefined
+ symbol icaltime_from_timet'
+ o bug 3813, '"mouse up" activates link even if "mouse down"
+ occurred outside the link / cannot copy link
+ text'
+ o bug 3814, 'end of mouse drag or text selection erroneously
+ activates links'
+ o bug 3819, 'Duplicate definition of global pygtk symbols'
+ o bug 3821, 'Potential security issue with libetpan code in
+ mailmbox plugin'
+ o bug 3916, 'message view shows wrong message contents'
+ o bug 3843, 'Non-functional "Change to..." command in
+ Spelling menu'
+ o bug 3852, 'delete header entry button doesn't restore
+ colour'
+ o bug 3881, 'Hide Read Threads eats emails'
+ o bug 3886, '"About to send mail to 2 recipients" warning
+ when one of them is Reply-To'
+ o bug 3892, 'build fails with enchant-2.1.0'
+ o bug 3893, 'Text mode open/copy web links ignores trailing
+ tilde(s)'
+ o bug 3924, 'Fix configuration of sieve plugin on FreeBSD
+ (segfaulted)'
+ o bug 3931, 'segfault searching server with master password'
+ o off-by-one error in textview's quote unfolding
+ o Make sure outgoing messages have a trailing newline
+ o 'add_to_addressbook' filtering action correctly add the
+ name
+ o improved handling of bad filenames get_serverport() in
+ ssl_manager.c
+ o building against older webkitgtk versions
+ o crash in mailimf_group_parse() in mailmbox plugin
+ o missing invalid regexp indication in folder preferences.
+ o truncated input widgets in preferences window
+ o ignore_thread not marking complete thread
+ o buffer length handling in GnuTLS password encryption and
+ decryption
+ o many memory leaks
+
+For further details of the numbered bugs and RFEs listed above
+see http://claws-mail.org/bug/[BUG NUMBER]
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See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.