-31st October 2005 Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.99
+3rd October 2008 Claws Mail 3.6.0
- SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
- http://claws.sylpheed.org
+ CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
+ http://www.claws-mail.org
-Sylpheed-Claws is an 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:
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-* The binary is now 'sylpheed-claws' and not 'sylpheed'
+* Claws Mail now requires libetpan 0.56 for IMAP and NNTP
-* The default config dir is now '~/.sylpheed-claws'. The user will
- be prompted to perform an automatic migration of configuration
- options to this new directory.
+* Spell checking is now provided by Enchant instead of Aspell. To
+ build spell checker support, you will need the libenchant headers.
-* A new default internal icon theme has been added, based on the
- Gnomaws theme.
+* The S/MIME plugin is now part of this package.
+
+* IMAP, NNTP, and SSL are now supported in the Windows port.
New in this release:
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-* Every Alert Panel now has keyboard accelerators.
-
-* An 'Only once' button has been added for overriding Offline mode
-
-* Installation Wizard:
- Added Local mbox.
- Added IMAP subdir.
- Moved IMAP subdir from Advanced to Receive tab.
- A welcome message has been added.
-
-* Messages are now sorted by Date by default
-
-* An offline switch has been added to the Trayicon plugin
-
-* Speed improvements to IMAP have been added.
-
-* When replying to an ML post with a Reply-To set on the poster's
- email, set the ML address in the To field and the Reply-To address
- in the Cc: field.
-
-* A warning dialog has been added on Mark all read, with a pref to
- prohibit it from re-asking.
-
-* GnuPG support:
- The noticeview is now shown on the message/rfc822 part in addition
- to the text/plain part.
- The privacy icon in the noticeview is now clickable and also uses
- key C to perform the signature check.
- The Trust field has been moved into Full info display.
- When trust is less than full, don't display a warning icon.
- Visual feedback is provided in the statusbar when checking
- signature.
- The PGP/MIME signature file is now named 'signature.asc'.
- The dialog for entering a passphrase has been improved.
-
-* Local deletion of news posts has been added.
-
-* A file selector has been added for selecting an account's Signature
- file
-
-* Many window sizes are now remembered.
-
-* The presense of marked msgs in unexpanded subfolders is now indicated
- by the icon of the parent folder.
-
-* QuickSearch:
- The message list is reset when the dialog is hidden.
- The 'Sticky' option, for keeping the search activated across folders.
-
-* The Subject is now set when forwarding multiple mails.
-
-* When a default Cc or Bcc is used, a check is performed to make sure
- the To header has also been set.
-
-* In the filtering dialog a warning dialog is shown if the rule was
- not saved.
-
-* The file and directory Browse buttons, ("...") have been improved.
-
-* When double-clicking an attachment the "Open with" dialog is
- presented if no command was found for the file type.
-
-* The X-Face has been added to the message view and can be toggled by
- '/Configuration/Preferences/Message View/Text options/Display
- X-Face in messageview'.
-
-* The message list context menu has been reworked.
-
-* When replying to a mail sent by yourself, Reply excludes your own
- address from the list of recipients. 'Reply All' and 'Reply to
- sender' still work like before.
-
-* When the Folder Preference 'Default To for replies' the entry in
- the Compose window is presented in bold text.
-
-* The About window has been reworked.
-
-* In the Themes preferences the list of themes is now alphabetically
- sorted.
-
-* updated translations: British English, Catalan, French, German,
- Italian, Norwegian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, and Spanish.
-
-* Bug fixes, including the following:
- o bug 826, 'X-Server hangs when right-clicking a PGP
- encrypted message'
- o bug 827, 'sylpheed-claws-gtk2: "Welcome" setup wizard after
- a permission error gives up & forgets itself.'
- o bug 828, 'Ignoring headers with spaces around = sign'
- o bug 829, 'Non-working "Encrypt message by default when
- replying to an encrypted message"'
- o bug 833, 'Autocompleting from addressbook fails with
- extended chars'
- o bug 834, 'Pressing CTRl-D on a message marked as locked
- crashes sylpheed.'
- o Fix mbox import/export buglets
- o fix disabled Execute menu item
- o Fix selection of current theme in prefs
- o Reselect "None" Privacy system when selecting an account
- with no privacy system defined
- o IMAP: Fixes related to mail subdir, creation and deletion
- of folders
- o IMAP: Don't allow creation of folders in NoInferior folders
- o IMAP: Fix bug when moving a folder
- o Fix pref corruption on folder move.
- o Fix corruption of column titles in summaryview
- o Fix SSL manager buttons' layout resizing when window size
- changes
- o fix news folder Folder Properties
- o Fix encoding issue in Save all and in overwrite-
- confirmation alertpanel
- o jPilot: Fix encoding
- o gnomeprint: Fix date format
- o Actions: fix crash on menu creation due to '/' in the
- action menu name
- o Fix updating of 'n items selected' count in summaryview
- when deselecting
- o Fix building on Solaris
- o Fix cursor position if quotation gets rewrapped.
+* Support for client SSL certificates.
+
+* Better support of SSL certificate stores, to be able to verify
+ server certificates.
+
+* Renaming of newsgroups is possible.
+
+* "Always open message when selected" can now have three values:
+ 'Never', 'Always' and 'When message view is visible'.
+
+* Unsaved server passwords can now be temporarily saved for the
+ duration of the session. They can be cleared before the session
+ expires by using '/Tools/Forget all session passwords'.
+
+* Auto-wrapping settings are now saved in drafted messages.
+
+* Support for basic auto-indentation in the Compose window.
+
+* Support for animated GIFs in the message view.
+
+* Type-ahead search in Filtering, Templates, Actions dialogs now
+ select the result of the search.
+
+* Finer granularity in POP3 accounts' Remove After delay - hours in
+ addition to days.
+
+* Spam/Ham flag is now stored on IMAP server when possible, using
+ "Junk" and "NonJunk" keywords.
+
+* Use less precise intervals when possible for auto-checking, thus
+ the CPU is woken up less frequently.
+
+* The warning icon in the main window is cleared when the error it
+ relates to is clipped from the network log.
+
+* IMAP errors now reveal the server on which they happen.
+
+* All deprecated GTK interfaces have been replaced with their
+ non-deprecated equivalents.
+
+* csv2addressbook.pl: Added support for FoxMail.
+
+* Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Dutch,
+ Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian,
+ Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Swedish.
+
+* Bug fixes:
+ o bug 1620, 'Can't use hardware zoom buttons' (MAEMO)
+ o bug 1398, 'Change current account available even when
+ there's only one account'
+ o bug 1609, 'Icon issues'
+ o bug 1673, 'Tools/Harvest Addresses is greyed out if
+ folder is empty'
+ o bug 1681, 'GnuPG plugin doesn't compile on Solaris"
+ o bug 1684, 'View news messages with large attachments
+ segfaults'
+ o bug 1688, 'Compilation problems on MingW32'
+ o bug 1690, 'Copy/paste in edit window may break Undo'
+ o bug 1696, 'Viewing binary attachments as text over
+ 1MB' (various buglets)
+ o bug 1699, 'Separator line misplaced when printing
+ emails with long header lines'
+ o bug 1412, 'Sign reply if mail was signed'
+ o bug 1707, 'Segfault when sorting on hidden column'
+ o bug 1710, 'User misreads Discard Message as Discard
+ Changes'. Closing a modified re-edited draft will
+ now ask whether to discard changes
+ o bug 1712, 'Invalid Phishing attempt warning when linked
+ text ends with spaces'
+ o bug 1723, 'Buffer overflow crash caused by
+ preview in 'Date format help' dialog box'
+ o bug 1725, 'useless lines in clawsrc'
+ o Fixed compilation with GTK 2.14
+ o Fixed some memory leaks
+ o Fixed upgrading of themes
+ o Fixed po-headers appearing on empty templates
+ o Fixed folderview's scrollbar state when starting minimized,
+ and popping up is done via command line
+ o Fixed race condition when closing the Plugins window while a
+ plugin is loading
+ o Fixed missing localityName (l) field in LDAP
+ o Fixed wild rewrapping when adding text to start of some long
+ lines
+ o Added "Fwd" to the list of known subject prefixes
+ o Fixed nickname edition in non-LDAP address books
+ o Fixed compose window size saving, which changed when using
+ compose-related filtering actions
+ o Fixed English usage
+ o Don't go to Inbox after manual mail retrieval if there are no
+ new mails
+ o Fixed migration problems from Aspell to Enchant dictionaries
+ o Fixed double opening of file, leading to multiple signatures
+ when using signify
+ o Fixed image viewer (wrong image displayed, break of resizing
+ functionality
+ o Fixed handling of HTML parts in multipart/related parts
+ o Workaround to decode correctly mails in Windows-1252 codeset
+ advertised as ISO-8859-1
+ o Added the nb_NO locale's default charset (ISO-8859-1)
+ o IMAP: Fixed crash when error happen on session establishment
+ o Fixed a lot of Windows-only bugs (bugs 1041, 1042, 1051,
+ problems with folders that have non-ASCII characters, the
+ huge memory leak, crash on connection failures)
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-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
-this release.
-
+See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.