1 3rd September 2007 Claws Mail 3.0.0
3 CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
4 http://www.claws-mail.org
6 Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
9 Notes for this release:
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12 * Claws Mail is now licensed under GPLv3 or later.
19 Tags are arbitrary labels that can be applied to messages. It is
20 possible to create, edit, remove Tags; apply them to mails;
21 filter on Tags or Tag presence; apply or unset Tags via Filtering
22 actions; reference Tags in reply Templates.
24 * Threads can now be sorted by most recent message
25 /View/Sort/By thread date
27 * Added "/View/Show or Hide/Column headers"
29 * Added 'watch thread' feature
31 * Enabled the running of folder Processing rules on demand
33 * Added options to stop/enable writing logs to disc, see Logging
36 * IMAP and News: Implement age-based caching: allow the specifying
37 of a threshold for the offline synchronisation feature, and whether
38 old cached bodies should be removed. Accessible from the Folder
41 * IMAP: Made multiple copy, (in the same IMAP account), faster by
42 matching source/destination message UIDs.
44 * LDAP: Ability to edit all Person attributes
46 * Nicer layout of the message part icons
48 * Speed up and clean up rendering of larger msgs
50 * Use progress bar when sending messages
52 * Made mainwindow's /Help/Manual point to the remote copy if the
53 local copy doesn't exist
55 * Replaced some deprecated widgets
57 * Enabled changing the emphasis color used to highlight the
58 newsreader/x-mailer header value when it matches our preferred
59 mail agent, (hidden pref 'emphasis_color' added to clawsrc).
61 * tools/mew2claws-mail.pl
62 Added new script that imports a Mew address book
64 * tools/popfile-link.sh
65 Added a new script that will open selected messages in
66 POPFile control center, in order to change the message
71 * Check that Dillo's installed when loading the Dillo Browser
75 o Automatically choose the correct application
77 o Better way to notify of new mails
78 o Destroy messageview after trashing mail
80 o Better toolbars, removal of CTree headers
81 o Add a specific icon to go back to folder list
82 o Improvements to the Wizard, About and icon legend dialogues
83 o add an easy way to store data (mails and IMAP/NNTP caches)
84 on one of the SD cards, and protect against unmounts if
86 o plug the online/offline system into maemo's interfaces to
87 have Claws automatically switch according to the system
88 status (on IT OS 2007)
89 o use HildonBanners to display status messages
90 o force layout to be Small screen
91 o put the progress bar in the toolbar
93 * Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Finnish, French,
94 German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese and
99 o bug 1224, 'The process of Replying to emails with large
100 attachments seems unreasonably long...'
101 o bug 1246, 'compose becomes increasingly slow replying to
103 o bug 1261, '[DE] coloring messages in overview keys are
105 o bug 1267, 'printing mutliple messages opens one message-
106 dialog after the other'
107 o bug 1275, 'auto-saved draft messages not always being
109 o bug 1284, 'The html -> text converter ignores entities'
110 o bug 1286, 'Can't move a folder into a "Folders Only"
112 o bug 1287, 'Compile time problem on Solaris (nexenta
113 gnu/Solaris) utils.c'
114 o bug 1292, 'CM crashes on writing mail'
115 o bug 1290, 'Claws Mail crashes if too little memory when
116 rebuilding folder tree'
117 o bug 1293, 'LDAP address book not working'
118 o fix processing progressbar
119 o fix re-opening of all composing messages that were opened
120 when closing the previous instance
121 o fix toolbar prefs crash when no actions exist
122 o fix typos around long form expressions in the quote lexer.
123 o Quicksearch: Make search run on GDK_KP_Enter too
124 o fix missing timestamp update on MH source folder when
126 o fix 'o' (Open) shortcut on MIME parts
127 o fix two vCard-related crashes
128 o fix threads use on BSDs
129 o copy all account preferences in account_clone() - some
132 o Fix format string vulnerability
133 o Fix all potential misuses of format-string functions
134 o Address Book: Contacts are now locale-aware sorted in the
136 o use suitable defaults for outbox,
137 queue, drafts and trash folders
138 o fix loss of subfolders properties when renaming a folder
139 o fix Quicksearch's Sticky mode
140 o fix signature replacement when it's been wrapped
141 o fix cursor offset when quote contains UTF-8 chars
142 o fix coloring of pastes as quotation
143 o fix wizard crash when Mailbox dir already exists
144 o IMAP: fix timeout setting (requires libetpan 0.52)
145 o IMAP: better scanning (NOOP instead of CLOSE/SELECT)
146 o IMAP: fix unwanted creation of libetpan's stream dump file
147 o LDAP: fix possible crash on cache invalidation
148 o LDAP: fix port being reset to 636 on SSL
149 o LDAP: fix wrong "Connected successfully to server".
150 o Maemo: layout fixes
151 o Maemo: fix auto-completion
152 o Maemo: fix sticking statusbars
153 o Maemo: fix the strange "top_application" info at startup.
154 o Maemo: fix crash on first launch
155 o Maemo: don't opened selected folder when clicking on white
157 o Maemo: make Esc close messageviews
158 o Maemo: fix message scrolling to the end on opening
159 o Maemo: fix reopening same message
160 o Maemo: fix opening of mails from keypad in Sent folders
161 o Maemo: fix adjustments changes
162 o Refresh window when processing
163 o Windows: never pass NULL pointers for %s substitutions
165 For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
166 http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
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169 See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.