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31st July 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0
SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
http://www.sylpheed-claws.net
Sylpheed-Claws is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
New in this release:
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* 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
* sftp:// links are now recognised in mails
* 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
* Save named inlined attachments with "Save all"
* An option to change the Folder Type has been added to the Folder
Properties
* Add |i{sub_expr} to Templates, which allows inserting user-entered
text in a template
* A new option has been added to '/Preferences/External programs' to
allow "Display as text" on attachments to be done via a script
* An option to 'Never send Return Receipts' has been added to the
'Other' page of the preferences.
* 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
* libgnomeprint support : A font for printing can be specified in
'/Display/Fonts'
* Add Help buttons to some dialogues, clicking on them will open the
manual at a suitable section in the configured browser
* The option 'Add date header' has been removed, a date header is
now always added
* The '/Message/Re-edit' menu item has been removed from the separate
Message View, where it was useless
* Display an Account's Protocol as a label instead of the unusable
combo when editing accounts
* It is now possible to move and copy mails from and to the Drafts
and Queue folders
* More non-English Subject prefixes have been added
* The Attachment flag is now set for some inlined attachments
* Faster recursive quicksearch (show current folder's results before
searching sub-folders)
* Faster send on IMAP
* Alert in case of authentication error on imap
* Better error reporting in GPG plugins
* Faster and better MBOX import/export
* Save caches on SIGPIPE (like on Xorg exit)
* Unified Info/Help/Symbols buttons
* Honor display-header-pane setting in separate window too
* Use the user-defined From: in the Return-Path: header when sending
* Grab Save button by default in Save dialog, which allows saving
by hitting Enter
* The online status is checked before resetting mailcheck timer
* Show POP3 connection earlier in statusbar
* Re-read /etc/resolv.conf before connecting to IMAP servers, and
when switching to Online mode
* tools/textviewer.pl has been added, which can be used with the new
option 'Command for Display as Text' in '/Preferences/External
programs'
* The Sylpheed-Claws logo has been updated
* updated Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, French, German, Greek,
Italian, Polish, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish
translations.
* 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.
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See ChangeLog and README for full information regarding changes in
this release.