From homepage:
"This release contains many improvements for usability. The features
requested by many users, such as combining partial messages, removal of
attachments, automatic address completion, etc., were added. The feature
to assist the migration from Outlook Express has been added. Various
bugfixes have been also made."
* The random scrolling problem on selecting folders with GTK+ 2.12 or later
was fixed.
* The problem that config files are not updated after creating new accounts
was fixed.
* The problem that folder config file was not updated after changing IMAP
or News account name was fixed.
* Several typos in some dialogs were fixed.
* The Japanese manual was updated.
Many bugfixes. New features include:
* multi-threading was introduced
* add new recipients to address book automatically on sending was added.
* The new filter match type 'is in addressbook' was added.
* Address book is now sortable by each column.
* Address book search feature was added.
* The setup dialog on the first run became user-friendly.
* The new account setup dialog was implemented. Easy Gmail setup.
* SHA1/MD5 fingerprint and validity period of certificate is now displayed
* menu item to request disposition notification was added
* The feature to customize the color label text was added.
* The option to set only mail address of recipients when replying was added.
* The feature to import and export .eml files was added.
* Progress is displayed during import and export now.
* The warning about non-exist plug-in directory was removed.
* The comments within Content-Type header are handled now.
* The order of signals emitted at moving messages was modified.
* The sylpheed.spec file was fixed.
* The plug-in system was implemented (still experimental. See PLUGIN.txt for detail).
* LibSylph (internal version) is built as shared library now.
* The update check feature was implemented (requires curl command, included in Windows installer).
* fsync() will be called after writing configuration files.
* 'Send queued messages' is shown instead of 'Mark all read' in the context menu of the Queue folder.
* The default command line options of spam filters were modified.
* Win32: Hard link will be used to improve file I/O performance if available.
* Win32: bsfilter is included in the installer now. If you have installed bsfilter at another location, please note that the location of database files might change.
* Win32: Install/uninstall will be aborted if Sylpheed is running.
* Win32: The registration of Start menu will be applied to all users.
* Win32: The installer cannot launch Sylpheed anymore when install finishes (for Vista).
* A crash bug on CSV import of the address book was fixed.
* Several other bugfixes were made.
Shared directories can now be created independently by the pacakges
needing them and will be removed automatically by pkg_delete when empty.
Packages needing empty directories can use the @pkgdir command in PLIST.
Discussed and ok'd in thread starting at
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2009/06/30/msg003546.html
were moved or renamed.
This was for some from 2008 and 2009 and one from 2001.
Also I noticed that a CHANGES entry was wrong as said "Renamed"
when should have said "Moved" (lua-OSBF) because PKGBASE stayed the
same.
Enchant and GTK 2.14 are now officially supported.
Changes from 2.5.0
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New features
The POP3 remote mailbox feature, which enables the direct view/download/deletion of messages on POP3 server, was added.
The backups of configuration files are kept for four generations now.
Feature improvements
Enchant (with GtkSpell 2.0.13) has been supported.
When creating filter rule automatically, the target header field is used as a default filter name.
The Japanese manual was updated.
In the folder selection dialog, only folders which are expanded in the folder view are expanded.
The folders which should not be selected in the folder selection dialog became unselectable.
Unix: Only new messages are counted when incorporating from local mbox.
Unix: SIGHUP/SIGINT/SIGTERM/SIGQUIT signals are handled now.
Win32: System shutdown event is also handled on debug mode.
Bugfixes
The parser of IMAP4 was fixed.
Warnings about --datarootdir on running the configure script was removed.
The bug that the addressbook window was not refreshed when sender of message was added to the addressbook was fixed.
A workaround for raw-JIS filename used for attachments (specifically Eudora) was made.
The compilation error when using GTK+ 2.14.x was fixed.
Some build fixes were made.
Several bugfixes were made.
- Add patch from Fedora which makes the gtkspell option build again, with
the enchant-backed gtkspell.
- Add DESTDIR support, from mail/sylpheed-devel
Changes from 2.4.8
* New features
o The vertical 3-paned view mode was added.
o The feature to save SSL peer certificate was added.
o The option 'Treat HTML only message as attachment' was added.
o The feature to confirm missing attachments was added.
o The feature to confirm recipients before sending was added.
* Feature improvements
o To: header is also searched by quick search in Sent/Draft/Queue folders.
o 'Edit/Quick search' menu was added.
o Spaces in address and server entries on account preferences dialog are now
automatically removed when applied.
o The compose window now remembers the maximized state.
o The focus will not move from the text view to the summary view with
'Next/Prev' keyboard operation now.
o The alert dialog is displayed now when PGP signing/encryption failed.
* Bugfixes
o The bug that caused busy loop when initial connection was immediately
refused was fixed.
o The bug that the quote description dialog never appeared again after closing it with the close button was fixed.
o The new/unread status display on quick search filtered mode was fixed.
o The windres command will not be enabled on non-win32 platforms now.
o The address completion was fixed.
o Win32: --attach option was fixed.
o The sylpheed.desktop file was fixed.
o A crash bug was fixed.
o Content-Transfer-Encoding header with comments was supported.
o UTF-8 locale strings with suffix '.utf8' were supported.
o The 8KB restriction of template body size was removed.
* The encoding method of MIME headers is now determined by outgoing
encoding rather than the value of MB_CUR_MAX.
* The memory leaks and warnings in LDAP search were fixed.
* The beep on folders with one message when using GTK+ 2.12 was removed.
* Win32: The crash that occurred when trying to display some TIFF files was fixed.
* Win32: Settings are now automatically saved on the shutdown of system.
* The bug that 'Set display item of summary...' button in the common
preferences dialog always show send folder setting was fixed.
* The previous focus is kept when separation of view is changed.
* The status label is automatically resized now when there is not
enough width.
* The bug that virtual folders were not sorted properly was fixed.
* The crash when trying to use ascii-armored PGP encryption was fixed.
* The most of compiler warnings were removed.
Changes for 2.4.6:
* The 'To' column was added to the summary view.
* In Sent, Draft, and Queue folders, the 'To' column is displayed by
default.
* The display column setting of send folders became independent from
normal folders.
* The ascii-armored PGP encryption was fixed.
* The combined method is used now when both PGP encryption and PGP
signing are specified.
* The PGP passphrase dialog was disabled on filtering and query search.
* The new message notify will be blocked when a new message is read
on receiving.
* 'LIST "" "*"' command is used instead of 'LIST "" "%"' to obtain
folder list from IMAP4 server.
* The bug that noinferior and noselect flags were ignored until rebuilding
folder tree when a new folder was created on IMAP4 server was fixed.
* If attached files become nonexistent on sending, error dialog will be
displayed and the sending will abort.
(CVE-2007-2958)
other changes:
-The potential crash bug in address completion was fixed
-The signature separator '--' is not joined on line wrapping now
* Reply and forward marks are appended after messages are actually sent.
* The feature to reply to attached message/rfc822 messages was added.
* When a folder is renamed, the path of junk folder is also updated.
* A workaround for the error which occurs with Gmail SMTP server was made.
* 2.4.3 (stable)
* The quick search entry is cleared when Escape key is pressed on it.
* UTF-8 with BOM is handled correctly when inserting signature.
* A possible crash when adding address from address book was fixed.
* The recursive download of remote folders was enabled.
* The quick search condition for each folder now persists between sessions.
* The selection now persists when the quick search condition is updated.
* SSL ports in Advanced tab of the account prefs dialog are now automatically
set when SSL is enabled.
* The '--open' command line option which open messages in new window was added.
* Quoted-printable or base64 encoding is now forced on PGP/MIME signing
instead of stripping trailing spaces
(except for the case of ISO-2022-JP encoding).
* The quoted-pair in From header is now processed correctly when displaying
its name.
* The performance of 'Mark all read' on IMAP folders was improved.
* The bug that the character '+' in address was treated as URI-escaped
space was fixed.
* Unix: the problem that 'Get' and 'Get all' button could not be clicked
after receiving while mouse pointer was over the buttons was fixed.
2.4.1:
* If shift or control key is pressed on address completion, only address
string is inserted now.
* New features
o Toolbar
+ The customization of the toolbars was implemented.
+ 'Prev', 'Print', 'Address', 'Prefs', 'Account', 'Not junk',
'Search' and 'Stop' button was added to the toolbars.
+ The overflow menu for the toolbars was added.
+ The option to place toolbar labels at the right of icons was added.
o Address book
+ Copy and paste of persons in the address book was enabled.
+ In the address book, the import of CSV and Tab-separated text file
was enabled.
o The automatic filtering of IMAP4 on receive operation was enabled.
o The option to toggle the window on the trayicon click was added.
* Feature improvements
o Junk mails are now filtered when incorporating from local spool.
o The width of toolbar buttons was reduced when the labels are displayed.
o The checking of remote folders doesn't abort with non-fatal errors now
except for network failure.
o Close button was added to the address book dialog.
o In-Reply-To header was supported in mailto URL.
o An error message is displayed now when the decryption of PGP encrypted
messages failed.
o 'Within 1 day' and 'Last 5 days' was added to the quick search rule.
o The toolbar style switch was added to the toolbar context menu.
o The limitation of the nesting level of MIME structure was relaxed.
o A margin for text was added to the composition window.
o An error dialog is displayed if the execution of junk filter command fails.
o The overwrite confirmation of the file selection dialog was improved.
o The file copy and move operation were optimized.
o The included Japanese manual was updated.
o Unix: Symbolic links are now also scanned when scanning MH folders.
* Bugfixes
o The problem that the width of the folder view was not saved when the
main window was maximized was fixed.
o The crash when verifying signed messages with popup window was fixed.
o The crash on exit when the order of summary columns were modified by
DnD was fixed.
o The wrong handling of quotation in multi-byte strings on MIME header
encoding was fixed.
o The behavior of 'Go to next unread' with changing folders was fixed.
o Several bugs of the search dialog were fixed.
o Several bugs of the address book were fixed.
o The crash on the cancellation of sending or receiving was fixed.
o Unix: The bug that the window was kept being skipped from window list
after it became visible with window shading or switching workspaces.
* Changes from 2.4.0rc
o Invalid APOP timestamp is rejected now (CVE-2007-1558).
o The configuration file is written out after the toolbar is customized.
* The compilation failure with GLib 2.4 was fixed.
* The compilation failure in some OSes was fixed.
* A memory leak on executing external editor was fixed.
* The bug that the handling of IMAP4 server responses became
out of sync when an error occurred while fetching messages
was fixed.
* "ca-root.crt" is also looked for as a CA certificates file now.
* The spaces around equals between name and value of MIME
parameters are now allowed.
* The MIME header encoding of quoted multibyte strings was fixed.
* The edit account dialog is now placed at the center of the
parent window.
2.3.0 provides the new printing function and new mail notification by
the tray icon. 2.3.0 also includes various usability improvements.
In Win32 version, the included GTK+ library has been updated to the
latest 2.10.6, and it introduces the improvements of usability and
bugfixes.
* 2.2.10 (stable)
* The change between folders became faster at GTK+ 2.10.x.
* The text insertion by the action was fixed again.
* The text redraw problem on the undo of large text was fixed.
* The crash that occurred when printing a message with empty Subject,
From and To was fixed.
* The window position and the layout of the 'Add Address' dialog was
modified.
* Libpisock 0.12 was supported.
* Win32: The bug that window position was reset when quitting Sylpheed
while window was hidden was fixed.
* Win32: The selection of the labels on the header view and the alert
dialog are now visible.
* Win32: The e-mail menu in the start menu now works when Sylpheed is
selected as a default mailer.
* Win32: The character corruption on printing when environment-dependent
Japanese characters are used was fixed.
fixes for GTK+ 2.10)
2.2.9 changes:
* The crash that occurred if the summary was sorted by a key
which doesn't have visible column was fixed.
* The URI of the about dialog was updated.
2.2.8 changes:
* The bug that possibly lost messages when there was no disk space
has been fixed, so please upgrade if possible.
* The PLAIN authentication method for IMAP4 was supported.
* The verification of encrypted and signed messages with combined
method was supported.
* Oniguruma regex library can be used instead of system's regex API.
* The LDIF import of the addressbook was improved.
* Full PGP signature information is displayed on the main text view.
* All trailing spaces are removed when signing with PGP/MIME instead
of using quoted-printable to improve compatibility with other MUAs.
* A warning is displayed before sending when Bcc is specified at PGP
encryption.
* The bug that possibly lost relatively small messages on receiving
when there was no disk space was fixed.
* The behavior of manual junk filtering was fixed.
* UTF-8 text can be inserted correctly in the compose window.
* The error messages of the failure of displaying message body was
improved.
* Some workarounds for GTK+ 2.10 were made.
* Minor UI fixes were made.
* Other minor bugs were fixed.
* "Mark all read" was added to the folder context menu.
* "Set as (not) junk mail" was added to the summary context menu.
* The option to filter junk mails before normal filtering was added.
* When replying to all, the original address strings are used for Cc
instead of stripped ones.
* Windows-1257 was added for display encoding.
* Some menu items of the folder context menu were enabled even on receiving
messages.
* The bug that manual junk filtering didn't work when no filter rule exist
was fixed.
* Several crash bugs were fixed.
* Win32: libgpg-error-0.dll and libgpgme-11.dll was updated.
* Win32: The scanning of folders was optimized so that receiving or moving
of messages become faster when folders contain large number of messages.
Changes 2.2.6:
* The 8-bit literal (literal8) in IMAP4 response was supported.
* The missing timeout handling was added for SMTP.
* The failure of URI security check when they have leading space
was fixed.
Changes 2.2.5:
* The character corruption and crash bug when using Japanese
half-width kana on sending messages was fixed.
* The execution failure when using the accessibility module was fixed.
* The bug that new/unread count becoming negative value was fixed.
* The bug that bold face was disabled in the folder selection dialog
with GLib 2.10 and Pango 1.12 was fixed.
* The incorrect progressbar display when expired messages exist was
fixed.
PKGLOCALEDIR and which install their locale files directly under
${PREFIX}/${PKGLOCALEDIR} and sort the PLIST file entries. From now
on, pkgsrc/mk/plist/plist-locale.awk will automatically handle
transforming the PLIST to refer to the correct locale directory.
* MIME filename encoding with RFC 2322 parameter value extension was
supported.
* The clear button for the quick search entry was added.
* The bug that bold face was disabled in GtkTreeView with GLib 2.10
and Pango 1.12 was fixed.
* Win32: libwimp.dll was updated.
* Win32: The bug that subfolders were duplicated when rebuilding
folder tree while the settings were shared between Win32 and Unix
was fixed.
* Win32: The uninstaller was modified so that it only removes files
and folders created by the installer.
Also remove extra blank lines at the end of options.mk to appease pkglint.
* 2.2.3 (stable)
* The sorting of the result of the query search was enabled.
* The printing of messages now follows the state of 'Show all headers'.
* Relative path is allowed for signature files.
* The To, Cc, and Bcc button of the address book are now always enabled.
* The window position of the address book is now preserved.
* The toggle of the Cc entry on the composition window was enabled.
* The appearance of the address book was modified.
* Unix: The support of metamail command was removed, and it was replaced
with the alternative implementation.
* Win32: libwimp.dll was updated, and the appearance of the UI was
improved.
* Win32: zlib1.dll was updated.
* Win32: The application icon was updated.
* Win32: The unnecessary message catalog files were removed to reduce the
archive size.
* 2.2.2 (stable)
* The crash bug that occurred when trying to move IMAP4 folders right
under the root folder was fixed.
* The crash bug that occurred after a message window was closed while the
search dialog was still open was fixed.
* Win32: The console window is newly created if --debug or --help option
is specified.
* Win32: The non-ASCII filename encoding problem on executing external
commands was fixed.
* Win32: The bug that the main window became not responsive when an error
occurred on automatic receiving while the window was minimized was fixed.
* Win32: Spanish translation was added for the installer.
* Win32: The installer was fixed so that it selects correct language on
environments other than Japanese.
relevant changes:
-The bug that account names with filename-unsafe characters couldn't be
used was fixed
-The crash bug that occurred if non-ascii newsgroup names appeared while
getting newsgroup list was fixed
-The performance problem of the quick search while the summary was sorted
by thread date with descending order was fixed
* 2.2.0 (stable)
* The move and copy of messages to queue folders and virtual folders are
prohibited.
* The included sylpheed.spec was modified.
* 2.2.0rc (development)
* The 'minimize to tray icon' feature was modified.
* The command line options help dialog is not duplicated anymore.
* The problem that the UI was still insensitive after the execution of
external editor failed was fixed.
* The nonstandard Japanese encoding 'x-sjis' was supported.
* Win32: The locale encoding problem on some languages was fixed.
