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16th December 2011 Claws Mail 3.8.0

CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org

Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.

New in this release:


  • GnuTLS 2.2 is now a minimum requirement if encrypted connections to
    servers are required.

  • The list displays have been updated to use newer GTK+ functions,
    this means that the expanders look different and the optional dotted
    lines have been dropped.

  • A hidden option, 'summary_from_show', which controls the display in
    the From column of the Message List: 0 (default): show name,
    1: show address, 2: show name + address

  • The image viewer now uses the EXIF Orientation.

  • 'Generate X-Mailer header' has been added as an Account option.

  • /View/Message scroll has been added, allowing keyboard shortcuts to
    be added and used for message scrolling.

  • Home and End keys now function in the Message View.

  • /Message/Print has been added to the Compose window.

  • Updated manuals

  • Update man page

  • Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, French,
    Hungarian, Indonesian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian.

  • Bug fixes:
    o bug 1489, 'Filter action mark_as_read inoperative
    following move action
    o bug 1563, 'Folder view: show complete threads if they
    contain unread messages'
    o bug 1870, 'arrow scrolling in filters'
    o bug 2116, 'Rip spaces off server names in account
    configuration'
    o bug 2127, 'SSL cert check uses canonical name instead of
    specified name'
    o bug 2177, 'addrbook/addrbook-00000?.xml is not deleted
    after removing the address book in the GUI'
    o bug 2303, 'Next unread message enables message view'
    o bug 2310, 'Crash when hitting Ctrl+R to reply to a
    particular mail'
    o bug 2377, 'Show All Headers - make change persistent
    between sessions'
    o bug 2402, 'GnuTLS change breaks socket communication'
    o bug 2404, 'matcherrc updates upon account renaming'
    o bug 2406, 'some part of accountrc not updated upon account
    rename'
    o bug 2408, 'Some UI elements are not persistent between
    sessions'
    o bug 2422, 'Toggle Message View w/ V crashes Claws'
    o bug 2479, 'LDIF address book import matches tags case
    sensitive'
    o bug 2481, 'do not scroll "from" dropdown list and sender
    address'
    o bug 2493, 'Subscription pull down should be alphabetized'
    o bug 2502, 'gnutls_transport_set_lowat removed in gnutls
    3.0.3'
    o bug 2505, 'tagsdb becomes polluted with old folder entries'
    o bug 2509, 'manually added headers are lost unless mail is
    sent inmediately'
    o bug 2520, 'Please remove verbose "No further processing
    after rule %s" message.'
    o bug 2525, 'Address completion window does not get keyboard
    focus'
    o bug 2526, 'When reading message in separate window, n and p
    keys do not work'
    o bug 2529, 'crash in mimeview_start_drag after deleting
    message'
    o bug 2543, 'filter actions in actionsrc not updated upon
    account renaming'
    o bug 2560, 'crash when unsubscribing newsgroup and having
    active search field'
    o Fix focus problem on Gnome shell
    o Fix flicker on recursive quicksearch
    o Fix huge slowness induced by spellcheck "while typing"
    during initial quote rewraps.
    o Fix build with GLib 2.31.
    o Fix crasher when spellchecking is not enabled
    o Fix compose window size saving/restoring

    For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
    http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/

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