Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Hi there,

Claws Mail 3.0.0 has been released this morning. You can upgrade it from the Application Manager, or install it by following instructions at http://www.claws-mail.org/maemo/ .

The changes are the following:

3rd September 2007 Claws Mail 3.0.0

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

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

Notes for this release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* Claws Mail is now licensed under GPLv3 or later.


New in this release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* added Tags feature
Tags are arbitrary labels that can be applied to messages. It is
possible to create, edit, remove Tags; apply them to mails;
filter on Tags or Tag presence; apply or unset Tags via Filtering
actions; reference Tags in reply Templates.

* Threads can now be sorted by most recent message
/View/Sort/By thread date

* Added "/View/Show or Hide/Column headers"

* Added 'watch thread' feature

* Enabled the running of folder Processing rules on demand

* Added options to stop/enable writing logs to disc, see Logging
page of preferences

* IMAP and News: Implement age-based caching: allow the specifying
of a threshold for the offline synchronisation feature, and whether
old cached bodies should be removed. Accessible from the Folder
Properties.

* IMAP: Made multiple copy, (in the same IMAP account), faster by
matching source/destination message UIDs.

* LDAP: Ability to edit all Person attributes

* Nicer layout of the message part icons

* Speed up and clean up rendering of larger msgs

* Use progress bar when sending messages

* Made mainwindow's /Help/Manual point to the remote copy if the
local copy doesn't exist

* Replaced some deprecated widgets

* Enabled changing the emphasis color used to highlight the
newsreader/x-mailer header value when it matches our preferred
mail agent, (hidden pref 'emphasis_color' added to clawsrc).

* tools/mew2claws-mail.pl
Added new script that imports a Mew address book

* tools/popfile-link.sh
Added a new script that will open selected messages in
POPFile control center, in order to change the message
status.

* Updated the manual

* Check that Dillo's installed when loading the Dillo Browser
plugin

* Maemo improvements:
o Automatically choose the correct application
to open parts
o Better way to notify of new mails
o Destroy messageview after trashing mail
o Simplified layout
o Better toolbars, removal of CTree headers
o Add a specific icon to go back to folder list
o Improvements to the Wizard, About and icon legend dialogues
o add an easy way to store data (mails and IMAP/NNTP caches)
on one of the SD cards, and protect against unmounts if
needed
o plug the online/offline system into maemo's interfaces to
have Claws automatically switch according to the system
status (on IT OS 2007)
o use HildonBanners to display status messages
o force layout to be Small screen
o put the progress bar in the toolbar

* Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Finnish, French,
German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese and
Slovak translations.


* Bugfixes:
o bug 1224, 'The process of Replying to emails with large
attachments seems unreasonably long...'
o bug 1246, 'compose becomes increasingly slow replying to
complex emails'
o bug 1261, '[DE] coloring messages in overview keys are
not localised'
o bug 1267, 'printing mutliple messages opens one message-
dialog after the other'
o bug 1275, 'auto-saved draft messages not always being
removed'
o bug 1284, 'The html -> text converter ignores entities'
o bug 1286, 'Can't move a folder into a "Folders Only"
folder'
o bug 1287, 'Compile time problem on Solaris (nexenta
gnu/Solaris) utils.c'
o bug 1292, 'CM crashes on writing mail'
o bug 1290, 'Claws Mail crashes if too little memory when
rebuilding folder tree'
o bug 1293, 'LDAP address book not working'
o fix processing progressbar
o fix re-opening of all composing messages that were opened
when closing the previous instance
o fix toolbar prefs crash when no actions exist
o fix typos around long form expressions in the quote lexer.
o Quicksearch: Make search run on GDK_KP_Enter too
o fix missing timestamp update on MH source folder when
moving mails
o fix 'o' (Open) shortcut on MIME parts
o fix two vCard-related crashes
o fix threads use on BSDs
o copy all account preferences in account_clone() - some
were missing.
o fix 'List URLS'
o Fix format string vulnerability
o Fix all potential misuses of format-string functions
o Address Book: Contacts are now locale-aware sorted in the
address book
o use suitable defaults for outbox,
queue, drafts and trash folders
o fix loss of subfolders properties when renaming a folder
o fix Quicksearch's Sticky mode
o fix signature replacement when it's been wrapped
o fix cursor offset when quote contains UTF-8 chars
o fix coloring of pastes as quotation
o fix wizard crash when Mailbox dir already exists
o IMAP: fix timeout setting (requires libetpan 0.52)
o IMAP: better scanning (NOOP instead of CLOSE/SELECT)
o IMAP: fix unwanted creation of libetpan's stream dump file
o LDAP: fix possible crash on cache invalidation
o LDAP: fix port being reset to 636 on SSL
o LDAP: fix wrong "Connected successfully to server".
o Maemo: layout fixes
o Maemo: fix auto-completion
o Maemo: fix sticking statusbars
o Maemo: fix the strange "top_application" info at startup.
o Maemo: fix crash on first launch
o Maemo: don't opened selected folder when clicking on white
space
o Maemo: make Esc close messageviews
o Maemo: fix message scrolling to the end on opening
o Maemo: fix reopening same message
o Maemo: fix opening of mails from keypad in Sent folders
o Maemo: fix adjustments changes
o Refresh window when processing
o Windows: never pass NULL pointers for %s substitutions

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

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

The best email application on N800 and it's getting even better! I have used it since it was ported to N800, I hope that Claws is available after next firmware update (Chinook) because it's so good that I'm using it every day on my email at work.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Is that toolbar at the bottom new? If it is, nice touch. If it isn't, nice touch.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

I just upgraded on os2006 and I get 'GTK_IS_LABEL (label) failed
Illegal instruction.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Hmm... Is it possible to move them to top of the screen?

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Can you tell me how to do this? I would love to store my 15+mb of emails on the mmc, and make it the default storage directory, but I can't figure out how to. Thanks.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

I like this newer version a lot. Needs some more plug-ins ported over though.
Right now it's my main email client and RSS news reader.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

How can one relocate the main window toolbar back to the top of the screen -- where it used to be?

--Denis

P.S. And also disable the flashing status mesages when doing mail handling... they can't be read anyway and slow down the process by increasing GUI interface overhead.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

I figured out my question - just edit ~/.claws-mail/folderlist.xml

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

So if i understand, now imap mail can be offline ... Great ...

I'll try it.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

A vast improvement !
It was very good it is now great !
Thanks a lot
Fred

PS : the only missing feature now : plug in to the system to get mail notification without on the left bar ...

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

It looks good. The feature I'm constantly missing though is 'Mark as read' - it would be a nice addition to 'Move' and 'Delete'.

EDIT: Actually it appears to set it as 'read' by clicking on that little envelope - is that right? I always try to open the message by clicking it but ends up double-clicking the title instead. In any case I still would like to see the 'mark as read' option along with the 'move' and 'delete' options in the menu.. they're related. In fact what I wish for is a more gmail-like approach.. where you can tick selected messages and apply an operation on them (e.g. mark-as-read, delete etc.). I'm getting so used to the gmail interface by now.. ;)

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

It's in the "Mark" submenu :)

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Very nice update.

Are the other layouts gone now? I like splitting the screen in two showing folder view and message view but I can't find any layout settings anymore.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Is there any way to select multiple messages, either to move them to trash or mark as read or whatever?

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Can somebody confirm if this happens with all N770's running OS2006?

I'd hate to break my installation.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Great work. Claws 3.0 is much much better than old one.

But i am still eagerly waiting for Modest. Default IT OS 2007 mail application is totally unusable.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

I know, same question here. I've tried different ways but it seems there isn't an easy-to-see solution.

Mail filtering works great though.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

I updated to it on mine today running OS2006, and all is perfect. The upgrade via application manager just worked, and now mail on the 770 is even better than on my Zaurus 3100.

Has anyone yet built a copy of the Windows version with IMAP support, as the port on http://www.gpg4win.org/ does not have it built in? If so, I might replace Thunderbird on all my machines...

Cheers,

Alistair

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Did you try the small button in the right top corner?
Works like holding the <ctrl>.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

OK, I tried it and it works fine on OS2006. Thanks!

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Sweet! I always wondered what that was! Thanks.:D

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

I've just installed it...
When it syncs, it seems to want to sync ALL the e-mail I have. Is there a way to tell it I only want the most recent 100 e-mails? I have old mail I just keep on the yahoo servers for the heck of it and don't need everything.

Thanks

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Not yet. It may finally come, though, I've seen that the gpg4win guys submitted a big patch to libetpan (our IMAP library) to ease building on Windows, so I suppose it's in their todo list :) Once done, the most annoying missing thing on Windows will be SSL.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

In the folder properties, where you have [x] Synchronise for offline use, you can specify the maximum age of mails for which you want Claws to fetch bodies.

If you're speaking about headers, Claws fetches them all, they're needed to build the message list. But it'll only have to do that once.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Hmm, strange. Can you run claws-mail from the terminal with gdb ? Install gdb, then open xterm, type

gdb claws-mail
(gdb) run
and when it crashes:
(gdb) bt full

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Same for me! Thanks a lot for the tip :)

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Thanks Colin! It seems I'm blind to third-level submenues.. been working on PalmOS too long I guess! Seriously, I'm not sure why I have problems with the claws-mail interface, I'm constantly bewildered as to what to click and where to find it. I'm working on it though.

One more feature request (unless I've missed an existing one _again_): When writing or replying to an email osso-email has a way of collapsing the header part of the mail to get more real estate for the writing (as the kbd takes so much room) - could this be done in claws-mail too?

EDIT: A second one.. is there a way to get it to synch _only_ the inbox (sub)folder? I would like to reduce the data traffic as much as possible (because I often synch over GPRS), and I never read those other folders on the N800.. I filter out tons of stuff to move away to other folders on the server, so that only the inbox holds messages I would want to read on a mobile device.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Normally, when the body text gets the focus, it moves to the top of the window and the headers under, so that it's the part without focus that's hidden under the keyboard. Does that not work for you?

You can enable/disable syncing of bodies in each folder (optionnaly including subfolders with the checkbox at the right) in their Properties; also, you can enable/disable "Scanning for new mail" in folders; that makes Claws never look at these folders unless you open them.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Thanks Colin,
The writing area behaves as you explain, the problem I had was in an earlier version (where I would get one or two lines of text visible).

For the second problem it seems to me that the way our imap server is set up (with subfolders) isn't ideal for claws-mail - if I understood correctly I can only turn off scanning for new mail for all or none (the way it's structured here is an INBOX where new mail arrives, and all other folders are subfolders of this one. I would like the scanning, but only for INBOX.. not its subfolders). I would have set up the imap server differently if it was up to me, I'll check if it's possible and if so talk to the sysadmin.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Well, you can also disable scanning for INBOX and all its subfolders from INBOX's properties, then re-enable scanning for INBOX (but not its subfolders) :)

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Thanks, that worked! (although not entirely intuitive..;))

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

I just installed the latest version on an N800 and configured it to use IMAP & SMTP via SSL (with the proper ports). Although I was able to send a message, when I try checking for email nothing happens. Even when I restart the application and immediately click to check mail on all accounts, nothing happens; I'm not even prompted for the password (which I left blank in the account settings).

Any pointers on what must user error appreciated.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Although I have no proper answer, I had similar problems at some occations, lastly when I upgraded to 3.0. I solved it by carefully comparing the (working) setup of osso-email with my claws-mail configuration, put in the same numbers (ports, authentication etc.), finally hit that 'rebuild-tree' or whatever c-m sometimes suggest, and voila - it worked again.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

I have not used osso mail.

I looked for rebuild tree but could not find it. Any idea what/where it is?

Thx.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

I've got a pop mail set up, but mail sent in html format seems to be rendering as text only. I've got the html plugin loaded. Is there something I'm missing?

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

I've a problem here. I can get my mail from AOL fine. However I cannot sent mail. I get the following error:

Could not queue message for sending.

I can't even save the message.

I've uninstalled and re-installed the app.
I've removed the account. Restarted Claws and recreated the account. Still the same error.

Plenty of memory available. I tried searching the bug tracker but got 0 results matching that error.

HALP

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Oh yeah. I also have the same problem with HTML mail.

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

Hi. I am trying to configure Claws mail so that it works with my Gmail account. After the configuration, I tried to send a message and got the following error:
"Required APOP timestamp not found in greeting".
Any idea what I am doing wrong? Thanks!

Re: Claws Mail 3.0.0
 

I think to view the HTML email, you need to touch the icon to the right of the text message. It takes a few seconds to load the email in HTML format.