Claws Mail 3.15 Open-Source Email Client Brings New Hidden Preferences, Bugfixes

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Claws Mail 3.15.0 released

 

Claws Mail, the lightweight and open-source GTK+ based email client for Linux, UNIX, and Windows operating systems, was updated recently to version 3.15.0, a maintenance update that adds new functionalities and addresses a lot of bugs.

 

Claws Mail 3.15.0 comes more than four months after the first point release to the 3.14 series of the applications, and among the new features implemented we can mention a bunch of options that should help users configure Claws Mail when to open a selected message, such as checkboxes on the Display and Summaries page of Preferences.

 

The compose window was updated to display the total size of email attachments on the Attachments tab, as well as the Bcc to the headers drop-down list. The Folder list was updated as well, this time to allow users to copy top-level folders, which are created as regular folders in the target mailbox, according to the release notes.

 

Claws Mail 3.15.0 also adds support for SVG themes that sports icon scaling capabilities, requiring the libRSVG 2.40.5 or newer library to be installed. A "Mark all unread [recursively]" option was added to the folder context menu, the main window menu and toolbar, as well as the message list menu.

 

New hidden preferences and toolbar actions

Among other changes added to the Claws Mail 3.15.0 release, we can mention a bunch of new hidden preferences for setting QuickSearch, auto-filled header values, and tags, several new toolbar actions to mark or unmark messages, delete duplicate messages, etc., and an up-to-date GData plugin to require libgdata 0.17.2 or newer.

 

The TNEF parser plugin was also updated to make use of an external libytnef library, along with the vCalendar plugin, which now uses the libical 2.0.0 or newer external library, as well as the Mail Archiver plugin, which is now capable of supporting the compression formats supported by the libarchive 3.2.2 library.

 

The full changelog is attached below if you're curious to know which bugs have been fixed in this maintenance update of Claws Mail. You can download Claws Mail 3.15.0 right now from our website if you fancy compiling the software yourself on your favorite GNU/Linux distribution.

 

Claws Mail 3.15.0 Changelog

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* More granular options on when to open a selected message have been added. There are now several checkboxes on the Display/Summaries page of the Preferences which allow a greater flexibility.
* Compose window: Show the total size of attachments on the Attachments tab.
* Compose window: Bcc has been added to the headers drop-down list.
* Folder list: Top-level folders can now be copied.  They are created as regular folders in the target mailbox.
* Folder selection dialogue: Left/right keys collapse/expand rows. Further keypress will move the cursor to parent or first child, respectively.
* Menu items: 'Mark all unread [recursively]' has been added to the folder context menu, message list menu, and the main window menu and toolbar.
* Toolbar actions: Mark, Unmark, Lock, Unlock, Mark [all] read, Mark [all] unread, Ignore Thread, Watch Thread, and Delete Duplicate Messages have been added to the main window toolbar's Actions list.
* Account compose signature: The value of the signature file now takes a path relative to the user's home directory in addition to a full path.
* Icon Themes: Support for SVG themes with icon scaling capabilities has been added. This requires libRSVG 2.40.5 or newer.
* Hidden preferences: colours for specifying Tags, QuickSearch, and auto-filled header values have been added, both foreground and background. Respectively, tags_color, tags_bgcolor, qs_active_color, qs_active_bgcolor, qs_error_color, qs_error_bgcolor, default_header_color, and default_header_bgcolor.
* Hidden preferences: warn_sending_many_recipients_num, if greater than zero, a warning dialogue is shown when the number of recipients exceeds the number given.
* GData plugin: This plugin now requires libgdata version 0.17.2 or newer.
* TNEF parser plugin: This plugin now uses an external libytnef.
* vCalendar plugin: This plugin now uses an external libical, version 2.0.0 or newer is required.
* Mail Archiver plugin: - updated to support some of the compression formats up to libarchive 3.2.2
* Several minor UI improvements.
* Updated manual in English and Spanish.
* Updated man page.
* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, and Turkish.
* Bug fixes:
    o bug 3251, 'A translated In-Reply-To header is sent
             translated'
    o bug 3571, 'recipient list lost and truncated'
    o bug 3574, 'Template addressing'
    o bug 3582, 'Select folder dialogue does not tell what is
             selecting for'
    o bug 3673, 'Be more friendly instead of "configure: error:
             'encrypt'-function not found."'
    o bug 3734, 'undefined symbol error with flex-2.6.2'
    o bug 3740, 'Templates information dialog can't be closed
             with WM button'
    0 bug 3741, 'Deleting an account doesn't delete imapcache'
    o bug 3742, 'Attaching file with plus sign in filename via
             drag and drop doesn't work'
    o bug 3762, 'redirect fails'
    o bug 3764, 'Use external libical instead of the internal
             copy'
    o bug 3775, 'Error in string at src/mainwindow.c:4726?'
    o bug 3777, 'Weird news dates for some RSS feeds'
    o Debian bug 846170, 'incorrect IMAP UID handling'
    o Allow sending empty messages in Session (just \r\n).
    o fix some main window menu sensitivity issues
    o make up/down key navigation obey 'always_show_msg'
    o fix text selection when double-clicking quoted text and
      'collapse quoted text on double click' is turned off
    o fix 'Go to' moving off current, unopened msg, and dialogue
      to go to next folder
    o obey 'always_show_msg' on "no more [...] msgs. go to next
      folder?"
    o make Go to/[Next|Prev] sort order aware
    o don't ignore auto-account selection when forwarding on IMAP
      and NNTP accounts
    o on first run, use --alternate-config-dir (if set) on prefs
      migration. prevents useless creation of ~/.claws-mail
      directory
    o fix colouring of auto-filled headers
    o don't remove the To when changing account
    o Honour autosave_encrypted preference when using external
      editor.
    o Fix 'search folder' not working in some cases
    o Fix build on OSX.
    o fix memory leaks
    o when renaming folder, only update summaryview folder name
      if the current folder is being renamed
    o sensitise trayicon's 'get mail' and 'exit'
    o Handle timezones correctly in vCalendar.
    o Do not hardcode resolv.conf location
    o fix building with --disable-deprecated

 

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