After a year and a half of development, the releases of the lightweight and fast email client Claws Mail 3.20.0 and 4.2.0 have been published. This client branched off from the Sylpheed project in 2005 (from 2001 to 2005, the projects developed together, with Claws being used to test future innovations in Sylpheed). The Claws Mail interface is built using GTK, and the code is released under the GPL license. The 3.x and 4.x branches are developed in parallel and differ in the version of the GTK library used: the 3.x branch uses GTK2, while the 4.x branch uses GTK3.
Key innovations:
- The ability to open the selected mail folder immediately after startup has been added (it is enabled through the 'Open on start-up' option in the context menu displayed by right-clicking on the folder name or in the 'Folder list' tab of the settings section /Configuration/Preferences/Display/Summaries).
- Statistics on identified spam have been added to the session information page.
- The option to save only attachments to emails, without other parts of the message, has been added.
- Support for the search expression 'v H V' has been added to the quick search.
- Support for MIME types 'font/*' and 'chemical/*' has been ensured.
- Support for SCRAM-SHA-{224,256,384,512} authentication mechanisms has been implemented in IMAP.
- A progress indicator for deletion operations via IMAP has been added to the status bar.
- The GData plugin has been removed.
- The Fancy plugin no longer requires libsoup and libsoup-gnome as dependencies.
- The LiteHTML Viewer plugin code has been synchronized with the litehtml 0.7 library and requires at least version 0.12 of the libgumbo library for building.
- The options '--enable-more-addressbook-debug' and '--enable-more-ldap-debug' have been added for advanced debugging of the address book and LDAP queries.
- The translation of the interface into Russian has been improved.
Source: opennet.ru
