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Portable Sylpheed Changelog

What's new in Portable Sylpheed 3.8.0 Beta 1 Build 1187

Sep 14, 2022
  • OAuth2 authentication support was added.
  • (currently tested with Gmail and MS365 Outlook)
  • Note: The client IDs described in the oauth2.ini file included in the package have been created for testing purpose. A warning that these client IDs are not confirmed by Google or Microsoft will be displayed on the authentication. There are cases when these client IDs become not available in the future.
  • Win32: fixes for update checks on Windows were made.
  • Win32: included SSL certificates were updated.
  • Win32: included OpenSSL was updated.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.7.0 Build 1185 (Jan 31, 2018)

  • The function to export the address book to CSV files was added.
  • 'Nick Name' column was added to the address book.
  • Context menu was added to the search result of the query search dialog.
  • When attaching UTF-16 text files, they are automatically converted into UTF-8 now.
  • Show original From on the summary view if the display-name seems to be an e-mail address.
  • The bug that wrong reply target could be selected when the summary was sorted by the unread flag (#286).
  • Win32: the bug that Japanese characters were overlapped on printings with some font settings was fixed.
  • Win32: the bug that empty lines were not properly spaced on printings with some font settings was fixed.
  • Win32: OpenSSL was updated to 1.0.2n.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.7.0 Beta 1 (Jan 18, 2018)

  • The function to export the address book to CSV files was added.
  • 'Nick Name' column was added to the address book.
  • Context menu was added to the search result of the query search dialog.
  • When attaching UTF-16 text files, they are automatically converted into UTF-8 now.
  • Show original From on the summary view if the display-name seems to be an e-mail address.
  • The bug that wrong reply target could be selected when the summary was sorted by the unread flag (#286).
  • Win32: the bug that Japanese characters were overlapped on printings with some font settings was fixed.
  • Win32: the bug that empty lines were not properly spaced on printings with some font settings was fixed.
  • Win32: OpenSSL was updated to 1.0.2n.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.6.0 Build 1178 (Jun 30, 2017)

  • The feature to use multiple signatures in one account was added.
  • The edit group dialog of the address book was improved to allow multilple selection and display its available list with folder tree.
  • The menu 'Tools - Open configuration/attachments folder' was added.
  • Printing settings and page setup are now saved.
  • The Japanese manual was updated.
  • IMAP: SUBSCRIBE command is explicitly issued for a newly created folder by CREATE.
  • Unix: the search location of SSL certificates for OpenBSD was added (#222).
  • Win32: a notice about not removing user data in the installer was modified.
  • Win32: OpenSSL was updated to 1.0.2l.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.5.1 Build 1174 (Jul 30, 2016)

  • In this release, new plug-in APIs for compose view were added
  • Autotools scripts and documents were updated

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.5.0 Build 1170 (Jan 25, 2016)

  • In this release, the runtime libraries in the Windows version were updated and many UI improvements were made
  • High DPI environment was also supported
  • Many other improvements and bugfixes have been also made

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.5 RC 2 (Dec 29, 2015)

  • TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 will be enabled for STARTTLS when OpenSSL 1.0.1 or above is used.
  • The regression which was introduced at 3.5rc when using Oniguruma was fixed.
  • Win32: libpng was updated to 1.4.18.
  • Win32: OpenSSL was updated to 0.9.8zh.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.5 RC (Nov 27, 2015)

  • A fix for ARM architecture was made.
  • Some bugfixes and stability improvements were made.
  • Win32: more fix for the crash when linked with newer MSVCRT was made.
  • Win32: irresponsive text entries on the first display of the filter edit dialog were fixed.
  • Win32: included libiconv dll was replaced with the correct one, which fixes Japanese wave dash and fullwidth tilde conversion problem.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.4.3 (Jul 7, 2015)

  • The bug that wrote the first part of data if the message body in the IMAP4 responses didn't end with CR+LF was fixed (#84).
  • The crash when displaying HTML messages was fixed (#215).
  • Win32: the crash when linked with newer MSVCRT was fixed.
  • Win32: libjpeg was updated.
  • Win32: libtiff was updated.
  • Win32: libpng was updated to 1.2.53.
  • Win32: OpenSSL was updated to 0.9.8zg.
  • Win32: included SSL certificates were updated.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.5 Beta 2 (Nov 20, 2014)

  • In this release, high DPI was supported. Some issues in 3.5.0beta1 were also fixed.
  • Windows / widgets are now adjusted to their optimal sizes by reference to system DPI value.
  • The option to specify startup online mode was added.
  • The bug that wrote the first part of data if the message body in the IMAP4 responses didn't end with CR+LF was fixed (#84).
  • The bug that previously selected folder on the file selection dialog was not remembered with GTK+ 2.24.x was fixed.
  • Hebrew translation was added.
  • Win32: The bug that 'Minimize to tray icon' didn't work with 3.5.0beta1 was fixed (#207).
  • Win32: 'Toggle window on trayicon click' now works (#207).
  • Win32: The bug that selected menu item was invisible on Windows 7 classic theme was fixed (#208).
  • Win32: sylpheed.exe executable became DPI-Aware.
  • Win32: OpenSSL was updated to 0.9.8zc.
  • Win32: included SSL certificates were updated (based on Ubuntu 14.04.1 ca-certificates).

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.5 Beta 1 (Jun 17, 2014)

  • In this release, the GTK+ library included in the Windows version was updated, and many UI improvements were made.
  • On Unix, lockf()(fcntl()) now has priority over flock() for NFS-safe mbox locking.
  • Configure: silent rules are enabled by default.
  • Configure.in was renamed to configure.ac.
  • Fade effect was added to the notification window.
  • Sylpheed.desktop file was updated.
  • Mbox locking became NFS-safe (#202).
  • Win32:
  • Win32: build fix for newer MinGW was made.
  • Win32: 32-bit time_t is always used on win32 for backward compatibility.
  • Win32: included third-party libraries were updated:
  • GTK+ 2.24.23
  • GLib 2.38.2
  • GDK-Pixbuf 2.30.7
  • Pango 1.36.3
  • Cairo 1.10.2
  • libpng 1.14.13
  • GPGME 1.4.3
  • Win32: the following issues were fixed because of GTK+ update:
  • System Icon issue when ran on Windows 7 (#13, #85)
  • Scroll jumping issue on text views when using Japanese IME
  • Menus became more native-looking
  • File dialogs were improved

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.4.2 (Jun 10, 2014)

  • In this release, the OpenSSL library included in the Windows version was updated, and its security vulnerability was fixed.
  • The bug that POP3 remote mailbox feature didn't show error if local mailbox was inaccessible on downloading messages was also fixed.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.4.1 (Apr 4, 2014)

  • This release fixes an important bug that would lose mails when local mailbox was inaccessible on POP3 receiving. All users who are using 3.4 are recommended to upgrade. 3.3.1 does not have this problem.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.4 (Apr 1, 2014)

  • In this release, the new message notification window was added.
  • Icon theme feature was added.
  • The handling of HTML messages was improved.
  • Hostname of SSL certificate is also validated now.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.4.0 RC (Mar 27, 2014)

  • SSL wildcard certificate is also validated now (#167).
  • The compile error with OpenSSL disabled was fixed.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.4.0 Beta 8 (Mar 19, 2014)

  • SSL certificate hostname is validated now (#167).
  • The Japanese manual was modified so that IE correctly detect its character encoding.
  • The rightmost column of folder view and summary view became easier to resize.
  • Appropriate columns of folder view, summary view, etc. are auto-expanded by window resize when using GTK+ 2.14 or later.
  • The initial setup dialog is now resizable.
  • PGP encrypt-to-self feature was added.
  • The display period of notification window became configurable.
  • Win32: OpenSSL was updated to 0.9.8y.
  • Win32: libpng was updated to 1.2.51.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.3.1 (Mar 7, 2014)

  • IMAP: "INBOX" folder became case insensitive as specified in RFC 3501.
  • IMAP: server name for cache directory is escaped now (fixes cache creation when using IPv6 address for server name on Windows).
  • IMAP: the bug that double-quote (") and backslash (\) in folder/username/password were not escaped and could not be used on IMAP4 was fixed.
  • IMAP: parsing of folder names that contain brackets was fixed.
  • Config.guess and config.sub included in the tarball were updated to the latest version.
  • The bug that 'File - Folder - Move folder...' menu didn't work was fixed.
  • The bug that MIME nest level restriction was not working was fixed.
  • Many defects discovered by Coverity Scan were fixed:
  • FILE handle resource leaks
  • memory leaks
  • possible buffer overrun
  • strict error checks
  • correct null pointer checks
  • Win32: the tray icon is recreated when explorer.exe crashes now.
  • Win32: the included SSL certificates were updated (based on ca-certificates_20111211_all.deb in Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS).
  • Win32: OpenSSL was updated to 0.9.8y.
  • Win32: libpng was updated to 1.2.51.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.4.0 Beta 7 (Nov 30, 2013)

  • Win32: the tray icon is recreated when explorer.exe crashes now.
  • Win32: the included SSL certificates were updated (based on ca-certificates_20111211_all.deb).
  • The bug that 'File - Folder - Move folder...' menu didn't work was fixed.
  • The bug that MIME nest level restriction was not working was fixed.
  • Many defects were fixed:
  • FILE handle resource leaks
  • memory leaks
  • possible buffer overrun
  • strict error checks
  • correct null pointer checks

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.4.0 Beta 6 (Oct 29, 2013)

  • In this release, icon theme feature was added. Other improvements were also made.
  • Icon theme feature was added.
  • HTML mail is distinguished from other messages with attachments now (#89).
  • 'Last 30 days' was added to the quick search menu.
  • Attached images are rotated based on Exif orientation tag.
  • Config.guess and config.sub included in the tarball were updated to the latest version.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.4.0 Beta 5 (Aug 28, 2013)

  • Basque translation was added.
  • Escaped special characters in HTML links are now properly unescaped (#120).
  • IMAP: parsing of folder names that contain brackets was fixed.
  • Config.guess and config.sub included in the tarball were updated.
  • The order of templates became stable.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.4.0 Beta 4 (May 29, 2013)

  • feature to save message as plain text was added.
  • Printing now prints all texts in messages, not only the first one.
  • The HTML parser now supports tag.
  • An option to prefer HTML part in multipart/alternative was added (default: off).
  • Compose window is raised when the external editor exits.
  • Bugfixes of HTML display were made.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.4.0 Beta 3 (Apr 1, 2013)

  • Quotation of forwarded messages is enabled for template now.
  • When applying a template for a new message, current date is inserted with '%d'.
  • Rebuilding of folder tree which was broken at 3.4.0beta1 was fixed (#103).
  • The bug that double-quote (") and backslash (\) in folder/username/password were not escaped and could not be used on IMAP4 was fixed.
  • When marking a message as junk and moving it to a junk folder, proper junk folder is selected instead of default one.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.4.0 Beta 2 (Feb 19, 2013)

  • New message notification window was added.
  • An option to the junk filter setting was added: 'Do not classify message as junk if sender is in the address book' (enabled by default) (#77)
  • Some non-standard Date header patterns are handled now.
  • Win32: start menu shortcuts are translated.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.4 Beta 1 (Feb 19, 2013)

  • Safe mode (which does not load plug-ins) was added (--safe-mode).
  • The existence of destination folders are checked when creating a filter rule.
  • The recursion level is restricted up to 64 when scanning local mailbox (prevents infinite loop with symlink. Note: Linux automatically limits the symlink loop up to 40)
  • The labels used in POP3 remote mailbox dialog was modified.
  • POP3: do not disconnect immediately but send QUIT command on normal POP3 errors (prevents deleted messages appear again).
  • IMAP: "INBOX" folder became case insensitive as specified in RFC 3501.
  • IMAP: server name for cache directory is escaped now (fixes cache creation when using IPv6 address for server name on Windows).
  • Win32: socket connection timeout setting now works on Windows (Note: on Windows XP, maximum timeout value will be 21 seconds by default).

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.3 (Nov 10, 2012)

  • New features:
  • The ability of opening external eml files was added.
  • Sylpheed now accepts mailto: and file: URL without command-line option.
  • (sylpheed file:///path/to/file.eml)
  • Attached files can be opened from the attachment tool menu.
  • 'Export only selected messages' option was added to the message export dialog.
  • Improvements:
  • The option to specify the position of the attach tool button was added.
  • The header labels on the header view now have tooltips.
  • Win32: mailto and .eml association are automatically set to default on Windows 7 on installation.
  • The sylpheed.desktop file was modified so that desktop shells can recognize Sylpheed as rfc822 and mailto handler.
  • Attached files are now placed first on the message view.
  • The attachment tool menu was moved to the left of the header view.
  • The option 'Toggle attachment list view with tab' and 'Show attached files first on message view' were added at 'Common preferences - Display - Attachment'.
  • The import/export of messages became cancellable.
  • config.rpath and install-sh script in the tarball were updated.
  • Other changes:
  • The Japanese manual was updated.
  • Security fix:
  • Win32: included libtiff library was updated to 3.9.7 (security fix).
  • Bugfixes:
  • Some compilation fixes were made.
  • A minor memory leak related to tooltips was fixed.
  • The drag-without-button-press bug on IMAP folders was fixed (#93).
  • The sylpheed.spec file was fixed so that it builds on x86_64 platform, and also builds sylpheed-plugins package.
  • IMAP FETCH command response parser was fixed.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.3 RC (Nov 1, 2012)

  • The Japanese manual was updated.
  • The bug that hyperlinks did not respond when 'Show attached files first on message view' option was set was fixed.
  • Some compilation fixes were made.
  • Win32: .eml file association was added to installer.
  • Win32: mailto and .eml association are automatically set to default on Windows 7 on installation.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.3 Beta 2 (Sep 29, 2012)

  • The ability of opening external rfc822 format message files (.eml) was added.
  • Sylpheed now accepts mailto: and file: URL without command-line option.
  • (sylpheed file:///path/to/file.eml)
  • The option to specify the position of the attach tool button was added.
  • The header labels on the header view now have tooltips.
  • A minor memory leak related to tooltips was fixed.
  • The long-standing drag-without-button-press bug on IMAP folders (since 3.0) was fixed (#93).
  • The sylpheed.desktop file was modified so that desktop shells can recognize Sylpheed as rfc822 and mailto handler.
  • The sylpheed.spec file was fixed so that it builds on x86_64 platform, and also builds sylpheed-plugins package.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.3 Beta 1 (Jul 27, 2012)

  • Attached files are now placed first on the message view.
  • Attached files can be opened from the attachment tool menu.
  • The attachment tool menu was moved to the left of the header view.
  • The option 'Toggle attachment list view with tab' and 'Show attached files first on message view' were added at 'Common preferences - Display - Attachment'.
  • 'Export only selected messages' option was added to the message export dialog.
  • The import/export of messages became cancellable.
  • config.rpath and install-sh script in the tarball were updated.
  • IMAP FETCH command response parser was fixed.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.2 (Jun 29, 2012)

  • New features:
  • Each attachments on the message view now have graphical label and popup menu.
  • The UI for Attachments tab was changed to save the space. Users now also can do 'Save all' without switching the view.
  • The 'show_attach_tab' option (without UI), which reverts the attachments interface to the old one, was added.
  • Multiple keywords search of the quick search was implemented.
  • The context menu of the folder view and the summary view can be popped up using Menu key or Shift+F10.
  • Win32: IPv6 support was enabled again.
  • Win32: SylFilter is now also included in the installer. The default junk commands were also changed to sylfilter.
  • Win32: an option to play sound when new messages arrive was added.
  • Win32: The file selector now follows Windows shortcut (.lnk).
  • Improvements:
  • Number of maximum characters per line of configuration files was increased.
  • Compose window will not be closed if saving of message to outbox failed.
  • Sender's e-mail address became not guessable from generated Message-Id.
  • New plug-in APIs were added.
  • 'Account Preferences - Advanced - Put deleted messages in' account setting actually works now.
  • MIME debug output was modified.
  • Both filtered and original numbers of messages are displayed on the status label now.
  • The POP3 remote mailbox now supports SOCKS proxy.
  • The POP3 remote mailbox now retrieves headers from the newer messages (useful for slow connection).
  • The POP3 remote mailbox can now reload message headers after the loading is stopped.
  • News (NNTP) now supports SOCKS proxy.
  • The details of new message counts are displayed on the tooltip of the tray icon.
  • Address auto-completion now also matches to the subsequent part of the name of contacts.
  • On file selection dialog, the last selected folders are preserved between sessions now.
  • DNS lookup error is now distinguished from other connection errors.
  • The clip icon was replaced with more visible one on selected row.
  • Performance improvements:
  • The performance of reading cache files was improved by using memory mapped file (requires GTK+ >= 2.8).
  • Win32: the launch of Windows installer became faster.
  • Other changes:
  • Sylfilter command was added as a preset of junk filter program.
  • The blinking period of the tray icon was extended to 10 seconds.
  • 'Is shorter than' became the default for 'Age' filter condition.
  • The Japanse manual was updated, and the encoding of Japanese manual was changed to UTF-8 to prevent display failure on some browsers.
  • Bugfixes
  • Queue control headers are removed when moving messages from queue folders to trash.
  • Duplicated keyboard accelerators on some dialogs were fixed.
  • The focus on quick search entry is not stolen by the refresh of summary.
  • The HTML parser was modified.
  • The check of IMAP AUTHENTICATE response was fixed.
  • The compilation failure with GLib 2.32 or later was fixed.
  • The bug that a MIME part that didn't have its name could not be saved was fixed.
  • Address autocomplete drop-down list with newer version of GTK+ was fixed (#52).
  • Line-space for auto-wrapped lines now reflects the line-space setting (#64).
  • Some minor fixes for IMAP were made.
  • Some memory leaks were fixed.
  • Other bugfixes were made.
  • Some compiler warnings were removed.
  • Win32: OpenSSL was updated to 0.9.8x. (0.9.8w in Sylpheed 3.1.4 is also not vulnerable)

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.2 Beta 7 (Apr 26, 2012)

  • New features:
  • The context menu of the folder view and the summary view can be popped up using Menu key or Shift+F10.
  • The details of new message counts are displayed on the tooltip of the tray icon.
  • Win32: SylFilter is now also included in the installer (since 3.2beta6).
  • Improvements:
  • Corrupted message caches of news and IMAP are automatically discarded now.
  • Address auto-completion now also matches to the subsequent part of the name of contacts.
  • On file selection dialog, the last selected folders are preserved between sessions now.
  • Bugfixes:
  • The check of IMAP AUTHENTICATE response was fixed.
  • The compilation failure with GLib 2.32 or later was fixed.
  • The bug that a MIME part that didn't have its name could not be saved was fixed.
  • Win32: the bug that the installation process continued even if uninstall was cancelled on update was fixed.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.1.4 (Apr 26, 2012)

  • Fixes for Yahoo! Mail IMAP server and Microsoft Exchange IMAP server were made.
  • A bug that cancelling editing contact on address book results in click-and-drag behavior with newer GTK+ was fixed.
  • Corrupted message caches of news and IMAP are automatically discarded now.
  • Win32: included libpng library was updated to 1.2.49 (security fix).
  • Win32: included libtiff library was updated to 3.9.6 with CVE-2012-1173 patch (security fix).
  • Win32: OpenSSL was updated to 0.9.8w (security fix).
  • Win32: the bug that the installation process continued even if uninstall was cancelled on update was fixed.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.2 Beta 6 (Feb 29, 2012)

  • A new application icon was added, and it is now used as a default window icon.
  • A margin was added for the summary view when scrolling.
  • The folder selection dialog now displays new/unread information for each folders.
  • The displayed file size of attachments became more accurate.
  • The filter rules are now modified after folders are moved.
  • Several alert dialogs were modified.
  • The line-wrap of composition was modified so that it doesn't break line after '-' (hyphen) to protect e-mail address etc.
  • UTF-8 text file is now properly inserted in composition window.
  • The Content-Type's charset is used as a fallback encoding of broken header strings on reply.
  • The problem was fixed that signature was not switched properly by the account selection in re-edit mode or after editing with external editor.
  • Attached files without text/* as the Content-Type is not uncanonicalized anymore.
  • The URI parser of the text view was modified.
  • The cache discrepancy problem of the queue folder was fixed.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.2 Beta 5 (Feb 29, 2012)

  • The order of the buttons of dialogs now complies with GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (configurable with 'Common preferences/Interface/Make the order of buttons comply with GNOME HIG').
  • Existing window is put in front when trying to re-edit draft/queue messages which are already open.
  • The toolbar and special folder icons are replaced with new png images which are based on GNOME icon theme.
  • The Sylpheed logo of the about dialog was replaced with new one.
  • The crash when cancelling the file selection dialog of vCard/JPilot by Escape key was fixed.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.2 Beta 4 (Feb 29, 2012)

  • The feature to move folders within the same mailbox was implemented.
  • The flag changes by manual filtering on IMAP4 folders are now reflected to IMAP4 server.
  • A warning is displayed on the first run if the locale encoding is not UTF-8 but the environmental variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is not set.
  • A warning is displayed when sending message if it exceeds the hard line length limit (998 bytes).
  • Other minor bugs were fixed.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.2 Beta 3 (Sep 13, 2011)

  • The translation was updated.
  • The Japanese manual was updated.
  • Win32: included GTK+ MS-Windows theme engine (libwimp.dll) was updated to fix potential DLL loading vulnerability. Other parts of GTK+ (2.10.14) are not affected.
  • Win32: included libpng library was updated to 1.2.46 (security fix).

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.2 Beta 2 (Aug 12, 2011)

  • The performance of reading cache files was improved by using memory mapped file (requires GTK+ >= 2.8).
  • 'Account Preferences - Advanced - Put deleted messages in' account setting actually works now.
  • Style colors are used for attachment label widgets now.
  • The text color of quick search on dark themes was fixed.
  • The HTML parser was modified.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.2 Beta 1 (Jul 1, 2011)

  • New features:
  • Each attachments on the message view now have graphical label and popup menu.
  • Win32: IPv6 support on Windows XP or later was enabled again. (This time, it will also work on Windows 2000 (IPv4 only support))
  • Improvements:
  • Number of maximum characters per line of configuration files was increased.
  • Compose window will not be closed if saving of message to outbox failed.
  • Sender's e-mail address became not guessable from generated Message-Id.
  • New plug-in APIs were added.
  • Bugfixes:
  • The crash bug that was caused by offline switch while IMAP session was active was fixed.
  • Queue control headers are removed when moving messages from queue folders to trash.
  • Duplicated keyboard accelerators on some dialogs were fixed.
  • Fixed a memory leak.
  • Other changes:
  • Many alloca() calls were removed.
  • Win32: the updater executables are not included in the zip version anymore to prevent incorrect update.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.1.1 (May 7, 2011)

  • The column width of the address book will be saved now.
  • The keyboard shortcut of 'File/Send' menu of compose window was changed to prevent accidental sending.
  • The bug that caused occasional crash when summary was updated while receiving messages was fixed.
  • The compilation problem on some environment was fixed.
  • The compilation error on newer gcc was fixed.
  • Finnish translation was added.
  • Win32: included libtiff library was updated to 3.9.5 (security fix).
  • Win32: OpenSSL was updated to 0.9.8r.

New in Portable Sylpheed 3.1 (Feb 1, 2011)

  • New features:
  • Win32: Automatic update of program and plug-ins was implemented.
  • A new plug-in 'Attachment Tool Plug-in', which enables the removal of attached files, was added.
  • The feature to combine partial messages (RFC 2046, message/partial) was added.
  • SOCKS4/SOCKS5 proxy support was added.
  • Automatic address completion was implemented. Users can also configure to use the previous behavior (start completion on Tab key).
  • Drag and drop of addresses on the address book is supported now.
  • Win32: The automatic import of Windows Address Book (WAB) file on initial startup was added.
  • MS Outlook Express mail stores (dbx) can be imported now.
  • Improvements (send / receive):
  • The option not to display the send progress dialog was added.
  • Messages on POP3 server will be left for 7 days by default.
  • 'Cancel all' button was added to the POP3 receive dialog.
  • The POP3 receive dialog will display only the number and size of messages in current session, not including previously received ones.
  • On POP3 receiving, new messages are displayed on the summary view immediately. Folder switching is not required anymore.
  • The upper limit of auto-check interval was changed to 1000 minutes.
  • Improvements (interface):
  • The default boolean type of query search and filter condition became AND.
  • Move/copy marks are now preserved on folder refresh when immediate execution is off.
  • When modification of templates are cancelled, confirm dialog will be displayed now.
  • The order of templates can be changed now.
  • Virtual folders can be moved now.
  • 'Always show messages in summary when selected' was improved, and it is enabled by default.
  • Redundant menu items are not displayed on the context menu of the folder view now.
  • A new option 'Change current account on folder open' was added, and it is enabled by default.
  • On 'File - Save as...' dialog, '.eml' extension was added for the default file name.
  • Users can move up/collapse/expand the folder view using left/right arrow key now.
  • The menu items 'Mark/Mark' and 'Mark/Unmark' were changed to 'Mark/Set flag' and 'Mark/Unset flag' for understandability.
  • Improvements (junk mail):
  • Junk-filtered or trashed messages are not counted as new on mail receiving.
  • Show error dialog if junk mail filter command exit with fatal error.
  • On junk mail filtering, appropriate Junk folder for accounts will be selected.
  • 'Junk' special folder was added. It will be automatically created if not exist.
  • 'Empty junk' context menu will be displayed on the Junk folder.
  • Improvements (addressbook):
  • A new option 'Set only mail address when entering recipient from address book' was added.
  • The menu items 'Add to recipient/Cc/Bcc' were added to the address book.
  • 'Alias' attribute can be selected on CSV addressbook import.
  • Other improvements / changes:
  • 'Reply to this address' was added to the e-mail address context menu.
  • The matching algorithm of filtering was optimized (time-consuming conditions will be evaluated later).
  • Build revision number was added to the about dialog.
  • When going offline, all current network sessions will be disconnected.
  • Low priority will be used for long timeout interval.
  • Win32: The text font setting will be checked always on startup (Japanese locale only).
  • Win32: The installer now allows users to choose plug-ins to be installed.
  • Win32: The installer now remembers the previous install settings on update.
  • Win32: MS Outlook Express mail stores can be imported automatically on first run.
  • "mark_as_read_on_new_window" setting became a hidden option.
  • A new account option 'Put signature before quote (not recommended)' was added.
  • When inline image setting is off, images are not displayed in the Attachment tab too.
  • When a connection to IMAP/News server fails, an error dialog will be displayed now.
  • The debug log output for filtering was added.
  • A new option '--instance-id ' was added. This allows users to run multiple instances of Sylpheed.
  • Plug-ins are also loaded from user plug-in directory now.
  • Bufgfixes:
  • The long-standing bug in undo/redo was fixed.
  • The bug that caused crash if the quick search was executed while folder tree was empty was fixed.
  • The HTML parser was fixed to handle 'a' tag correctly.
  • The bug that temporary password was not cleared when authentication failed on SMTP AUTH was fixed.
  • The bug that temporary password was not cleared when authentication failed with remote POP3 mailbox was fixed.
  • The bug that accepted SSL certs were not loaded when using --configdir option was fixed.
  • The IMAP4 response parser was fixed.
  • The LDIF parser was modified.
  • The hidden filter condition works now.
  • Fixed-positioned windows (such as main window, compose window, etc.) are always displayed on screen now. This prevents windows displayed outside of screen between multi and single monitor switching.