NEWS

13 Jan 2023 Bug tracking moved to GitHub

Sylpheed bug tracking has been moved to GitHub Issues.

The previous Redmine will be made temporally non-pubilc, and the important tickets are going to be migrated.

26 Dec 2022 Wiki page migrated to GitHub

Sylpheed Wiki page has been migrated to GitHub.

29 Nov 2022 Repository migrated to GitHub

Sylpheed's public repository has been migrated to GitHub.

Previous subversion repository is still accessible for a while, but will not be updated anymore.

14 Sep 2022 Sylpheed 3.8beta1 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.8beta1 has been released.

In this release, OAuth2 authentication support was added.

Changes since Sylpheed 3.7

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.

05 Jun 2020 About the SSL certificates included in Sylpheed 3.7 (Windows) (2)

The certification file provided at 02 Jun 2020 was still partly old and did not totally solve the error.

Please download and extract the following updated file, and overwrite the certs.crt file into (Sylpheed installed directory)\etc\ssl\certs and restart Sylpheed.

certs_update_202006.zip

02 Jun 2020 About the SSL certificates included in Sylpheed 3.7 (Windows)

Sylpheed 3.7 (stable) Windows version may result in SSL verification error when it communicates with some mail servers via SSL because of the expiration of SSL certificates.

To fix this, download and extract the following file, overwrite the certs.crt file into (Sylpheed installed directory)\etc\ssl\certs and restart Sylpheed.

certs_update_202002.zip

31 Jan 2018 Sylpheed 3.7 (stable) released

Sylpheed 3.7 has been released.

In this release, the feature to export the address book to CSV format, and context menu of the query search result were added. The bugfixes of printings and other fixes were also made.

Since this release the source code can also be downloaded as a tar.xz format.

Changes since Sylpheed 3.6

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.

18 Jan 2018 Sylpheed 3.7beta1 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.7beta1 has been released.

In this release, the feature to export the address book to CSV format, and context menu of the query search result were added. The bugfixes of printings and other fixes were also made.

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.

29 Jun 2017 Sylpheed 3.6 (stable) released

Sylpheed 3.6 has been released.

In this release, the feature to use multiple signatures in one account, open configuration folder and save printing settings were added. Some UI improvements and bugfixes were also made.

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.

29 Jun 2017 Automatic Attachment Encryption Plug-in sylpheed-autoenc-plugin 1.0.0 Windows binary module is available

The Windows binary module of sylpheed-autoenc-plugin 1.0.0 is available now.

12 Jun 2017 Sylpheed 3.6beta1 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.6beta1 has been released.

In this release, the feature to use multiple signatures in one account, open configuration folder and save printing settings were added. Some UI improvements and bugfixes were also made.

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 1.0.2k.

29 Jul 2016 Sylpheed 3.5.1 (stable) released

Sylpheed 3.5.1 has been released.

In this release, new plug-in APIs for compose view were added.

Autotools scripts and documents were updated.

25 Jan 2016 Sylpheed 3.5 (stable) released

The new stable version Sylpheed 3.5 has been released.

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.

Changes since Sylpheed 3.4.3

New features

Windows / widgets are now adjusted to their optimal sizes by reference to system DPI value.
Fade effect was added to the notification window.
The option to specify startup online mode was added.

Improvements

Win32: Menus became more native-looking.
Win32: File dialogs were improved.
Win32: sylpheed.exe executable became DPI-Aware.
Mbox locking became NFS-safe (#202).
Sylpheed.desktop file was updated.
The original file names of attachments are kept when opening them, and shorter suffixes are added in the case they conflict.
TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 will be enabled for STARTTLS when OpenSSL 1.0.1 or above is used.

Other changes

Hebrew translation was added.

Component updates

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 1.14.19
GPGME 1.4.3
OpenSSL 0.9.8zh

Win32: dependency on libtiff was removed (GDI+ is used to support tiff images).

Bugfixes

Win32: System Icon issue when ran on Windows 7 (#13, #85)
Win32: Scroll jumping issue on text views when using Japanese IME
Win32: the bug that maximized state was unset on minimize was fixed.
Win32: the crash when linked with newer MSVCRT was fixed.
A bug that reorder of filter rules by DnD was not saved was fixed.
A fix for ARM architecture was made.
Other bugfixes and stability improvements were made.

28 Dec 2015 Sylpheed 3.5rc2 (release candidate) released

Sylpheed 3.5rc2 has been released.

This is the second release candidate of Sylpheed 3.5. If there is no major problem, this will be released as official 3.5 without modification.

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.

27 Nov 2015 Sylpheed 3.5rc (release candidate) released

Sylpheed 3.5rc has been released.

This is the release candidate of Sylpheed 3.5. If there is no major problem, this will be released as official 3.5 without modification.

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: irresponsibe 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.

06 Jul 2015 Sylpheed 3.4.3 (stable) released

Sylpheed 3.4.3 has been released.

In this release, OpenSSL, libpng, libjpeg and libtiff library included in the Windows version were updated (including security fixes). Some bugfixes were also made.

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.

06 Jul 2015 Sylpheed 3.5beta3 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.5beta3 has been released.

In this release, OpenSSL, libpng and libjpeg library included in the Windows version were updated (including security fixes). Some bugfixes were also made.

A bug that reorder of filter rules by DnD was not saved was fixed.
The original file names of attachments are kept when opening them, and shorter suffixes are added in the case they conflict.
The crash when displaying HTML messages was fixed (#215).
The bug that column sizes of the address book were not properly set was fixed.
Win32: the bug that maximized state was unset on minimize was fixed.
Win32: the crash when linked with newer MSVCRT was fixed.
Win32: dependency on libtiff was removed (GDI+ is used).
Win32: libjpeg was updated.
Win32: libpng was updated to 1.4.16.
Win32: OpenSSL was updated to 0.9.8zg.
Win32: included SSL certificates were updated.

20 Nov 2014 Sylpheed 3.5beta2 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.5beta2 has been released.

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).

17 Jun 2014 Sylpheed 3.5beta1 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.5beta1 has been released.

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

10 Jun 2014 Sylpheed 3.4.2 (stable) released

Sylpheed 3.4.2 has been released.

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.

06 Jun 2014 Win32 OpenSSL security fix

An important vulnerability (CVE-2014-0224) has been found in OpenSSL included in Sylpheed 3.4.1 (win32) and previous versions.

If you are using SSL, please apply the following patch:

sylpheed-win32-openssl-0.9.8za-patch.zip

Overwrite the extracted files into the folder Sylpheed is installed.

Sylpheed 3.4.2 will be also released soon.

Sylpheed 3.4.1-test1 for Mac OS X released

Sylpheed 3.4.1-test1 for Mac OS X (test version) has been released.

This software works on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or later (64-bit application). It has been tested on 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) and 10.9.2 (Marvericks). Though Sylpheed for Mac OS X is stable, please note that it has several issues because it is still testing stage.

Installation

Copy Sylpheed.app to appropriate location ("Application" folder etc.).

Download

It can be downloaded from sourceforge.jp, or directly from here.

04 Apr 2014 Sylpheed 3.4.1 (stable) released

Sylpheed 3.4.1 has been released.

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.

31 Mar 2014 Sylpheed 3.4 (stable) released

The new stable version Sylpheed 3.4 has been released.

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. Mac OS X support was improved.

Many other improvements and bugfixes have been also made.

Changes between Sylpheed 3.3.1

New features

New message notification window was added.
Icon theme feature was added.
SSL certificate hostname is validated now (#167).
PGP encrypt-to-self feature was added.
The feature to save message as plain text 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)
Safe mode (which does not load plug-ins) was added (--safe-mode).

Improvements

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).
Win32: socket connection timeout setting now works on Windows (Note: on Windows XP, maximum timeout value will be 21 seconds by default).
Some non-standard Date header patterns are handled now.
Win32: start menu shortcuts are translated.
Quotation of forwarded messages is enabled for template now.
When applying a template for a new message, current date is inserted with '%d'.
When marking a message as junk and moving it to a junk folder, proper junk folder is selected instead of default one.
Printing now prints all texts in messages, not only the first one.
The HTML parser now supports <blockquote> tag.
An option to prefer HTML part in multipart/alternative was added (default: off).
Compose window is raised when the external editor exits.
The order of templates became stable.
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.
Mac OS X support was improved.
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.

Other changes

Basque translation was added.

Bugfixes

Bugfixes of HTML display were made.
Escaped special characters in HTML links are now properly unescaped (#120).

Sylpheed 3.4-test1 for Mac OS X

Sylpheed 3.4-test1 for Mac OS X (test version) has also been released.

About Sylpheed for Mac OS X

Installation

Copy Sylpheed.app to appropriate location ("Application" folder etc.).

Download

It can be downloaded from here, or directly from here.

26 Mar 2014 Sylpheed 3.4rc (release candidate) released

Sylpheed 3.4rc has been released.

This is the release candidate of Sylpheed 3.4. If there is no problem, this will be released as official 3.4 without modification.

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

19 Mar 2014 Sylpheed 3.4beta8 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.4beta8 has been released.

In this release, improvements of Mac OS X support, SSL certificate hostname validation, PGP encrypt-to-self feature and several UI improvements were made.

Mac OS X support was improved.
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.

07 Mar 2014 Sylpheed 3.3.1 (stable) released

Sylpheed 3.3.1 has been released.

This release includes bugfixes in 3.4beta1 - 3.4beta7.

It includes several IMAP related bugfixes, many resource leaks and error checks fix, update of the SSL certificates included in Windows version and other important bugfixes.

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.

20 Feb 2014 About the SSL certificates included in Sylpheed 3.3 (Windows)

Sylpheed 3.3 (stable) Windows version shows "SSL certificate verify failed" warning dialog when it communicates with some mail servers via SSL since around 28 Jan 2014. This is caused by the obsolete SSL certificates included in Sylpheed 3.3, and the root certificate of GlobalSign in it has been expired.

Sylpheed 3.4beta7 has already updated the SSL certificates and it doesn't cause the problem.

To fix this, update to Sylpheed 3.4beta7, or download and extract the following file, overwrite the certs.crt file into (Sylpheed installed directory)\etc\ssl\certs and restart Sylpheed.

certs_update.zip

29 Nov 2013 Sylpheed 3.4beta7 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.4beta7 has been released.

In this release, several bugfixes were made. On Windows, the tray icon is recreated when explorer.exe crashes. Many defects discovered by Coverity Scan were also fixed.

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 discovered by Coverity Scan were fixed:

FILE handle resource leaks
memory leaks
possible buffer overrun
strict error checks
correct null pointer checks

29 Oct 2013 Sylpheed 3.4beta6 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.4beta6 has been released.

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.

28 Aug 2013 Sylpheed 3.4beta5 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.4beta5 has been released.

In this release, HTML link processing, IMAP parser and template feature were fixed. Basque translation was added.

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.

29 May 2013 Sylpheed 3.4beta4 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.4beta4 has been released.

In this release, the feature to save message as plain text was added. The display of HTML messages was improved.

The 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 <blockquote> 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.

29 Mar 2013 Sylpheed 3.4beta3 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.4beta3 has been released.

In this release, several bugfixes and feature improvements were made.

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.

15 Feb 2013 Sylpheed 3.4beta2 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.4beta2 has been released.

In this release, new message notification window feature was added.

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.

31 Jan 2013 Sylpheed 3.4beta1 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.4beta1 has been released.

In this release, several new features and improvements were made.

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).

09 Nov 2012 Sylpheed 3.3 (stable) released

The new stable version Sylpheed 3.3 has been released.

In this release, the interface for attachments and import / export feature was improved. The association of mailto link and eml file are automatically made on installation on Windows 7.

The libtiff library included in Windows version has been updated to fix an security issue.

Other improvements and bugfixes have been also made.

Changes since Sylpheed 3.2

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.

31 Oct 2012 Sylpheed 3.3rc (release candidate) released

Sylpheed 3.3rc has been released.

This is the release candidate of Sylpheed 3.3. If there is no problem, this will be released as official 3.3 without modification.

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.

28 Sep 2012 Sylpheed 3.3beta2 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.3beta2 has been released.

In this release, the ability of opening external rfc822 format file (.eml) was added. Tooltips were added to the header view. The included sylpheed.desktop and sylpheed.spec file were updated. The drag-without-button-press bug on IMAP folders was fixed.

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.

27 Jul 2012 Sylpheed 3.3beta1 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.3beta1 has been released.

In this release, the modification of attachment interface made at 3.2 was revised, and improved. The import/export of messages were improved. Export of only selected messages and cancellation of process were enabled. IMAP fetch processing was fixed.

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.

29 Jun 2012 Sylpheed 3.2 (stable) released

The new stable version Sylpheed 3.2 has been released.

In this release, the interface for attachments was refined. Other usability improvements were also made. Windows version now supports IPv6 protocol again. SylFilter is supported as the default junk mail filter. Many other improvements and bugfixes have been also made.

Changes since Sylpheed 3.1.4

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)

25 Jun 2012 Sylpheed 3.2rc (release candidate) released

Sylpheed 3.2rc has been released.

This is the release candidate of Sylpheed 3.2. If there is no problem, this will be released as official 3.2 on 29 June without modification.

The Japanese manual was updated.
The "show_attach_tab" option (without UI), which reverts the attachments interface to the old one, was added.
The clip icon was replaced with more visible one on selected row.
The compilation failure with --disable-ipv6 was fixed.
Some compiler warnings were removed.
The bug that 'Stop' button did't become inactive after receiving was fixed.
Win32: the default junk commands were changed to sylfilter.
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 0.9.8x (security fix).

18 Jun 2012 Sylpheed 3.2beta9 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.2beta9 has been released.

In this release, the UI for Attachments tab was changed to save the space. Users now also can do 'Save all' without switching the view. The file selector now follows Windows shortcut (.lnk). Other minor fixes and UI improvements were made.

07 Jun 2012 Sylpheed 3.2beta8 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.2beta8 has been released.

In this release, address autocompletion fix and other fixes were made. In Windows version, an option to play sound when new messages arrive was added. The launch of the installer also became faster.

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).
The encoding of Japanese manual was changed to UTF-8 to prevent display failure on some browsers.
DNS lookup error is now distinguished from other connection errors.
Some minor fixes for IMAP were made.
Other minor fixes were made.
Win32: an option to play sound when new messages arrive was added.
Win32: the launch of Windows installer became faster.

26 Apr 2012 Sylpheed 3.1.4 (stable) released

Sylpheed 3.1.4 has been released.

This release contains the security update of the included components in the Windows version. Several fixes for some IMAP servers were also made.

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.

13 Apr 2012 Sylpheed 3.2beta7 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.2beta7 has been released.

In this release, several new features, improvements and bugfixes were made. It includes the improvements of new message notification of the tooltip of the tray icon, address auto-completion and file selection dialog.

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.

29 Feb 2012 Sylpheed 3.1.3 (stable) released

Sylpheed 3.1.3 has been released.

This release contains the security update of the included components in the Windows version. Several important bugfixes were also made.

On browsing IMAP folder, the error "imap_cmd_gen_send: cannot send command because another command is already running." was fixed.
The crash bug that occurred when IMAP message fetching and new message checking happened at the same time was fixed.
The crash bug that was caused by offline switch while IMAP session was active was fixed.
A bug that filter settings were lost if Escape key was pressed quickly on auto filter creation was fixed.
Win32: OpenSSL was updated to 0.9.8t (security fix).
Win32: included libpng library was updated to 1.2.47 (security fix).
Win32: included curl executable was updated to 7.24.0.

29 Feb 2012 Sylpheed 3.2beta6 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.2beta6 has been released.

This release contains the security update of the included components in the Windows version. Some bugfixes and improvements were also made.

The blinking period of the tray icon was extended to 10 seconds.
New plug-in signals were added.
'Is shorter than' became the default for 'Age' filter condition.
News (NNTP) now supports SOCKS proxy.
A bug that filter settings were lost if Escape key was pressed quickly on auto filter creation was fixed.
Other bugfixes were made.
Win32: OpenSSL was updated to 0.9.8t (security fix).
Win32: included libpng library was updated to 1.2.47 (security fix).
Win32: included curl executable was updated to 7.24.0.

06 Jan 2012 Official announcement of bug tracking system

The Sylpheed bug tracking system, which has been tested since the last November, is officially open today.

Sylpheed Bug Tracking System

This BTS can be used freely for bug report and feature request of Sylpheed and its derived projects.

This BTS is based on Redmine.

28 Dec 2011 Sylpheed 3.2beta5 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.2beta5 has been released.

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.
The previous change of the message view (always show the message view on startup) was reverted except for vertical view mode.
The crash bug that occurred when IMAP message fetching and new message checking happened at the same time was fixed.

29 Nov 2011 Sylpheed 3.2beta4 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.2beta4 has been released.

Multiple keywords search of the quick search was implemented.
Sylfilter command was added as a preset of junk filter program.
MIME debug output was modified.
On browsing IMAP folder, the error "imap_cmd_gen_send: cannot send command because another command is already running." was fixed.
The focus on quick search entry is not stolen by the refresh of summary.
Both filtered and original numbers of messages are displayed on the status label now.
Always show the message view on startup (fixes wrong view size on vertical-view mode).

08 Sep 2011 Sylpheed 3.1.2 (stable) released

Sylpheed 3.1.2 has been released.

In this release, minor bugfixes were made. GTK+ and libpng modules were updated for the security fix. Please update as soon as possible.

The text color of quick search on dark themes was fixed.
A memory leak was fixed.
Win32: the updater executables were not included in the zip version anymore to prevent incorrect update.
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).

Note: If you are using the zip archive version of 3.1.1 or before, do not use the auto-update feature. Download the zip archive manually and overwrite it to update.

08 Sep 2011 Sylpheed 3.2beta3 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.2beta3 has been released.

In this release, the manual and translation were updated. GTK+ and libpng modules were updated for the security fix. Please update as soon as possible.

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).

11 Aug 2011 Sylpheed 3.2beta2 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.2beta2 has been released.

In this release, the performance of cache reading was improved.

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.

11 Aug 2011 Request for the update of PGP public key

The PGP public key currently used for signing released files has been expired since 30 Jul 2011 and the signatures cannot be verified correctly now.

I have put the PGP public key which has the expiration time updated to the following location. Please re-import it. Sorry for the inconvenience.

mypubkey-updated.txt

01 Jul 2011 Sylpheed 3.2beta1 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.2beta1 has been released.

In this release, the display method of attachments on message view was modified and their operation became easier. IPv6 support on Windows version was enabled (IPv4 only on Windows 2000). Some improvements and bugfixes, internal code enhancements were also made.

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.

06 May 2011 Sylpheed 3.1.1 (stable) released

Sylpheed 3.1.1 has been released.

In this release, a crash bug was fixed, and libtiff and OpenSSL library included in Windows version have been updated to fix some security issues.

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.
Some locale problems on Mac OS X 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.

03 May 2011 DLL update of Windows version (security fix)

I made the updated DLLs available because some vulnerability have been found in libtiff, which is included in Windows version of Sylpheed, and the newer version has been released. Although there is no vulnerability by which Sylpheed is directly affected in the OpenSSL included in Sylpheed 3.1.0, the latest version of OpenSSL is also included. The updated DLLs are downloadable at the following URL:

sylpheed-3.1-win32-dll-update.zip

Libtiff 3.9.5 (libtiff3.dll) and OpenSSL 0.9.8r (libeay32.dll, ssleay32.dll) are included in the zip file. Overwrite the extracted files into the folder Sylpheed is installed.

Sylpheed 3.1.1 will be released in the near future.

18 Mar 2011 About Japan earthquake disaster on March 11

We encountered Japan (Tohoku) earthquake disaster on March 11 and it produced many victims. We are sorry for that.

This server is located at Tokyo area. Currently the area is not scheduled for rolling blackouts, but please note the service may stop temporarily when the circumstances change.

31 Feb 2011 Sylpheed 3.1 (stable) released

The new stable version Sylpheed 3.1 has been released.

This release contains many improvements for usability. The features requested by many users, such as combining partial messages, removal of attachments, automatic address completion, etc., were added. The feature to assist the migration from Outlook Express has been added. Various bugfixes have been also made.

02/01 added: sylpheed-3.1-win32.zip which was made public yesterday did not include attachment_tool (the installer version includes it). The zip file has been replaced today, so please download it again if you needs it.

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 <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 <account-id> 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.

24 Jan 2011 Sylpheed 3.1rc (release candidate) released

Sylpheed 3.1rc has been released.

This is the release candidate of Sylpheed 3.1. If there is no problem, this will be released as 3.1 by just modifying the version number.

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.
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.

17 Jan 2011 Sylpheed 3.1beta7 (development) released

Sylpheed 3.1beta7 (3.1beta7-win32) has been released.

The next development release will be 3.1RC.

'Reply to this address' was added to the e-mail address context menu.
The default boolean type of query search and filter condition became AND.
The matching algorithm of filtering was optimized (time-consuming conditions will be evaluated later).
The option not to display the send progress dialog was added.
Move/copy marks are now preserved on folder refresh when immediate execution is off.
Build revision number was added to the about dialog.
The bug that wrong unread message number was displayed after mail receiving if 'Open inbox after receiving new mail' was enabled was fixed.
Win32: The parameter for automatic update URL is properly added now.
Win32: The wabread.exe executable that was missing on the previous release was included. The automatic import of Windows Address Book (WAB) file on initial startup actually works since this release.
The Japanese manual was updated.

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