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In Nepal, a couple of days’ hiking away from the Everest Base Camp, the communities of Khunde and Khumjung were considered connected by normal standards. After all, if people in the villages hiked up a mountain, they could get some reception to send messages. Meanwhile, in the local school’s computer lab, children were learning about the Internet through printouts. 

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Claws Mail 3.20.0 and 4.2.0 unleashed

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 21, 2023

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

20th Novemer 2023                           Claws Mail 3.20.0 / 4.2.0
                    CLAWS MAIL  RELEASE NOTES
                    http://www.claws-mail.org
Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
* An easy way to open any folder on start-up has been added:
  Right-click a folder and choose 'Open on start-up'.
  This can also be configured on the 'Folder list' tab of the
  /Configuration/Preferences/Display/Summaries page.
* Spam statistics have been added to the session statistics.
* It is now possible to save message attachments only, without the
  other message parts.
* QuickSearch: support for a "v H V" search expression has been added
  and the 'y S' expression has been removed ('v X-Label S' can be
  used instead).
* font/* and chemical/* MIME types are now recognised.
* The image viewer now works correctly when not auto-loading images.
* Icon Themes: it is no longer possible to install or remove system
  themes.
* IMAP: Support for SCRAM-SHA-{224,256,384,512} authentication
  mechanisms has been added.
* IMAP: The statusbar now shows that expunge is happening.
* The GData plugin has been removed.
* The Fancy plugin no longer requires libsoup or libsoup-gnome.
* The LiteHTML Viewer plugin has been synchronised with litehtml 0.7.
* The LiteHTML viewer plugin will now only be built automatically if
  libgumbo 0.12 or newer is available. Building with libgumbo 0.10
  must be explicitly requested using --enable-litehtml_viewer-plugin.
* For extra debug output use --enable-more-addressbook-debug and
  --enable-more-ldap-debug.
* Added translation: Portuguese  
* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, French,
  Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese,
  Turkish.
* bug fixes:
        * bug 4491, 'address autocompletion list does not expand in
                     height with the number of matches'
        * bug 4618, 'Rate limit by remote breaks queued/marked
                     actions (Delete/Move)'
        * bug 4631, 'Embedding external editor crashes Claws-Mail on
                     Wayland'
        * bug 4637, 'Segmentation fault when using SUMMARY is empty'
        * bug 4645, 'fails to check for perl-ExtUtils::Embed'
        * bug 4648, 'fails to build with gcc 13'
        * bug 4658, 'Headers unfolded incorrectly in message view'
        * bug 4664, 'OAUTH2 overwrites passwords even for plaintext
                     logins'
        * bug 4666, 'fancy plugin doesn't build with
                     libwebkit2gtk-4.1'
        * bug 4670, 'To/CC incorrectly escaped with a trailing
                     backslash'
        * bug 4679, 'The correct date header is interpreted
                     incorrectly to display strange date.'
        * bug 4693, 'Hang and crash when enable disable SVG Rendering
                     prefs'
        * when starting with msgview hidden, toggling msgview to show
          it would use incorrect height
        * update quicksearch history list when changing type 
        * wrong message which is shown when mail can't be sent
        * when redirecting, disable queueing
        * arbitrary paste restriction
        * when queueing or drafting a msg with an attachment which no
          longer exists, use the correct label on the button of the
          warning dialogue
        * using a custom header in found_in_addressbook match
          expressions
        * URIs may contain the '$' dollar sign
        * OAuth2, Update on-disk tokens as well when in-memory tokens
          are updated
        * Abusive Monopolist Microsoft POP3 OAuth2 protocol
For further details of the numbered bugs and RFEs listed above
see https://www.claws-mail.org/bug/[BUG NUMBER]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.
        

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