“These developers seem to have their priorities in the right place.”
Jonathan Corbet of LWN published last week a review of Claws Mail. I’m quite happy about what he says, his review is quite positive and, as I like his work a lot, I’m pleased!
…rocks.
A user told us on the mailing list that he got a crash. It was SIGXFSZ, File size limit exceeded… Due to the protocol log file growing too much, probably 2 or 4 gigabytes…
The end of his log reads:
IMAP4< 8918737 OK Status completed.
The number at the left is the transaction id of the IMAP protocol, [...]
A coworker of mine noticed after cleaning up his IMAP folders, that he managed to fill INBOX.Trash with 313.924 mails, and Thunderbird failed utterly at managing that folder.
He then tried to open it with Claws Mail, which succeeded at the second attempt (a wifi disconnect ruining it at 70% the first time - and the [...]
Which one do you prefer, and should be the default view for vCalendar?
Poll is here!
A picture is worth thousand words:
I hope you will like it!
Edit: By the way, most of the GUI code of that calendar comes from the excellent XFCE Orage clock and calendar application. Thanks to Juha!
Dear Gmail,
You suck.
11 STATUS “[Gmail]/Sent Mail” (MESSAGES UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN)
* STATUS [Gmail]/Sent Mail (MESSAGES 35 UIDNEXT 36 UIDVALIDITY 4 UNSEEN 1)
Please quote folder names containing spaces in your replies.
Claws Mail’s Printing support is implemented, optionally, via libgnomeprint. Output looks rather good, but it has the drawback of requiring an extra library. It was still better than the old ‘lpr’ support :)
Anyway, we now had the possibility to remove this dependancy without removing the feature, as the GTK developers added a new API, GtkPrintOperation, [...]
I just realize that no-one blogged about it. As the mailing-lists are down too, here’s a bit of info: our CVS and mailing-lists provider, dotsrc.org, had an hardware problem on the server at the beginning of the week-end. They managed to reboot the server on Monday, but suffered from data loss on disk arrays, so [...]
I know, it’s not nice to mock others. But GNOME’s 2.20 draft release notes just made me laugh a little bit :)
Notification icon - Trayicon since March 2003, plus the Notification plugin since March 2006
Missing attachment warning - Since Attachwarner, November 2006
“Magic Space Bar” - ! … Since the start of the project :)
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We reached 3.0 today :)
GPL3, tags, some little new features (like LDAP write-support for attributes), speed optimisations, lots of improvements for the Maemo platforms, important fixes for Windows, and much more…
Try it :)