Download Sylpheed 2.4.0 beta 5

Sylpheed is a well-organized e-mail program that works on various operating systems, such as Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Windows. It uses GTK+ for the graphical interface and is available under the GPL. For an overview of the possibilities of this program, we refer you to this page. The developers have already released the fifth beta version of Sylpheed 2.4.0 with the following changes since the previous entry in the muck tracker:

Version 2.4.0 beta 5:

• Close button was added to the address book dialog, and the layout was improved.
• The automatic junk mail filtering on IMAP4 was enabled.
• Automatically filtered IMAP4 messages are also counted for new mail notification now.
• The default directory of the printing dialog became the document directory.
• The crash on some environments when verifying signed messages was fixed.
• The crash on exit when the order of summary columns were modified by DnD was fixed.
• The wrong handling of quotation in multi-byte strings on MIME header encoding was fixed.
• Win32: The bug that the timeout on receiving and sending didn’t work was fixed.
• Win32: The path separator problem of folderlist.xml was fixed.
• Win32: libcairo-2.dll, libgpg-error-0.dll, libgpgme-11.dll, GLib and GTK+ was updated to the latest version.
• Win32: The redraw of windows became smoother (GTK+).
• Win32: Win32 shell icons are now displayed on the file selection dialog (GTK+)

Version 2.4.0 beta 4:

• The address book was improved.
  • Copy and paste of persons in the address book was enabled.
  • The menu sensitivity of the address book became accurate.
  • When deleting addresses from a group, they are just removed from the group (not from person) now.
  • ‘Lookup’ button is disabled if LDAP search is not available.
• The checking of remote folders doesn’t abort with non-fatal errors now except for network failure.
• The problem that the width of the folder view was not saved when the main window was maximized was fixed.
• The coloring of message number columns in the folder view was enabled.
• Win32: In Windows Vista, the problem that the selected menu items were not visible was fixed.