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3.0					June 14, 2006

	* Updated translations:
		* Japanese (Hiroshi Hasebe)

3.0 Release Candidate 2			May 18, 2006

	* Evolution changes:
		* Evolution crashed when a message without Subject or
		  From header was received: fixed
		* Mail Notification could crash when removing an
		  Evolution mailbox: fixed

	* Updated translations:
		* Japanese (Hiroshi Hasebe)
		* Czech (Pav Lucistnik)
		* Dutch (Marcel J. Zwiebel)

3.0 Release Candidate 1			May 16, 2006

	* Core changes:
		* An alternate, compact mail summary has been added
		* A "Display seen messages" option has been added
		* The status icon can now be displayed permanently
		* The "Delay between mail checks" option is now
		  mailbox-specific
		* The properties dialog has been reorganized
		* The main window has been removed
		* The status icon is now activated with a single click
		  (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148829)
		* The GTK+ bugs
		  (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321886)
		  which caused occasional crashes have been worked
		  around
		* If the MAIL environment variable is not defined or
		  invalid, the system mailbox is now looked up in
		  /var/spool/mail/username and /var/mail/username
		  (based on a patch from Benoît Rouits)
		* Since ~/.gnome2/mail-notification/mailboxes.xml may
		  contain sensitive information, it is now saved with
		  permissions set to 0600 (useful for systems where
		  home directories have lax permissions)
		* The "cannot enable immediate notification" error
		  dialog has been removed
		* The --list-features command line option has been
		  removed (feature information is now displayed in the
		  output of the --version option)
		* The message handling performance has been improved
		* If there are no mailboxes on startup, the properties
		  dialog is now displayed
		* The "Start Mail Notification on GNOME login" option
		  no longer worked with GNOME >= 2.14 and has been
		  removed: a .desktop file is now installed in the xdg
		  autostart directory instead
		* Since support for non-system sound events has been
		  removed from GNOME 2.14, the
		  mail-notification.soundlist file is no longer
		  installed
		* The mail reader setting has been removed; the mail
		  reader configured in GNOME (Desktop -> Preferences
		  -> Preferred Applications) will now be used
		* The tooltip width is now limited to the screen width
		* When coupled with a patched GNOME Panel (as shipped
		  by FreeBSD and Debian, for instance), the status
		  icon now supports panel transparency (patch
		  forwarded by Bernat Tallaferro)

	* mbox, Maildir, POP3, IMAP, Evolution and Sylpheed changes:
		* Messages are now classified as unseen and seen; seen
		  messages can be ignored by unchecking the "Display
		  seen mail" option

	* mbox changes:
		* Compressed mailboxes (gzip and bzip2) are now
		  handled transparently, and support immediate
		  notification

	* POP3, IMAP and Gmail changes:
		* A regression which allowed mail checks to overlap
		  has been fixed

	* POP3 and IMAP changes:
		* If the server advertises the STLS/STARTTLS
		  capability but replies ERR/BAD when the
		  STLS/STARTTLS command is issued, Mail Notification
		  now logs out instead of proceeding
		* If multiple mailboxes have the same type, hostname,
		  port, connection type and username, Mail
		  Notification will now detect that the mailboxes
		  share the same account and will only prompt for the
		  password once per session (when the password is not
		  entered in the properties dialog, that is)

	* POP3 changes:
		* Non-UTF-8 server responses are now accepted

	* IMAP changes:
		* Non-ASCII server responses are now accepted (these
		  responses violate RFC 3501, but we follow the RFC
		  793 robustness principle "be liberal in what you
		  accept"); fixes connection problems with
		  internationalized Exchange servers, which violate
		  RFC 3501 by sending non-ASCII characters in their
		  greeting message
		* Empty continuation responses are now allowed (fixes
		  authentication with some SASL mechanisms)
		* Play nice with uncompliant servers by using
		  BODY.PEEK rather than BODY, so that they do not set
		  the \Seen flag (patch from Jacob Berkman)
		* The IDLE mode is now cycled every 29 minutes, as
		  advised by RFC 2177

	* Evolution changes:
		* Support for the Evolution 2.4 and 2.6 branches has
		  been added; untested support for the Evolution
		  2.7/2.8 branch has been added; the Evolution source
		  tree is no longer needed for Evolution >= 2.4

	* Sylpheed changes:
		* With the help of a Sylpheed patch, Mail Notification
		  can now reliably avoid race conditions which could
		  occur when Sylpheed was running (see the
		  --enable-sylpheed-locking discussion in the INSTALL
		  file)

	* Updated translations:
		* French

	* New translations:
		* Czech (Pav Lucistnik)
		* Brazilian Portuguese (Claudio André)
		* Dutch (Marcel J. Zwiebel)
		* Japanese (Hiroshi Hasebe)

2.0					August 9, 2005

	* Core changes:
		* Evolution support has been added
		* Mailboxes can now be assigned a custom name
		* For greater flexibility, mailboxes configuration is
		  now stored in ~/.gnome2/mail-notification/mailboxes.xml
		  (previously, it was stored in the GConf database)
		* The mailbox list widget has been redesigned
		* The mailbox properties dialog has been redesigned
		* Copying a mailbox to the clipboard does not make it
		  available to Nautilus anymore: that behaviour was
		  confusing and useless. However, pasting files copied
		  from Nautilus still works.
		* If a mailbox requires authentication and the
		  necessary credentials are not provided in the
		  mailbox properties dialog, Mail Notification now
		  lets GNOME prompt the user for the credentials
		* A test popup can now be displayed from the Mail
		  Summary Popup properties tab
		* The --report command line option has been removed
		* The Mail Notification item is now also listed in the
		  GNOME >= 2.10 Preferences menu
		* The welcome dialog has been removed
		* A few icons have been modified
		* The third-party libegg code has been updated
		* Now requires GTK+ version 2.6.0 or superior
		* Minor fixes and cleanups

	* mbox, MH, Maildir and Sylpheed changes:
		* Immediate notification did not work properly with
		  fast kernel notifiers (kqueue, inotify, dnotify,
		  ...): fixed
		* Unseekable files are now supported
		* Mailbox type changes are now detected and handled
		  (previously, Mail Notification had to be restarted
		  if a mailbox changed type)
		* The location of the system mailbox is now resolved
		  at runtime rather than when the mailbox is added
		  (eases sharing the Mail Notification settings across
		  multiple computers)

	* mbox changes:
		* When immediate notification is not available, the
		  mailbox is now also checked when its size or ctime
		  changes (previously, it was only checked if its
		  mtime had changed)

	* Sylpheed changes:
		* Mail Notification now tries to avoid race conditions
		  which may occur while Sylpheed is being used
		* Mark file errors are not ignored anymore
		* A memory leak has been fixed

	* POP3, IMAP and Gmail changes:
		* The username can now also be left out, and will be
		  prompted when needed

	* POP3 and IMAP changes:
		* Non-UTF-8 characters are now escaped from
		  uncompliant server responses before being displayed
		  in the user interface
		* If the system resolver is not reentrant,
		  getaddrinfo()/getnameinfo() calls are now serialized
		* The Cyrus SASL library is now initialized only once,
		  since multiple sasl_client_init()/sasl_done()
		  invocations may cause problems (another benefit is
		  that it allows the SASL library to use the POP3
		  initial client response feature, which saves a
		  roundtrip during the SASL authentication exchange)
		* When the authentication mechanism option is set to
		  "autodetect", Mail Notification will now try to
		  authenticate using each server-supported SASL
		  mechanism
		* Mail Notification was incorrectly disallowing empty
		  SASL server challenges, although they are legit:
		  fixed

	* POP3 changes:
		* The TOP optional command is now supported. This
		  solves some issues with POP3 servers (for instance,
		  pop.gmail.com) which incorrectly archive mails that
		  have been accessed using the RETR command.
		* Initial SASL client responses are now handled
		  properly (passed as an argument to the AUTH command
		  rather than in the SASL authentication exchange)

	* IMAP changes:
		* If, while idling, the server abruptly drops the
		  connection, Mail Notification now reconnects rather
		  than considering it an error
		* When idling, Mail Notification now only wakes up if
		  it receives a response indicating that the mailbox
		  might have changed
		* By default, Mail Notification now avoids using the
		  IDLE extension if the remote server software is
		  known to have a broken IDLE implementation
		* UTF-8 mailbox names are now converted to modified
		  UTF-7, as required by RFC 3501

	* Gmail changes:
		* Functionality has been restored after the Gmail web
		  site was modified; to prevent future disruptions and
		  simplify the source code, the Gmail Atom feed
		  (https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom) is now used
		* Now works even if the Gmail account language is not
		  set to English
		* libsoup and ICU are no longer required

	* Updated translations:
		* French
		* Serbian (Filip Miletic)
		* German (Hendrik Brandt, Jens Seidel)

1.1					March 6, 2005

	* IMAP changes:
		* is more tolerant towards uncompliant FETCH responses
		* ignores case of responses (RFC 3501)
		* makes sure the server responses are valid ASCII (RFC
		  3501)

	* Gmail changes:
		* properly converts timestamps (requires ICU)
		* handles timestamps from previous years
		* displays all the messages of a conversation

	* POP3 and IMAP changes:
		* does not loop infinitely when no password is
		  specified, an authentication mechanism is specified
		  and authentication fails
		* does not abort when a SASL authentication mechanism
		  is specified and the server does not support any
		  SASL authentication mechanism

	* POP3 and Gmail changes:
		* makes sure the server responses are valid UTF-8

	* The mail summary dialog has been replaced by a main window,
	  for controlling Mail Notification when the status icon is
	  hidden
	* Added "update the mail status" double-click action
	* The tooltip mailbox lists (Mailboxes Having New Mail,
	  Errors, Unsupported Mailboxes) are now sorted
	* GMime is now mandatory for mbox, MH, Maildir, Sylpheed, POP3
	  and IMAP mailbox support
	* The --quit command line argument has been added
	* Minor fixes and cleanups

	* Updated translations:
		* Polish (Maurycy Pawłowski-Wieroński)
		* Serbian (Filip Miletic)
		* Portuguese (Duarte Henriques)
		* German (Hendrik Brandt)

1.0					November 25, 2004

	* Some minor IMAP issues have been fixed
	* Some IMAP servers did not properly support the IDLE
	  extension, so it can now be disabled in the mailbox
	  properties
	* If the POP3 or IMAP password is left blank, it will now be
	  prompted only if needed
	* When MIME support was disabled, the Sylpheed backend was not
	  considering unread messages as new: fixed

	* Updated translations:
		* Serbian (Filip Miletic)
		* German (Hendrik Brandt)
		* Portuguese (Duarte Henriques)

	* New translations:
		* Polish (Tomasz Sarota-Raczek)

0.99					November 15, 2004

	* The IMAP capabilities sent in a PREAUTH, AUTHENTICATE or
	  LOGIN response were ignored, and a CAPABILITY command was
	  not re-issued after a successful authentication: fixed
	* Added a "Display mail summary in tooltip" option

0.8.1					November 4, 2004

	* Mail summary popup changes:
		* do not recreate it when updating its contents:
		  removes some flicker
		* added a workaround for a Metacity bug which
		  sometimes misplaced the popup
		* the text fonts can now be configured from the
		  properties dialog

	* Now compiles cleanly even when -fstrict-aliasing is in use
	* Some additional workarounds for
	  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64764 have been
	  added: fixes a few random crashes
	* Some widgets have been named, so that they can easily be
	  matched in a GTK+ resource file
	* The status icon could not be customized from a resource
	  file: fixed

	* Updated translations:
		* Serbian (Filip Miletic)

0.8.0					October 31, 2004

	* The double-click action can now be customized
	* A mail reader can now be launched
	* IMAP IDLE support has been implemented
	* The mail summary layout has been improved
	* The mail summary is now also displayed in the tooltip
	* The tooltip now supports keyboard activation
	* A mail summary popup option allowing to only display recent
	  mail has been added
	* A bug which caused SASL authentication to sometimes fail has
	  been fixed
	* The Gmail parser was getting confused by special strings
	  embedded in message fields: fixed

0.7.1					October 25, 2004

	* Gmail changes:
		* does not crash when a GNOME proxy is set
		* handles starred and labelled messages
		* ignores non-inbox messages
		* messages were considered unseen on each check and
		  the mail summary was always popped up: fixed

	* The POP3/IMAP/Gmail password can now be left blank (in such
	  case, it will be prompted when needed and not be saved to
	  permanent storage)
	* A command can now be executed when all mail has been read
	* The user interface now displays the IMAP folder name (unless
	  it is inbox)
	* The tooltip now displays message counts
	* Minor fixes and cleanups

	* Updated translations:
		* Serbian (Filip Miletic)
		* German (Hendrik Brandt)
		* Portuguese (Duarte Henriques)

0.7.0					October 6, 2004

	* Binaries compiled with GCC 3.4.x were crashing in various
	  places: fixed
	* Fixed a vulnerability in the IMAP code (a malicious IMAP
	  server could trigger a null pointer dereference by sending
	  an invalid reply)
	* Fixed a vulnerability in the Gmail code (a man in the middle
	  attack could, with some libsoup configurations, trigger a
	  null pointer indirection)
	* The properties dialog has been split into tabs
	* A mail summary has been added (requires GMime version 2.0 or
	  superior)
	* Double-clicking on the icon now displays the mail summary
	  (the double-clicked command has been removed)
	* The "new mail" command is now executed every time a mailbox
	  receives one or more new messages
	* Tracks the latest Gmail change (reported by Vincent Noel)
	* Gmail support now requires libsoup version 2.2 or superior
	  (which is part of GNOME 2.8)
	* The manual is now installed in the proper location (Pascal
	  Giard, Christian Krause)
	* The --with-gconf-schema-file-dir configure argument was
	  ignored: fixed (Julio M. Merino Vidal)
	* A few minor issues have been fixed
	* Some cleanups have been performed
	* The German translations have been updated (Hendrik Brandt)
	* Added Serbian translations (Filip Miletic)
	* Added Bulgarian translations (Vladimir Petkov)

0.6.2					September 9, 2004

	* Added STARTTLS support to the IMAP backend
	* Added STLS support to the POP3 backend
	* Now prompts the user before connecting to untrusted SSL/TLS
	  servers
	* Added a "Start Mail Notification on GNOME login" option
	* Added a "Blink on errors" option
	* Commands are now executed in the user's shell
	* The Gmail log is now dumped when --enable-info is in use
	* Added a --unset-obsolete-configuration command line argument
	* An obsolete mailbox list is now handled without being
	  rewritten (a step towards full forward compatibility of
	  GConf keys)
	* "SSL" is now called "SSL/TLS", as we provide SSLv2, SSLv3
	  and TLSv1 support
	* Fixed a typo in the MD5 code which prevented builds on some
	  platforms (reported by Andy Shaw)
	* Automatic mailboxes were also polled: fixed
	* Added German translations (Hendrik Brandt)
	* Added Portuguese translations (Duarte Henriques)
	* A few minor issues have been fixed
	* Some cleanups have been performed
	* Now requires GNOME version 2.6 or superior

0.6.1					August 19, 2004

	* File descriptor leaks in the Sylpheed and Maildir backends
	  have been fixed
	* It was not possible to use some special characters (such as
	  '@') in usernames, passwords etc (reported by Ronny
	  Schoebel): now escapes URIs
	* Now properly quotes arguments to the IMAP LOGIN and STATUS
	  commands
	* Gmail support didn't work in all situations: fixed (thanks
	  to Phil Nelson for his help)
	* A first startup dialog has been added
	* A memory leak has been fixed
	* A few minor issues have been fixed
	
0.6.0					August 16, 2004

	* Added IMAP support
	* Added SSL support for POP3 and IMAP (requires OpenSSL)
	* Added SASL authentication support for POP3 and IMAP
	  (requires Cyrus SASL 2)
	* Added APOP authentication support
	* Gmail support has been fixed
	* If there is no new mail, the icon is now hidden
	* Now complies with the HIG 2.0
	* Now installs a GNOME sound event
	* The user interface has been improved
	* The mail icon is now taken from the icon theme
	* The command line arguments have been modified
	* The POP3 handler now honours the LOGIN-DELAY capability
	* Objects are now generated with GOB
	* Some cleanups have been performed
	* A few minor bugs have been fixed
	* Does not depend on GNet anymore

0.5.0					July 21, 2004

	* Added Gmail support (requires libsoup)
	* The user interface has been improved
	* Now supports IPv6 POP3 servers even if given as an IPv6
	  address rather than as a hostname
	* Now uses intltool
	* The manual has been improved
	* Added Russian translations for the .desktop file (submitted
	  by Dan Korostelev)
	* The output of ./configure has been cleaned up
	* ChangeLog files were not being accurately maintained and are
	  not shipped anymore

0.4.0					June 29, 2004

	* Fixed a vulnerability in the POP3 code (a malicious POP3
	  server could overflow the stack with an invalid STAT reply)
	* Now uses automatic notification if available (requires FAM)
	* Now uses GnomeVFS for all I/O operations
	* Now supports drag and drop
	* The user interface has been improved
	* mbox detection is now stricter
	* Now handles non-Unicode filenames
	* Tries harder to hide POP3 passwords from the interface
	* A few minor bugs have been fixed
	* A few memory leaks have been fixed
	* Some code cleanups have been performed
	* Switched to Autoconf 2.59 and Automake 1.8.4
	* Now requires GTK+ version 2.4.0 or superior

0.3.4					March 19, 2004

	* Some minor UI tweaks have been performed
	* A minor bug has been fixed

0.3.3					March 12, 2004

	* A bug in the mbox checking code has been fixed (reported by
	  Pau Artigas)
	* A few minor bugs have been fixed
	* A few memory leaks have been fixed

0.3.2					December 24, 2003

	* A bug in the Sylpheed checking code has been fixed
	* Restarting notification-area-applet is now handled properly
	* libglade is now used instead of code generation
	* Some code cleanups have been performed

0.3.1					October 20, 2003

	* A few minor bugs have been fixed

0.3.0					October 2, 2003

	* Major code cleanup
	* Implemented Sylpheed and POP3 support
	* The file selection dialog now remembers its last path
	* Speed optimizations
	* In order to maintain UI responsiveness during mail checks,
	  the application is now multi-threaded
	* Error messages are now displayed in a dialog box if the
	  check has been launched interactively

0.2.0					September 24, 2003

	* Implemented mbox and MH support
	* Added exhaustive error reporting
	* Enriched the documentation

0.1.0					September 18, 2003

	* Is now a GNOME application
	* Added a graphical user interface (preferences dialog and
	  popup menu)
	* Internationalization has been performed, and a French
	  translation is already available
	* Switched to Autoconf 2.57 and Automake 1.7.5

0.0.1					July 20, 2003
	
	* Initial release