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The user interface now gets instant notice of new messages in the database, and allows for dynamic fields in signatures for outgoing messages. This release also fixes a couple of bugs with the message counts displayed in the quick-selection panel, and a possible crash when the mime_types configuration table was empty.

Ported to Qt4
Debian packages and a Windows version of the user interface are now available

It now comes in three separate packages: UI, MDX and SQL

Many bugfixes and new features:
manitou-mdx
- admin plugins with built-in scheduler
- don't barf on unknown encoding in headers
- new bayesian classifier plugin
- new attachments uploader outgoing plugin
- fix charset of outgoing mail for unicode databases
- fix use of default temp directory
- avoid newlines in mail.subject field
- take timezones into account for sender dates

user interface
- french translation.
- web URLs are optionally clickable in messages bodies.
- tag counters are updated real-time in the quick query panel.
- tags are sorted in the quick query panel.
- when composing under Windows, timezone format has been fixed for
RFC compliance.
- query execution times are displayed in the status bar.
- bugfix in selection of tagged messages in contextual menu.
- fallback to first identity when no default is defined in message
composition.
- space bar now scrolls a page when the focus is inside the body panel.
- text encapsulating forwarded messages is now user-configurable.
- spurious newline after the signature is removed.
- bugfix on wrapping a line on tabs at display time.
- added default identity selection in preferences dialog.
- keep attachments directory in composition window.
- message bodies can be edited and saved.
- properly disconnect non-primary db connections.
- improved status refresh in threaded display.
- improved text extraction in "reply (quote selected text)" command.
- optional auto-selection of recipient when forwarding.
- improved quoting of messages containing several text/plain attachments.

The user interface now also runs on Windows, plus a few fixes have been made in the mail-db exchanger

This is the first publicly usable release for Manitou-Mail, a 3 part database-driven email application (PostgreSQL db, Perl mail exchanger daemon, Qt user interface)
See http://www.manitou-mail.org