Claws Mail 3.14.1 Adds Notification Support for Ubuntu's Unity Messaging Menu

The GTK+ based, free, open-source, fast, user-friendly and lightweight Claws Mail email client has been updated today, November 6, 2017, to version 3.14.1 for GNU/Linux distributions. Claws Mail 3.14.1 brings lots of changes, including two new hidden preferences, namely 'hide_timezone' and 'rewrite_first_from'. While the first one is used for setting the timezone of date fields that are sent over the network to an unknown timezone value specified in RFC 5322 §3.3, the second one is designed as a workaround for a limitation of various mail servers with 'overly-liberal parsers'. "When this is turned on and the Content-Transfer-Encoding is set to 8bit or 7bit, in a message body starting with 'From ' the 'From ' will become '=46rom ' (i,e, encoded form of 'F') and the Content- Transfer-Encoding will be changed to Quoted-Printable. When it is turned off no such modification will be made but it is very likely that an MTA will convert the 'From ' to '>From '," reads the