ANNOUNCE: development balsa-2.1.1 released

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

Hello,

Balsa team would like to officially announce balsa-2.1.1 release
available at http://balsa.gnome.org/

This is a release addressed to mostly developers and beta-testers. It  
includes completely new mailbox backend: libmutt is out, Gmime is in.  
This has a number of adventages (further development should be much  
easier, and eg. IMAP support is already superior particularly on low- 
bandwidth links) but also disadvantages - the code needs some real-life  
usage.

You can get balsa-2.1.1 directly from
http://balsa.gnome.org/balsa-2.1.1.tar.bz2
http://balsa.gnome.org/balsa-2.1.1-1.src.rpm
http://balsa.gnome.org/balsa-2.1.1-1.i386.rpm (built on RH9)

The src.rpm file includes gmime and is ready for immediate building.
Building from tarball requires earlier installation of gmime library.
Gmime library is available from
http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/ or directly from  
http://balsa.gnome.org/gmime-2.1.2.tar.bz2

Observe that gmime-2.1.2 is required.

Major problems of 2.1.0 are fixed:
- unread message counters are updated (mostly) correctly.
- SSL and TLS imap support is there.
- searching support is there

Other highlights are:

- message/partial support.
- bonobo used for bringing up balsa from background.
- improved presentation of message headers.
- memory usage of mbox driver reduced to decent level.
- ability to install as the default mailer.
- message index filtering (very useful although UI might use some  
polish).
- major cleanup of old cruft.

Report the bugs (preferably together with patches!) either on the mailing
list or to Bugzilla,
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/

Happy mailing!

On behalf of balsa team,

Pawel Salek