1 Claws Mail - a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast e-mail client
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29 1. What is Claws Mail?
35 7. Partial downloading of POP3 mails
39 11. How to request features
40 12. Installing Claws from Git
45 1. What is Claws Mail?
46 --------------------------
48 Claws Mail (previously known as Sylpheed-Claws) is a lightweight and
49 highly configurable email client and news reader based on the GTK+
50 GUI toolkit, it runs on the X Window System.
52 Claws Mail is free software distributed under the GNU GPL.
54 To run Claws Mail use 'claws-mail' on the command line.
56 When claws-mail is executed for the first time a configuration
57 'Wizard' will appear prompting you for the minimum information
58 necessary to create a new account.
64 Claws Mail' capabilities are extended by plugins. It comes with
65 the following plugins included, all of which are built automatically
66 if the required libraries are present.
68 Plugins are installed in $PREFIX/lib/claws-mail/plugins/
69 and have a suffix of '.so'
70 To load a plugin go to '/Configuration/Plugins' and click
71 the 'Load Plugin' button.
72 Select the plugin that you want and click 'OK'
74 All plugin preferences can be found under
75 '/Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/'.
78 Notifies of new mail via the mail LED available on some laptops. The
79 LED can be set to blinking or on states when new mail is received.
80 Appropriate kernel modules have to be loaded first for this plugin to
81 work. Laptops supported are from ACER (acerhk and acer_acpi modules),
82 ASUS (asus_laptop and asus_acpi), IBM (ibm_acpi), Lenovo (tm_smapi)
83 and Fujitsu (apanel) manufacturers.
86 Saves mail addresses typed in the 'To', 'Cc' or 'Bcc' fields of
87 outgoing messages to a designated folder in the address book.
88 Addresses are saved only if not already present in the address book.
91 Archives mail folders using libarchive library. Folders can be archived
92 with or without compression (ZIP, GZIP or BZIP2) and also in several
93 formats (TAR, SHAR, PAX or CPIO).
94 Libarchive is available from http://www.libarchive.org/.
97 Selectively removes attachments from messages. Messages are permanently
98 modified by using this feature, so be careful!
101 Warns the user of possibly forgotten attachments when some keywords
102 are found in the outgoing messages. False positives (being warned when
103 no attachment is realy needed) exist, but some configuration options
104 can help to reduce their probability.
107 Enables the scanning of incoming mail received from a POP,
108 IMAP, or LOCAL account using Bogofilter. It can optionally
109 delete mail identified as spam or save it to a designated folder.
110 Bogofilter is a pure Bayesian filter, therefore it has better
111 speed performance than SpamAssassin but might catch less spam.
112 Bogofilter is available from http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/.
115 Checks all messages received from IMAP, POP or local accounts using
116 BSFilter, a bayesian spam filter program, which has to be installed
117 locally. Messages identified as spam can be deleted or saved to a
119 Bsfilter is available from http://sourceforge.jp/projects/bsfilter/.
122 Uses the Clam AntiVirus in daemon mode to scan received messages from
123 IMAP, POP or local accounts. Scanning is done through a socket to the
124 daemon, so it has to be previously configured to allow this.
125 Clam AntiVirus is available from http://www.clamav.net/.
128 Modifies downloaded messages and inserts special headers containing
129 some download information: UIDL, Claws Mail account name, POP server,
130 user ID and retrieval time. These headers can be used later for more
131 elaborate filtering or processing rules.
134 Renders HTML mails and HTML parts of multipart messages using the GTK+
135 port of the WebKit library. External content is blocked by default
136 (including images) to avoid remote tracking, but can be enabled either
137 globally or just on the displayed message.
138 GTK+ WebKit is available from http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/.
141 Includes your Gmail account contacts in the list generated for
142 Tab-address completion on compose window, using the GData library.
143 Gdata library is available from https://live.gnome.org/libgdata/.
146 Handles mailboxes in Mbox format using the libEtPan! library. Mbox
147 files can be added to the folder tree and used like regular mailboxes.
148 LibEtPan! is available from http://www.etpan.org/.
151 Manage sieve filters on a server using the ManageSieve protocol.
154 Writes a header summary to a log file for each mail received after
155 sorting. The file for the summary is ~/Mail/NewLog.
158 Provides various ways of notifying the user of new and unread email.
159 Current methods include: a banner, a popup window, a user command,
160 a message to a LCD daemon, a system tray icon and an indicator icon.
161 Sound notifications are also possible through libcanberra. Each method
162 can be customized in detail through the plugin preferences.
163 Indicator library is available from https://launchpad.net/libindicator/
164 and libcanberra from http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/.
167 Extends the filtering possibilities of Claws Mail. Provides a Perl 5
168 interface to Claws Mail's filtering mechanism, allowing the use of full
169 Perl power in email filters. A conversion script is provided to
170 translate user rules into perl rules suitable for this plugin.
171 Perl is available from http://www.perl.org/.
174 Displays Portable Document Format (PDF) and PostScript attachments
175 within the message view using Poppler. PostScript attachments are
176 converted to PDF on the fly by the 'gs' tool, which has to be installed
177 first. The 'gs' tool is available from http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/.
178 The Poppler library is available from http://poppler.freedesktop.org/.
181 Handles core PGP functions and is required by the PGP/Inline
182 and PGP/MIME plugins.
183 Uses GnuPG/GPGME, ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/.
186 Handles inline PGP signed and/or encrypted mails. You can
187 decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your
188 own mails. Uses GnuPG/GPGME, ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/.
191 Handles PGP/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails. You can
192 decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your
193 own mails. Uses GnuPG/GPGME, ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/.
196 Provides Python scripting access to Claws Mail functions. A testing
197 console is also featured. Scripts can be saved to specific folders
198 for automatic loading on startup or being available as new menu items
199 under the '/Tools/Python scripts' menu.
200 Python is available from http://python.org/.
203 Creates mailboxes where newsfeeds in RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 or Atom format
204 can be added. Each newsfeed will create a folder with the appropriate
205 entries, fetched from the web. You can read them, and delete or keep
209 Handles S/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails. You can decrypt mails,
210 verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails.
213 Scans incoming mail received from a POP, IMAP or LOCAL account using
214 SpamAssassin. It can optionally delete mail identified as spam or save
215 it to a designated folder.
216 SpamAssassin is available from http://spamassassin.apache.org/.
219 Reports spam messages to online spam harvesting sites. Sites suported
220 are http://www.signal-spam.fr/ and http://www.spamcop.net/. The Debian
221 mailing list spam nomination system is also supported.
224 Decodes attachments with 'application/ms-tnef' MIME type (also known
225 as "winmail.dat" files) in Claws Mail, using the ytnef library.
226 Decoded parts can be saved to files.
227 The ytnef library is available from http://ytnef.sourceforge.net/.
230 Displays vCalendar messages. Only the meeting subset of the vCalendar
231 format is currently supported, which includes planning, sendding and
232 receiving invitations and answering them. Public calendar (WebCal)
233 subscriptions, free/busy information export/import and reminding of
234 events is also supported.
237 Additonal plugins can be found here:
238 http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php
243 The "actions" feature is a convenient way for the user to launch external
244 commands to process a complete message file including headers and body or
245 just one of its parts. It allows also the use of an external command to
246 filter the whole text or just a selected part in the message window or in
247 the compose window. This is a generic tool that allows to do any uncommon
248 actions on the messages, and thus extends the possibilities of Claws Mail.
249 For example, Claws Mail does not include the rot13 cyphering algorithm
250 popular in some newsgroups. It does not support uuencoded messages. As
251 all these features can be handled by external programs, the actions
252 provide a convenient way to use them from the menu bar.
257 To create a new action, go to Configuration -> Actions.... The "Action
258 Creation" dialog offers to enter the Menu name that will trigger the
259 command. The created menu will be found in the Tools -> Actions submenu.
260 By inserting a slash / in the menu name, you create a submenu.
262 The command is entered in the Command line entry. Note that Claws Mail
263 stores every single email in a separate file. This allows to use the
264 following syntax for the command:
266 * %f denotes the file name of the selected message. If you selected more
267 than one, then the command will be launched for each message with
268 the appropriate file name
269 * %F denotes the list of the file names of the selected message. If only
270 one message is selected, this amounts to %f, but if more messages
271 are selected, then the command will be launched only once with the
272 list of the file names. (You can use both %f and %F in one command:
273 then the command will be launched for each selected message with
274 the name of this message and with the list of all selected
275 messages. I did not find a practical example for this.)
276 * %p denotes the current selected message part of a multipart message.
277 The part is decoded accordingly. If the message is not a multipart
278 message, it denotes the message body.
279 * Prepending >: this will allow you to send to the command's standard
280 input a text that you will enter in a dialog window.
281 * Prepending *: this will allow you to send to the command's standard
282 input a text that you will enter in a dialog window. But in
283 contrast to prepending >, the entered text is hidden (useful when
285 * Appending an ampersand &: this will run the command asynchronously.
286 That means "fire and forget". Claws Mail won't wait for the
287 command to finish, nor will it catch its output or its error
289 * Prepending the vertical bar | (pipe-in): this will send the current
290 displayed text or the current selected text from the message view
291 or the compose window to the command standard input. The command
292 will silently fail if more than one message is selected.
293 * Appending the vertical bar | (pipe-out): this will replace the current
294 displayed text or the current selected text from the message window
295 or the compose window by the command standard output. The command
296 will silently fail if more than one message is selected.
298 Note: It is not possible to use actions containing %f, %F or %p from the
301 When a command is run, and unless it is run asynchronously, Claws Mail
302 will be insensitive to any interaction and it will wait for the command to
303 finish. If the command takes too long (5 seconds), it will popup a dialog
304 window allowing to stop it. This dialog will also be displayed as soon as
305 the command has some output: error messages or even its standard output
306 when the command is not a "pipe-out" command. When multiple commands are
307 being run, they are run in parallel and each command output is separated
308 from the outputs of the others.
313 Here are some examples that are listed in the same syntax as used for
314 storing the actions list. You can copy and past the definition in your
315 ~/.claws-mail/actionsrc file (exit Claws Mail before). The syntax
316 is very simple: one line per action, each action contains the menu name
317 and the command line separated by a colon and a space ": "
319 Purpose: rot13 cyphering
320 Definition: Rot13: |tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M|
321 Details: This will apply the rot13 cyphering algorithm to the
322 (selected) text in the message/compose view.
324 Purpose: Decoding uuencoded messages
325 Definition: UUdeview: xdeview %F&
326 Details: xdeview comes with uudeview. If an encoded file is split in
327 multiple messages, just select them all and run the command.
329 Purpose: Display uuencoded image
330 Definition: Display uuencoded: uudec %f&
331 Details: Displays uuencoded files. The uudec[1] script can be found in
332 the 'tools' directory of the distribution package.
334 Purpose: Alter messages
335 Definition: Edit message: gvim -f %F
336 Details: Allows editing of any received message. Can be used to remove
337 unneeded message parts, etc.
339 Purpose: Pretty format
340 Definition: Par: |par 72Tbgjqw74bEe B=._A_a 72bg|
341 Details: par is a utility that can pretty format any text. It does a
342 very good job in indenting quoted messages, and justifying
343 text. Used when composing a message
346 Definition: Part/Dillo: dillo %p&
347 Details: Browse the selected message part in Dillo.
350 [1] The uudec script can be found in the 'tools' directory of the
351 distribution package. It needs uudecode and ImageMagick's display. The
352 latter can be replaced by any image viewer that can get input from
353 standard input. The script could also be modified to use temporary files
354 instead of standard input.
359 Claws has support for different icon sets. Several icon sets can be
360 downloaded from http://www.claws-mail.org/themes.php
361 You will need to create a directory called 'themes' in your config
362 directory, unpack them into this directory, and then use the interface
363 to select them, /Configuration/Preferences/Display/Themes
365 This interface can also be used to install new themes.
368 5. Quick Search with extended search
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370 Quick Search, with its powerful Extended search function,
371 enables searching through folder's messages.
373 Extended Search allows one to define criteria that messages must
374 have in order to match and be displayed in the summary view pane.
375 Search types titled From, Subject and To are self explanatory.
376 Search type extended allows one to use Claws Mail's powerful
377 filtering engine to select messages. Examples:
378 from regexpcase "foo"
379 subject regexp "Bug" & to regexp "claws-mail"
381 Additionally, it is possible to use simpler yet equally
382 powerfull patterns for message selections. Mutt users will
383 immediately recognise most of the available patterns:
385 Pattern Parameter Selects
386 ----------------------------------------------------
388 ag # messages whose age is greater than #
389 al # messages whose age is lower than #
390 b S messages which contain S in the message body
391 B S messages which contain S in the whole message
392 c S messages carbon-copied to S
393 C S message is either to: or cc: to S
395 e S messages which contain S in the Sender field
396 E S true if execute "S" succeeds
397 f S messages originating from user S
399 h S messages which contain S in any header name or value
400 H S messages which contain S in the value of any header
401 i S messages which contain S in Message-Id header
402 I S messages which contain S in inreplyto header
403 k # messages which are marked with color #
405 n S messages which are in newsgroup S
408 r messages which have been replied to
410 s S messages which contain S in subject
411 se # messages whose score is equal to #
412 sg # messages whose score is greater than #
413 sl # messages whose score is lower than #
414 Se # messages whose size is equal to #
415 Sg # messages whose size is greater than #
416 Ss # messages whose size is smaller than #
417 t S messages which have been sent to S
418 tg S messages with tags containing S
419 tagged messages which are tagged
422 x S messages which contain S in References header
423 x "cmd args" messages returning 0 when passed to command
425 y S messages which contain S in X-Label header
427 & logical AND operator
428 | logical OR operator
429 ! or ~ logical NOT operator
430 % case sensitive search
432 all filtering expressions are allowed
435 S means regexp string
437 It is possible to use logical operators AND (&), OR (|) and
438 NOT (! or ~). Case sensitive search is achieved with %.
442 f "john beavis" messages from john beavis
443 %f "John Beavis" messages from John Beavis (case sensitive)
444 ~s foo messages which do not have foo in the subject
445 f foo & ~s bar messages from foo that do not have bar in thesubject
451 /Configuration/Preferences/Customize Toolbars lets you define the
452 toolbar you want. The configuration dialog enables you to set an icon,
453 an appropriate text, and map an action to it. Actions to choose
454 from are predefined. You can also have your "Claws Mail Actions"
455 (refer to "Actions" above) on your toolbar.
458 * Configuration->Actions
459 - add an entry "Dillo: dillo %p&"
460 * Configuration->Custom toolbar
461 - select Claws Mail Actions Feature
462 - select "Dillo: dillo %p&" from drop down list
463 - choose an icon and click ok
467 7. Partial downloading of POP3 mails
468 ------------------------------------
469 Messages over the configured size limit, (/[Account preferences]/
470 Receive/Message size limit), will be partially retrieved. These
471 messages will have a Notice View displayed (above the Message View),
472 informing of the partially retrieved state and the total size of the
473 message. The Notice View will also contain two buttons, 'Mark for
474 download' and 'Mark for deletion'. If the user clicks 'Mark for
475 download', the message will be downloaded in full at the next message
476 retrieval, (and the partial one deleted); if the user checks 'Mark for
477 deletion' it will be removed from the server after the normal delay
478 as specified in the POP3 account's 'Receive' preferences.
479 If a user moves a partially retrieved message to the Trash folder
480 it will be deleted on the server at the next retrieval after the
481 Trash folder has been emptied.
487 It is recommended that you use Clawsker to edit these options,
488 http://www.claws-mail.org/clawsker.php
490 addressbook_use_editaddress_dialog (default: 1)
491 Use a separate dialogue to edit a person's details. '0'
492 will use a form embedded in the addressbook's main window.
495 bold_unread (default: 1)
496 show unread messages using bold font in summary view
499 cache_max_mem_usage (default: 4096)
500 the maximum kB of memory Claws Mail should use. It will try
501 to keep the memory usage below this value, but it will always
502 use the assigned amount of memory for speed gain.
504 cache_min_keep_time (default: 15)
505 the minimum time in minutes Claws Mail will keep the folder
506 cache in memory. If a cache is more recent than this time it
507 will not be freed even if the memory usage is above the
508 maximum. You should probably set this value higher than your
509 mail check interval. Otherwise the cache will always be freed
510 between checks even if the folder is accessed on every check,
511 which will cause much disk IO.
513 compose_no_markup (default: 0)
514 prevent italic and bold text in the Compose dialog account
516 0: normal (markup) 1: no markup
518 diff_added_color (default: #008b8b)
519 diff_deleted_color (default: #6a5acd)
520 diff_hunk_color (default: #a52a2a)
521 Colors to use when displaying attachments in unified diff
524 emphasis_color (default: #0000CF)
525 The colour used for the X-Mailer line when its value is
528 enable_hscrollbar (default: 1)
529 enable horizontal scroll bar in summary view
532 enable_swap_from (default: 0)
533 display sender's email address in To column in Sent folder
534 instead of recipient's
537 folderview_vscrollbar_policy (default: 0)
538 specify the policy of vertical scroll bar of folder view
539 0: always 1: automatic 2: never
541 hover_timeout (default: 500)
542 time in milliseconds that will cause a folder tree to expand
543 during drag n drop when the mouse cover is held over it
545 live_dangerously (default: 0)
546 Don't ask for confirmation before definitive deletion of
550 log_error_color (default: #af0000)
551 log_in_color (default: #000000)
552 log_msg_color (default: #00af00)
553 log_out_color (default: #0000ef)
554 log_warn_color (default: #af0000)
555 log_status_ok_color (default: #00af00)
556 log_status_nok_color (default: #0000af)
557 log_status_skip_color (default: #aa00aa)
558 The colours used in the Network Log window.
560 msgview_date_format (default: 0)
561 Use the same user-defined date format in the Message View as
562 is used in the Message List.
565 outgoing_fallback_to_ascii (default: 1)
566 The outgoing encoding of a message will use 7bit US-ASCII
567 whenever it is suitable for the message content, ignoring
568 the "Outgoing encoding" option unless it is necessary.
569 Turning this option off forces the user-defined encoding to
570 be used, regardless of message content.
573 primary_paste_unselects (default: 0)
574 Causes the primary buffer to be cleared and the insertion
575 point to be repositioned when the middle mouse button is used
579 respect_flowed_format (default: 0)
580 Respect format=flowed on text/plain message parts. This will
581 cause some mails to have long lines, but will fix some URLs
582 that would otherwise be wrapped.
585 save_parts_readwrite (default: 0)
586 Saves temporary files when opening attachment with write bit
590 show_compose_margin (default: 0)
591 Adds margins to the message text area in the Compose window.
594 show_inline_attachments (default: 1)
595 Show inline attachments in MimeView.
598 skip_ssl_cert_check (default: 0)
599 Disables the verification of SSL certificates.
602 statusbar_update_step (default: 10)
603 Update stepping in progress bars.
605 stripes_color_offset (default: 4000)
606 Specify the value to use when creating alternately coloured
607 lines in GtkTreeView components. The smaller the value, the
608 less visible the difference in the alternating colours of the
611 textview_cursor_visible (default: 0)
612 display the cursor in the message view.
615 thread_by_subject_max_age (default: 10)
616 number of days to include a message in a thread when using
617 'Thread using subject in addition to standard headers'.
619 toolbar_detachable (default: 0)
620 hide handles in the toolbar.
623 two_line_vertical (default: 1)
624 Spread message list information over two lines when using the
628 unsafe_ssl_certs (default: 0)
629 Allows Claws to remember multiple SSL certificates for a
633 use_networkmanager (default: 1)
634 Use NetworkManager to switch offline automatically.
637 use_stripes_everywhere (default: 1)
638 Enable alternately coloured lines in GtkTreeView components.
641 use_stripes_in_summaries (default: 1)
642 Enable alternately coloured lines in the main window
643 GtkTreeView components, (Folder List and Message List). The
644 only useful way to use this option is to set it to 0 when
645 use_stripes_everywhere is set to 1.
648 utf8_instead_of_locale_for_broken_mail (default: 0)
649 Use UTF-8 encoding for broken mails instead of current
653 warn_dnd (default: 1)
654 Display a confirmation dialog on drag'n'drop of folders.
657 zero_replacement_char (default: 0)
658 Character to show in Folder List counter columns when a
659 folder doesn't contain messages.
663 You will find all of these tools in the 'tools' directory:
665 acroread2claws-mail.pl
666 send PDFs from Adobe Reader 7
668 import mbox files exported by calypso
669 claws-mail-compose-insert-files.pl
670 insert files into a new Compose window
672 convert mbox format to MH format
674 import Becky, Thunderbird, Kmail, Gmail and Fox Mail
677 convert a Eudora (v.3?) addressbook to vCard
680 convert sylpheed main's filter rules, (< 0.9.99),
681 into Claws' filtering format
683 convert sylpheed main's filter rules, (>= 0.9.99),
684 into Claws' filtering format
686 Replace/Add a message's Date field
688 Actions script to lookup the selected text on
689 Freshmeat www.freshmeat.net using the configured
692 convert a gif file to an xface
694 Actions script to lookup selected message-id on
695 google using mozilla.
697 Actions script to lookup up the selected text on
698 google using the configured browser
700 Service Menus for Konqueror to allow sending
703 convert a Kmail addressbook to a Claws Mail
705 kmail2claws-mail_v2.pl
706 new version of the address book conversion script
707 for newer versions of Kmail/Kaddressbook
708 kmail-mailbox2claws-mail.pl
709 convert a Kmail mailbox into a Claws mail mailbox
711 a wrapper to mairix, to enable global searches in mail
714 import a Mew address book
716 search any searchable website for the selected text
717 nautilus2claws-mail.sh
718 enables sending files from the Nautilus file manager
721 enable OpenOffice to send documents through
723 outlook2claws-mail.pl
724 convert an Outlook contacts list to a Claws Mail
727 open messages in POPFile control center to edit their status
729 process a Claws Mail message and print it using enscript
730 if available or lpr if not
732 convert an addressbook exported from The Bat! into
733 a Claws Mail addressbook
735 integrate a Thunderbird folder tree into Claws Mail
737 Display various attachments as text
739 attempt to view an attachment as plain text
740 thunderbird-filters-convertor.pl
741 convert Thunderbird filtering rules
743 translators' tool that eases the creation of
746 decode UUencoded mails, for use with Actions
748 Decode uuencoded attachments and open them with OpenOffice
750 import an Evolution vCard
753 10. How to contribute
754 ---------------------
756 You are encourged to send patches via the Claws Mail bugzilla at
757 http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
758 But please first read the patch guidelines here:
759 http://www.claws-mail.org/devel.php
761 If that's too troublesome, either contact Paul Mangan
762 <paul@claws-mail.org> or consider posting to the
763 Claws Mail-users mailing list.
764 http://www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php
766 Bugs can be reported with Claws' bugzilla at:
767 http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
769 Of course, you can also post to the Claws Mail-users mailing list.
771 Also, we really try to incorporate good contributions, but sometimes we
772 don't have enough time. If the contribution is really big, or requires
773 a long time to stabilise, send a mail to Paul Mangan
774 <paul@claws-mail.org>. We can probably arrange access to the
775 Claws Mail Git repository.
779 11. How to request features
780 ---------------------------
782 Ask around in Claws Mail-users ML. Note that some developers may
783 have already thought about your feature and may, perhaps, be implementing
784 it, or the feature was already discussed and rejected for whatever reason.
785 You might want to go ahead and hack a patch for it. (That would be very
786 cool!) Another possibility is to add a request to our bugzilla, (severity:
788 http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
791 12. Installing Claws Mail from Git
792 --------------------------------------
797 To download the latest Git, cd to the directory where you wish to download
798 to and type the following information:
800 git clone http://git.claws-mail.org/readonly/claws.git
802 Later, when you want to update your local repository, you'll just have to
803 go back to the 'claws' directory, and type:
810 To compile and install use the following commands:
812 ./autogen.sh [add configure options as required]
814 make install [as root]
816 You will need a full set of development tools installed to be able to run
817 autogen.sh. See also ac/README.
867 2006-12-04 2.6.1 [first release as Claws Mail]
908 2004-05-31 0.9.11claws
909 2004-03-08 0.9.10claws
910 2004-02-06 0.9.9claws
911 2003-12-19 0.9.8claws
912 2003-11-26 0.9.7claws
913 2003-10-02 0.9.6claws
914 2003-09-10 0.9.5claws
915 2003-08-04 0.9.4claws
916 2003-07-12 0.9.3claws
917 2003-05-24 0.9.0claws
918 2003-03-12 0.8.11claws
919 2003-02-12 0.8.10claws
920 2003-01-24 0.8.9claws
921 2002-12-26 0.8.8claws
922 2002-12-23 0.8.7claws
923 2002-11-25 0.8.6claws
924 2002-10-07 0.8.5claws
925 2002-09-22 0.8.3claws
926 2002-08-28 0.8.2claws
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