1 .TH "CLAWS MAIL" "1" "June 4, 2015" "The Claws Mail team" "User Manuals"
5 Claws Mail \- a GTK+ based fast email and news client
13 Claws Mail is an email client (and news reader) based on GTK+, running on the X Window System, and aiming for:
17 \[bu] Graceful, and sophisticated interface
19 \[bu] Easy configuration, intuitive operation
21 \[bu] Abundant features
24 Currently implemented features include:
27 \[bu] IMAP4rev1 support
29 \[bu] integrated NetNews client
31 \[bu] unlimited multiple account handling
37 \[bu] MIME (attachments)
39 \[bu] built\-in image view
41 \[bu] X\-Face and (colour) Face support
43 \[bu] multiple MH folder support
45 \[bu] mbox importing / exporting
47 \[bu] external editor support
49 \[bu] message queueing
51 \[bu] automatic mail checking
53 \[bu] draft message function
55 \[bu] template function
61 \[bu] XML\-based address book
63 \[bu] LDAP, vCard, and JPilot support
65 \[bu] newly arrived and unread message management
67 \[bu] Mew/Wanderlust\-like key bind
71 \[bu] APOP authentication support
73 \[bu] SMTP AUTH support
75 \[bu] SSL support (POP3, SMTP, IMAP4rev1)
79 \[bu] drag & drop (partially implemented)
83 \[bu] automake + autoconf support
85 \[bu] internationalization of UI messages by gettext
87 \[bu] support of many code sets, including UTF\-8 (Unicode) (when using libjconv)
89 \[bu] support for plugins
92 This list is not complete.
96 \fB \-\-compose\fR [address]
98 \fB \-\-compose\-from\-file\fR file
100 \fB \-\-subscribe\fR [uri]
102 \fB \-\-attach file1 [file2]...\fR
106 \fB \-\-receive\-all\fR
108 \fB \-\-cancel\-receiving\fR
110 \fB \-\-cancel\-sending\fR
116 \fB \-\-status folder[/subfolder]\fR
118 \fB \-\-status\-full\fR
120 \fB \-\-statistics\fR
122 \fB \-\-reset-statistics\fR
124 \fB \-\-select [#mh/mailbox/]folder[/msg|/msgid]\fR
134 \fB \-\-toggle\-debug\fR
140 \fB \-\-version\-full\fR
142 \fB \-\-config\-dir\fR
144 \fB \-\-alternate\-config\-dir [dir]\fR
150 Default directory for mail storage
152 $PREFIX/share/claws\-mail
153 Global program directory
155 $PREFIX/share/claws\-mail/manual
156 Manual files in HTML, PDF, PostScript and plain text format
158 $PREFIX/share/claws\-mail/themes
159 Global themes directory
161 $PREFIX/lib/claws\-mail/plugins
162 Directory for plugins
164 $PREFIX/include/claws\-mail
165 Directory for header files
168 Default directory for user's configuration files directory
170 $HOME/.claws\-mail/addrbook/*
173 $HOME/.claws\-mail/autofaces/*
174 Automatic Faces and X\-Faces files for accounts
176 $HOME/.claws\-mail/certs/*
177 SSL certificates received from mail servers
179 $HOME/.claws\-mail/tagsdb
182 $HOME/.claws\-mail/templates
183 User\-defined templates directory
185 $HOME/.claws\-mail/themes
186 User's themes directory
188 $HOME/.claws\-mail/accountrc
189 Configuration for account(s)
191 $HOME/.claws\-mail/actionsrc
192 User\-defined custom actions
194 $HOME/.claws\-mail/addressbookcustomattributerc
195 User\-defined address book custom attributes
197 $HOME/.claws\-mail/claws.log
200 $HOME/.claws\-mail/clawsrc
201 Main configuration file
203 $HOME/.claws\-mail/command_history
204 User\-specified commands
206 $HOME/.claws\-mail/customheaderrc
207 Configuration for custom headers for sending mail
209 $HOME/.claws\-mail/dispheaderrc
210 Configuration for custom display of headers in message view
212 $HOME/.claws\-mail/extraheaderrc
213 Editable extra headers to be added to compose window combobox
215 $HOME/.claws\-mail/folderitemrc
216 All folders' attributes
218 $HOME/.claws\-mail/folderlist.xml
219 Folder hierarchy listing
221 $HOME/.claws\-mail/matcherrc
222 Filtering and Processing function configuration
224 $HOME/.claws\-mail/menurc
225 Menu shortcut\-key configuration
227 $HOME/.claws\-mail/messagesearch_history
228 User\-specified searches in message bodies
230 $HOME/.claws\-mail/quicksearch_history
231 User\-specified quick\-search list
233 $HOME/.claws\-mail/messagesearch_history
234 User\-specified searches in message bodies
236 $HOME/.claws\-mail/summary*_history
237 User\-specified searches in message list
239 $HOME/.claws\-mail/tagsrc
240 User\-specified tag list
242 $HOME/.claws\-mail/toolbar*.xml
243 User\-defined custom toolbars
248 %TEMP%\\claws\-win32.log
249 Claws Mail output file when \-\-debug is enabled. If %TEMP% is not set it
250 defaults to windows directory (usually C:\\Windows) or C:\\ if windows
251 directory is not available.
253 %APPDATA%\\Claws\-mail\\claws.log
258 To run this program the standard way type:
262 Alternatively you can run it with the following options:
264 \fB\-\-compose [address]\fR
265 to open a Compose window
267 \fB\-\-compose\-from\-file file
268 open composition window with data from given file. Use \- as file name
269 for reading from standard input. Content format: headers first (To:
270 header required) until an empty line is found, then mail body until
273 \fB\-\-subscribe [uri]\fR
274 subscribe to the given URI if possible
276 \fB\-\-attach file1 [file2]...\fR
277 open composition window with specified files attached
279 \fB\-\-compose\fR "mailto:\fI%t\fR?subject=\fI%s\fR&cc=\fI%c\fR&body=\fI%b\fR"
280 this syntax can be used in web\-browsers and CLI to open a pre\-populated Compose window.
281 Possible fields after the destination recipient are: subject, from, cc, bcc, in\-reply\-to,
282 body, insert (insert a file in body part, needs an absolute path), attach (attach a file,
283 needs an absolute path, see also: \-\-attach)
288 \fB\-\-receive\-all\fR
289 receive new messages from all accounts
291 \fB\-\-cancel\-receiving\fR
292 cancel receiving of messages
294 \fB\-\-cancel\-sending\fR
295 cancel sending of messages
299 send all queued messages
302 show the total number of messages
304 [new][unread][unread answers to marked][total]
306 \fB\-\-status folder[/subfolder]\fR
307 show the total number of messages in specified folder
309 [new][unread][unread answers to marked][total]
311 \fB\-\-status\-full\fR
312 show the total number of messages per folder
314 [new][unread][unread answers to marked][total]
318 show session statistics
320 \fB\-\-reset-statistics\fR
322 reset session statistics
324 \fB\-\-select [#mh/mailbox/]folder[/msg|/msgid]\fR
325 on startup, jumps to the specified folder/message
328 start Claws Mail in (or switch to, if already running) online mode
331 start Claws Mail in (or switch to, if already running) offline mode
334 display the help message and exit
340 for debug mode (on Windows systems output is written to a file instead
341 of standard error output, see \fBWindows only\fR on \fBFILES\fR
344 \fB\-\-toggle-debug\fR
345 toggle debug mode of a running Claws Mail instance
348 display version number and exit
350 \fB\-\-version\-full\fR
351 display version number and compiled\-in features then exit
353 \fB\-\-config\-dir\fR
354 display the CONFIG\-DIR and exit
356 \fB\-\-alternate\-config\-dir [dir]\fR
357 start Claws Mail with the configuration stored in [dir] directory
363 if defined disables crash dialog (only if Claws Mail has been built with
364 crash dialog feature enabled)
367 default host and display number to use
369 \fBETPANSERVER\fR, \fBETPANPORT\fR
370 when using a tunnel command to open server connections these temporary
371 variables are set to the server name and server port respectively in the
372 environment of the running command
375 the information to access the GPG agent if using GPG agent is enabled in
376 GPG plugin preferences (this is usually set by the agent when launched,
377 otherwise it likely means the GPG agent is not running)
379 \fBG_BROKEN_FILENAMES\fR
380 assumes that filenames are in the locale encoding rather than in UTF\-8
383 full path of the user's home directory
385 \fBLC_ALL\fR, \fBLC_CTYPE\fR, \fBLANG\fR
386 locale to use for non\-windows systems (the first one not empty is used)
389 if defined overrides default J\-Pilot charset (CP1252)
391 \fBPOSIXLY_CORRECT\fR
392 if defined regular expressions matching follows POSIX standards
394 \fBSESSION_MANAGER\fR
395 if defined tries to use the Session Manager (only if Claws Mail has been
396 built with libSM feature enabled)
399 if defined overrides default shell "sh" used by Spamassassin plugin to
400 launch spamc wrappers
403 use this CA certificates directory instead known system directories
406 use this CA certificates file instead of searching known system files
409 used to initialize default "user_id" preference in newly created accounts
414 You can search for existing bugs and report new ones on Claws Mail bugzilla:
416 <http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws\-mail/bugzilla/>
421 1999\-2015 Hiroyuki Yamamoto and the Claws Mail team
423 Portions are also Copyright:
425 (C) 2007\-2009 g10 Code GmbH
427 (C) 1999\-2005 Nullsoft, Inc.
429 (C) 1991\-1993, 1996\-2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
431 (C) 2001 Thomas Link, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
433 (C) 1995\-1997 Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball
435 (C) 1995\-1997 Peter Mattis, Spencer Kimball, Josh MacDonald
437 (C) 1997\-1998 Jay Painter <jpaint@serv.net><jpaint@gimp.org>
439 (C) 1999\-2003 Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org>
443 (C) 1998 Lars Hamann and Stefan Jeske
445 (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 GNOME Foundation
447 (C) 2004\-2006 Christian Hammond
449 (C) 2003\-2004 Pawel Salek
451 (C) 2001, 2002 \- DINH Viet Hoa
453 (C) 1999\-2000, Gael Roualland <gael.roualland@iname.com>
455 (C) 1998\-2002 Sendmail, Inc.
457 (C) 2007\-2008 Juha Kautto (juha at xfce.org)
459 (C) 1994\-2002 World Wide Web Consortium
461 (C) 1999 Graham Davison
463 (C) 1999 Eric Busboom
465 (C) 2000, Eric Busboom, http://www.softwarestudio.org
467 (C) 2002\-2007 Randall Hand <yerase@yerot.com>
469 (C) 2001 by Werner Koch <dd9jn@gnu.org>
471 (C) 2004 Apache Software Foundation
473 (C) 2008 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
475 (C) 2002 Red Hat, Inc.; Copyright 1998, 2001 Tim Janik
477 (C) 2008\-2009 Christian Hammond, David Trowbridge
479 (C) 2003\-2005 Lars Lindner <lars.lindner@gmx.net>
481 (C) 2004,2005 Nathan J. Conrad <t98502@users.sourceforge.net>
483 (C) 2004 Karl Soderstrom <ks@xanadunet.net>
485 (C) 2000 Helix Code, Inc. (www.helixcode.com)
490 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
492 See COPYING file on toplevel distribution directory for more license details.
497 .I "The Claws Mail Team"
500 Holger Berndt <berndth@users.sf.net>
502 Tristan Chabredier <wwp@claws\-mail.org>
504 Andrej Kacian <andrej@kacian.sk>
506 Darko Koruga <darko@users.sf.net>
508 Ricardo Mones Lastra <ricardo@mones.org>
510 Charles Lehner <charles@claws-mail.org>
512 Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net>
514 Paul Mangan <paul@claws\-mail.org>
516 Salvatore De Paolis <iwkse@claws\-mail.org>
518 Pawel Pekala <cOrn@o2.pl>
520 Michael Rasmussen <mir@datanom.net>
524 .I "Previous team members"
527 Ho\(`a Vi\(^et Dinh, Keith Edmunds, Match Grun, Melvin Hadasht,
528 Oliver Haertel, Christoph Hohmann, Alfons Hoogervorst, Werner Koch,
529 Thorsten Maerz, Leandro A. F. Pereira, Luke Plant, Martin Schaaf,
530 Carsten Schurig, Fabien Vantard, Sergey Vlasov, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
537 <http://www.claws\-mail.org>
539 Claws Mail frequently asked questions
540 <http://www.claws\-mail.org/faq>
542 Claws Mail online manual
543 <http://www.claws\-mail.org/manual>
546 <http://www.claws\-mail.org/plugins.php>