1 .TH "CLAWS MAIL" "1" "August 5, 2016" "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
146 \fB \-\-geometry WxH+X+Y\fR
152 Default directory for mail storage
154 $PREFIX/share/claws\-mail
155 Global program directory
157 $PREFIX/share/claws\-mail/manual
158 Manual files in HTML, PDF, PostScript and plain text format
160 $PREFIX/share/claws\-mail/themes
161 Global themes directory
163 $PREFIX/lib/claws\-mail/plugins
164 Directory for plugins
166 $PREFIX/include/claws\-mail
167 Directory for header files
170 Default directory for user's configuration files directory
172 $HOME/.claws\-mail/addrbook/*
175 $HOME/.claws\-mail/autofaces/*
176 Automatic Faces and X\-Faces files for accounts
178 $HOME/.claws\-mail/certs/*
179 SSL certificates received from mail servers
181 $HOME/.claws\-mail/tagsdb
184 $HOME/.claws\-mail/templates
185 User\-defined templates directory
187 $HOME/.claws\-mail/themes
188 User's themes directory
190 $HOME/.claws\-mail/accountrc
191 Configuration for account(s)
193 $HOME/.claws\-mail/actionsrc
194 User\-defined custom actions
196 $HOME/.claws\-mail/addressbookcustomattributerc
197 User\-defined address book custom attributes
199 $HOME/.claws\-mail/claws.log
202 $HOME/.claws\-mail/clawsrc
203 Main configuration file
205 $HOME/.claws\-mail/command_history
206 User\-specified commands
208 $HOME/.claws\-mail/customheaderrc
209 Configuration for custom headers for sending mail
211 $HOME/.claws\-mail/dispheaderrc
212 Configuration for custom display of headers in message view
214 $HOME/.claws\-mail/extraheaderrc
215 Editable extra headers to be added to compose window combobox
217 $HOME/.claws\-mail/folderitemrc
218 All folders' attributes
220 $HOME/.claws\-mail/folderlist.xml
221 Folder hierarchy listing
223 $HOME/.claws\-mail/matcherrc
224 Filtering and Processing function configuration
226 $HOME/.claws\-mail/menurc
227 Menu shortcut\-key configuration
229 $HOME/.claws\-mail/messagesearch_history
230 User\-specified searches in message bodies
232 $HOME/.claws\-mail/quicksearch_history
233 User\-specified quick\-search list
235 $HOME/.claws\-mail/messagesearch_history
236 User\-specified searches in message bodies
238 $HOME/.claws\-mail/summary*_history
239 User\-specified searches in message list
241 $HOME/.claws\-mail/passwordstorerc
244 $HOME/.claws\-mail/tagsrc
245 User\-specified tag list
247 $HOME/.claws\-mail/toolbar*.xml
248 User\-defined custom toolbars
253 %TEMP%\\claws\-win32.log
254 Claws Mail output file when \-\-debug is enabled. If %TEMP% is not set it
255 defaults to windows directory (usually C:\\Windows) or C:\\ if windows
256 directory is not available.
258 %APPDATA%\\Claws\-mail\\claws.log
263 To run this program the standard way type:
267 Alternatively you can run it with the following options:
269 \fB\-\-compose [address]\fR
270 to open a Compose window
272 \fB\-\-compose\-from\-file file
273 open composition window with data from given file. Use \- as file name
274 for reading from standard input. Content format: headers first (To:
275 header required) until an empty line is found, then mail body until
278 \fB\-\-subscribe [uri]\fR
279 subscribe to the given URI if possible
281 \fB\-\-attach file1 [file2]...\fR
282 open composition window with specified files attached
284 \fB\-\-compose\fR "mailto:\fI%t\fR?subject=\fI%s\fR&cc=\fI%c\fR&body=\fI%b\fR"
285 this syntax can be used in web\-browsers and CLI to open a pre\-populated Compose window.
286 Possible fields after the destination recipient are: subject, from, cc, bcc, in\-reply\-to,
287 body, insert (insert a file in body part, needs an absolute path), attach (attach a file,
288 needs an absolute path, see also: \-\-attach)
293 \fB\-\-receive\-all\fR
294 receive new messages from all accounts
296 \fB\-\-cancel\-receiving\fR
297 cancel receiving of messages
299 \fB\-\-cancel\-sending\fR
300 cancel sending of messages
304 send all queued messages
307 show the total number of messages
309 [new][unread][unread answers to marked][total]
311 \fB\-\-status folder[/subfolder]\fR
312 show the total number of messages in specified folder
314 [new][unread][unread answers to marked][total]
316 \fB\-\-status\-full\fR
317 show the total number of messages per folder
319 [new][unread][unread answers to marked][total]
323 show session statistics
325 \fB\-\-reset-statistics\fR
327 reset session statistics
329 \fB\-\-select [#mh/mailbox/]folder[/msg|/msgid]\fR
330 on startup, jumps to the specified folder/message
333 start Claws Mail in (or switch to, if already running) online mode
336 start Claws Mail in (or switch to, if already running) offline mode
339 display the help message and exit
345 for debug mode (on Windows systems output is written to a file instead
346 of standard error output, see \fBWindows only\fR on \fBFILES\fR
349 \fB\-\-toggle-debug\fR
350 toggle debug mode of a running Claws Mail instance
353 display version number and exit
355 \fB\-\-version\-full\fR
356 display version number and compiled\-in features then exit
358 \fB\-\-config\-dir\fR
359 display the CONFIG\-DIR and exit
361 \fB\-\-alternate\-config\-dir [dir]\fR
362 start Claws Mail with the configuration stored in [dir] directory
363 \fB\-\-geometry WxH+X+Y\fR
364 set initial X geometry of main window
370 if defined disables crash dialog (only if Claws Mail has been built with
371 crash dialog feature enabled)
374 default host and display number to use
376 \fBETPANSERVER\fR, \fBETPANPORT\fR
377 when using a tunnel command to open server connections these temporary
378 variables are set to the server name and server port respectively in the
379 environment of the running command
382 the information to access the GPG agent if using GPG agent is enabled in
383 GPG plugin preferences (this is usually set by the agent when launched,
384 otherwise it likely means the GPG agent is not running)
386 \fBG_BROKEN_FILENAMES\fR
387 assumes that filenames are in the locale encoding rather than in UTF\-8
390 full path of the user's home directory
392 \fBLC_ALL\fR, \fBLC_CTYPE\fR, \fBLANG\fR
393 locale to use for non\-windows systems (the first one not empty is used)
396 if defined overrides default J\-Pilot charset (CP1252)
398 \fBPOSIXLY_CORRECT\fR
399 if defined regular expressions matching follows POSIX standards
401 \fBSESSION_MANAGER\fR
402 if defined tries to use the Session Manager (only if Claws Mail has been
403 built with libSM feature enabled)
406 if defined overrides default shell "sh" used by Spamassassin plugin to
407 launch spamc wrappers
410 use this CA certificates directory instead known system directories
413 use this CA certificates file instead of searching known system files
416 used to initialize default "user_id" preference in newly created accounts
421 You can search for existing bugs and report new ones on Claws Mail bugzilla:
423 <http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws\-mail/bugzilla/>
428 1999\-2016 The Claws Mail team and Hiroyuki Yamamoto
430 Portions are also Copyright:
432 (C) 2007\-2009 g10 Code GmbH
434 (C) 1999\-2005 Nullsoft, Inc.
436 (C) 1991\-1993, 1996\-2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
438 (C) 2001 Thomas Link, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
440 (C) 1995\-1997 Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball
442 (C) 1995\-1997 Peter Mattis, Spencer Kimball, Josh MacDonald
444 (C) 1997\-1998 Jay Painter <jpaint@serv.net><jpaint@gimp.org>
446 (C) 1999\-2003 Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org>
450 (C) 1998 Lars Hamann and Stefan Jeske
452 (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 GNOME Foundation
454 (C) 2004\-2006 Christian Hammond
456 (C) 2003\-2004 Pawel Salek
458 (C) 2001, 2002 \- DINH Viet Hoa
460 (C) 1999\-2000, Gael Roualland <gael.roualland@iname.com>
462 (C) 1998\-2002 Sendmail, Inc.
464 (C) 2007\-2008 Juha Kautto (juha at xfce.org)
466 (C) 1994\-2002 World Wide Web Consortium
468 (C) 1999 Graham Davison
470 (C) 1999 Eric Busboom
472 (C) 2000, Eric Busboom, http://www.softwarestudio.org
474 (C) 2002\-2007 Randall Hand <yerase@yerot.com>
476 (C) 2001 by Werner Koch <dd9jn@gnu.org>
478 (C) 2004 Apache Software Foundation
480 (C) 2008 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
482 (C) 2002 Red Hat, Inc.; Copyright 1998, 2001 Tim Janik
484 (C) 2008\-2009 Christian Hammond, David Trowbridge
486 (C) 2003\-2005 Lars Lindner <lars.lindner@gmx.net>
488 (C) 2004,2005 Nathan J. Conrad <t98502@users.sourceforge.net>
490 (C) 2004 Karl Soderstrom <ks@xanadunet.net>
492 (C) 2000 Helix Code, Inc. (www.helixcode.com)
497 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.
499 See COPYING file on toplevel distribution directory for more license details.
504 .I "The Claws Mail Team"
507 Holger Berndt <berndth@users.sf.net>
509 Tristan Chabredier <wwp@claws\-mail.org>
511 Andrej Kacian <andrej@kacian.sk>
513 Darko Koruga <darko@users.sf.net>
515 Ricardo Mones Lastra <ricardo@mones.org>
517 Charles Lehner <charles@claws-mail.org>
519 Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net>
521 Paul Mangan <paul@claws\-mail.org>
523 Salvatore De Paolis <iwkse@claws\-mail.org>
525 Pawel Pekala <cOrn@o2.pl>
527 Michael Rasmussen <mir@datanom.net>
531 .I "Previous team members"
534 Ho\(`a Vi\(^et Dinh, Keith Edmunds, Match Grun, Melvin Hadasht,
535 Oliver Haertel, Christoph Hohmann, Alfons Hoogervorst, Werner Koch,
536 Thorsten Maerz, Leandro A. F. Pereira, Luke Plant, Martin Schaaf,
537 Carsten Schurig, Fabien Vantard, Sergey Vlasov, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
544 <http://www.claws\-mail.org>
546 Claws Mail frequently asked questions
547 <http://www.claws\-mail.org/faq>
549 Claws Mail online manual
550 <http://www.claws\-mail.org/manual>
553 <http://www.claws\-mail.org/plugins.php>
555 \fIX\fR(7), \fIxwininfo\fR(1).