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- Copyright(C) 1999-2009 Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp> and the
+ Copyright(C) 1999-2013 Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp> and the
Claws Mail Team
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
+ MA 02110-1301, USA.
For more details see the file COPYING.
9. Tools
10. How to contribute
11. How to request features
-12. Installing Claws from CVS
+12. Installing Claws from Git
13. Release History
14. Useful Links
the 'Load Plugin' button.
Select the plugin that you want and click 'OK'
+All plugin preferences can be found under
+'/Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/'.
+
+ o ACPI Notifier
+ Notifies of new mail via the mail LED available on some laptops. The
+ LED can be set to blinking or on states when new mail is received.
+ Appropriate kernel modules have to be loaded first for this plugin to
+ work. Laptops supported are from ACER (acerhk and acer_acpi modules),
+ ASUS (asus_laptop and asus_acpi), IBM (ibm_acpi), Lenovo (tm_smapi)
+ and Fujitsu (apanel) manufacturers.
+
+ o Address Keeper
+ Saves mail addresses typed in the 'To', 'Cc' or 'Bcc' fields of
+ outgoing messages to a designated folder in the address book.
+ Addresses are saved only if not already present in the address book.
+
+ o Archiver
+ Archives mail folders using libarchive library. Folders can be archived
+ with or without compression (ZIP, GZIP or BZIP2) and also in several
+ formats (TAR, SHAR, PAX or CPIO).
+ Libarchive is available from http://www.libarchive.org/.
+
+ o Attachment Remover
+ Selectively removes attachments from messages. Messages are permanently
+ modified by using this feature, so be careful!
+
+ o Attachment Warning
+ Warns the user of possibly forgotten attachments when some keywords
+ are found in the outgoing messages. False positives (being warned when
+ no attachment is realy needed) exist, but some configuration options
+ can help to reduce their probability.
+
o Bogofilter
Enables the scanning of incoming mail received from a POP,
IMAP, or LOCAL account using Bogofilter. It can optionally
delete mail identified as spam or save it to a designated folder.
Bogofilter is a pure Bayesian filter, therefore it has better
speed performance than SpamAssassin but might catch less spam.
- Bogofilter is available from http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/
+ Bogofilter is available from http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/.
- o Dillo HTML Viewer
- Enables the viewing of html messages using the Dillo web
- browser, version 0.7.0 or newer. It uses Dillo's --local
- option by default for safe browsing. Preferences can be
- found in '/Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/Dillo Browser'.
- Dillo is available from http://www.dillo.org/
+ o BSFilter
+ Checks all messages received from IMAP, POP or local accounts using
+ BSFilter, a bayesian spam filter program, which has to be installed
+ locally. Messages identified as spam can be deleted or saved to a
+ designated folder.
+ Bsfilter is available from http://sourceforge.jp/projects/bsfilter/.
+
+ o Clamd
+ Uses the Clam AntiVirus in daemon mode to scan received messages from
+ IMAP, POP or local accounts. Scanning is done through a socket to the
+ daemon, so it has to be previously configured to allow this.
+ Clam AntiVirus is available from http://www.clamav.net/.
+
+ o Fetchinfo
+ Modifies downloaded messages and inserts special headers containing
+ some download information: UIDL, Claws Mail account name, POP server,
+ user ID and retrieval time. These headers can be used later for more
+ elaborate filtering or processing rules.
+
+ o Fancy
+ Renders HTML mails and HTML parts of multipart messages using the GTK+
+ port of the WebKit library. External content is blocked by default
+ (including images) to avoid remote tracking, but can be enabled either
+ globally or just on the displayed message.
+ GTK+ WebKit is available from http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/.
+
+ o GData
+ Includes your Gmail account contacts in the list generated for
+ Tab-address completion on compose window, using the GData library.
+ Gdata library is available from https://live.gnome.org/libgdata/.
+
+ o MailMbox
+ Handles mailboxes in Mbox format using the libEtPan! library. Mbox
+ files can be added to the folder tree and used like regular mailboxes.
+ LibEtPan! is available from http://www.etpan.org/.
+
+ o Newmail
+ Writes a header summary to a log file for each mail received after
+ sorting. The file for the summary is ~/Mail/NewLog.
+
+ o Notification
+ Provides various ways of notifying the user of new and unread email.
+ Current methods include: a banner, a popup window, a user command,
+ a message to a LCD daemon, a system tray icon and an indicator icon.
+ Sound notifications are also possible through libcanberra. Each method
+ can be customized in detail through the plugin preferences.
+ Indicator library is available from https://launchpad.net/libindicator/
+ and libcanberra from http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/.
+
+ o Perl
+ Extends the filtering possibilities of Claws Mail. Provides a Perl 5
+ interface to Claws Mail's filtering mechanism, allowing the use of full
+ Perl power in email filters. A conversion script is provided to
+ translate user rules into perl rules suitable for this plugin.
+ Perl is available from http://www.perl.org/.
+
+ o PDF Viewer
+ Displays Portable Document Format (PDF) and PostScript attachments
+ within the message view using Poppler. PostScript attachments are
+ converted to PDF on the fly by the 'gs' tool, which has to be installed
+ first. The 'gs' tool is available from http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/.
+ The Poppler library is available from http://poppler.freedesktop.org/.
o PGP/Core
Handles core PGP functions and is required by the PGP/Inline
and PGP/MIME plugins.
- Uses GnuPG/GPGME, <ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/>
+ Uses GnuPG/GPGME, ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/.
o PGP/inline
Handles inline PGP signed and/or encrypted mails. You can
decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your
- own mails. Uses GnuPG/GPGME, <ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/>
+ own mails. Uses GnuPG/GPGME, ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/.
o PGP/MIME
Handles PGP/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails. You can
decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your
- own mails. Uses GnuPG/GPGME, <ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/>
+ own mails. Uses GnuPG/GPGME, ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/.
+
+ o Python
+ Provides Python scripting access to Claws Mail functions. A testing
+ console is also featured. Scripts can be saved to specific folders
+ for automatic loading on startup or being available as new menu items
+ under the '/Tools/Python scripts' menu.
+ Python is available from http://python.org/.
+
+ o RSSyl
+ Creates mailboxes where newsfeeds in RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 or Atom format
+ can be added. Each newsfeed will create a folder with the appropriate
+ entries, fetched from the web. You can read them, and delete or keep
+ old entries.
o S/MIME
- This plugin handles S/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails. You can
- decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails.
+ Handles S/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails. You can decrypt mails,
+ verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails.
o SpamAssassin
- Enables the scanning of incoming mail received from a POP,
- IMAP or LOCAL account using SpamAssassin. It can optionally
- delete mail identified as spam or save it to a designated
- folder. Preferences can be found in '/Configuration/
- Preferences/Plugins/SpamAssassin'.
+ Scans incoming mail received from a POP, IMAP or LOCAL account using
+ SpamAssassin. It can optionally delete mail identified as spam or save
+ it to a designated folder.
SpamAssassin is available from http://spamassassin.apache.org/.
-
- o Trayicon
- Places an icon in the system tray that indicates whether
- you have any new mail. A tooltip also shows the current
- new, unread and total number of messages
+
+ o Spam Report
+ Reports spam messages to online spam harvesting sites. Sites suported
+ are http://www.signal-spam.fr/ and http://www.spamcop.net/. The Debian
+ mailing list spam nomination system is also supported.
+
+ o TNEF Parser
+ Decodes attachments with 'application/ms-tnef' MIME type (also known
+ as "winmail.dat" files) in Claws Mail, using the ytnef library.
+ Decoded parts can be saved to files.
+ The ytnef library is available from http://ytnef.sourceforge.net/.
+
+ o VCalendar
+ Displays vCalendar messages. Only the meeting subset of the vCalendar
+ format is currently supported, which includes planning, sendding and
+ receiving invitations and answering them. Public calendar (WebCal)
+ subscriptions, free/busy information export/import and reminding of
+ events is also supported.
+
Additonal plugins can be found here:
http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php
8. Hidden options
-----------------
- It is recommnede that you use Clawsker to edit these options,
- http://www.claws-mail.org/clawsker
+ It is recommended that you use Clawsker to edit these options,
+ http://www.claws-mail.org/clawsker.php
addressbook_use_editaddress_dialog (default: 1)
Use a separate dialogue to edit a person's details. '0'
selector
0: normal (markup) 1: no markup
+ diff_added_color (default: #008b8b)
+ diff_deleted_color (default: #6a5acd)
+ diff_hunk_color (default: #a52a2a)
+ Colors to use when displaying attachments in unified diff
+ format.
+
emphasis_color (default: #0000CF)
The colour used for the X-Mailer line when its value is
Claws Mail.
log_status_ok_color (default: #00af00)
log_status_nok_color (default: #0000af)
log_status_skip_color (default: #aa00aa)
- The colours used in the Network Log window.
+ The colours used in the Network Log window.
+
+ msgview_date_format (default: 0)
+ Use the same user-defined date format in the Message View as
+ is used in the Message List.
+ 0: off 1: on
outgoing_fallback_to_ascii (default: 1)
The outgoing encoding of a message will use 7bit US-ASCII
set.
0: off 1: on
+ show_compose_margin (default: 0)
+ Adds margins to the message text area in the Compose window.
+ 0: off 1: on
+
+ show_inline_attachments (default: 1)
+ Show inline attachments in MimeView.
+ 0: off 1: on
+
skip_ssl_cert_check (default: 0)
Disables the verification of SSL certificates.
0: off 1: on
statusbar_update_step (default: 10)
- update stepping in progress bars.
+ Update stepping in progress bars.
stripes_color_offset (default: 4000)
Specify the value to use when creating alternately coloured
use_stripes_everywhere (default: 1)
Enable alternately coloured lines in GtkTreeView components.
- 0: off 1: on
+ 0: off 1: on
use_stripes_in_summaries (default: 1)
Enable alternately coloured lines in the main window
GtkTreeView components, (Folder List and Message List). The
only useful way to use this option is to set it to 0 when
use_stripes_everywhere is set to 1.
- 0: off 1: on
+ 0: off 1: on
utf8_instead_of_locale_for_broken_mail (default: 0)
Use UTF-8 encoding for broken mails instead of current
Display a confirmation dialog on drag'n'drop of folders.
0: off 1: on
+ zero_replacement_char (default: 0)
+ Character to show in Folder List counter columns when a
+ folder doesn't contain messages.
+
9. Tools
---------
You will find all of these tools in the 'tools' directory:
don't have enough time. If the contribution is really big, or requires
a long time to stabilise, send a mail to Paul Mangan
<paul@claws-mail.org>. We can probably arrange access to the
-Claws Mail CVS tree.
+Claws Mail Git repository.
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
-12. Installing Claws Mail from CVS
+12. Installing Claws Mail from Git
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a. Downloading
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- To download the latest cvs cd to the directory where you wish to download
+ To download the latest Git, cd to the directory where you wish to download
to and type the following information:
- export CVS_RSH=ssh
- cvs -z3 -d:ext:cvs@scm.dotsrc.org:/srv/cvs/claws-mail co -r gtk2 claws
+ git clone http://git.claws-mail.org/readonly/claws.git
Later, when you want to update your local repository, you'll just have to
go back to the 'claws' directory, and type:
- export CVS_RSH=ssh
- cvs -z3 update -dPR
+ git pull --all
b. Installing
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GTK 2 Version
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+2012-11-14 3.9.0
+2012-06-27 3.8.1
+2011-12-16 3.8.0
+2011-08-27 3.7.10
+2011-04-09 3.7.9
+2010-12-04 3.7.8
+2010-11-19 3.7.7
+2010-05-01 3.7.6
+2010-01-31 3.7.5
+2010-01-08 3.7.4
+2009-10-09 3.7.3
+2009-07-03 3.7.2
2009-03-06 3.7.1
2008-12-19 3.7.0
2008-10-10 3.6.1
http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php
Icon Themes
http://www.claws-mail.org/themes.php
-CVS webview
- http://scm.dotsrc.org/viewvc.cgi/claws-mail/claws/?pathrev=gtk2
Mailing Lists
http://www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php
Users Mailing List archive
- http://lists.sunsite.dk/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi/28
+ http://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/index.html
Commits Announcement List archive
- http://lists.sunsite.dk/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi/27
+ http://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/commits/index.html
Bug/Patch/Feature Request Tracker
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
Internationalisation Status
projects / claws.git / blobdiff