-Claws Mail - a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast e-mail client
+Claws Mail - a GTK+ lightweight and fast e-mail client
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- Copyright (C) 1999-2018 The Claws Mail Team and Hiroyuki Yamamoto
+ Copyright (C) 1999-2020 The Claws Mail Team and Hiroyuki Yamamoto
<hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp>
1. What is Claws Mail?
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-Claws Mail (previously known as Sylpheed-Claws) is a lightweight and
-highly configurable email client and news reader based on the GTK+
-GUI toolkit, it runs on the X Window System.
+Claws Mail is a lightweight and highly configurable email client
+and news reader based on the GTK+ GUI toolkit, it runs on the X
+Window System.
Claws Mail is free software distributed under the GNU GPL.
view and to render the HTML safely. If required, remote content
can be also retrieved.
+ 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. The GTK+
+ WebKit is available from http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/.
+
o Fetchinfo
Modifies downloaded messages and inserts special headers containing
some download information: UIDL, Claws Mail account name, POP server,
Displays sender avatars from https://www.libravatar.org/, from own
sender's domain if enabled or even an automatically generated one.
+ o LiteHTML Viewer
+ Renders HTML mails and HTML parts of multipart messages using the
+ using the litehtml library (http://www.litehtml.com/). External content
+ is blocked by default (including images) to avoid remote tracking.
+
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.
Additonal plugins can be found here:
-http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php
+https://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php
3. Actions
4. Icon Themes
--------------
Claws has support for different icon sets. Several icon sets can be
- downloaded from http://www.claws-mail.org/themes.php
+ downloaded from https://www.claws-mail.org/themes.php
You will need to create a directory called 'themes' in your config
directory, unpack them into this directory, and then use the interface
to select them, /Configuration/Preferences/Display/Themes
The complete and up to date list of hidden options can be found
on Hidden preferences section of Claws Mail Manual:
- http://www.claws-mail.org/manual/claws-mail-manual.html#adv_hidden
+ https://www.claws-mail.org/manual/claws-mail-manual.html#adv_hidden
9. Tools
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- You will find all of these tools in the 'tools' directory:
-
- acroread2claws-mail.pl
- send PDFs from Adobe Reader 7
- calypso_convert.pl
- import mbox files exported by calypso
- claws-mail-compose-insert-files.pl
- insert files into a new Compose window
- convert_mbox.pl
- convert mbox format to MH format
- csv2addressbook.pl
- import Becky, Thunderbird, Kmail, Gmail and Fox Mail
- address books
- eud2gc.py
- convert a Eudora (v.3?) addressbook to vCard
- (GnomeCard) format
- filter_conv.pl
- convert sylpheed main's filter rules, (< 0.9.99),
- into Claws' filtering format
- filter_conv_new.pl
- convert sylpheed main's filter rules, (>= 0.9.99),
- into Claws' filtering format
- fix-date.sh
- Replace/Add a message's Date field
- freshmeat_search.pl
- Actions script to lookup the selected text on
- Freshmeat www.freshmeat.net using the configured
- browser
- gif2xface.pl
- convert a gif file to an xface
- google_msgid.pl
- Actions script to lookup selected message-id on
- google using mozilla.
- google_search.pl
- Actions script to lookup up the selected text on
- google using the configured browser
- kdeservicemenu/*
- Service Menus for Konqueror to allow sending
- files to Claws Mail
- kmail2claws-mail.pl
- convert a Kmail addressbook to a Claws Mail
- addressbook
- kmail2claws-mail_v2.pl
- new version of the address book conversion script
- for newer versions of Kmail/Kaddressbook
- kmail-mailbox2claws-mail.pl
- convert a Kmail mailbox into a Claws mail mailbox
- mairix.sh
- a wrapper to mairix, to enable global searches in mail
- folders
- mew2claws-mail.pl
- import a Mew address book
- multiwebsearch.pl
- search any searchable website for the selected text
- nautilus2claws-mail.sh
- enables sending files from the Nautilus file manager
- to Claws Mail
- OOo2claws-mail.pl
- enable OpenOffice to send documents through
- Claws Mail
- outlook2claws-mail.pl
- convert an Outlook contacts list to a Claws Mail
- addressbook
- popfile-link.sh
- open messages in POPFile control center to edit their status
- sylprint.pl
- process a Claws Mail message and print it using enscript
- if available or lpr if not
- tb2claws-mail
- convert an addressbook exported from The Bat! into
- a Claws Mail addressbook
- tbird2claws.py
- integrate a Thunderbird folder tree into Claws Mail
- textviewer.pl
- Display various attachments as text
- textviewer.sh
- attempt to view an attachment as plain text
- thunderbird-filters-convertor.pl
- convert Thunderbird filtering rules
- update-po
- translators' tool that eases the creation of
- *.po files
- uudec
- decode UUencoded mails, for use with Actions
- uuooffice
- Decode uuencoded attachments and open them with OpenOffice
- vcard2xml.py
- import an Evolution vCard
+--------
+
+ Tools are small scripts which can help integrate Claws Mail with
+ other programs; perform format conversions between different kinds
+ of mailboxes, address books, etc.; be used in Claws Mail Actions for
+ a variety of purposes; or used in other programs to ease their
+ interoperability with Claws Mail.
+ You will find all the tools in the 'tools' directory and a detailed
+ description of the available scripts in 'tools/README.'
10. How to contribute
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You are encourged to send patches via the Claws Mail bugzilla at
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
+https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
But please first read the patch guidelines here:
-http://www.claws-mail.org/devel.php
+https://www.claws-mail.org/devel.php
If that's too troublesome, either contact Paul Mangan
<paul@claws-mail.org> or consider posting to the
Claws Mail-users mailing list.
-http://www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php
+https://www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php
Bugs can be reported with Claws' bugzilla at:
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
+https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
Of course, you can also post to the Claws Mail-users mailing list.
You might want to go ahead and hack a patch for it. (That would be very
cool!) Another possibility is to add a request to our bugzilla, (severity:
'enhancement'), at
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
+https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
12. Installing Claws Mail from Git
To download the latest Git, cd to the directory where you wish to download
to and type the following information:
- git clone http://git.claws-mail.org/readonly/claws.git
+ git clone https://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:
GTK 2 Version
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+2020-09-28 3.17.7
+2020-07-13 3.17.6
+2020-02-23 3.17.5
+2019-07-26 3.17.4
+2018-12-22 3.17.3
+2018-12-14 3.17.2
2018-08-26 3.17.1
2018-08-15 3.17.0
2017-12-17 3.16.0
14. Useful links
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Homepage
- http://www.claws-mail.org/
+ https://www.claws-mail.org/
User Contributed FAQ
- http://www.claws-mail.org/faq/
+ https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/
Downloads
- http://www.claws-mail.org/releases.php
+ https://www.claws-mail.org/releases.php
Release Announcement Feed
- http://www.claws-mail.org/releases.rss
+ https://www.claws-mail.org/releases.rss
Latest Release Notes
- http://www.claws-mail.org/news.php
+ https://www.claws-mail.org/news.php
Other Downloads
- http://www.claws-mail.org/downloads.php
+ https://www.claws-mail.org/downloads.php
List of Plugins
- http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php
+ https://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php
Icon Themes
- http://www.claws-mail.org/themes.php
+ https://www.claws-mail.org/themes.php
Mailing Lists
- http://www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php
+ https://www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php
Users Mailing List archive
- http://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/index.html
+ https://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/index.html
Commits Announcement List archive
- http://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/commits/index.html
+ https://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/commits/index.html
Bug/Patch/Feature Request Tracker
- http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
+ https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
Internationalisation Status
- http://www.claws-mail.org/i18n.php
+ https://www.claws-mail.org/i18n.php
Donations
- http://www.claws-mail.org/sponsors.php
-Planet Claws Mail
- http://planet.claws-mail.org/
+ https://www.claws-mail.org/sponsors.php
Claws Mail for Windows homepage
- http://www.claws-mail.org/win32/
+ https://www.claws-mail.org/win32/