<title>Introduction</title>
<section id="intro_what">
- <title>What is Sylpheed-Claws</title>
+ <title>What is Claws Mail?</title>
<para>
- Sylpheed-Claws is an email client aiming at being fast, easy-to-use and powerful. It is mostly desktop-independent, but tries to integrate with your desktop as best as possible. The Sylpheed-Claws developers try hard to keep it lightweight, so that it should be usable on low-end computers without much memory or CPU power.
+ Claws Mail is an email client aiming at being fast, easy-to-use and
+ powerful. It is mostly desktop-independent, but tries to integrate
+ with your desktop as best as possible. The Claws Mail developers try
+ hard to keep it lightweight, so that it should be usable on low-end
+ computers without much memory or CPU power.
</para>
</section>
<section id="intro_whatnot">
- <title>What Sylpheed-Claws is not</title>
+ <title>What Claws Mail is not</title>
<para>
- Sylpheed-Claws is not a full-featured Personal Information Manager like Evolution or Outlook, although external plugins provide these functionalities. Sylpheed-Claws will not let you write and send HTML emails or other kind of annoyances, hence it may not be the software you need in some business environments.
+ Claws Mail is not a full-featured Personal Information Manager like
+ Evolution or Outlook, although external plugins provide these
+ functionalities. Claws Mail will not let you write and send HTML
+ emails or other kind of annoyances, hence it may not be the software
+ you need in some business environments.
</para>
</section>
<section id="intro_features">
<title>Main features</title>
<para>
- Sylpheed-Claws sports almost everything a perfect email client needs. Mail retrieval over POP3, IMAP4, local mbox, over SSL; support for various authentication schemes. It has multiple accounts and mailboxes, powerful filtering and search functionality, import/export capabilities using a number of formats, PGP (digital signatures). It supports plugins, customisable toolbars, a number of guards to prevent any data loss, spell checking, per-folder preferences, and much more. A complete list of features can be found at <ulink url="http://claws.sylpheed.org/features.php">http://claws.sylpheed.org/features.php</ulink>.
+ Claws Mail sports almost everything a perfect email client needs.
+ Mail retrieval over POP3, IMAP4, local mbox, over SSL; support for
+ various authentication schemes. It has multiple accounts and
+ mailboxes, powerful filtering and search functionality, import/export
+ capabilities using a number of formats, support for GnuPG (digital
+ signatures and encryption). It supports plugins, customisable
+ toolbars, spell checking, a number of guards to prevent any data loss,
+ per-folder preferences, and much more. A list of features can be
+ found at <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/features.php"
+ >www.claws-mail.org/features.php</ulink>.
</para>
</section>
<section id="intro_history">
- <title>History of Sylpheed-Claws</title>
+ <title>History of Claws Mail</title>
<para>
- Sylpheed-Claws has existed since April 2001. The primary goal of Sylpheed-Claws was to be a test-bed for potentially new features of Sylpheed (<ulink url="http://sylpheed.good-day.net">http://sylpheed.good-day.net</ulink>), so that new features can be tested thoroughly without compromising Sylpheed's stability. Sylpheed-Claws developers synced regularly their codebase with Sylpheed's, and Sylpheed's author, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, took back the new features he liked once they were stabilised.
+ Claws Mail has existed since April 2001. It was initially named
+ Sylpheed-Claws and changed its name to Claws Mail in November 2006.
+ The primary goal of Sylpheed-Claws was to be a test-bed for potential
+ features of <ulink url="http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/"
+ >Sylpheed</ulink>, so that new features could be tested thoroughly
+ without compromising Sylpheed's stability. Sylpheed-Claws developers
+ regularly synchronised their codebase with Sylpheed's codebase, and
+ Sylpheed's author, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, took back the new features he
+ liked once they were stabilised.
</para><para>
- Originally both Sylpheed and Sylpheed-Claws were based on GTK1. The work on the GTK2 versions started in early 2003, and the first modern (GTK2-based) Sylpheed-Claws was released in March 2005. Since about this time, Sylpheed and Sylpheed-Claws' goals started to diverge more, and Sylpheed-Claws is now an entity of its own.
+ Originally both Sylpheed and Claws Mail were based on GTK1. The work
+ on the GTK2 versions started in early 2003, and the first modern
+ (GTK2-based) Sylpheed-Claws was released in March 2005. Since about
+ this time, Sylpheed and Sylpheed-Claws' goals started to diverge more,
+ and Sylpheed-Claws became an entity of its own. This is why its name
+ is now Claws Mail.
</para>
</section>
+ <section id="intro_information">
+ <title>Useful URLs</title>
+ <para>
+ Website: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org"
+ >www.claws-mail.org</ulink>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Latest News: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/news.php"
+ >www.claws-mail.org/news.php</ulink>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Plugins: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php"
+ >www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php</ulink>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Icon Themes: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/themes.php"
+ >www.claws-mail.org/themes.php</ulink>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Tools: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/tools.php"
+ >www.claws-mail.org/tools.php</ulink>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Mailing Lists: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php"
+ >www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php</ulink>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Bugtracker: <ulink url="http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/"
+ >www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/</ulink>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Source code:
+ </para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Tarballs</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/claws-mail/files/"
+ >sourceforge.net/projects/claws-mail/files/</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>VCS repository</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://git.claws-mail.org/"
+ >git.claws-mail.org/</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </section>
+
</section>
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