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<section id="ch_plugins">
-<title>Extending Sylpheed-Claws</title>
+<title>Extending Claws Mail</title>
<section id="plugins_default">
<title>Provided plugins</title>
<para>
- Sylpheed-Claws' capabilities are extended by plugins. It comes with
+ Claws Mail' capabilities are extended by plugins. It comes with
the plugins listed below included, all of which are built automatically
if the required libraries are present.
</para><para>
Plugins are installed in <filename class="directory"
- >$PREFIX/lib/sylpheed-claws/plugins/</filename> and have a suffix of
+ >$PREFIX/lib/claws-mail/plugins/</filename> and have a suffix of
<quote>.so</quote>. To load a plugin go to
<quote>Configuration/Plugins</quote> and click the
<quote>Load Plugin</quote> button. Select the plugin that you want and
In this case, search for the plugin in your package manager.
</para>
<variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Bogofilter</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The Bogofilter plugin comes with two major features:
+ </para><para>
+ The ability to scan 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. Mail scanning can be turned
+ off.
+ </para><para>
+ The ability for users to teach Bogofilter to recognise spam or ham.
+ You can train Bogofilter by marking messages as spam or ham from the
+ Message List contextual menu, or using the relevant toolbar button in
+ the main window or the message window (see
+ <quote>Configuration/Preferences/Customize toolbars</quote>). Messages
+ marked as spam are optionally saved to a designated folder.
+ </para><para>
+ Plugin preferences can be found in
+ <quote>Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/Bogofilter</quote>.
+ </para><para>
+ Bogofilter's advantage over Spamassassin is its speed.
+ </para><para>
+ Bogofilter is available from <ulink
+ url="http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/"
+ >http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Clam Antivirus</term>
<listitem>
Plugin preferences can be found in
<quote>Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/SpamAssassin</quote>.
</para><para>
+ SpamAssassin's advantage over Bogofilter is that it's not only a bayesian
+ filter, but it also performs various local and network tests to
+ determine spaminess.
+ </para><para>
SpamAssassin is available from <ulink
url="http://spamassassin.apache.org/"
>http://spamassassin.apache.org/</ulink>. Version 3.1.x or higher is
<para>
Other plugins have been written too, which are available as separate
downloads. At the time of this writing, there are a number of plugins
- available at <ulink url="http://www.sylpheed-claws.net/plugins.php"
- >http://www.sylpheed-claws.net/plugins.php</ulink>:
+ available at <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php"
+ >http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php</ulink>:
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>AttachWarner</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Reminds you about possibly forgotten attachments. Checks for common
+ expressions found when attaching a file and warns you if no attachment
+ was added to the mail you're sending.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>AttRemover</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Saves the caches every 60 seconds (or user-defined period). It helps
avoiding the loss of metadata if your computer (<emphasis>or
- Sylpheed-Claws!</emphasis>) crashes.
+ Claws Mail!</emphasis>) crashes.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<para>
Handles signature verification and decryption of encrypted messages in
S/MIME, OpenPGP and ascii-armored PGP formats. Doesn't handle
- passphrases.
+ passphrases. The development of this plugin has been discontinued
+ because its functions are avaliable in the PGP plugins.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<listitem>
<para>
Inserts headers containing some download information, like UIDL,
- Sylpheed-Claws' account name, POP server, user ID and retrieval time.
+ Claws Mail' account name, POP server, user ID and retrieval time.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<para>
Provides direct support for Maildir++ mailboxes. With this plugin you
can share your Maildir++ mailbox with other mailers or IMAP servers.
+ The development of this plugin has been discontinued. If you're
+ a developer and want to adopt it then don't hesitate to contact us.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<term>Perl</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Intended to extend the filtering possibilities of Sylpheed-Claws. It
- provides a Perl interface to Sylpheed-Claws' filtering mechanism,
+ Intended to extend the filtering possibilities of Claws Mail. It
+ provides a Perl interface to Claws Mail' filtering mechanism,
allowing the use of full Perl power in email filters.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>PDF Viewer</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This plugin provides direct rendering of PDF and PostScript attachments
+ in the Claws Mail message view. It also allows browsing, zooming and
+ displaying detailed information about such attachments.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>S/MIME</term>
<listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Assists in keeping the address book of a Windows CE device (Pocket
- PC, iPAQ, Smartphone, etc.) in sync with Sylpheed-Claws' address book,
+ PC, iPAQ, Smartphone, etc.) in sync with Claws Mail' address book,
with respect to email addresses.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>
- If you're a developer, writing a plugin to extend Sylpheed-Claws'
+ If you're a developer, writing a plugin to extend Claws Mail'
capabilities is probably the best and easiest solution. We will
provide hosting to your code, and will be glad to answer your questions
in the mailing-list or on the IRC channels,
- <literal>#sylpheed-claws</literal> on Freenode or IRCnet.
+ <literal>#claws-mail</literal> on Freenode or IRCnet.
</para>
</section>
<section id="plugins_network">
GtkHtml Viewer). These plugins use the Curl library. Hence, if your
Internet access is restricted by a proxy, you will need to tell libCurl
to use this proxy. This is done by setting an environment variable,
- <emphasis>http_proxy</emphasis>. For example,
+ <literal>http_proxy</literal>. For example,
<literal>http_proxy=http://user:passwd@myproxy.example.com:8080</literal>
will tell libCurl to connect to port 8080 of the machine
myproxy.example.com, with the user <quote>user</quote> and password
<quote>passwd</quote> to connect to the Internet.
</para><para>
- You can either set this variable before starting Sylpheed-Claws, by
+ You can either set this variable before starting Claws Mail, by
using for example
<command>http_proxy=http://user:passwd@myproxy.example.com:8080
- sylpheed-claws</command>, or set it in your
+ claws-mail</command>, or set it in your
<filename>~/.bashrc</filename> file (or your shell equivalent), by
adding the following line<footnote><para>Other shells may have
diferent syntaxes, check your shell's manual page.</para></footnote>:
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