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-<section id="ch_plugins">
-<title>Extending Claws Mail</title>
-
- <section id="plugins_default">
- <title>Provided plugins</title>
- <para>
- 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/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
- click <quote>Open</quote> button.
- </para><para>
- If you don't find the plugin you're looking for, it is possible that
- your Operating System distribution provides it in a separate package.
- In this case, search for the plugin in your package manager.
- </para><para>
- Some plugins provide the same functionality as others, (for example, the
- three HTML message viewers). In this case you will have to choose which
- one to load, as Claws Mail will refuse to load more than one of
- the same type.
- </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/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>Dillo HTML Viewer</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Enables the viewing of HTML messages using the Dillo web browser,
- version 0.7.0 or newer. It uses Dillo's <literal>--local</literal>
- option by default for safe browsing. Preferences can be found in
- <quote>/Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/Dillo Browser</quote>.
- Dillo is available from <ulink url="http://www.dillo.org/"
- >http://www.dillo.org/</ulink>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>PGP/Core, PGP/Inline and PGP/MIME</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Handles PGP signed and/or encrypted mails. You can decrypt mails,
- verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails. Uses GnuPG/GPGME,
- <ulink url="ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/"
- >ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/</ulink>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>SpamAssassin</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The SpamAssassin plugin comes with two major features:
- </para><para>
- The ability to scan 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. Mail scanning can be turned
- off, which is useful if your email is scanned on your server.
- </para><para>
- The ability for users to teach SpamAssassin to recognise spam or ham.
- You can train SpamAssassin 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/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/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
- required to use the learning feature in TCP mode.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Trayicon</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 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.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </section>
-
- <section id="plugins_external">
- <title>More plugins</title>
- <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.claws-mail.org/plugins.php"
- >http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php</ulink>:
- </para>
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Acpi Notifier</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Enables new mail notification via the LEDs found on some laptops like
- Acer, Asus, Fujitsu and IBM laptops.
- </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>
- Allows you to remove attachments from emails.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>BSFilter</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- BSFilter is a plugin that is very similar to the Bogofilter plugin but uses
- the <ulink url="http://bsfilter.org/index-e.html">bsfilter</ulink>
- bayesian spam filter as a backend.
- </para><para>
- Like Bogofilter, you have to train it with spam and ham
- messages in order for bsfilter to start recognising spam.
- </para><para>
- Plugin preferences can be found in
- <quote>Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/BSFilter</quote>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>CacheSaver</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
- Claws Mail!</emphasis>) crashes. (NOTE: using this plugin can slow
- down Claws Mail.)
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Fancy</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Enables the display of HTML messages using the GTK+ port of the
- WebKit library.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Fetchinfo</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Inserts headers containing some download information, like UIDL,
- Claws Mail' account name, POP server, user ID and retrieval time.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>GtkHtml2 Viewer</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Like Dillo, enables the viewing of HTML messages, but in a nicer way
- (antialiased fonts).
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Mail Archiver</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Enables folders and subfolders to be archived in several different
- formats.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>mailMBOX</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Handles mailboxes in MBox format.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>NewMail</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Writes a msg header summary to a log file, (Default:
- <filename>~/Mail/NewLog</filename>), on arrival of new mail
- <emphasis>after</emphasis> sorting.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Notification</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Provides various ways to notify the user of new and unread email.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>PDF Viewer</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 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>Perl</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 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>RSSyl</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Allows you to read your favorite newsfeeds in Claws. RSS 1.0, 2.0 and
- Atom feeds are currently supported.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>S/MIME</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Handles S/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails. You can decrypt mails,
- verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails. Uses GnuPG/GPGME
- and GpgSM, <ulink url="ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/"
- >ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/</ulink>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>SpamReport</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- This plugin reports spam to various places.
- Currently the sites <ulink url="http://spam-signal.fr"
- >spam-signal.fr</ulink> and <ulink url="http://spamcop.net"
- >spamcop.net</ulink> are supported, and the <ulink
- url="http://lists.debian.org">Debian lists</ulink>
- spam nomination system.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>SynCE</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Assists in keeping the address book of a Windows CE device (Pocket
- PC, iPAQ, Smartphone, etc.) in sync with Claws Mail' address book,
- with respect to email addresses.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>vCalendar</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Enables vCalendar message handling like that produced by Evolution or
- Outlook, and Webcal subscriptions.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- <para>
- 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>#claws</literal> on Freenode or IRCnet.
- </para>
- </section>
- <section id="plugins_network">
- <title>Network access from the plugins</title>
- <para>
- Some of the external plugins, for example RSSyl, vCalendar or GtkHtml
- Viewer, need Internet access for their operations (retrieving feeds in
- the case of RSSyl or vCalendar, and fetching images in the case of
- 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,
- <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 Claws Mail, by
- using for example
- <command>http_proxy=http://user:passwd@myproxy.example.com:8080
- 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>:
-<command>export http_proxy=http://user:passwd@myproxy.example.com:8080</command>
- (you'll have to reconnect to have it taken into account).
- </para>
- </section>
-</section>
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