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Introduction
- What is Sylpheed-Claws
+ What is Claws Mail?
- 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.
- What Sylpheed-Claws is not
+ What Claws Mail is not
- 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.
Main features
- 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 http://claws.sylpheed.org/features.php.
+ 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 www.claws-mail.org/features.php.
- History of Sylpheed-Claws
+ History of Claws Mail
- 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 (http://sylpheed.good-day.net), 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 Sylpheed, 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.
- 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.
+
+