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<title>Main features</title>
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- 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">http://www.claws-mail.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>.
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<title>History of Claws Mail</title>
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- 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 (<ulink url="http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/">http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/</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.
+ 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 (<ulink url="http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/">sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/</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.
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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.
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Enables new mail notification via the LEDs found on some laptops like
Acer, Asus, Fujitsu and IBM laptops.
- <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=acpinotifier">More information.</ulink>
+ More information: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=acpinotifier">
+ www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=acpinotifier</ulink>
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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.
- <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=attachwarner">More information.</ulink>
+ More information: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=attachwarner">
+ www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=attachwarner</ulink>
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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>
+ the bsfilter (<ulink url="http://bsfilter.org/index-e.html">bsfilter.org/index-e.html</ulink>)
bayesian spam filter as a backend.
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Like Bogofilter, you have to train it with spam and ham
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Like Dillo, enables the viewing of HTML messages, but in a nicer way
(antialiased fonts).
- <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=gtkhtml2">More information.</ulink>
+ More information: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=gtkhtml2">
+ www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=gtkhtml2</ulink>
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Provides various ways to notify the user of new and unread email.
- <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=notification">More information.</ulink>
+ More information: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=notification">
+ www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=notification</ulink>
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This plugin provides Python integration features.
- <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=python">More information.</ulink>
+ More information: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=python">
+ www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=python</ulink>
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Allows you to read your favorite newsfeeds in Claws. RSS 1.0, 2.0 and
Atom feeds are currently supported.
- <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=rssyl">More information.</ulink>
+ More information: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=rssyl">
+ www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=rssyl</ulink>
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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>
+ url="http://lists.debian.org">Debian lists (lists.debian.org)</ulink>
spam nomination system.
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This plugin enables reading application/ms-tnef attachments.
- <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=tnef_parser">More information.</ulink>
+ More information: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=tnef_parser">
+ www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=tnef_parser</ulink>
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Enables vCalendar message handling like that produced by Evolution or
Outlook, and Webcal subscriptions.
- <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=vcalendar">More information.</ulink>
+ More information: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=vcalendar">
+ www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=vcalendar</ulink>
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