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Claws Mail

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Preview release
  
None [±]

Written in
  
C (with GTK+)

Repository
  
git.claws-mail.org

Claws Mail

Developer(s)
  
Holger Berndt, Andrej Kacian, et. al.

Initial release
  
0.4.67claws1 (May 11, 2001; 15 years ago (2001-05-11))

Stable release
  
3.14.1 (November 6, 2016; 3 months ago (2016-11-06)) [±]

Claws Mail is a free and open source, GTK+-based email and news client. It offers easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format and also the Mbox mailbox format via a plugin. Claws Mail runs on both Windows and Unix-like systems such as Linux, BSD, Solaris.

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History

Formerly known as Sylpheed-Claws, it started in April 2001 as the development version of Sylpheed, where new features could be tested and debugged, but evolved enough to now be a completely separate program. It forked completely from Sylpheed in August 2005.

Features

Claws Mail provides many features, among them are:

  • Search and filtering
  • Security (GPG, SSL, anti-phishing)
  • Import/export from standard formats
  • External editor
  • Templates
  • Foldable quotes
  • Per-folder preferences
  • Face, X-Face support
  • Customisable toolbars
  • Themes support
  • Plugins

    • Plugins

    Claws Mail's features can be extended with plugins, such as

  • Anti-spam (SpamAssassin, Bogofilter)
  • RSS aggregator
  • HTML viewers (Dillo, Gtkhtml2, Fancy (WebKit))
  • Trayicon
  • Laptop mail LED handler
  • Handler for the Mbox mailbox format
  • Various notification plugins
  • Perl filtering
  • Python scripting
  • Calendaring
  • TNEF parser
  • Archiving

    • References

    Claws Mail Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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