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Claws Mail

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Short description: E-mail client software
Claws Mail
ClawsMailLogo.png
Claws-mail 271-en.png
Main window of Claws Mail 2.7.1
Developer(s)The Claws Mail Team
Initial releaseMay 11, 2001; 23 years ago (2001-05-11)
Stable release3.18.0 / 4.0.0 (July 10, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-07-10)[1]) [±]
Written inC (with GTK)
Operating systemBSD, Linux, macOS, Solaris, Unix, Windows
TypeE-mail client, news client
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later
Website{{{1}}}

Claws Mail is a free and open-source, C/GTK-based e-mail client, which is both lightweight and highly configurable.[2][3] Claws Mail runs on both Windows[4] and Unix-like systems such as Linux, BSD, and Solaris. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format. Plugins allow to read HTML mail, but there is none to compose HTML messages.[5]

Features

Claws Mail is also a news client and RSS aggregator. Further features – integrated or supplied via plugins – include:[6][7]

  • Search and filtering, optionally via Perl and Python scripting
  • Security (GPG, SSL, anti-phishing)
  • Anti-spam (SpamAssassin, Bogofilter)
  • Per-folder preferences
  • Optional external editor
  • Templates for messages
  • Themes support, customisable toolbars, X-Face support, foldable quotes
  • Viewers for HTML mail (Dillo, Gtkhtml2, Fancy (WebKit), LiteHTML)
  • TNEF attachment parser
  • PDF viewer
  • Various notification plugins, e. g. trayicon and LED handler
  • Archiving, import/export from standard formats[8]
  • Support for Mbox mailbox format
  • Calendaring with events as kind of messages[9]

History

Development started in April 2001 as Sylpheed-Claws off the development version of Sylpheed, where new features could be tested and debugged. In August 2005 Claws Mail forked completely from Sylpheed.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Latest News". https://www.claws-mail.org/news.php. 
  2. ↑ Cat Ellis (2017-05-27). "Claws Mail review. Manage multitudes of messy messages". techradar. https://www.techradar.com/reviews/claws-mail. "Claws Mail looks simple, but is packed with advanced tools for power users. New users might be happier with Mailbird or Thunderbird, but you'd be hard pressed to find a better tool for taming multiple inboxes." 
  3. ↑ Razvan Serea (2017-12-24). "Claws Mail 3.16.0.1". Neowin. https://www.neowin.net/news/claws-mail-31601/. "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." 
  4. ↑ "Claws Mail for Windows". https://www.claws-mail.org/win32/. 
  5. ↑ "General Information - Claws Mail FAQ". https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/General_Information#Does_Claws_Mail_allow_me_to_write_HTML_styled_messages.3F. 
  6. ↑ "Claws Mail - Features". http://www.claws-mail.org/features.php. 
  7. ↑ "Claws Mail - Plugins". http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php. 
  8. ↑ Jon L. Jacobi (2012-07-10). "Linux Favorite Email Client Claws Mail Works Well on Windows". PCWorld. https://www.pcworld.com/article/258811/linux_favorite_email_client_claws_mail_works_well_on_windows_once_emails_imported.html. 
  9. ↑ "Claws Mail - vCalendar plugin". https://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=vcalendar. 

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