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, and 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.
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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
Limitations
Claws Mail is unable to send HTML mail. This is intentional. According to the developers, this decision has been made after a discussion, although no details are given. It is still possible to receive HTML mail using Claws Mail.
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
See also
- Sylpheed
- List of Usenet newsreaders
- Comparison of Usenet newsreaders
- Comparison of email clients
- Comparison of feed aggregators
- List of applications with iCalendar support
References
External links
- Official website
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