Claws Mail

Claws Mail
	Main window of Claws Mail 2.7.1
Developer(s)	The Claws Mail Team
Initial release	May 11, 2001; 22 years ago
Stable release	4.2.0 / 20 November 2023
Preview release	None [±]
Repository	git.claws-mail.org?p=claws.git%3Ba%3Dsummary ;
Written in	news client
License	GPL-3.0-or-later
Website	www.claws-mail.org

Claws Mail is a

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

RSS aggregator. Further features – integrated or supplied via plugins – include:^[6]^[7]

Search and filtering, optionally via Perl and Python scripting
Security (
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.

References

^ Paul Mangan (20 November 2023). "Claws Mail 4.2.0 and 3.20.0 Unleashed!!!". Retrieved 29 November 2023.
^ Cat Ellis (2017-05-27). "Claws Mail review. Manage multitudes of messy messages". techradar. 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.
^ Razvan Serea (2017-12-24). "Claws Mail 3.16.0.1". Neowin. 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.
^ "Claws Mail for Windows".
^ "General Information - Claws Mail FAQ".
^ "Claws Mail - Features".
^ "Claws Mail - Plugins".
^ Jon L. Jacobi (2012-07-10). "Linux Favorite Email Client Claws Mail Works Well on Windows". PCWorld.
^ "Claws Mail - vCalendar plugin".

External links

Official website

[wikidata-73744c60cb1e024d75194dee6ab8ca687ba63e6e-v11-1] Paul Mangan (20 November 2023). "Claws Mail 4.2.0 and 3.20.0 Unleashed!!!". Retrieved 29 November 2023.

[techradar2017ellis-2] Cat Ellis (2017-05-27). "Claws Mail review. Manage multitudes of messy messages". techradar. 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.

[neowin2017serea-3] Razvan Serea (2017-12-24). "Claws Mail 3.16.0.1". Neowin. 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.

[claws-windows-4] "Claws Mail for Windows".

[claws-faq-5] "General Information - Claws Mail FAQ".

[claws-features-6] "Claws Mail - Features".

[claws-plugins-7] "Claws Mail - Plugins".

[pcworld2012jacobi-8] Jon L. Jacobi (2012-07-10). "Linux Favorite Email Client Claws Mail Works Well on Windows". PCWorld.

[9] "Claws Mail - vCalendar plugin".

[1]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

Features

History

See also

References

External links