Claws Mail
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Main window of Claws Mail 2.7.1
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| Developer(s) | Holger Berndt, Andrej Kacian, et. al.[1] |
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| Initial release | 0.4.67claws1 (May 11, 2001) |
| Stable release | 3.14.1 (November 6, 2016) [±] |
| Preview release | None [±] |
| Repository | git |
| Written in | C (with GTK+) |
| Operating system | BSD, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, Unix, Windows |
| Available in | Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish |
| Type | E-mail client, news client |
| License | GNU GPLv3 |
| Website | www |
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.
History[edit]
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[edit]
Claws Mail provides many features,[2] 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[edit]
Claws Mail's features can be extended with plugins,[3] 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[edit]
- Sylpheed
- List of Usenet newsreaders
- Comparison of Usenet newsreaders
- Comparison of email clients
- Comparison of feed aggregators
- List of applications with iCalendar support
References[edit]
- ^ The Claws Mail Team
- ^ Features pages on claws-mail.org
- ^ Plugins page on claws-mail.org
External links[edit]
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