Claws Mail is an email client based on GTK+. The appearance and interface are
designed to be familiar to new users coming from other popular email clients,
as well as experienced users. Almost all commands are accessible with the
keyboard. The messages are managed in the standard MH format, which features
fast access and data security. Emails received or written with Sylpheed can be
easily imported.

Lots of extra functionality, like an RSS aggregator or a calendar, are provided
by extra plugins. Most of them are compiled in the claws-mail binary. These
plugins and the comfortable and feature rich UI are the main advantages to the
recently published Sylpheed mailer. Because of serious problem while porting
the library "libetpan", support of the protocols IMAP4 and NNTP is not included!

Homepage: http://www.claws-mail.org


Supported protocols
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  * POP3
  * SMTP
  * SSL/TLSv1 (POP3, SMTP)


Included plugins
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  a) Extra-Plugins

     * gtkhtml2_viewer 0.23 (X)

       Renders HTML mail using the gtkhtml2 rendering widget.

     * vcalendar 2.0.4 (X)

       This plugin enables vCalendar message handling like that produced by
       Evolution or Outlook, and handles webCal subscriptions. It provides a
       personal calendar and public calendar import and export.

     * rssyl 0.24 (X)

       This plugin allows you to read your favourite newsfeeds in Claws.
       RSS 1.0, 2.0 and Atom feeds are currently supported.

     * archive 0.6.4 (X)

       This plugin adds archiving features to Claws Mail.

     * notification_plugin 0.21 (X)

       This plugin provides various ways to notify the user of new and unread
       email.

     * tnef_parse 0.3.4 (X)

       This plugin enables reading application/ms-tnef attachments.

     * att_remover 1.0.10

       This plugin lets you remove attachments from emails.

     * attachwarner 0.2.16

       Warns when the user composes a message mentioning an attachment in the
       message body without attaching any files to the message.

     * cachesaver 0.10.9

       This plugin saves the caches every 60 seconds (or user-defined period).
       It helps avoiding the loss of metadata on crashes.

     * mailmbox 1.14.3

       This plugin handles mailboxes in mbox format.

     * newmail 0.0.15

       This plugin writes a msg header summary to a log file, (Default:
       Cygnix:Home/root/Mail/NewLog), on arrival of new mail *after* sorting.

  b) Standard-Plugins

     * trayicon (X)

       Places an icon in the system tray that indicates whether you have any
       new mail. A tooltip also shows the current new, unread and total number
       of messages, and a contextual menu allows the most common operations.

     * bogofilter (X)

       Enables the scanning of incoming mail received from a POP or LOCAL
       account using Bogofilter (http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net).
       Bogofilter is included in this package and will be installed automati-
       cally.

       IMPORTANT:

       Bogofilter only works, if he has learned enough Spam AND Ham ("good")
       mails before. For this select some mails and choose the menu item
       "Message/Mark/Mark as spam" if they are spam or "Message/Mark/Mark as
       ham" if they are wanted mails.

     * spamassassin

       Enables the scanning of incoming mail received from a POP or LOCAL
       account using SpamAssassin (http://spamassassin.apache.org).
       The SpamAssassin software is not included.


     (X) = enabled by default


Features
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  * multiple accounts
  * thread display
  * printing
  * address book with export functionality
  * spell checking. Uses the Aspell dictionaries created for AbiWord.
  * draft message
  * template
  * line-wrapping
  * autosave
  * external editor (e.g. Vim)
  * clickable URI. Opens address in your favourite browser
  * powerful filtering (POP3, local spool)
  * powerful search
  * display and transfer of attachments by MIME. Archives will be opened with
    "Unarc" for example
  * inline image display
  * SMTP AUTH support (PLAIN / LOGIN / CRAM-MD5)
  * CRAM-MD5 authentication (SMTP AUTH)
  * APOP authentication (POP3)
  * customization of toolbar
  * GUI themes. Theme "Everaldo_Kids" is included
    (http://www.allroy.de/themes.php)
  * user-defined headers
  * dynamic signatures
  * mark / color label
  * message queueing
  * multiple MH folder support
  * mbox importing / exporting
  * newly arrived and unread message management
  * POP3 remote mailbox
  * offline mode
  * remote operation by command line
  * per-folder configuration
  * LDIF, Mutt and Pine support in address book
  * Mew/Wanderlust compatible key bind
  * X-Face display
  * internationalization of messages by gettext
  * m17n (multilingualization) support


Missing / not working
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  * action function to work with external commands
  * Drag & Drop (system bug)
  * PGP signature / encryption (requires GPGME)


Installation
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  The X11 environment AmiCygnix version 1.0 (or higher) must be installed
  before! AmiCygnix is available on OS4-depot (http://os4depot.net).

  To install the package, just click on the "Install"-icon. The data will be
  installed into the AmiCygnix package. Afterwards you can find the programs in
  "Cygnix:Software/Claws-Mail-3.7.1". To launch the program doubleclick on
  "Start_claws-mail.bat".


Donations
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  If you like to support my work, you can make a donation by using paypal:

   http://www.schwan-clan.de/amiga/Donate.html

  Thanks!


Thanks to...
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  ... Hans Verkuil for his initial port of X11R6.3 to OS 3.x
  ... Michael Christoph (beta testing)