Claws Mail

Claws Mail

Main window of Claws Mail 2.7.1
Developer(s)	Holger Berndt, Andrej Kacian, et. al.[1]
Initial release	0.4.67claws1 (May 11, 2001 (2001-05-11))
Stable release	3.14.1 (November 6, 2016 (2016-11-06)) [±]
Preview release	None [±]
Repository	git.claws-mail.org
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.org

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

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

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

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

• 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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