Claws Mail
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 Main window of Claws Mail 2.7.1 | |
| Developer(s) | The Claws Mail Team |
|---|---|
| Initial release | May 11, 2001 |
| Stable release | 4.3.0[1] 
/ 10 June 2024 |
| Preview release | None[±] |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C(withGTK) |
| Operating system | BSD,Linux,macOS,Solaris,Unix,Windows |
| Type | E-mail client,news client |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Website | www |
Claws Mailis afree and open-source,C/GTK-basede-mail client,which is both lightweight and highly configurable.[2][3]Claws Mail runs on bothWindows[4]andUnix-likesystems such asLinux,BSD,andSolaris.It stores mail in theMHmailbox format. Plugins allow to read HTML mail, but there is none to compose HTML messages.[5]
Features[edit]
Claws Mail is also anews clientandRSS aggregator.Further features – integrated or supplied viaplugins– include:[6][7]
- Search and filtering, optionally viaPerlandPythonscripting
- Security (GPG,SSL,anti-phishing)
- Anti-spam (SpamAssassin,Bogofilter)
- Per-folder preferences
- Optional external editor
- Templates for messages
- Themes support, customisabletoolbars,X-Facesupport, foldable quotes
- Viewers for HTML mail (Dillo,Gtkhtml2,Fancy (WebKit),LiteHTML)
- TNEFattachment parser
- PDF viewer
- Various notification plugins, e. g. trayicon andLEDhandler
- Archiving, import/export from standard formats[8]
- Support forMboxmailbox format
- Calendaring with events as kind of messages[9]
History[edit]
Development started in April 2001 asSylpheed-Clawsoff the development version ofSylpheed,where new features could be tested and debugged. In August 2005 Claws Mail forked completely from Sylpheed.
See also[edit]
- List of Usenet newsreaders
- Comparison of Usenet newsreaders
- Comparison of email clients
- Comparison of feed aggregators
References[edit]
- ^Paul Mangan (10 June 2024)."Claws Mail 4.3.0. / 3.21.0 Unleashed!!!".Retrieved10 June2024.
- ^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".
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