Claws Mail

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Claws Mail

Main window of Claws Mail 2.7.1
Developed by	Colin Leroy & Paul Mangan
Initial release	0.4.67claws1 (11 May 2001)
Stable release	3.6.1  (Oct 10, 2008) [+/−]
Preview release	Daily CVS Snapshots [+/−]
Written in	C, GTK+
OS	Linux, BSD, Unix, Mac OS, Windows, Maemo
Available in	English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, German, Greek, Spanish, Finnish, French, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Serbian, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
Type	E-mail client, news client
License	GPL
Website	http://www.claws-mail.org/

Claws Mail (formerly known as Sylpheed-Claws) is a GTK+-based e-mail client and news client for Linux. 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 from Sylpheed in August 2005.

The software is intended to be light-weight and it has a similar interface to that of Sylpheed's.

Contents 1 Features 2 Plugins 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Features

Claws Mail provides the following features^[1]:

• 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

[edit] Plugins

Claws Mail's features can be extended with plugins^[2], such as

• Anti-spam (SpamAssassin, Bogofilter)
• RSS aggregator
• HTML viewers (Dillo, Gtkhtml2)
• Trayicon
• Laptop mail LED handler
• Handler for the Mbox mailbox format
• Various notification plugins
• Perl filtering
• Calendaring
• TNEF parser

[edit] See also

• List of news clients
• Comparison of e-mail clients
• Comparision of feed aggregators

[edit] External links

• Official site
• GnuPG encryption suite for Windows (which includes the Windows version of Claws Mail)

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1. ^ Features pages on claws-mail.org
2. ^ Plugins page on claws-mail.org