Claws Mail
E-mail client software
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Claws Mail is a free and open-source, C/GTK-based e-mail client, which is both lightweight and highly configurable.[2][3] Claws Mail runs on both Windows[4] and Unix-like systems such as Linux, BSD, and Solaris. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format. Plugins allow to read HTML mail, but there is none to compose HTML messages.[5]
| Claws Mail | |
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 Main window of Claws Mail 2.7.1 | |
| Developer | The Claws Mail Team |
| Initial release | May 11, 2001 |
| Stable release | |
| Preview release | None [±] |
| Written in | C (with GTK) |
| Operating system | BSD, Linux, macOS, Solaris, Unix, Windows |
| Type | E-mail client, news client |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Website | www |
| Repository | |
Features
Claws Mail is also a news client and RSS aggregator. Further features – integrated or supplied via plugins – include:[6][7]
- Search and filtering, optionally via Perl and Python scripting
- Security (GPG, SSL, anti-phishing)
- Anti-spam (SpamAssassin, Bogofilter)
- Per-folder preferences
- Optional external editor
- Templates for messages
- Themes support, customisable toolbars, X-Face support, foldable quotes
- Viewers for HTML mail (Dillo, Gtkhtml2, Fancy (WebKit), LiteHTML)
- TNEF attachment parser
- PDF viewer
- Various notification plugins, e. g. trayicon and LED handler
- Archiving, import/export from standard formats[8]
- Support for Mbox mailbox format
- Calendaring with events as kind of messages[9]
History
Development started in April 2001 as Sylpheed-Claws off the development version of Sylpheed, where new features could be tested and debugged. In August 2005 Claws Mail forked completely from Sylpheed.
