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What is Sylpheed Claws?
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Sylpheed Claws is a bleeding edge branch of Sylpheed, a light weight mail
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user agent for UNIX. Features in this branch may (or may not) end up in
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Sylpheed.
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Hiroyuki's ChangeLog is also included in the claws-branch distribution,
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so it should be easy to spot which features were merged with Sylpheed
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(and which features were not).
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For brevity Sylpheed Claws is referred to as Claws, and Sylpheed as either
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Sylpheed or Main.
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Switching to Claws
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From the user perspective Claws is just a fancy Sylpheed, so it uses the
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same sylpheed setting files located in ~/.sylpheed.
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It's always a good idea to back up all files in ~/.sylpheed in case
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you want to switch back to Sylpheed. (You don't have to backup the
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directories.)
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There are some things that frequently come up when switching to Claws:
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* When replying, the original sender's text is not quoted anymore.
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Claws has a different quote format handler. Add either %Q or %q to the
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quote format text. Also click the button "Description of symbols"
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for more quotation symbols.
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* Why does the advanced filtering system not work?
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Claws will only use the new filtering system when you cleared the Sylpheed
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filter rules list.
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* What happened to the compose email and compose news buttons?
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There's a composite button for both composing mail and news. You can toggle
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between composing mail and news by clicking on the button with the triangle.
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* And to the Preferences and Execute buttons?
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Sorry, they're not there.
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Things Claws does different
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Claws does a lot of things different. Here a quick run-down of things that
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are hardly noticable, but deserve mentioning:
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* auto address replacement in summary view
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This matches a plain email address with a person in the address book. This
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feature is enabled in Common Preferences | Tab Display | SummaryView Group |
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Display sender using addressbook
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* manual selection of MIME types for attachments
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You can change the MIME type of an attachment by right-clicking in the
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attachment list, selecting Property in the menu. The MIME type list
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is a combo box with the known MIME types.
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* sharing mail folders
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You can also share or use shared mail folders. Right-click a folder and
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select Property. Change the Folder chmod setting.
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* default reply-to address for folders
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Most people filter mailing list mails to separate folders. Claws allows
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you to associate a folder with a mailing list. Right-click a folder,
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select Property and change the Default To setting.
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(NOTE: this is also a shoot-yourself-in-the-foot-setting! If you want
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to send a private mail, don't have a folder selected with this setting
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set.)
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* threading mode per folder
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Folders can have their own threading and sorting mode. Just select a
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folder, and set their threading and sorting mode.
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* spell checking
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Spell checking using pspell library (http://pspell.sourceforge.net)
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can can be compiled in. You must have dictionaries available. You can
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use aspell (http://aspell.sourceforge.net) or ispell dictionaries. For
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the former, you have to install aspell. For the latter, you have to
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install the pspell-ispell module (see pspell home page) in addition
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to ispell. Spell checking can then enabled in Configuration |Common
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Preferences | Compose. Use the file selector and select any file in
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the directory where the dictionaries (*.pwli) are. Do not simply enter
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the path in the text entry. You can select the default dictionary.
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When composing, use the right-button click.
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There are a lot more options. If you find one, don't hesitate to
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mention it.
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