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121 lines
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<section id="ch_intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<section id="intro_what">
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<title>What is Claws Mail?</title>
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<para>
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Claws Mail is an email client aiming at being fast, easy-to-use and
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powerful. It is mostly desktop-independent, but tries to integrate
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with your desktop as best as possible. The Claws Mail developers try
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hard to keep it lightweight, so that it should be usable on low-end
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computers without much memory or CPU power.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section id="intro_whatnot">
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<title>What Claws Mail is not</title>
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<para>
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Claws Mail is not a full-featured Personal Information Manager like
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Evolution or Outlook, although external plugins provide these
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functionalities. Claws Mail will not let you write and send HTML
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emails or other kind of annoyances, hence it may not be the software
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you need in some business environments.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section id="intro_features">
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<title>Main features</title>
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<para>
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Claws Mail sports almost everything a perfect email client needs.
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Mail retrieval over POP3, IMAP4, local mbox, over SSL; support for
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various authentication schemes. It has multiple accounts and
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mailboxes, powerful filtering and search functionality, import/export
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capabilities using a number of formats, support for GnuPG (digital
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signatures and encryption). It supports plugins, customisable
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toolbars, spell checking, a number of guards to prevent any data loss,
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per-folder preferences, and much more. A list of features can be
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found at <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/features.php"
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>www.claws-mail.org/features.php</ulink>.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section id="intro_history">
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<title>History of Claws Mail</title>
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<para>
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Claws Mail has existed since April 2001. It was initially named
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Sylpheed-Claws and changed its name to Claws Mail in November 2006.
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The primary goal of Sylpheed-Claws was to be a test-bed for potential
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features of <ulink url="http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/"
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>Sylpheed</ulink>, so that new features could be tested thoroughly
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without compromising Sylpheed's stability. Sylpheed-Claws developers
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regularly synchronised their codebase with Sylpheed's codebase, and
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Sylpheed's author, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, took back the new features he
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liked once they were stabilised.
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</para><para>
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Originally both Sylpheed and Claws Mail were based on GTK1. The work
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on the GTK2 versions started in early 2003, and the first modern
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(GTK2-based) Sylpheed-Claws was released in March 2005. Since about
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this time, Sylpheed and Sylpheed-Claws' goals started to diverge more,
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and Sylpheed-Claws became an entity of its own. This is why its name
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is now Claws Mail.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section id="intro_information">
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<title>Useful URLs</title>
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<para>
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Website: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org"
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>www.claws-mail.org</ulink>
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</para>
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<para>
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Latest News: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/news.php"
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>www.claws-mail.org/news.php</ulink>
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</para>
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<para>
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Plugins: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php"
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>www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php</ulink>
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</para>
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<para>
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Icon Themes: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/themes.php"
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>www.claws-mail.org/themes.php</ulink>
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</para>
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<para>
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Tools: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/tools.php"
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>www.claws-mail.org/tools.php</ulink>
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</para>
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<para>
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Mailing Lists: <ulink url="http://www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php"
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>www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php</ulink>
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</para>
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<para>
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Bugtracker: <ulink url="http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/"
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>www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/</ulink>
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</para>
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<para>
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Source code:
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</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Tarballs</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/claws-mail/files/"
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>sourceforge.net/projects/claws-mail/files/</ulink>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>VCS repository</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<ulink url="http://git.claws-mail.org/"
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>git.claws-mail.org/</ulink>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</section>
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</section>
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