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Claws Mail - a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast e-mail client
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Copyright (C) 1999-2015 The Claws Mail Team and Hiroyuki Yamamoto
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<hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp>
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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For more details see the file COPYING.
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Summary:
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1. What is Claws Mail?
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2. Plugins
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3. Actions
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4. Icon Themes
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5. Quick Search
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6. Custom toolbar
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7. Partial downloading of POP3 mails
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8. Hidden Options
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9. Tools
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10. How to contribute
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11. How to request features
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12. Installing Claws from Git
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13. Release History
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14. Useful Links
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1. What is Claws Mail?
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Claws Mail (previously known as Sylpheed-Claws) is a lightweight and
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highly configurable email client and news reader based on the GTK+
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GUI toolkit, it runs on the X Window System.
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Claws Mail is free software distributed under the GNU GPL.
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To run Claws Mail use 'claws-mail' on the command line.
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When claws-mail is executed for the first time a configuration
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'Wizard' will appear prompting you for the minimum information
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necessary to create a new account.
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2. Plugins
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Claws Mail' capabilities are extended by plugins. It comes with
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the following plugins included, all of which are built automatically
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if the required libraries are present.
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Plugins are installed in $PREFIX/lib/claws-mail/plugins/
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and have a suffix of '.so'
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To load a plugin go to '/Configuration/Plugins' and click
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the 'Load Plugin' button.
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Select the plugin that you want and click 'OK'
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All plugin preferences can be found under
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'/Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/'.
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o ACPI Notifier
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Notifies of new mail via the mail LED available on some laptops. The
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LED can be set to blinking or on states when new mail is received.
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Appropriate kernel modules have to be loaded first for this plugin to
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work. Laptops supported are from ACER (acerhk and acer_acpi modules),
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ASUS (asus_laptop and asus_acpi), IBM (ibm_acpi), Lenovo (tm_smapi)
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and Fujitsu (apanel) manufacturers.
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o Address Keeper
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Saves mail addresses typed in the 'To', 'Cc' or 'Bcc' fields of
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outgoing messages to a designated folder in the address book.
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Addresses are saved only if not already present in the address book.
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o Archiver
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Archives mail folders using libarchive library. Folders can be archived
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with or without compression (ZIP, GZIP or BZIP2) and also in several
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formats (TAR, SHAR, PAX or CPIO).
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Libarchive is available from http://www.libarchive.org/.
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o Attachment Remover
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Selectively removes attachments from messages. Messages are permanently
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modified by using this feature, so be careful!
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o Attachment Warning
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Warns the user of possibly forgotten attachments when some keywords
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are found in the outgoing messages. False positives (being warned when
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no attachment is realy needed) exist, but some configuration options
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can help to reduce their probability.
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o Bogofilter
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Enables the scanning of incoming mail received from a POP,
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IMAP, or LOCAL account using Bogofilter. It can optionally
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delete mail identified as spam or save it to a designated folder.
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Bogofilter is a pure Bayesian filter, therefore it has better
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speed performance than SpamAssassin but might catch less spam.
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Bogofilter is available from http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/.
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o BSFilter
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Checks all messages received from IMAP, POP or local accounts using
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BSFilter, a bayesian spam filter program, which has to be installed
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locally. Messages identified as spam can be deleted or saved to a
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designated folder.
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Bsfilter is available from http://sourceforge.jp/projects/bsfilter/.
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o Clamd
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Uses the Clam AntiVirus in daemon mode to scan received messages from
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IMAP, POP or local accounts. Scanning is done through a socket to the
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daemon, so it has to be previously configured to allow this.
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Clam AntiVirus is available from http://www.clamav.net/.
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o Fetchinfo
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Modifies downloaded messages and inserts special headers containing
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some download information: UIDL, Claws Mail account name, POP server,
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user ID and retrieval time. These headers can be used later for more
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elaborate filtering or processing rules.
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o Fancy
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Renders HTML mails and HTML parts of multipart messages using the GTK+
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port of the WebKit library. External content is blocked by default
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(including images) to avoid remote tracking, but can be enabled either
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globally or just on the displayed message.
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GTK+ WebKit is available from http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/.
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o GData
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Includes your Gmail account contacts in the list generated for
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Tab-address completion on compose window, using the GData library.
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Gdata library is available from https://live.gnome.org/libgdata/.
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o Libravatar
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Displays sender avatars from https://www.libravatar.org/, from own
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sender's domain if enabled or even an automatically generated one.
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o MailMbox
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Handles mailboxes in Mbox format using the libEtPan! library. Mbox
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files can be added to the folder tree and used like regular mailboxes.
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LibEtPan! is available from http://www.etpan.org/.
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o Managesieve
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Manage sieve filters on a server using the ManageSieve protocol.
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o Newmail
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Writes a header summary to a log file for each mail received after
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sorting. The file for the summary is ~/Mail/NewLog.
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o Notification
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Provides various ways of notifying the user of new and unread email.
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Current methods include: a banner, a popup window, a user command,
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a message to a LCD daemon, a system tray icon and an indicator icon.
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Sound notifications are also possible through libcanberra. Each method
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can be customized in detail through the plugin preferences.
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Indicator library is available from https://launchpad.net/libindicator/
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and libcanberra from http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/.
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o Perl
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Extends the filtering possibilities of Claws Mail. Provides a Perl 5
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interface to Claws Mail's filtering mechanism, allowing the use of full
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Perl power in email filters. A conversion script is provided to
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translate user rules into perl rules suitable for this plugin.
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Perl is available from http://www.perl.org/.
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o PDF Viewer
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Displays Portable Document Format (PDF) and PostScript attachments
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within the message view using Poppler. PostScript attachments are
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converted to PDF on the fly by the 'gs' tool, which has to be installed
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first. The 'gs' tool is available from http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/.
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The Poppler library is available from http://poppler.freedesktop.org/.
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o PGP/Core
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Handles core PGP functions and is required by the PGP/Inline
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and PGP/MIME plugins.
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Uses GnuPG/GPGME, ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/.
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o PGP/inline
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Handles inline PGP signed and/or encrypted mails. You can
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decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your
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own mails. Uses GnuPG/GPGME, ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/.
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o PGP/MIME
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Handles PGP/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails. You can
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decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your
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own mails. Uses GnuPG/GPGME, ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/.
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o Python
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Provides Python scripting access to Claws Mail functions. A testing
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console is also featured. Scripts can be saved to specific folders
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for automatic loading on startup or being available as new menu items
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under the '/Tools/Python scripts' menu.
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Python is available from http://python.org/.
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o RSSyl
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Creates mailboxes where newsfeeds in RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 or Atom format
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can be added. Each newsfeed will create a folder with the appropriate
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entries, fetched from the web. You can read them, and delete or keep
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old entries.
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o S/MIME
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Handles S/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails. You can decrypt mails,
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verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails.
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o SpamAssassin
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Scans incoming mail received from a POP, IMAP or LOCAL account using
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SpamAssassin. It can optionally delete mail identified as spam or save
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it to a designated folder.
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SpamAssassin is available from http://spamassassin.apache.org/.
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o Spam Report
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Reports spam messages to online spam harvesting sites. Sites suported
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are http://www.signal-spam.fr/ and http://www.spamcop.net/. The Debian
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mailing list spam nomination system is also supported.
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o TNEF Parser
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Decodes attachments with 'application/ms-tnef' MIME type (also known
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as "winmail.dat" files) in Claws Mail, using the ytnef library.
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Decoded parts can be saved to files.
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The ytnef library is available from http://ytnef.sourceforge.net/.
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o VCalendar
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Displays vCalendar messages. Only the meeting subset of the vCalendar
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format is currently supported, which includes planning, sendding and
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receiving invitations and answering them. Public calendar (WebCal)
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subscriptions, free/busy information export/import and reminding of
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events is also supported.
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Additonal plugins can be found here:
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http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php
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3. Actions
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The "actions" feature is a convenient way for the user to launch external
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commands to process a complete message file including headers and body or
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just one of its parts. It allows also the use of an external command to
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filter the whole text or just a selected part in the message window or in
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the compose window. This is a generic tool that allows to do any uncommon
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actions on the messages, and thus extends the possibilities of Claws Mail.
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For example, Claws Mail does not include the rot13 cyphering algorithm
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popular in some newsgroups. It does not support uuencoded messages. As
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all these features can be handled by external programs, the actions
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provide a convenient way to use them from the menu bar.
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a. Usage
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To create a new action, go to Configuration -> Actions.... The "Action
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Creation" dialog offers to enter the Menu name that will trigger the
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command. The created menu will be found in the Tools -> Actions submenu.
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By inserting a slash / in the menu name, you create a submenu.
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The command is entered in the Command line entry. Note that Claws Mail
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stores every single email in a separate file. This allows to use the
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following syntax for the command:
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* %f denotes the file name of the selected message. If you selected more
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than one, then the command will be launched for each message with
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the appropriate file name
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* %F denotes the list of the file names of the selected message. If only
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one message is selected, this amounts to %f, but if more messages
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are selected, then the command will be launched only once with the
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list of the file names. (You can use both %f and %F in one command:
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then the command will be launched for each selected message with
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the name of this message and with the list of all selected
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messages. I did not find a practical example for this.)
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* %p denotes the current selected message part of a multipart message.
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The part is decoded accordingly. If the message is not a multipart
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message, it denotes the message body.
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* Prepending >: this will allow you to send to the command's standard
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input a text that you will enter in a dialog window.
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* Prepending *: this will allow you to send to the command's standard
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input a text that you will enter in a dialog window. But in
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contrast to prepending >, the entered text is hidden (useful when
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entering passwords).
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* Appending an ampersand &: this will run the command asynchronously.
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That means "fire and forget". Claws Mail won't wait for the
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command to finish, nor will it catch its output or its error
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messages.
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* Prepending the vertical bar | (pipe-in): this will send the current
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displayed text or the current selected text from the message view
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or the compose window to the command standard input. The command
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will silently fail if more than one message is selected.
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* Appending the vertical bar | (pipe-out): this will replace the current
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displayed text or the current selected text from the message window
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or the compose window by the command standard output. The command
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will silently fail if more than one message is selected.
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Note: It is not possible to use actions containing %f, %F or %p from the
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compose window.
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When a command is run, and unless it is run asynchronously, Claws Mail
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will be insensitive to any interaction and it will wait for the command to
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finish. If the command takes too long (5 seconds), it will popup a dialog
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window allowing to stop it. This dialog will also be displayed as soon as
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the command has some output: error messages or even its standard output
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when the command is not a "pipe-out" command. When multiple commands are
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being run, they are run in parallel and each command output is separated
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from the outputs of the others.
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a. Examples
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Here are some examples that are listed in the same syntax as used for
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storing the actions list. You can copy and past the definition in your
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~/.claws-mail/actionsrc file (exit Claws Mail before). The syntax
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is very simple: one line per action, each action contains the menu name
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and the command line separated by a colon and a space ": "
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Purpose: rot13 cyphering
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Definition: Rot13: |tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M|
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Details: This will apply the rot13 cyphering algorithm to the
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(selected) text in the message/compose view.
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Purpose: Decoding uuencoded messages
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Definition: UUdeview: xdeview %F&
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Details: xdeview comes with uudeview. If an encoded file is split in
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multiple messages, just select them all and run the command.
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Purpose: Display uuencoded image
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Definition: Display uuencoded: uudec %f&
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Details: Displays uuencoded files. The uudec[1] script can be found in
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the 'tools' directory of the distribution package.
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Purpose: Alter messages
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Definition: Edit message: gvim -f %F
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Details: Allows editing of any received message. Can be used to remove
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unneeded message parts, etc.
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Purpose: Pretty format
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Definition: Par: |par 72Tbgjqw74bEe B=._A_a 72bg|
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Details: par is a utility that can pretty format any text. It does a
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very good job in indenting quoted messages, and justifying
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text. Used when composing a message
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Purpose: Browse
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Definition: Part/Dillo: dillo %p&
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Details: Browse the selected message part in Dillo.
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[1] The uudec script can be found in the 'tools' directory of the
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distribution package. It needs uudecode and ImageMagick's display. The
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latter can be replaced by any image viewer that can get input from
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standard input. The script could also be modified to use temporary files
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instead of standard input.
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4. Icon Themes
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Claws has support for different icon sets. Several icon sets can be
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downloaded from http://www.claws-mail.org/themes.php
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You will need to create a directory called 'themes' in your config
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directory, unpack them into this directory, and then use the interface
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to select them, /Configuration/Preferences/Display/Themes
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This interface can also be used to install new themes.
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5. Quick Search with extended search
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Quick Search, with its powerful Extended search function,
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enables searching through folder's messages.
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Extended Search allows one to define criteria that messages must
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have in order to match and be displayed in the summary view pane.
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Search types titled From, Subject and To are self explanatory.
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Search type extended allows one to use Claws Mail's powerful
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filtering engine to select messages. Examples:
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from regexpcase "foo"
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subject regexp "Bug" & to regexp "claws-mail"
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Additionally, it is possible to use simpler yet equally
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powerfull patterns for message selections. Mutt users will
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immediately recognise most of the available patterns:
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Pattern Parameter Selects
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a all messages
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ag # messages whose age is greater than #
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al # messages whose age is lower than #
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b S messages which contain S in the message body
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B S messages which contain S in the whole message
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c S messages carbon-copied to S
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C S message is either to: or cc: to S
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D deleted messages
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e S messages which contain S in the Sender field
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E S true if execute "S" succeeds
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f S messages originating from user S
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F forwarded messages
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h S messages which contain S in any header name or value
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H S messages which contain S in the value of any header
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i S messages which contain S in Message-Id header
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I S messages which contain S in inreplyto header
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k # messages which are marked with color #
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L locked messages
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n S messages which are in newsgroup S
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N new messages
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O old messages
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r messages which have been replied to
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R read messages
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s S messages which contain S in subject
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se # messages whose score is equal to #
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sg # messages whose score is greater than #
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sl # messages whose score is lower than #
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Se # messages whose size is equal to #
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Sg # messages whose size is greater than #
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Ss # messages whose size is smaller than #
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t S messages which have been sent to S
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tg S messages with tags containing S
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tagged messages which are tagged
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T marked messages
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U unread messages
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x S messages which contain S in References header
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x "cmd args" messages returning 0 when passed to command
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- %F is message file
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y S messages which contain S in X-Label header
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& logical AND operator
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| logical OR operator
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! or ~ logical NOT operator
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% case sensitive search
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all filtering expressions are allowed
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# means number
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S means regexp string
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It is possible to use logical operators AND (&), OR (|) and
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NOT (! or ~). Case sensitive search is achieved with %.
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Examples:
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T marked messages
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U unread messages
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f "john beavis" messages from john beavis
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%f "John Beavis" messages from John Beavis (case sensitive)
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~s foo messages which do not have foo in the subject
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f foo & ~s bar messages from foo that do not have bar in thesubject
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6. Custom toolbar
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/Configuration/Preferences/Customize Toolbars lets you define the
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toolbar you want. The configuration dialog enables you to set an icon,
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an appropriate text, and map an action to it. Actions to choose
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from are predefined. You can also have your "Claws Mail Actions"
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(refer to "Actions" above) on your toolbar.
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Example:
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* Configuration->Actions
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- add an entry "Dillo: dillo %p&"
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* Configuration->Custom toolbar
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- select Claws Mail Actions Feature
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- select "Dillo: dillo %p&" from drop down list
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- choose an icon and click ok
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7. Partial downloading of POP3 mails
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Messages over the configured size limit, (/[Account preferences]/
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Receive/Message size limit), will be partially retrieved. These
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messages will have a Notice View displayed (above the Message View),
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informing of the partially retrieved state and the total size of the
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message. The Notice View will also contain two buttons, 'Mark for
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download' and 'Mark for deletion'. If the user clicks 'Mark for
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download', the message will be downloaded in full at the next message
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retrieval, (and the partial one deleted); if the user checks 'Mark for
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deletion' it will be removed from the server after the normal delay
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as specified in the POP3 account's 'Receive' preferences.
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If a user moves a partially retrieved message to the Trash folder
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it will be deleted on the server at the next retrieval after the
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Trash folder has been emptied.
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8. Hidden options
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There's several options which are not widely used and were not
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added to the configuration interface to avoid excesive bloat.
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The complete and up to date list of hidden options can be found
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on Hidden preferences section of Claws Mail Manual:
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http://www.claws-mail.org/manual/claws-mail-manual.html#adv_hidden
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9. Tools
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---------
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You will find all of these tools in the 'tools' directory:
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acroread2claws-mail.pl
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send PDFs from Adobe Reader 7
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calypso_convert.pl
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|
import mbox files exported by calypso
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claws-mail-compose-insert-files.pl
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|
insert files into a new Compose window
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convert_mbox.pl
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|
convert mbox format to MH format
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|
csv2addressbook.pl
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|
import Becky, Thunderbird, Kmail, Gmail and Fox Mail
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address books
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eud2gc.py
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|
convert a Eudora (v.3?) addressbook to vCard
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|
(GnomeCard) format
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filter_conv.pl
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|
convert sylpheed main's filter rules, (< 0.9.99),
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into Claws' filtering format
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|
filter_conv_new.pl
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|
convert sylpheed main's filter rules, (>= 0.9.99),
|
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into Claws' filtering format
|
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fix-date.sh
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|
Replace/Add a message's Date field
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freshmeat_search.pl
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|
Actions script to lookup the selected text on
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|
Freshmeat www.freshmeat.net using the configured
|
|
browser
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gif2xface.pl
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|
convert a gif file to an xface
|
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google_msgid.pl
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|
Actions script to lookup selected message-id on
|
|
google using mozilla.
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google_search.pl
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|
Actions script to lookup up the selected text on
|
|
google using the configured browser
|
|
kdeservicemenu/*
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|
Service Menus for Konqueror to allow sending
|
|
files to Claws Mail
|
|
kmail2claws-mail.pl
|
|
convert a Kmail addressbook to a Claws Mail
|
|
addressbook
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|
kmail2claws-mail_v2.pl
|
|
new version of the address book conversion script
|
|
for newer versions of Kmail/Kaddressbook
|
|
kmail-mailbox2claws-mail.pl
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|
convert a Kmail mailbox into a Claws mail mailbox
|
|
mairix.sh
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|
a wrapper to mairix, to enable global searches in mail
|
|
folders
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|
mew2claws-mail.pl
|
|
import a Mew address book
|
|
multiwebsearch.pl
|
|
search any searchable website for the selected text
|
|
nautilus2claws-mail.sh
|
|
enables sending files from the Nautilus file manager
|
|
to Claws Mail
|
|
OOo2claws-mail.pl
|
|
enable OpenOffice to send documents through
|
|
Claws Mail
|
|
outlook2claws-mail.pl
|
|
convert an Outlook contacts list to a Claws Mail
|
|
addressbook
|
|
popfile-link.sh
|
|
open messages in POPFile control center to edit their status
|
|
sylprint.pl
|
|
process a Claws Mail message and print it using enscript
|
|
if available or lpr if not
|
|
tb2claws-mail
|
|
convert an addressbook exported from The Bat! into
|
|
a Claws Mail addressbook
|
|
tbird2claws.py
|
|
integrate a Thunderbird folder tree into Claws Mail
|
|
textviewer.pl
|
|
Display various attachments as text
|
|
textviewer.sh
|
|
attempt to view an attachment as plain text
|
|
thunderbird-filters-convertor.pl
|
|
convert Thunderbird filtering rules
|
|
update-po
|
|
translators' tool that eases the creation of
|
|
*.po files
|
|
uudec
|
|
decode UUencoded mails, for use with Actions
|
|
uuooffice
|
|
Decode uuencoded attachments and open them with OpenOffice
|
|
vcard2xml.py
|
|
import an Evolution vCard
|
|
|
|
|
|
10. How to contribute
|
|
---------------------
|
|
|
|
You are encourged to send patches via the Claws Mail bugzilla at
|
|
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
|
|
But please first read the patch guidelines here:
|
|
http://www.claws-mail.org/devel.php
|
|
|
|
If that's too troublesome, either contact Paul Mangan
|
|
<paul@claws-mail.org> or consider posting to the
|
|
Claws Mail-users mailing list.
|
|
http://www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php
|
|
|
|
Bugs can be reported with Claws' bugzilla at:
|
|
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
|
|
|
|
Of course, you can also post to the Claws Mail-users mailing list.
|
|
|
|
Also, we really try to incorporate good contributions, but sometimes we
|
|
don't have enough time. If the contribution is really big, or requires
|
|
a long time to stabilise, send a mail to Paul Mangan
|
|
<paul@claws-mail.org>. We can probably arrange access to the
|
|
Claws Mail Git repository.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11. How to request features
|
|
---------------------------
|
|
|
|
Ask around in Claws Mail-users ML. Note that some developers may
|
|
have already thought about your feature and may, perhaps, be implementing
|
|
it, or the feature was already discussed and rejected for whatever reason.
|
|
You might want to go ahead and hack a patch for it. (That would be very
|
|
cool!) Another possibility is to add a request to our bugzilla, (severity:
|
|
'enhancement'), at
|
|
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
|
|
|
|
|
|
12. Installing Claws Mail from Git
|
|
--------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
a. Downloading
|
|
--------------
|
|
|
|
To download the latest Git, cd to the directory where you wish to download
|
|
to and type the following information:
|
|
|
|
git clone http://git.claws-mail.org/readonly/claws.git
|
|
|
|
Later, when you want to update your local repository, you'll just have to
|
|
go back to the 'claws' directory, and type:
|
|
|
|
git pull --all
|
|
|
|
b. Installing
|
|
-------------
|
|
|
|
To compile and install use the following commands:
|
|
|
|
./autogen.sh [add configure options as required]
|
|
make
|
|
make install [as root]
|
|
|
|
You will need a full set of development tools installed to be able to run
|
|
autogen.sh. See also ac/README.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13. Release History
|
|
-------------------
|
|
|
|
GTK 2 Version
|
|
-------------
|
|
2015-12-20 3.13.1
|
|
2015-10-11 3.13.0
|
|
2015-07-19 3.12.0
|
|
2014-10-27 3.11.1
|
|
2014-10-20 3.11.0
|
|
2014-06-09 3.10.1
|
|
2014-05-26 3.10.0
|
|
2013-12-14 3.9.3
|
|
2013-06-08 3.9.2
|
|
2013-05-06 3.9.1
|
|
2012-11-14 3.9.0
|
|
2012-06-27 3.8.1
|
|
2011-12-16 3.8.0
|
|
2011-08-27 3.7.10
|
|
2011-04-09 3.7.9
|
|
2010-12-04 3.7.8
|
|
2010-11-19 3.7.7
|
|
2010-05-01 3.7.6
|
|
2010-01-31 3.7.5
|
|
2010-01-08 3.7.4
|
|
2009-10-09 3.7.3
|
|
2009-07-03 3.7.2
|
|
2009-03-06 3.7.1
|
|
2008-12-19 3.7.0
|
|
2008-10-10 3.6.1
|
|
2008-10-03 3.6.0
|
|
2008-06-27 3.5.0
|
|
2008-04-18 3.4.0
|
|
2008-02-23 3.3.1
|
|
2008-02-08 3.3.0
|
|
2007-12-17 3.2.0
|
|
2007-11-19 3.1.0
|
|
2007-10-02 3.0.2
|
|
2007-09-17 3.0.1
|
|
2007-09-03 3.0.0
|
|
2007-07-02 2.10.0
|
|
2007-05-08 2.9.2
|
|
2007-04-19 2.9.1
|
|
2007-04-16 2.9.0
|
|
2007-03-06 2.8.1
|
|
2007-02-26 2.8.0
|
|
2007-01-26 2.7.2
|
|
2007-01-15 2.7.1
|
|
2007-01-08 2.7.0
|
|
2006-12-04 2.6.1 [first release as Claws Mail]
|
|
2006-11-06 2.6.0
|
|
2006-10-19 2.5.6
|
|
2006-10-12 2.5.5
|
|
2006-10-11 2.5.4
|
|
2006-10-04 2.5.3
|
|
2006-09-26 2.5.2
|
|
2006-09-26 2.5.1
|
|
2006-09-25 2.5.0
|
|
2006-07-31 2.4.0
|
|
2006-06-20 2.3.1
|
|
2006-06-12 2.3.0
|
|
2006-06-08 2.2.3
|
|
2006-06-06 2.2.2
|
|
2006-06-05 2.2.1
|
|
2006-05-08 2.2.0
|
|
2006-04-17 2.1.1
|
|
2006-04-05 2.1.0
|
|
2006-01-30 2.0.0
|
|
2005-11-08 1.9.100
|
|
2005-10-31 1.9.99
|
|
2005-10-03 1.9.15
|
|
2005-09-05 1.9.14
|
|
2005-07-22 1.9.13
|
|
2005-06-27 1.9.12
|
|
2005-05-19 1.9.11
|
|
2005-05-09 1.9.9
|
|
2005-03-18 1.9.6
|
|
|
|
GTK 1 Version
|
|
-------------
|
|
2005-06-27 1.0.5
|
|
2005-05-09 1.0.4a
|
|
2005-03-24 1.0.4
|
|
2005-03-10 1.0.3
|
|
2005-02-08 1.0.1
|
|
2005-01-17 1.0.0
|
|
2004-12-06 0.9.13
|
|
2004-09-27 0.9.12b
|
|
2004-08-23 0.9.12a
|
|
2004-06-28 0.9.12
|
|
2004-05-31 0.9.11claws
|
|
2004-03-08 0.9.10claws
|
|
2004-02-06 0.9.9claws
|
|
2003-12-19 0.9.8claws
|
|
2003-11-26 0.9.7claws
|
|
2003-10-02 0.9.6claws
|
|
2003-09-10 0.9.5claws
|
|
2003-08-04 0.9.4claws
|
|
2003-07-12 0.9.3claws
|
|
2003-05-24 0.9.0claws
|
|
2003-03-12 0.8.11claws
|
|
2003-02-12 0.8.10claws
|
|
2003-01-24 0.8.9claws
|
|
2002-12-26 0.8.8claws
|
|
2002-12-23 0.8.7claws
|
|
2002-11-25 0.8.6claws
|
|
2002-10-07 0.8.5claws
|
|
2002-09-22 0.8.3claws
|
|
2002-08-28 0.8.2claws
|
|
2002-07-30 0.8.1claws
|
|
2002-07-23 0.8.0claws
|
|
2002-06-15 0.7.8claws
|
|
2002-05-18 0.7.6claws
|
|
2002-04-28 0.7.5claws
|
|
2002-03-11 0.7.4claws
|
|
2002-02-19 0.7.2claws
|
|
2002-02-14 0.7.1claws
|
|
2002-01-14 0.7.0claws
|
|
2001-12-16 0.6.6claws
|
|
2001-10-16 0.6.5claws8
|
|
2001-09-30 0.6.2claws
|
|
2001-08-14 0.6.1claws
|
|
2001-07-13 0.5.1claws
|
|
2001-07-01 0.5.0claws3
|
|
2001-06-16 0.4.99claws
|
|
2001-05-29 0.4.99claws3
|
|
2001-05-11 0.4.67claws1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14. Useful links
|
|
----------------
|
|
Homepage
|
|
http://www.claws-mail.org/
|
|
User Contributed FAQ
|
|
http://www.claws-mail.org/faq/
|
|
Project page
|
|
http://sourceforge.net/projects/claws-mail/
|
|
Downloads
|
|
http://www.claws-mail.org/downloads.php
|
|
Extra Plugins
|
|
http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php
|
|
Icon Themes
|
|
http://www.claws-mail.org/themes.php
|
|
Mailing Lists
|
|
http://www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php
|
|
Users Mailing List archive
|
|
http://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/index.html
|
|
Commits Announcement List archive
|
|
http://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/commits/index.html
|
|
Bug/Patch/Feature Request Tracker
|
|
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
|
|
Internationalisation Status
|
|
http://www.claws-mail.org/i18n.php
|
|
Donations
|
|
http://www.claws-mail.org/sponsors.php
|
|
Planet Claws Mail
|
|
http://planet.claws-mail.org/
|
|
Claws Mail for Windows homepage
|
|
http://www.claws-mail.org/win32/
|
|
|