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  1. Claws Mail - a GTK lightweight and fast e-mail client
  2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  3. Copyright (C) 1999-2024 The Claws Mail Team and Hiroyuki Yamamoto
  4. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  5. it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  6. the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  7. (at your option) any later version.
  8. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  9. but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  10. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
  11. GNU General Public License for more details.
  12. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  13. along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  14. For more details see the file COPYING.
  15. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  16. Summary:
  17. 1. What is Claws Mail?
  18. 2. Plugins
  19. 3. Actions
  20. 4. Icon Themes
  21. 5. Quick Search
  22. 6. Custom toolbar
  23. 7. Partial downloading of POP3 mails
  24. 8. Hidden Options
  25. 9. Tools
  26. 10. How to contribute
  27. 11. How to request features
  28. 12. Installing Claws from Git
  29. 13. Release History
  30. 14. Useful Links
  31. 1. What is Claws Mail?
  32. --------------------------
  33. Claws Mail is a lightweight and highly configurable email client
  34. and news reader based on the GTK GUI toolkit, it runs on the X
  35. Window System.
  36. Claws Mail is free software distributed under the GNU GPL.
  37. To run Claws Mail use 'claws-mail' on the command line.
  38. When claws-mail is executed for the first time a configuration
  39. 'Wizard' will appear prompting you for the minimum information
  40. necessary to create a new account.
  41. 2. Plugins
  42. ----------
  43. Claws Mail' capabilities are extended by plugins. It comes with
  44. the following plugins included, all of which are built automatically
  45. if the required libraries are present.
  46. Plugins are installed in $PREFIX/lib/claws-mail/plugins/
  47. and have a suffix of '.so'
  48. To load a plugin go to '/Configuration/Plugins' and click
  49. the 'Load Plugin' button.
  50. Select the plugin that you want and click 'OK'
  51. All plugin preferences can be found under
  52. '/Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/'.
  53. o ACPI Notifier
  54. Notifies of new mail via the mail LED available on some laptops. The
  55. LED can be set to blinking or on states when new mail is received.
  56. Appropriate kernel modules have to be loaded first for this plugin to
  57. work. Laptops supported are from ACER (acerhk and acer_acpi modules),
  58. ASUS (asus_laptop and asus_acpi), IBM (ibm_acpi), Lenovo (tm_smapi)
  59. and Fujitsu (apanel) manufacturers.
  60. o Address Keeper
  61. Saves mail addresses typed in the 'To', 'Cc' or 'Bcc' fields of
  62. outgoing messages to a designated folder in the address book.
  63. Addresses are saved only if not already present in the address book.
  64. o Archiver
  65. Archives mail folders using libarchive library. Folders can be archived
  66. with or without compression (ZIP, GZIP or BZIP2) and also in several
  67. formats (TAR, SHAR, PAX or CPIO).
  68. Libarchive is available from https://www.libarchive.org/.
  69. o Attachment Remover
  70. Selectively removes attachments from messages. Messages are permanently
  71. modified by using this feature, so be careful!
  72. o Attachment Warning
  73. Warns the user of possibly forgotten attachments when some keywords
  74. are found in the outgoing messages. False positives (being warned when
  75. no attachment is realy needed) exist, but some configuration options
  76. can help to reduce their probability.
  77. o Bogofilter
  78. Enables the scanning of incoming mail received from a POP,
  79. IMAP, or LOCAL account using Bogofilter. It can optionally
  80. delete mail identified as spam or save it to a designated folder.
  81. Bogofilter is a pure Bayesian filter, therefore it has better
  82. speed performance than SpamAssassin but might catch less spam.
  83. Bogofilter is available from https://bogofilter.sourceforge.io/.
  84. o BSFilter
  85. Checks all messages received from IMAP, POP or local accounts using
  86. BSFilter, a bayesian spam filter program, which has to be installed
  87. locally. Messages identified as spam can be deleted or saved to a
  88. designated folder.
  89. Bsfilter is available from https://osdn.net/projects/bsfilter/.
  90. o Clamd
  91. Uses the Clam AntiVirus in daemon mode to scan received messages from
  92. IMAP, POP or local accounts. Scanning is done through a socket to the
  93. daemon, so it has to be previously configured to allow this.
  94. Clam AntiVirus is available from https://www.clamav.net/.
  95. o Dillo
  96. Uses the Dillo browser (https://www.dillo.org/) to render HTML mails
  97. and HTML parts of multipart messages. Dillo is started with
  98. special options to embed its window inside Claws Mail's message
  99. view and to render the HTML safely. If required, remote content
  100. can be also retrieved.
  101. o Fancy
  102. Renders HTML mails and HTML parts of multipart messages using the
  103. GTK port of the WebKit library. External content is blocked by
  104. default (including images) to avoid remote tracking, but can be
  105. enabled either globally or just on the displayed message. The GTK
  106. WebKit is available from https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK.
  107. o Fetchinfo
  108. Modifies downloaded messages and inserts special headers containing
  109. some download information: UIDL, Claws Mail account name, POP server,
  110. user ID and retrieval time. These headers can be used later for more
  111. elaborate filtering or processing rules.
  112. o Keyword Warner
  113. Shows a warning when sending or queueing a message and a reference
  114. to one or more keywords is found in the message text.
  115. o Libravatar
  116. Displays sender avatars from https://www.libravatar.org/, from own
  117. sender's domain if enabled or even an automatically generated one.
  118. o LiteHTML Viewer
  119. Renders HTML mails and HTML parts of multipart messages using the
  120. using the litehtml library (http://www.litehtml.com/). External content
  121. is blocked by default (including images) to avoid remote tracking.
  122. o MailMbox
  123. Handles mailboxes in Mbox format using the libEtPan! library. Mbox
  124. files can be added to the folder tree and used like regular mailboxes.
  125. LibEtPan! is available from https://www.etpan.org/libetpan.html.
  126. o Managesieve
  127. Manage sieve filters on a server using the ManageSieve protocol.
  128. o Newmail
  129. Writes a header summary to a log file for each mail received after
  130. sorting. The file for the summary is ~/Mail/NewLog.
  131. o Notification
  132. Provides various ways of notifying the user of new and unread email.
  133. Current methods include: a banner, a popup window, a user command,
  134. a message to a LCD daemon, a system tray icon and an indicator icon.
  135. Sound notifications are also possible through libcanberra. Each method
  136. can be customized in detail through the plugin preferences.
  137. Indicator library is available from https://launchpad.net/libindicator/
  138. and libcanberra from https://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/.
  139. o Perl
  140. Extends the filtering possibilities of Claws Mail. Provides a Perl 5
  141. interface to Claws Mail's filtering mechanism, allowing the use of full
  142. Perl power in email filters. A conversion script is provided to
  143. translate user rules into perl rules suitable for this plugin.
  144. Perl is available from http://www.perl.org/.
  145. o PDF Viewer
  146. Displays Portable Document Format (PDF) and PostScript attachments
  147. within the message view using Poppler. PostScript attachments are
  148. converted to PDF on the fly by the 'gs' tool, which has to be installed
  149. first. The 'gs' tool is available from https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/.
  150. The Poppler library is available from https://poppler.freedesktop.org/.
  151. o PGP/Core
  152. Handles core PGP functions and is required by the PGP/Inline
  153. and PGP/MIME plugins.
  154. Uses GnuPG/GPGME, https://www.gnupg.org/software/gpgme/index.html.
  155. o PGP/inline
  156. Handles inline PGP signed and/or encrypted mails. You can
  157. decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your
  158. own mails.
  159. Uses GnuPG/GPGME, https://www.gnupg.org/software/gpgme/index.html.
  160. o PGP/MIME
  161. Handles PGP/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails. You can
  162. decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your
  163. own mails.
  164. Uses GnuPG/GPGME, https://www.gnupg.org/software/gpgme/index.html.
  165. o Python
  166. Provides Python scripting access to Claws Mail functions. A testing
  167. console is also featured. Scripts can be saved to specific folders
  168. for automatic loading on startup or being available as new menu items
  169. under the '/Tools/Python scripts' menu.
  170. Python is available from https://python.org/.
  171. o RSSyl
  172. Creates mailboxes where newsfeeds in RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 or Atom format
  173. can be added. Each newsfeed will create a folder with the appropriate
  174. entries, fetched from the web. You can read them, and delete or keep
  175. old entries.
  176. o S/MIME
  177. Handles S/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails. You can decrypt mails,
  178. verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails.
  179. o SpamAssassin
  180. Scans incoming mail received from a POP, IMAP or LOCAL account using
  181. SpamAssassin. It can optionally delete mail identified as spam or save
  182. it to a designated folder.
  183. SpamAssassin is available from https://spamassassin.apache.org/.
  184. o Spam Report
  185. Reports spam messages to online spam harvesting sites. Sites suported
  186. are https://www.signal-spam.fr/ and https://www.spamcop.net/. The Debian
  187. mailing list spam nomination system is also supported.
  188. o TNEF Parser
  189. Decodes attachments with 'application/ms-tnef' MIME type (also known
  190. as "winmail.dat" files) in Claws Mail, using the ytnef library.
  191. Decoded parts can be saved to files.
  192. The ytnef library is available from https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef.
  193. o VCalendar
  194. Displays vCalendar messages. Only the meeting subset of the vCalendar
  195. format is currently supported, which includes planning, sending and
  196. receiving invitations and answering them. Public calendar (WebCal)
  197. subscriptions, free/busy information export/import and reminding of
  198. events is also supported.
  199. Additional plugins can be found here:
  200. https://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php
  201. 3. Actions
  202. ----------
  203. The "actions" feature is a convenient way for the user to launch external
  204. commands to process a complete message file including headers and body or
  205. just one of its parts. It allows also the use of an external command to
  206. filter the whole text or just a selected part in the message window or in
  207. the compose window. This is a generic tool that allows to do any uncommon
  208. actions on the messages, and thus extends the possibilities of Claws Mail.
  209. For example, Claws Mail does not include the rot13 cyphering algorithm
  210. popular in some newsgroups. It does not support uuencoded messages. As
  211. all these features can be handled by external programs, the actions
  212. provide a convenient way to use them from the menu bar.
  213. a. Usage
  214. --------
  215. To create a new action, go to Configuration -> Actions.... The "Action
  216. Creation" dialog offers to enter the Menu name that will trigger the
  217. command. The created menu will be found in the Tools -> Actions submenu.
  218. By inserting a slash / in the menu name, you create a submenu.
  219. The command is entered in the Command line entry. Note that Claws Mail
  220. stores every single email in a separate file. This allows to use the
  221. following syntax for the command:
  222. * %f denotes the file name of the selected message. If you selected more
  223. than one, then the command will be launched for each message with
  224. the appropriate file name
  225. * %F denotes the list of the file names of the selected message. If only
  226. one message is selected, this amounts to %f, but if more messages
  227. are selected, then the command will be launched only once with the
  228. list of the file names. (You can use both %f and %F in one command:
  229. then the command will be launched for each selected message with
  230. the name of this message and with the list of all selected
  231. messages. I did not find a practical example for this.)
  232. * %p denotes the current selected message part of a multipart message.
  233. The part is decoded accordingly. If the message is not a multipart
  234. message, it denotes the message body.
  235. * Prepending >: this will allow you to send to the command's standard
  236. input a text that you will enter in a dialog window.
  237. * Prepending *: this will allow you to send to the command's standard
  238. input a text that you will enter in a dialog window. But in
  239. contrast to prepending >, the entered text is hidden (useful when
  240. entering passwords).
  241. * Appending an ampersand &: this will run the command asynchronously.
  242. That means "fire and forget". Claws Mail won't wait for the
  243. command to finish, nor will it catch its output or its error
  244. messages.
  245. * Prepending the vertical bar | (pipe-in): this will send the current
  246. displayed text or the current selected text from the message view
  247. or the compose window to the command standard input. The command
  248. will silently fail if more than one message is selected.
  249. * Appending the vertical bar | (pipe-out): this will replace the current
  250. displayed text or the current selected text from the message window
  251. or the compose window by the command standard output. The command
  252. will silently fail if more than one message is selected.
  253. Note: It is not possible to use actions containing %f, %F or %p from the
  254. compose window.
  255. When a command is run, and unless it is run asynchronously, Claws Mail
  256. will be insensitive to any interaction and it will wait for the command to
  257. finish. If the command takes too long (5 seconds), it will popup a dialog
  258. window allowing to stop it. This dialog will also be displayed as soon as
  259. the command has some output: error messages or even its standard output
  260. when the command is not a "pipe-out" command. When multiple commands are
  261. being run, they are run in parallel and each command output is separated
  262. from the outputs of the others.
  263. a. Examples
  264. -----------
  265. Here are some examples that are listed in the same syntax as used for
  266. storing the actions list. You can copy and past the definition in your
  267. ~/.claws-mail/actionsrc file (exit Claws Mail before). The syntax
  268. is very simple: one line per action, each action contains the menu name
  269. and the command line separated by a colon and a space ": "
  270. Purpose: rot13 cyphering
  271. Definition: Rot13: |tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M|
  272. Details: This will apply the rot13 cyphering algorithm to the
  273. (selected) text in the message/compose view.
  274. Purpose: Decoding uuencoded messages
  275. Definition: UUdeview: xdeview %F&
  276. Details: xdeview comes with uudeview. If an encoded file is split in
  277. multiple messages, just select them all and run the command.
  278. Purpose: Display uuencoded image
  279. Definition: Display uuencoded: uudec %f&
  280. Details: Displays uuencoded files. The uudec[1] script can be found in
  281. the 'tools' directory of the distribution package.
  282. Purpose: Alter messages
  283. Definition: Edit message: gvim -f %F
  284. Details: Allows editing of any received message. Can be used to remove
  285. unneeded message parts, etc.
  286. Purpose: Pretty format
  287. Definition: Par: |par 72Tbgjqw74bEe B=._A_a 72bg|
  288. Details: par is a utility that can pretty format any text. It does a
  289. very good job in indenting quoted messages, and justifying
  290. text. Used when composing a message
  291. Purpose: Browse
  292. Definition: Part/Dillo: dillo %p&
  293. Details: Browse the selected message part in Dillo.
  294. [1] The uudec script can be found in the 'tools' directory of the
  295. distribution package. It needs uudecode and ImageMagick's display. The
  296. latter can be replaced by any image viewer that can get input from
  297. standard input. The script could also be modified to use temporary files
  298. instead of standard input.
  299. 4. Icon Themes
  300. --------------
  301. Claws has support for different icon sets. Several icon sets can be
  302. downloaded from https://www.claws-mail.org/themes.php
  303. You will need to create a directory called 'themes' in your config
  304. directory, unpack them into this directory, and then use the interface
  305. to select them, /Configuration/Preferences/Display/Themes
  306. This interface can also be used to install new themes.
  307. 5. Quick Search with extended search
  308. ------------------------------------
  309. Quick Search, with its powerful Extended search function,
  310. enables searching through folder's messages.
  311. Extended Search allows one to define criteria that messages must
  312. have in order to match and be displayed in the summary view pane.
  313. Search types titled From, Subject and To are self explanatory.
  314. Search type extended allows one to use Claws Mail's powerful
  315. filtering engine to select messages. Examples:
  316. from regexpcase "foo"
  317. subject regexp "Bug" & to regexp "claws-mail"
  318. Additionally, it is possible to use simpler yet equally
  319. powerful patterns for message selections. Mutt users will
  320. immediately recognise most of the available patterns:
  321. Pattern Parameter Selects
  322. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
  323. a all messages
  324. ag # messages whose age is greater than # days
  325. al # messages whose age is lower than # days
  326. agh # messages whose age is greather than # hours
  327. alh # messages whose age is lower than # hours
  328. b S messages which contain S in the message body
  329. B S messages which contain S in the whole message
  330. c S messages carbon-copied to S
  331. C S message is either To: or Cc: to S
  332. D deleted messages
  333. da "YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" messages whose date is after requested date
  334. (time is optional)
  335. db "YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" messages whose date is before requested date
  336. (time is optional)
  337. e S messages which contain S in the Sender field
  338. E S true if execute "S" succeeds
  339. f S messages originating from user S
  340. F forwarded messages
  341. h S messages which contain S in any header name
  342. or value
  343. H S messages which contain S in the value of
  344. any header
  345. ha messages which have attachments
  346. i S messages which contain S in Message-Id header
  347. I S messages which contain S in In-Reply-To
  348. header
  349. k # messages which are marked with color #
  350. L locked messages
  351. n S messages which are in newsgroup S
  352. N new messages
  353. O old messages
  354. p incomplete messages (not entirely downloaded)
  355. r messages which have been replied to
  356. R read messages
  357. s S messages which contain S in subject
  358. se # messages whose score is equal to # points
  359. sg # messages whose score is greater than # points
  360. sl # messages whose score is lower than # points
  361. Se # messages whose size is equal to # bytes
  362. Sg # messages whose size is greater than # bytes
  363. Ss # messages whose size is smaller than # bytes
  364. t S messages which have been sent to S
  365. tg S messages with tags contain S
  366. tagged messages which have tag(s)
  367. T marked messages
  368. U unread messages
  369. v H V messages which contain V in header H
  370. x S messages which contain S in References header
  371. x "cmd args" messages returning 0 when passed to command
  372. - %F is message file
  373. & logical AND operator
  374. | logical OR operator
  375. ! or ~ logical NOT operator
  376. % case sensitive search
  377. # match using regular expressions instead of
  378. substring search
  379. all filtering expressions are allowed, but cannot be mixed
  380. through logical operators with the expressions above
  381. It is possible to use logical operators AND (&), OR (|) and
  382. NOT (! or ~). Case sensitive search is achieved with %.
  383. Examples:
  384. T marked messages
  385. U unread messages
  386. f "john beavis" messages from john beavis
  387. %f "John Beavis" messages from John Beavis (case sensitive)
  388. ~s foo messages which do not have foo in the subject
  389. f foo & ~s bar messages from foo that do not have bar in the subject
  390. 6. Custom toolbar
  391. -----------------
  392. /Configuration/Preferences/Customize Toolbars lets you define the
  393. toolbar you want. The configuration dialog enables you to set an icon,
  394. an appropriate text, and map an action to it. Actions to choose
  395. from are predefined. You can also have your "Claws Mail Actions"
  396. (refer to "Actions" above) on your toolbar.
  397. Example:
  398. * Configuration->Actions
  399. - add an entry "Dillo: dillo %p&"
  400. * Configuration->Custom toolbar
  401. - select Claws Mail Actions Feature
  402. - select "Dillo: dillo %p&" from drop down list
  403. - choose an icon and click ok
  404. 7. Partial downloading of POP3 mails
  405. ------------------------------------
  406. Messages over the configured size limit, (/[Account preferences]/
  407. Receive/Message size limit), will be partially retrieved. These
  408. messages will have a Notice View displayed (above the Message View),
  409. informing of the partially retrieved state and the total size of the
  410. message. The Notice View will also contain two buttons, 'Mark for
  411. download' and 'Mark for deletion'. If the user clicks 'Mark for
  412. download', the message will be downloaded in full at the next message
  413. retrieval, (and the partial one deleted); if the user checks 'Mark for
  414. deletion' it will be removed from the server after the normal delay
  415. as specified in the POP3 account's 'Receive' preferences.
  416. If a user moves a partially retrieved message to the Trash folder
  417. it will be deleted on the server at the next retrieval after the
  418. Trash folder has been emptied.
  419. 8. Hidden options
  420. -----------------
  421. There's several options which are not widely used and were not
  422. added to the configuration interface to avoid excessive bloat.
  423. The complete and up to date list of hidden options can be found
  424. on Hidden preferences section of Claws Mail Manual:
  425. https://www.claws-mail.org/manual/claws-mail-manual.html#adv_hidden
  426. 9. Tools
  427. --------
  428. Tools are small scripts which can help integrate Claws Mail with
  429. other programs; perform format conversions between different kinds
  430. of mailboxes, address books, etc.; be used in Claws Mail Actions for
  431. a variety of purposes; or used in other programs to ease their
  432. interoperability with Claws Mail.
  433. You will find all the tools in the 'tools' directory and a detailed
  434. description of the available scripts in 'tools/README.'
  435. 10. How to contribute
  436. ---------------------
  437. You are encouraged to send patches via the Claws Mail bugzilla at
  438. https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
  439. But please first read the patch guidelines here:
  440. https://www.claws-mail.org/devel.php
  441. If that's too troublesome, either contact Paul Mangan
  442. <paul@claws-mail.org> or consider posting to the
  443. Claws Mail-users mailing list.
  444. https://www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php
  445. Bugs can be reported with Claws' bugzilla at:
  446. https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
  447. Of course, you can also post to the Claws Mail-users mailing list.
  448. Also, we really try to incorporate good contributions, but sometimes we
  449. don't have enough time. If the contribution is really big, or requires
  450. a long time to stabilise, send a mail to Paul Mangan
  451. <paul@claws-mail.org>. We can probably arrange access to the
  452. Claws Mail Git repository.
  453. 11. How to request features
  454. ---------------------------
  455. Ask around in Claws Mail-users ML. Note that some developers may
  456. have already thought about your feature and may, perhaps, be implementing
  457. it, or the feature was already discussed and rejected for whatever reason.
  458. You might want to go ahead and hack a patch for it. (That would be very
  459. cool!) Another possibility is to add a request to our bugzilla, (severity:
  460. 'enhancement'), at
  461. https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
  462. 12. Installing Claws Mail from Git
  463. --------------------------------------
  464. a. Downloading
  465. --------------
  466. To download the latest Git, cd to the directory where you wish to download
  467. to and type the following information:
  468. git clone https://git.claws-mail.org/readonly/claws.git
  469. Later, when you want to update your local repository, you'll just have to
  470. go back to the 'claws' directory, and type:
  471. git pull --all
  472. b. Installing
  473. -------------
  474. To compile and install use the following commands:
  475. ./autogen.sh [add configure options as required]
  476. make
  477. make install [as root]
  478. You will need a full set of development tools installed to be able to run
  479. autogen.sh. See also ac/README.
  480. 13. Release History
  481. -------------------
  482. GTK 3 Version
  483. -------------
  484. 2024-06-10 4.3.0
  485. 2023-11-20 4.2.0
  486. 2022-10-20 4.1.1
  487. 2022-04-03 4.1.0
  488. 2021-07-10 4.0.0
  489. GTK 2 Version
  490. -------------
  491. 2024-06-10 3.21.0
  492. 2023-11-20 3.20.0
  493. 2022-10-20 3.19.1
  494. 2022-04-03 3.19.0
  495. 2021-07-10 3.18.0
  496. 2020-10-19 3.17.8
  497. 2020-09-28 3.17.7
  498. 2020-07-13 3.17.6
  499. 2020-02-23 3.17.5
  500. 2019-07-26 3.17.4
  501. 2018-12-22 3.17.3
  502. 2018-12-14 3.17.2
  503. 2018-08-26 3.17.1
  504. 2018-08-15 3.17.0
  505. 2017-12-17 3.16.0
  506. 2017-08-29 3.15.1
  507. 2017-03-26 3.15.0
  508. 2016-11-06 3.14.1
  509. 2016-08-07 3.14.0
  510. 2016-01-19 3.13.2
  511. 2015-12-20 3.13.1
  512. 2015-10-11 3.13.0
  513. 2015-07-19 3.12.0
  514. 2014-10-27 3.11.1
  515. 2014-10-20 3.11.0
  516. 2014-06-09 3.10.1
  517. 2014-05-26 3.10.0
  518. 2013-12-14 3.9.3
  519. 2013-06-08 3.9.2
  520. 2013-05-06 3.9.1
  521. 2012-11-14 3.9.0
  522. 2012-06-27 3.8.1
  523. 2011-12-16 3.8.0
  524. 2011-08-27 3.7.10
  525. 2011-04-09 3.7.9
  526. 2010-12-04 3.7.8
  527. 2010-11-19 3.7.7
  528. 2010-05-01 3.7.6
  529. 2010-01-31 3.7.5
  530. 2010-01-08 3.7.4
  531. 2009-10-09 3.7.3
  532. 2009-07-03 3.7.2
  533. 2009-03-06 3.7.1
  534. 2008-12-19 3.7.0
  535. 2008-10-10 3.6.1
  536. 2008-10-03 3.6.0
  537. 2008-06-27 3.5.0
  538. 2008-04-18 3.4.0
  539. 2008-02-23 3.3.1
  540. 2008-02-08 3.3.0
  541. 2007-12-17 3.2.0
  542. 2007-11-19 3.1.0
  543. 2007-10-02 3.0.2
  544. 2007-09-17 3.0.1
  545. 2007-09-03 3.0.0
  546. 2007-07-02 2.10.0
  547. 2007-05-08 2.9.2
  548. 2007-04-19 2.9.1
  549. 2007-04-16 2.9.0
  550. 2007-03-06 2.8.1
  551. 2007-02-26 2.8.0
  552. 2007-01-26 2.7.2
  553. 2007-01-15 2.7.1
  554. 2007-01-08 2.7.0
  555. 2006-12-04 2.6.1 [first release as Claws Mail]
  556. 2006-11-06 2.6.0
  557. 2006-10-19 2.5.6
  558. 2006-10-12 2.5.5
  559. 2006-10-11 2.5.4
  560. 2006-10-04 2.5.3
  561. 2006-09-26 2.5.2
  562. 2006-09-26 2.5.1
  563. 2006-09-25 2.5.0
  564. 2006-07-31 2.4.0
  565. 2006-06-20 2.3.1
  566. 2006-06-12 2.3.0
  567. 2006-06-08 2.2.3
  568. 2006-06-06 2.2.2
  569. 2006-06-05 2.2.1
  570. 2006-05-08 2.2.0
  571. 2006-04-17 2.1.1
  572. 2006-04-05 2.1.0
  573. 2006-01-30 2.0.0
  574. 2005-11-08 1.9.100
  575. 2005-10-31 1.9.99
  576. 2005-10-03 1.9.15
  577. 2005-09-05 1.9.14
  578. 2005-07-22 1.9.13
  579. 2005-06-27 1.9.12
  580. 2005-05-19 1.9.11
  581. 2005-05-09 1.9.9
  582. 2005-03-18 1.9.6
  583. GTK 1 Version
  584. -------------
  585. 2005-06-27 1.0.5
  586. 2005-05-09 1.0.4a
  587. 2005-03-24 1.0.4
  588. 2005-03-10 1.0.3
  589. 2005-02-08 1.0.1
  590. 2005-01-17 1.0.0
  591. 2004-12-06 0.9.13
  592. 2004-09-27 0.9.12b
  593. 2004-08-23 0.9.12a
  594. 2004-06-28 0.9.12
  595. 2004-05-31 0.9.11claws
  596. 2004-03-08 0.9.10claws
  597. 2004-02-06 0.9.9claws
  598. 2003-12-19 0.9.8claws
  599. 2003-11-26 0.9.7claws
  600. 2003-10-02 0.9.6claws
  601. 2003-09-10 0.9.5claws
  602. 2003-08-04 0.9.4claws
  603. 2003-07-12 0.9.3claws
  604. 2003-05-24 0.9.0claws
  605. 2003-03-12 0.8.11claws
  606. 2003-02-12 0.8.10claws
  607. 2003-01-24 0.8.9claws
  608. 2002-12-26 0.8.8claws
  609. 2002-12-23 0.8.7claws
  610. 2002-11-25 0.8.6claws
  611. 2002-10-07 0.8.5claws
  612. 2002-09-22 0.8.3claws
  613. 2002-08-28 0.8.2claws
  614. 2002-07-30 0.8.1claws
  615. 2002-07-23 0.8.0claws
  616. 2002-06-15 0.7.8claws
  617. 2002-05-18 0.7.6claws
  618. 2002-04-28 0.7.5claws
  619. 2002-03-11 0.7.4claws
  620. 2002-02-19 0.7.2claws
  621. 2002-02-14 0.7.1claws
  622. 2002-01-14 0.7.0claws
  623. 2001-12-16 0.6.6claws
  624. 2001-10-16 0.6.5claws8
  625. 2001-09-30 0.6.2claws
  626. 2001-08-14 0.6.1claws
  627. 2001-07-13 0.5.1claws
  628. 2001-07-01 0.5.0claws3
  629. 2001-06-16 0.4.99claws
  630. 2001-05-29 0.4.99claws3
  631. 2001-05-11 0.4.67claws1
  632. 14. Useful links
  633. ----------------
  634. Homepage
  635. https://www.claws-mail.org/
  636. User Contributed FAQ
  637. https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/
  638. Downloads
  639. https://www.claws-mail.org/releases.php
  640. Release Announcement Feed
  641. https://www.claws-mail.org/releases.rss
  642. Latest Release Notes
  643. https://www.claws-mail.org/news.php
  644. Other Downloads
  645. https://www.claws-mail.org/downloads.php
  646. List of Plugins
  647. https://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php
  648. Icon Themes
  649. https://www.claws-mail.org/themes.php
  650. Mailing Lists
  651. https://www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php
  652. Users Mailing List archive
  653. https://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/index.html
  654. Commits Announcement List archive
  655. https://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/commits/index.html
  656. Bug/Patch/Feature Request Tracker
  657. https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
  658. Internationalisation Status
  659. https://www.claws-mail.org/i18n.php
  660. Donations
  661. https://www.claws-mail.org/sponsors.php
  662. Claws Mail for Windows homepage
  663. https://www.claws-mail.org/win32/