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  1. Claws Mail - a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast e-mail client
  2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  3. Copyright(C) 1999-2010 Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp> and the
  4. Claws Mail Team
  5. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  6. it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  7. the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
  8. any later version.
  9. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  10. but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  11. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
  12. GNU General Public License for more details.
  13. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  14. along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  15. Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
  16. For more details see the file COPYING.
  17. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  18. Summary:
  19. 1. What is Claws Mail?
  20. 2. Plugins
  21. 3. Actions
  22. 4. Icon Themes
  23. 5. Quick Search
  24. 6. Custom toolbar
  25. 7. Partial downloading of POP3 mails
  26. 8. Hidden Options
  27. 9. Tools
  28. 10. How to contribute
  29. 11. How to request features
  30. 12. Installing Claws from CVS
  31. 13. Release History
  32. 14. Useful Links
  33. 1. What is Claws Mail?
  34. --------------------------
  35. Claws Mail (previously known as Sylpheed-Claws) is a lightweight and
  36. highly configurable email client and news reader based on the GTK+
  37. GUI toolkit, it runs on the X Window System.
  38. Claws Mail is free software distributed under the GNU GPL.
  39. To run Claws Mail use 'claws-mail' on the command line.
  40. When claws-mail is executed for the first time a configuration
  41. 'Wizard' will appear prompting you for the minimum information
  42. necessary to create a new account.
  43. 2. Plugins
  44. ----------
  45. Claws Mail' capabilities are extended by plugins. It comes with
  46. the following plugins included, all of which are built automatically
  47. if the required libraries are present.
  48. Plugins are installed in $PREFIX/lib/claws-mail/plugins/
  49. and have a suffix of '.so'
  50. To load a plugin go to '/Configuration/Plugins' and click
  51. the 'Load Plugin' button.
  52. Select the plugin that you want and click 'OK'
  53. o Bogofilter
  54. Enables the scanning of incoming mail received from a POP,
  55. IMAP, or LOCAL account using Bogofilter. It can optionally
  56. delete mail identified as spam or save it to a designated folder.
  57. Bogofilter is a pure Bayesian filter, therefore it has better
  58. speed performance than SpamAssassin but might catch less spam.
  59. Bogofilter is available from http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/
  60. o Dillo HTML Viewer
  61. Enables the viewing of html messages using the Dillo web
  62. browser, version 0.7.0 or newer. It uses Dillo's --local
  63. option by default for safe browsing. Preferences can be
  64. found in '/Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/Dillo Browser'.
  65. Dillo is available from http://www.dillo.org/
  66. o PGP/Core
  67. Handles core PGP functions and is required by the PGP/Inline
  68. and PGP/MIME plugins.
  69. Uses GnuPG/GPGME, <ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/>
  70. o PGP/inline
  71. Handles inline PGP signed and/or encrypted mails. You can
  72. decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your
  73. own mails. Uses GnuPG/GPGME, <ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/>
  74. o PGP/MIME
  75. Handles PGP/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails. You can
  76. decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your
  77. own mails. Uses GnuPG/GPGME, <ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/>
  78. o S/MIME
  79. This plugin handles S/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails. You can
  80. decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails.
  81. o SpamAssassin
  82. Enables the scanning of incoming mail received from a POP,
  83. IMAP or LOCAL account using SpamAssassin. It can optionally
  84. delete mail identified as spam or save it to a designated
  85. folder. Preferences can be found in '/Configuration/
  86. Preferences/Plugins/SpamAssassin'.
  87. SpamAssassin is available from http://spamassassin.apache.org/.
  88. o Trayicon
  89. Places an icon in the system tray that indicates whether
  90. you have any new mail. A tooltip also shows the current
  91. new, unread and total number of messages
  92. Additonal plugins can be found here:
  93. http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php
  94. 3. Actions
  95. ----------
  96. The "actions" feature is a convenient way for the user to launch external
  97. commands to process a complete message file including headers and body or
  98. just one of its parts. It allows also the use of an external command to
  99. filter the whole text or just a selected part in the message window or in
  100. the compose window. This is a generic tool that allows to do any uncommon
  101. actions on the messages, and thus extends the possibilities of Claws Mail.
  102. For example, Claws Mail does not include the rot13 cyphering algorithm
  103. popular in some newsgroups. It does not support uuencoded messages. As
  104. all these features can be handled by external programs, the actions
  105. provide a convenient way to use them from the menu bar.
  106. a. Usage
  107. --------
  108. To create a new action, go to Configuration -> Actions.... The "Action
  109. Creation" dialog offers to enter the Menu name that will trigger the
  110. command. The created menu will be found in the Tools -> Actions submenu.
  111. By inserting a slash / in the menu name, you create a submenu.
  112. The command is entered in the Command line entry. Note that Claws Mail
  113. stores every single email in a separate file. This allows to use the
  114. following syntax for the command:
  115. * %f denotes the file name of the selected message. If you selected more
  116. than one, then the command will be launched for each message with
  117. the appropriate file name
  118. * %F denotes the list of the file names of the selected message. If only
  119. one message is selected, this amounts to %f, but if more messages
  120. are selected, then the command will be launched only once with the
  121. list of the file names. (You can use both %f and %F in one command:
  122. then the command will be launched for each selected message with
  123. the name of this message and with the list of all selected
  124. messages. I did not find a practical example for this.)
  125. * %p denotes the current selected message part of a multipart message.
  126. The part is decoded accordingly. If the message is not a multipart
  127. message, it denotes the message body.
  128. * Prepending >: this will allow you to send to the command's standard
  129. input a text that you will enter in a dialog window.
  130. * Prepending *: this will allow you to send to the command's standard
  131. input a text that you will enter in a dialog window. But in
  132. contrast to prepending >, the entered text is hidden (useful when
  133. entering passwords).
  134. * Appending an ampersand &: this will run the command asynchronously.
  135. That means "fire and forget". Claws Mail won't wait for the
  136. command to finish, nor will it catch its output or its error
  137. messages.
  138. * Prepending the vertical bar | (pipe-in): this will send the current
  139. displayed text or the current selected text from the message view
  140. or the compose window to the command standard input. The command
  141. will silently fail if more than one message is selected.
  142. * Appending the vertical bar | (pipe-out): this will replace the current
  143. displayed text or the current selected text from the message window
  144. or the compose window by the command standard output. The command
  145. will silently fail if more than one message is selected.
  146. Note: It is not possible to use actions containing %f, %F or %p from the
  147. compose window.
  148. When a command is run, and unless it is run asynchronously, Claws Mail
  149. will be insensitive to any interaction and it will wait for the command to
  150. finish. If the command takes too long (5 seconds), it will popup a dialog
  151. window allowing to stop it. This dialog will also be displayed as soon as
  152. the command has some output: error messages or even its standard output
  153. when the command is not a "pipe-out" command. When multiple commands are
  154. being run, they are run in parallel and each command output is separated
  155. from the outputs of the others.
  156. a. Examples
  157. -----------
  158. Here are some examples that are listed in the same syntax as used for
  159. storing the actions list. You can copy and past the definition in your
  160. ~/.claws-mail/actionsrc file (exit Claws Mail before). The syntax
  161. is very simple: one line per action, each action contains the menu name
  162. and the command line separated by a colon and a space ": "
  163. Purpose: rot13 cyphering
  164. Definition: Rot13: |tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M|
  165. Details: This will apply the rot13 cyphering algorithm to the
  166. (selected) text in the message/compose view.
  167. Purpose: Decoding uuencoded messages
  168. Definition: UUdeview: xdeview %F&
  169. Details: xdeview comes with uudeview. If an encoded file is split in
  170. multiple messages, just select them all and run the command.
  171. Purpose: Display uuencoded image
  172. Definition: Display uuencoded: uudec %f&
  173. Details: Displays uuencoded files. The uudec[1] script can be found in
  174. the 'tools' directory of the distribution package.
  175. Purpose: Alter messages
  176. Definition: Edit message: gvim -f %F
  177. Details: Allows editing of any received message. Can be used to remove
  178. unneeded message parts, etc.
  179. Purpose: Pretty format
  180. Definition: Par: |par 72Tbgjqw74bEe B=._A_a 72bg|
  181. Details: par is a utility that can pretty format any text. It does a
  182. very good job in indenting quoted messages, and justifying
  183. text. Used when composing a message
  184. Purpose: Browse
  185. Definition: Part/Dillo: dillo %p&
  186. Details: Browse the selected message part in Dillo.
  187. [1] The uudec script can be found in the 'tools' directory of the
  188. distribution package. It needs uudecode and ImageMagick's display. The
  189. latter can be replaced by any image viewer that can get input from
  190. standard input. The script could also be modified to use temporary files
  191. instead of standard input.
  192. 4. Icon Themes
  193. --------------
  194. Claws has support for different icon sets. Several icon sets can be
  195. downloaded from http://www.claws-mail.org/themes.php
  196. You will need to create a directory called 'themes' in your config
  197. directory, unpack them into this directory, and then use the interface
  198. to select them, /Configuration/Preferences/Display/Themes
  199. This interface can also be used to install new themes.
  200. 5. Quick Search with extended search
  201. ------------------------------------
  202. Quick Search, with its powerful Extended search function,
  203. enables searching through folder's messages.
  204. Extended Search allows one to define criteria that messages must
  205. have in order to match and be displayed in the summary view pane.
  206. Search types titled From, Subject and To are self explanatory.
  207. Search type extended allows one to use Claws Mail's powerful
  208. filtering engine to select messages. Examples:
  209. from regexpcase "foo"
  210. subject regexp "Bug" & to regexp "claws-mail"
  211. Additionally, it is possible to use simpler yet equally
  212. powerfull patterns for message selections. Mutt users will
  213. immediately recognise most of the available patterns:
  214. Pattern Parameter Selects
  215. ----------------------------------------------------
  216. a all messages
  217. ag # messages whose age is greater than #
  218. al # messages whose age is lower than #
  219. b S messages which contain S in the message body
  220. B S messages which contain S in the whole message
  221. c S messages carbon-copied to S
  222. C S message is either to: or cc: to S
  223. D deleted messages
  224. e S messages which contain S in the Sender field
  225. E S true if execute "S" succeeds
  226. f S messages originating from user S
  227. F forwarded messages
  228. h S messages which contain header S
  229. i S messages which contain S in Message-Id header
  230. I S messages which contain S in inreplyto header
  231. k # messages which are marked with color #
  232. L locked messages
  233. n S messages which are in newsgroup S
  234. N new messages
  235. O old messages
  236. r messages which have been replied to
  237. R read messages
  238. s S messages which contain S in subject
  239. se # messages whose score is equal to #
  240. sg # messages whose score is greater than #
  241. sl # messages whose score is lower than #
  242. Se # messages whose size is equal to #
  243. Sg # messages whose size is greater than #
  244. Ss # messages whose size is smaller than #
  245. t S messages which have been sent to S
  246. tg S messages with tags containing S
  247. tagged messages which are tagged
  248. T marked messages
  249. U unread messages
  250. x S messages which contain S in References header
  251. x "cmd args" messages returning 0 when passed to command
  252. - %F is message file
  253. y S messages which contain S in X-Label header
  254. & logical AND operator
  255. | logical OR operator
  256. ! or ~ logical NOT operator
  257. % case sensitive search
  258. all filtering expressions are allowed
  259. # means number
  260. S means regexp string
  261. It is possible to use logical operators AND (&), OR (|) and
  262. NOT (! or ~). Case sensitive search is achieved with %.
  263. Examples:
  264. T marked messages
  265. U unread messages
  266. f "john beavis" messages from john beavis
  267. %f "John Beavis" messages from John Beavis (case sensitive)
  268. ~s foo messages which do not have foo in the subject
  269. f foo & ~s bar messages from foo that do not have bar in thesubject
  270. 6. Custom toolbar
  271. -----------------
  272. /Configuration/Preferences/Customize Toolbars lets you define the
  273. toolbar you want. The configuration dialog enables you to set an icon,
  274. an appropriate text, and map an action to it. Actions to choose
  275. from are predefined. You can also have your "Claws Mail Actions"
  276. (refer to "Actions" above) on your toolbar.
  277. Example:
  278. * Configuration->Actions
  279. - add an entry "Dillo: dillo %p&"
  280. * Configuration->Custom toolbar
  281. - select Claws Mail Actions Feature
  282. - select "Dillo: dillo %p&" from drop down list
  283. - choose an icon and click ok
  284. 7. Partial downloading of POP3 mails
  285. ------------------------------------
  286. Messages over the configured size limit, (/[Account preferences]/
  287. Receive/Message size limit), will be partially retrieved. These
  288. messages will have a Notice View displayed (above the Message View),
  289. informing of the partially retrieved state and the total size of the
  290. message. The Notice View will also contain two buttons, 'Mark for
  291. download' and 'Mark for deletion'. If the user clicks 'Mark for
  292. download', the message will be downloaded in full at the next message
  293. retrieval, (and the partial one deleted); if the user checks 'Mark for
  294. deletion' it will be removed from the server after the normal delay
  295. as specified in the POP3 account's 'Receive' preferences.
  296. If a user moves a partially retrieved message to the Trash folder
  297. it will be deleted on the server at the next retrieval after the
  298. Trash folder has been emptied.
  299. 8. Hidden options
  300. -----------------
  301. It is recommnede that you use Clawsker to edit these options,
  302. http://www.claws-mail.org/clawsker
  303. addressbook_use_editaddress_dialog (default: 1)
  304. Use a separate dialogue to edit a person's details. '0'
  305. will use a form embedded in the addressbook's main window.
  306. 0: off 1: on
  307. bold_unread (default: 1)
  308. show unread messages using bold font in summary view
  309. 0: off 1: on
  310. cache_max_mem_usage (default: 4096)
  311. the maximum kB of memory Claws Mail should use. It will try
  312. to keep the memory usage below this value, but it will always
  313. use the assigned amount of memory for speed gain.
  314. cache_min_keep_time (default: 15)
  315. the minimum time in minutes Claws Mail will keep the folder
  316. cache in memory. If a cache is more recent than this time it
  317. will not be freed even if the memory usage is above the
  318. maximum. You should probably set this value higher than your
  319. mail check interval. Otherwise the cache will always be freed
  320. between checks even if the folder is accessed on every check,
  321. which will cause much disk IO.
  322. compose_no_markup (default: 0)
  323. prevent italic and bold text in the Compose dialog account
  324. selector
  325. 0: normal (markup) 1: no markup
  326. emphasis_color (default: #0000CF)
  327. The colour used for the X-Mailer line when its value is
  328. Claws Mail.
  329. enable_dotted_lines (default: 0)
  330. Use the old dotted line look in the main window GtkTreeView
  331. components, (Folder List and Message List), instead of the
  332. modern lineless look.
  333. 0: off 1: on
  334. enable_hscrollbar (default: 1)
  335. enable horizontal scroll bar in summary view
  336. 0: off 1: on
  337. enable_swap_from (default: 0)
  338. display sender's email address in To column in Sent folder
  339. instead of recipient's
  340. 0: off 1: on
  341. folderview_vscrollbar_policy (default: 0)
  342. specify the policy of vertical scroll bar of folder view
  343. 0: always 1: automatic 2: never
  344. hover_timeout (default: 500)
  345. time in milliseconds that will cause a folder tree to expand
  346. during drag n drop when the mouse cover is held over it
  347. live_dangerously (default: 0)
  348. Don't ask for confirmation before definitive deletion of
  349. emails.
  350. 0: off 1: on
  351. log_error_color (default: #af0000)
  352. log_in_color (default: #000000)
  353. log_msg_color (default: #00af00)
  354. log_out_color (default: #0000ef)
  355. log_warn_color (default: #af0000)
  356. log_status_ok_color (default: #00af00)
  357. log_status_nok_color (default: #0000af)
  358. log_status_skip_color (default: #aa00aa)
  359. The colours used in the Network Log window.
  360. outgoing_fallback_to_ascii (default: 1)
  361. The outgoing encoding of a message will use 7bit US-ASCII
  362. whenever it is suitable for the message content, ignoring
  363. the "Outgoing encoding" option unless it is necessary.
  364. Turning this option off forces the user-defined encoding to
  365. be used, regardless of message content.
  366. 0: off 1: on
  367. primary_paste_unselects (default: 0)
  368. Causes the primary buffer to be cleared and the insertion
  369. point to be repositioned when the middle mouse button is used
  370. for pasting text.
  371. 0: off 1: on
  372. respect_flowed_format (default: 0)
  373. Respect format=flowed on text/plain message parts. This will
  374. cause some mails to have long lines, but will fix some URLs
  375. that would otherwise be wrapped.
  376. 0: off 1: on
  377. save_parts_readwrite (default: 0)
  378. Saves temporary files when opening attachment with write bit
  379. set.
  380. 0: off 1: on
  381. skip_ssl_cert_check (default: 0)
  382. Disables the verification of SSL certificates.
  383. 0: off 1: on
  384. statusbar_update_step (default: 10)
  385. update stepping in progress bars.
  386. stripes_color_offset (default: 4000)
  387. Specify the value to use when creating alternately coloured
  388. lines in GtkTreeView components. The smaller the value, the
  389. less visible the difference in the alternating colours of the
  390. lines.
  391. textview_cursor_visible (default: 0)
  392. display the cursor in the message view.
  393. 0: off 1: on
  394. thread_by_subject_max_age (default: 10)
  395. number of days to include a message in a thread when using
  396. 'Thread using subject in addition to standard headers'.
  397. toolbar_detachable (default: 0)
  398. hide handles in the toolbar.
  399. 0: off 1: on
  400. two_line_vertical (default: 1)
  401. Spread message list information over two lines when using the
  402. three column layout.
  403. 0: off 1: on
  404. unsafe_ssl_certs (default: 0)
  405. Allows Claws to remember multiple SSL certificates for a
  406. given server/port.
  407. 0: off 1: on
  408. use_networkmanager (default: 1)
  409. Use NetworkManager to switch offline automatically.
  410. 0: off 1: on
  411. use_stripes_everywhere (default: 1)
  412. Enable alternately coloured lines in GtkTreeView components.
  413. 0: off 1: on
  414. use_stripes_in_summaries (default: 1)
  415. Enable alternately coloured lines in the main window
  416. GtkTreeView components, (Folder List and Message List). The
  417. only useful way to use this option is to set it to 0 when
  418. use_stripes_everywhere is set to 1.
  419. 0: off 1: on
  420. utf8_instead_of_locale_for_broken_mail (default: 0)
  421. Use UTF-8 encoding for broken mails instead of current
  422. locale.
  423. 0: off 1: on
  424. warn_dnd (default: 1)
  425. Display a confirmation dialog on drag'n'drop of folders.
  426. 0: off 1: on
  427. 9. Tools
  428. ---------
  429. You will find all of these tools in the 'tools' directory:
  430. acroread2claws-mail.pl
  431. send PDFs from Adobe Reader 7
  432. calypso_convert.pl
  433. import mbox files exported by calypso
  434. claws-mail-compose-insert-files.pl
  435. insert files into a new Compose window
  436. convert_mbox.pl
  437. convert mbox format to MH format
  438. csv2addressbook.pl
  439. import Becky, Thunderbird, Kmail, Gmail and Fox Mail
  440. address books
  441. eud2gc.py
  442. convert a Eudora (v.3?) addressbook to vCard
  443. (GnomeCard) format
  444. filter_conv.pl
  445. convert sylpheed main's filter rules, (< 0.9.99),
  446. into Claws' filtering format
  447. filter_conv_new.pl
  448. convert sylpheed main's filter rules, (>= 0.9.99),
  449. into Claws' filtering format
  450. fix-date.sh
  451. Replace/Add a message's Date field
  452. freshmeat_search.pl
  453. Actions script to lookup the selected text on
  454. Freshmeat www.freshmeat.net using the configured
  455. browser
  456. gif2xface.pl
  457. convert a gif file to an xface
  458. google_msgid.pl
  459. Actions script to lookup selected message-id on
  460. google using mozilla.
  461. google_search.pl
  462. Actions script to lookup up the selected text on
  463. google using the configured browser
  464. kdeservicemenu/*
  465. Service Menus for Konqueror to allow sending
  466. files to Claws Mail
  467. kmail2claws-mail.pl
  468. convert a Kmail addressbook to a Claws Mail
  469. addressbook
  470. kmail2claws-mail_v2.pl
  471. new version of the address book conversion script
  472. for newer versions of Kmail/Kaddressbook
  473. kmail-mailbox2claws-mail.pl
  474. convert a Kmail mailbox into a Claws mail mailbox
  475. mairix.sh
  476. a wrapper to mairix, to enable global searches in mail
  477. folders
  478. mew2claws-mail.pl
  479. import a Mew address book
  480. multiwebsearch.pl
  481. search any searchable website for the selected text
  482. nautilus2claws-mail.sh
  483. enables sending files from the Nautilus file manager
  484. to Claws Mail
  485. OOo2claws-mail.pl
  486. enable OpenOffice to send documents through
  487. Claws Mail
  488. outlook2claws-mail.pl
  489. convert an Outlook contacts list to a Claws Mail
  490. addressbook
  491. popfile-link.sh
  492. open messages in POPFile control center to edit their status
  493. sylprint.pl
  494. process a Claws Mail message and print it using enscript
  495. if available or lpr if not
  496. tb2claws-mail
  497. convert an addressbook exported from The Bat! into
  498. a Claws Mail addressbook
  499. tbird2claws.py
  500. integrate a Thunderbird folder tree into Claws Mail
  501. textviewer.pl
  502. Display various attachments as text
  503. textviewer.sh
  504. attempt to view an attachment as plain text
  505. thunderbird-filters-convertor.pl
  506. convert Thunderbird filtering rules
  507. update-po
  508. translators' tool that eases the creation of
  509. *.po files
  510. uudec
  511. decode UUencoded mails, for use with Actions
  512. uuooffice
  513. Decode uuencoded attachments and open them with OpenOffice
  514. vcard2xml.py
  515. import an Evolution vCard
  516. 10. How to contribute
  517. ---------------------
  518. You are encourged to send patches via the Claws Mail bugzilla at
  519. http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
  520. But please first read the patch guidelines here:
  521. http://www.claws-mail.org/devel.php
  522. If that's too troublesome, either contact Paul Mangan
  523. <paul@claws-mail.org> or consider posting to the
  524. Claws Mail-users mailing list.
  525. http://www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php
  526. Bugs can be reported with Claws' bugzilla at:
  527. http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
  528. Of course, you can also post to the Claws Mail-users mailing list.
  529. Also, we really try to incorporate good contributions, but sometimes we
  530. don't have enough time. If the contribution is really big, or requires
  531. a long time to stabilise, send a mail to Paul Mangan
  532. <paul@claws-mail.org>. We can probably arrange access to the
  533. Claws Mail CVS tree.
  534. 11. How to request features
  535. ---------------------------
  536. Ask around in Claws Mail-users ML. Note that some developers may
  537. have already thought about your feature and may, perhaps, be implementing
  538. it, or the feature was already discussed and rejected for whatever reason.
  539. You might want to go ahead and hack a patch for it. (That would be very
  540. cool!) Another possibility is to add a request to our bugzilla, (severity:
  541. 'enhancement'), at
  542. http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
  543. 12. Installing Claws Mail from CVS
  544. --------------------------------------
  545. a. Downloading
  546. --------------
  547. To download the latest cvs cd to the directory where you wish to download
  548. to and type the following information:
  549. export CVS_RSH=ssh
  550. cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@claws-mail.org:/ co -r gtk2 claws
  551. Later, when you want to update your local repository, you'll just have to
  552. go back to the 'claws' directory, and type:
  553. export CVS_RSH=ssh
  554. cvs -z3 update -dPR
  555. b. Installing
  556. -------------
  557. To compile and install use the following commands:
  558. ./autogen.sh [add configure options as required]
  559. make
  560. make install [as root]
  561. You will need a full set of development tools installed to be able to run
  562. autogen.sh. See also ac/README.
  563. 13. Release History
  564. -------------------
  565. GTK 2 Version
  566. -------------
  567. 2010-01-08 3.7.4
  568. 2009-10-09 3.7.3
  569. 2009-07-03 3.7.2
  570. 2009-03-06 3.7.1
  571. 2008-12-19 3.7.0
  572. 2008-10-10 3.6.1
  573. 2008-10-03 3.6.0
  574. 2008-06-27 3.5.0
  575. 2008-04-18 3.4.0
  576. 2008-02-23 3.3.1
  577. 2008-02-08 3.3.0
  578. 2007-12-17 3.2.0
  579. 2007-11-19 3.1.0
  580. 2007-10-02 3.0.2
  581. 2007-09-17 3.0.1
  582. 2007-09-03 3.0.0
  583. 2007-07-02 2.10.0
  584. 2007-05-08 2.9.2
  585. 2007-04-19 2.9.1
  586. 2007-04-16 2.9.0
  587. 2007-03-06 2.8.1
  588. 2007-02-26 2.8.0
  589. 2007-01-26 2.7.2
  590. 2007-01-15 2.7.1
  591. 2007-01-08 2.7.0
  592. 2006-12-04 2.6.1 [first release as Claws Mail]
  593. 2006-11-06 2.6.0
  594. 2006-10-19 2.5.6
  595. 2006-10-12 2.5.5
  596. 2006-10-11 2.5.4
  597. 2006-10-04 2.5.3
  598. 2006-09-26 2.5.2
  599. 2006-09-26 2.5.1
  600. 2006-09-25 2.5.0
  601. 2006-07-31 2.4.0
  602. 2006-06-20 2.3.1
  603. 2006-06-12 2.3.0
  604. 2006-06-08 2.2.3
  605. 2006-06-06 2.2.2
  606. 2006-06-05 2.2.1
  607. 2006-05-08 2.2.0
  608. 2006-04-17 2.1.1
  609. 2006-04-05 2.1.0
  610. 2006-01-30 2.0.0
  611. 2005-11-08 1.9.100
  612. 2005-10-31 1.9.99
  613. 2005-10-03 1.9.15
  614. 2005-09-05 1.9.14
  615. 2005-07-22 1.9.13
  616. 2005-06-27 1.9.12
  617. 2005-05-19 1.9.11
  618. 2005-05-09 1.9.9
  619. 2005-03-18 1.9.6
  620. GTK 1 Version
  621. -------------
  622. 2005-06-27 1.0.5
  623. 2005-05-09 1.0.4a
  624. 2005-03-24 1.0.4
  625. 2005-03-10 1.0.3
  626. 2005-02-08 1.0.1
  627. 2005-01-17 1.0.0
  628. 2004-12-06 0.9.13
  629. 2004-09-27 0.9.12b
  630. 2004-08-23 0.9.12a
  631. 2004-06-28 0.9.12
  632. 2004-05-31 0.9.11claws
  633. 2004-03-08 0.9.10claws
  634. 2004-02-06 0.9.9claws
  635. 2003-12-19 0.9.8claws
  636. 2003-11-26 0.9.7claws
  637. 2003-10-02 0.9.6claws
  638. 2003-09-10 0.9.5claws
  639. 2003-08-04 0.9.4claws
  640. 2003-07-12 0.9.3claws
  641. 2003-05-24 0.9.0claws
  642. 2003-03-12 0.8.11claws
  643. 2003-02-12 0.8.10claws
  644. 2003-01-24 0.8.9claws
  645. 2002-12-26 0.8.8claws
  646. 2002-12-23 0.8.7claws
  647. 2002-11-25 0.8.6claws
  648. 2002-10-07 0.8.5claws
  649. 2002-09-22 0.8.3claws
  650. 2002-08-28 0.8.2claws
  651. 2002-07-30 0.8.1claws
  652. 2002-07-23 0.8.0claws
  653. 2002-06-15 0.7.8claws
  654. 2002-05-18 0.7.6claws
  655. 2002-04-28 0.7.5claws
  656. 2002-03-11 0.7.4claws
  657. 2002-02-19 0.7.2claws
  658. 2002-02-14 0.7.1claws
  659. 2002-01-14 0.7.0claws
  660. 2001-12-16 0.6.6claws
  661. 2001-10-16 0.6.5claws8
  662. 2001-09-30 0.6.2claws
  663. 2001-08-14 0.6.1claws
  664. 2001-07-13 0.5.1claws
  665. 2001-07-01 0.5.0claws3
  666. 2001-06-16 0.4.99claws
  667. 2001-05-29 0.4.99claws3
  668. 2001-05-11 0.4.67claws1
  669. 14. Useful links
  670. ----------------
  671. Homepage
  672. http://www.claws-mail.org/
  673. User Contributed FAQ
  674. http://www.claws-mail.org/faq/
  675. Project page
  676. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sylpheed-claws/
  677. Downloads
  678. http://www.claws-mail.org/downloads.php
  679. Extra Plugins
  680. http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php
  681. Icon Themes
  682. http://www.claws-mail.org/themes.php
  683. CVS webview
  684. http://scm.dotsrc.org/viewvc.cgi/claws-mail/claws/?pathrev=gtk2
  685. Mailing Lists
  686. http://www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php
  687. Users Mailing List archive
  688. http://lists.sunsite.dk/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi/28
  689. Commits Announcement List archive
  690. http://lists.sunsite.dk/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi/27
  691. Bug/Patch/Feature Request Tracker
  692. http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
  693. Internationalisation Status
  694. http://www.claws-mail.org/i18n.php
  695. Donations
  696. http://www.claws-mail.org/sponsors.php
  697. Planet Claws Mail
  698. http://planet.claws-mail.org/
  699. Claws Mail for Windows homepage
  700. http://www.claws-mail.org/win32/