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Claws Mail is an email client (and news reader), based on GTK+, featuring Quick response Graceful, and sophisticated interface Easy configuration, intuitive operation Abundant features Extensibility Robustness and stabilityThe appearance and interface are designed to be familiar to new users coming from other popular email clients, as well as experienced users. Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard.The messages are managed in the standard MH format, which features fast access and data security. You'll be able to import your emails from almost any other email client, and export them just as easily.Lots of extra functionality, like an RSS aggregator, calendar, or laptop LED handling, are provided by extra plugins. FeaturesClaws Mail includes all of the features you'd expect, such as:Multiple accountsThreaded displayFilteringMime attachmentsUsenet news reading and postingSSL over POP3, SMTP, IMAP4rev1 and NNTP protocolsGnuPG support (with GPGME)User-defined headersColour labels Multiple MH folder supportMbox import/exportExternal editorMessage queueing and draftingAutomated mail checkingLine-wrappingClickable URIsAddressbookPrintingMore featuresClaws Mail also includes a lot of useful and powerful features, only some of which are listed below:Plugin mechanism (see below)ActionsTemplatesBuilt-in image viewerFace and X-Face headers supportReply-finderFast message cache systemPer-folder processing mechanismSpell checking (with aspell)Drag'n'drop supportPOP before SMTP authenticationAutomatic saving of message when composingHandling of Unix signalsControl by command-lineBuilt-in GDB crash handler (just in case ;-)Customisable toolbarsPowerful Quick Search function'Dynamic' signaturesFont configurationThemes mechanism (see available themes)Automatic account selectionMessage scoringAbility to hide read messagesIMAP over SSH TunnelIMAP: CAPABILITY support.Return-Receipt handlingMessage priority setting'Ignore thread' optionAnti-phishing URL checkConfigurable notification of new mail7bit and 8bit encoding of attachmentsNNTP: auto-mark cross-posted messages Configurable (non-)display of imagesFull coloration of messagesUser-definable quotation charactersWatch marked threadsLog windowReply to part of an emailReplied and forwarded flagsMan page and documentationFull GnuPG support'On-the-fly' changing of the type of GnuPG encryption and/or signing used (MIME/ascii) in the Compose windowManual selection of MIME type and encoding for attachmentsSave all attachments in a mail at onceSave 2 or more selected files to a single fileSSL certificate managementUser-definable newsgroup names abbreviation lengthAddress book: import from LDIF, Mutt or Pine nativelyAddress book: import from other mailers via scriptsAuto-completion of recipients (also via LDAP)Harvest addresses for addressbookAddressbook export to various formatsPer-folder properties: Return-receipt Save messages Default To: Subject simplification Folder CHMOD Default account Folder colour Offline synchronisation Default dictionaryPluginsThe following plugins are included in the source package.Bogofilter Enables the scanning of incoming mail received from a POP, IMAP, or LOCAL account using Bogofilter. It can optionally delete mail identified as spam or save it to a designated folder, and also can be used to train Bogofilter. Bogofilter is available from http://www.bogofilter.org/Dillo HTML Viewer Enables the viewing of html messages using the Dillo web browser, version 0.7.0 or newer. It uses Dillo's --local option by default for safe browsing. Dillo is available from http://www.dillo.orgPGP/Core Handles core PGP functions and is a dependency of both the PGP/Inline and PGP/MIME plugins. Requires GnuPG and GPGME: http://www.gnupg.org/gpgme.htmlPGP/Inline Handles PGP/Inline signed and/or encrypted mails. You can decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails. Requires GnuPG and GPGME: http://www.gnupg.org/gpgme.htmlPGP/MIME Handles PGP/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails. You can decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails. Requires GnuPG and GPGME: http://www.gnupg.org/gpgme.htmlS/MIME Handles S/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails. You can decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails.SpamAssassin Enables the scanning of incoming mail received from a POP, IMAP, or LOCAL account using SpamAssassin. It can optionally delete mail identified as spam or save it to a designated folder, and also can be used to train a local Spamassassin (or a remote one if Spamassassin >= 3.1 is installed both locally and remotely). SpamAssassin is available from http://spamassassin.apache.org/Trayicon Places an icon in the system tray that indicates whether you have any new mail. A tooltip also shows the current new, unread and total number of messages, and a contextual menu allows the most common operations.More... Additionally, several external plugins are available on the Plugins page. They are not included in Claws Mail to minimize the dependencies and size of the core software, but provide nice, extra functions.