claws-mail (1)

NAME

claws-mail - a GTK+ based fast email and news client

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Claws Mail is an email client (and news reader) based on GTK+, running on the X Window System, and aiming for:

[bu] Quick response
[bu] Graceful, and sophisticated interface
[bu] Easy configuration, intuitive operation
[bu] Abundant features

Currently implemented features include:

[bu] POP3 support
[bu] IMAP4rev1 support
[bu] integrated NetNews client
[bu] unlimited multiple account handling
[bu] thread display
[bu] filtering
[bu] MIME (attachments)
[bu] built-in image view
[bu] X-Face and (colour) Face support
[bu] multiple MH folder support
[bu] mbox importing / exporting
[bu] external editor support
[bu] message queueing
[bu] automatic mail checking
[bu] draft message function
[bu] template function
[bu] line-wrapping
[bu] clickable URI
[bu] XML-based address book
[bu] LDAP, vCard, and JPilot support
[bu] newly arrived and unread message management
[bu] Mew/Wanderlust-like key bind
[bu] printing
[bu] APOP authentication support
[bu] SMTP AUTH support
[bu] SSL support (POP3, SMTP, IMAP4rev1)
[bu] IPv6 support
[bu] drag & drop (partially implemented)
[bu] GnuPG support
[bu] automake + autoconf support
[bu] internationalization of UI messages by gettext
[bu] support of many code sets, including UTF-8 (Unicode) (when using libjconv)
[bu] support for plugins

This list is not complete.

OPTIONS

--compose [address]
--compose-from-file file
--subscribe [uri]
--attach file1 [file2]...
--receive
--receive-all
--cancel-receiving
--cancel-sending
--send
--status
--status folder[/subfolder]
--status-full
--statistics
--reset-statistics
--select [#mh/mailbox/]folder[/msg|/msgid]
--online
--offline
--exit
--debug
--toggle-debug
--help
--version
--version-full
--config-dir
--alternate-config-dir [dir]
--geometry WxH+X+Y

FILES

$HOME/Mail

Default directory for mail storage.

$PREFIX/share/claws-mail

Global program directory.

$PREFIX/share/claws-mail/manual

Manual files in HTML, PDF, PostScript and plain text format.

$PREFIX/share/claws-mail/themes

Global themes directory.

$PREFIX/lib/claws-mail/plugins

Directory for plugins.

$PREFIX/include/claws-mail

Directory for header files.

$HOME/.claws-mail

Default directory for user's configuration files directory.

$HOME/.claws-mail/addrbook/*

Addressbook files.

$HOME/.claws-mail/autofaces/*

Automatic Faces and X-Faces files for accounts.

$HOME/.claws-mail/certs/*

SSL certificates received from mail servers.

$HOME/.claws-mail/tagsdb

Tags directory.

$HOME/.claws-mail/templates

User-defined templates directory.

$HOME/.claws-mail/themes

User's themes directory.

$HOME/.claws-mail/accountrc

Configuration for account(s).

$HOME/.claws-mail/actionsrc

User-defined custom actions.

$HOME/.claws-mail/addrbook/attributesrc

User-defined address book custom attributes.

$HOME/.claws-mail/claws.log

Claws Mail logfile.

$HOME/.claws-mail/clawsrc

Main configuration file.

$HOME/.claws-mail/command_history

User-specified commands.

$HOME/.claws-mail/customheaderrc

Configuration for custom headers for sending mail.

$HOME/.claws-mail/dispheaderrc

Configuration for custom display of headers in message view.

$HOME/.claws-mail/extraheaderrc

Editable extra headers to be added to compose window combobox.

$HOME/.claws-mail/folderitemrc

All folders' attributes.

$HOME/.claws-mail/folderlist.xml

Folder hierarchy listing.

$HOME/.claws-mail/gtkrc-2.0

Optional GTK+ settings to be load on startup.

$HOME/.claws-mail/matcherrc

Filtering and Processing function configuration.

$HOME/.claws-mail/menurc

Menu shortcut-key configuration.

$HOME/.claws-mail/messagesearch_history

User-specified searches in message bodies.

$HOME/.claws-mail/quicksearch_history

User-specified quick-search list.

$HOME/.claws-mail/messagesearch_history

User-specified searches in message bodies.

$HOME/.claws-mail/summary*_history

User-specified searches in message list.

$HOME/.claws-mail/passwordstorerc

User saved passwords.

$HOME/.claws-mail/tagsrc

User-specified tag list.

$HOME/.claws-mail/toolbar*.xml

User-defined custom toolbars.

Windows only

%TEMP%\claws-win32.log

Claws Mail output file when --debug is enabled. If %TEMP% is not set it defaults to windows directory (usually C:\Windows) or C:\ if windows directory is not available.

%APPDATA%\Claws-mail\claws.log

Claws Mail log file.

EXAMPLES

To run this program the standard way type:

claws-mail

Alternatively you can run it with the following options:

--compose [address]

To open a Compose window.

--compose-from-file file

Open composition window with data from the given file. Use - as file name for reading from standard input. Content format: headers first (To: header required) until an empty line is found, then mail body until end of file.

--subscribe [uri]

Subscribe to the given URI if possible.

--attach file1 [file2]...

Open composition window with specified files attached.

--compose "mailto:%t?subject=%s&cc=%c&body=%b"

This syntax can be used in web-browsers and CLI to open a pre-populated Compose window. Possible fields after the destination recipient are: subject, from, cc, bcc, in-reply-to, body, insert (insert a file in body part, needs an absolute path), attach (attach a file, needs an absolute path, see also: --attach).

--receive

Receive new messages.

--receive-all

Receive new messages from all accounts.

--cancel-receiving

Cancel receiving of messages.

--cancel-sending

Cancel sending of messages.

--send

Send all queued messages.

--status

Show the total number of messages:
[new][unread][unread answers to marked][total]

--status folder[/subfolder]

Show the total number of messages in the specified folder:
[new][unread][unread answers to marked][total]

--status-full

Show the total number of messages per folder:
[new][unread][unread answers to marked][total]

--statistics

Show session statistics.

--reset-statistics

Reset session statistics.

--select [#mh/mailbox/]folder[/msg|/msgid]

On startup, jumps to the specified folder/message.

--online

Start Claws Mail in (or switch to, if already running) online mode.

--offline

Start Claws Mail in (or switch to, if already running) offline mode.

--help

Display the help message and exit.

--exit

Exit Claws Mail.

--debug

For debug mode (on Windows systems output is written to a file instead of standard error output, see Windows only on FILES section).

--toggle-debug

Toggle debug mode of the running Claws Mail instance.

--version

Display version number and exit.

--version-full

Display version number and compiled-in features then exit.

--config-dir

Display the CONFIG-DIR and exit.

--alternate-config-dir [dir]

Start Claws Mail with the configuration stored in the [dir] directory.

--geometry WxH+X+Y

Set initial X geometry of main window.

ENVIRONMENT

CLAWS_NO_CRASH

If defined disables crash dialog (only if Claws Mail has been built with crash dialog feature enabled).

DISPLAY

Default host and display number to use.

ETPANSERVER, ETPANPORT

When using a tunnel command to open server connections these temporary variables are set to the server name and server port respectively in the environment of the running command.

GPG_AGENT_INFO

The information to access the GPG agent if using GPG agent is enabled in GPG plugin preferences (this is usually set by the agent when launched, otherwise it likely means the GPG agent is not running).

G_BROKEN_FILENAMES

Assumes that filenames are in the locale encoding rather than in UTF-8.

HOME

Full path of the user's home directory.

LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG

Locale to use for non-windows systems (the first one not empty is used).

PILOT_CHARSET

If defined overrides default J-Pilot charset (CP1252).

POSIXLY_CORRECT

If defined regular expressions matching follows POSIX standards.

SESSION_MANAGER

If defined tries to use the Session Manager (only if Claws Mail has been built with libSM feature enabled).

SHELL

If defined overrides default shell "sh" used by Spamassassin plugin to launch spamc wrappers.

SSL_CERT_DIR

Use this CA certificates directory instead known system directories.

SSL_CERT_FILE

Use this CA certificates file instead of searching known system files.

USER

Used to initialize default "user_id" preference in newly created accounts.

BUGS

You can search for existing bugs and report new ones on Claws Mail bugzilla:

<www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla>

COPYRIGHT

1999-2017 The Claws Mail team and Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Portions are also Copyright:
(C) 2007-2009 g10 Code GmbH
(C) 1999-2005 Nullsoft, Inc.
(C) 1991-1993, 1996-2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
(C) 2001 Thomas Link, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
(C) 1995-1997 Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball
(C) 1995-1997 Peter Mattis, Spencer Kimball, Josh MacDonald
(C) 1997-1998 Jay Painter <jpaint@serv.net><jpaint@gimp.org>
(C) 1999-2003 Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org>
(C) 2000 Evan Martin
(C) 1998 Lars Hamann and Stefan Jeske
(C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 GNOME Foundation
(C) 2004-2006 Christian Hammond
(C) 2003-2004 Pawel Salek
(C) 2001, 2002 - DINH Viet Hoa
(C) 1999-2000, Gael Roualland <gael.roualland@iname.com>
(C) 1998-2002 Sendmail, Inc.
(C) 2007-2008 Juha Kautto (juha at xfce.org)
(C) 1994-2002 World Wide Web Consortium
(C) 1999 Graham Davison
(C) 1999 Eric Busboom
(C) 2000, Eric Busboom, www.softwarestudio.org
(C) 2002-2007 Randall Hand <yerase@yerot.com>
(C) 2001 by Werner Koch <dd9jn@gnu.org>
(C) 2004 Apache Software Foundation
(C) 2008 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
(C) 2002 Red Hat, Inc.; Copyright 1998, 2001 Tim Janik
(C) 2008-2009 Christian Hammond, David Trowbridge
(C) 2003-2005 Lars Lindner <lars.lindner@gmx.net>
(C) 2004,2005 Nathan J. Conrad <t98502@users.sourceforge.net>
(C) 2004 Karl Soderstrom <ks@xanadunet.net>
(C) 2000 Helix Code, Inc. (www.helixcode.com)

LICENSE

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

See COPYING file on toplevel distribution directory for more license details.

AUTHORS

The Claws Mail Team

Holger Berndt                  <berndth@users.sf.net>

Tristan Chabredier             <wwp@claws-mail.org>

Andrej Kacian                  <andrej@kacian.sk>

Darko Koruga                   <darko@users.sf.net>

Ricardo Mones Lastra   <ricardo@mones.org>

Charles Lehner                 <charles@claws-mail.org>

Colin Leroy                    <colin@colino.net>

Paul Mangan                    <paul@claws-mail.org>

Salvatore De Paolis    <iwkse@claws-mail.org>

Pawel Pekala                   <cOrn@o2.pl>

Michael Rasmussen              <mir@datanom.net>

Previous team members

Ho`a Vi^et Dinh, Keith Edmunds, Match Grun, Melvin Hadasht, Oliver Haertel, Christoph Hohmann, Alfons Hoogervorst, Werner Koch, Thorsten Maerz, Leandro A. F. Pereira, Luke Plant, Martin Schaaf, Carsten Schurig, Fabien Vantard, Sergey Vlasov and Hiroyuki Yamamoto.

SEE ALSO

Claws Mail Homepage

<www.claws-mail.org>

Claws Mail frequently asked questions

<www.claws-mail.org/faq>

Claws Mail online manual

<www.claws-mail.org/manual>

Claws Mail plugins

<www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php>

X(7), xwininfo(1).