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Chocolatey: claws-mail
https://www.claws-mail.org/ (on Windows)
A light and capable email client.
POP3, POP before SMTP, APOP, IMAP4rev1, IMAP over SSH, IMAP CAPABILITY, mh, SMTP, SMTP AUTH, NNTP, SSL/TLS, full OpenPGP support, external editors, filtering, muliple identities. Good multilanguage and character set support.
- Uses the MH Message Handling System.
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Can import the Mbox format.
- Formerly Sylpheed-Claws.
- It was originally a fork to showcase bleeding-edge features in Sylpheed, but become stable and popular. It essentially replaces Sylpheed.
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RSSyl is an RSS reader I used with Claws Mail.
- my script to generate empty emails
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- 2010-01-30 -- None of them change the basic colours.. wtf.
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- I've also used Google's GMail, both with its web-interface and downloading mail using Claws Mail.
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I used to use Sylpheed.
Usage and Troubleshooting ∞
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Automatic email check fails and spits out a popup in the middle of what you're doing.
- There is no solution.
Important plugins ∞
claws-mail-address-keeper | address_keeper.so |
claws-mail-attach-remover | att_remover.so |
claws-mail-fancy-plugin | TODO |
claws-mail-multi-notifier | notification.so |
Manually modifying hotkeys ∞
Spoiler
2024-05-06 - 4.1.1 on Windows 11
Some hotkeys won't work even if you think you changed them in-program.
Quit Claws Mail before pursuing this.
On Windows, edit %AppData%\Claws-mail\menurc
It is important you find any existing entry which has your hotkey, un-comment it and replace its hotkey with something unique, or ""
For example, to have n
go to the next unread item, do:
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Menu/View/Goto/NextNew" "") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/Menu/View/Goto/NextUnread" "n")
Hotkey to call an external program for the currently-viewed email ∞
Spoiler
2024-05-06 - 4.1.1 on Windows 11
Configuration > Actions
- Menu name: Edit current
- Command:
"C:\Program Files\Geany\bin\geany.exe" --new-instance %f
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(o) Shell command
Then in %AppData%\Claws-mail\menurc
add
(gtk_accel_path "<MainwinActions>/Menu/Tools/Actions/Edit current" "<Primary>e")
[FAIL] - Claws Mail and GMail OAth 2.0 support ∞
Spoiler
(Gmail - OAuth)
https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Oauth2
I can't get it to work.
- Go to the Google Developers Console
- Create a new project (or select an existing one).
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Enable the Gmail API for your project
- Go to the
Library
section - Search for
Gmail API
.
- Go to the
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Set up an OAuth consent screen
- Go to the
Credentials
page - Click on the
OAuth consent screen
tab. - Select a
User Type
for your project - Fill in the required information.
- Go to the
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Add the
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly
scope to your project- Go to the
Scopes
section of the OAuth consent screen - Click
Add or remove scopes
.
- Go to the
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Create an OAuth client ID
- Go to the
Credentials
page - Click
Create credentials
- Select
OAuth client ID
- Select
Desktop app
as the application type - Enter a name for your OAuth client. (e.g. Claws Mail)
- Go to the
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Obtain an authorization code
- Create an authorization URL using your OAuth client ID and the required scopes.
- Direct the user to the authorization URL to grant your application access to their Gmail account.
- After granting access, the user will be redirected back to your application with an authorization code.
- You may have to visit
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID&redirect_uri=urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob&response_type=code&scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly
in a web browser.
- Open Claws Mail
Configuration > Edit accounts
- Edit your desired email account.
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Oath2
> Enter the authorization code, client ID, and client secret in the Claws Mail OAuth2 interface and click theAuthorize
button.- 2023-05-18 on Claws Mail 4.1.1 - the
Authorize
button does nothing.
- 2023-05-18 on Claws Mail 4.1.1 - the
Alternatives ∞
Last updated 2024-07-16 at 22:44:09
Wow, I had to change a hidden preference to make the delete key work as-expected.
moved reviews into their own pages
FML Claws Mail and GMail OAth2 is still impossible..
Added external editor hotkey notes