Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client. Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many features such as multiple accounts, POP3/SMTP/IMAP/NNTP support, OpenSSL, GnuPG, and LDAP support, a plugin system, spell checking, filtering, Actions, spam and virus filters, an address book, internationalization, and much more.
| Tags | Communications Email Email Clients (MUA) Usenet News |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases


Changes: Two new plugins were added: bsfilter and fancy.


Changes: Default Cc, Bcc, and Reply-To options have been added to Folder Properties. Face and X-Face previews have been added to the Custom Header Configuration dialog in Account preferences. Support for clickable gopher:// links has been added. GnuTLS compatibility mode is now used. Indonesian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Slovakian translations were added. The Bulgarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, and Spanish translations were updated.


Changes: Spell checking has been added for the subject in the Compose window. When replying to signed and/or encrypted mail and the preference to sign and/or encrypt is set, the original mail's privacy system is automatically used, if available. If a text/calendar attachment is present in a message, it is automatically selected if a suitable plugin (i.e. vCalendar) is available. The manual has been updated. The Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Swedish translations were updated. Several bugs have been fixed.


Changes: This release contains 16 plugins.


Changes: Expanding/collapsing of threads is now approximately 95% faster. Cache reading is now approximately 10% faster. The shortcut key settings of the main window and the message list context menus are now connected. In the Compose window, on the Others tab, the 'Save message to' entry now has a drop-down list of the previous save locations. A hidden option has been added, 'primary_paste_unselects'. kdeservicemenu - support for KDE 4 has been added. Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Russian, and Swedish translations have been updated. A Czech translation has been added.