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Claws Mail is an email client (and news reader), based on GTK+. Questions should be related to the use of the software with a PC. Development and bug questions should be directed to the developers.

Claws Mail is a fork of Sylpheed email client and news reader, based on GTK+, featuring

  • Quick response
  • Graceful, and sophisticated interface
  • Easy configuration, intuitive operation
  • Abundant features
  • Extensibility
  • Robustness and stability

Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard.

The messages are managed in the standard MH format. Claws Mail can import 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.

Claws Mail is distributed under the GPL.

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Claws Mail warns that gmail certificate changed on every connection

Since recently, my Claws Mail client pops up a message "SSL/TSL certificate changed" every time it tries to connect to my gmail account (at pop.gmail.com), with two options: "Cancel connection" and "Accept and Save". I use accept and save, but after…
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Claws-Mail can't find its dictionaries for spell checking

Claws-Mail cannot find for whatever reason its spell checking files. What you see in the picture, is what pop up, when I click the "compose mail" button. What's happening here? Mind, you, that is an old .claws-mail directory, taken from another…
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No HTML viewer plugins available for Claws Mail any more?

I have been using Claws Mail as my email client for almost a decade. It's fast, configurable and friendly. However, it does not natively display HTML mail. For that you need a plugin, and three were earlier available - the Gtkhtml2 plugin, the…
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Is it possible to have Thunderbird-like local folders in claws-mail?

I like using claws-mail with an IMAP email account, but I need a way to move mail from my size-limited inbox to a local folder and still be able to search through it. Is this possible using a local mbox file or something? How?
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claws email change sort order to show latest email at the top

Every time I open Claws email it always shows the screen with the bottom email highlighted. I can change the order so that it is either the oldest or most recent email but cannot find a way so that Claws opens showing the top email which I would…
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Where does claws-mail save the mails and settings?

I am using claws mail on a windows 7 pc. Because I had computer problems I was forced to reinstall my computer on a new hard drive. After that I wanted to save my old mail folder and claws-mail settings and place them in the new computer. My…
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claws mail - modify email headers through an external program - for HTML messages

In Claws Mail, is there any way to insert / modify headers through an external program? According to this documentation on Actions, there does not seem to be any way to do this. Specifically, when running an action on a message that is being…
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Move to the next mail instead of the previous one when hitting Delete in Claws Mail

Background When I hit Delete (or Ctrl+d) in order to delete a selected email, the program selects the previous email (an older one). Question Is it possible to modify this behaviour so I can delete an email and move to the newer…
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Change default folder where claws-mail stores mails

How can I change the directory where claws-mail stores the mail folders? By default it stores it in /home/USERNAME/. I would like to have them in a hidden directory. Searching the web did not yield any usable result.
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How do I apply claws-mail filters automatically?

I've installed claws-mail on arch and created some filters to sort my emails into different folders based on the age of the email. However, I have to manually apply the filters and would like them to apply automatically. I have not been able to find…
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Import emails from Claws IMAP cache

I am trying to import an IMAP account composed of many folders from Claws Mail internal cache. Claws is unfortunately unable to export all the folders by selecting the root account. When checking the internal Claws cache folder, each mail is a plain…
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Get Claw-Mail to read Exchange Calendar

I recently installed Claw-Mail and DavMail to talk to the office Exchange server to my Ubuntu workstation. The mail part works really well. I installed the vCalendar plugin in Claws-mail to read my Exchange Calendar information and that does not…
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Ubuntu: Is there a GUI for reading my mail (sent by running processes like crontab)?

I have hundreds of mail sent by crontab. It is extremely tedious to go through them one by one on the command line and read/delete them. Is there a GUI that allows me to do that (so I can block select/delete them etc? - I am totally not loving the…
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Claws Mail 3.19.1 (GTK2 ver) Windows port, doesn't have subpixel anti-aliasing

I'm using the Windows port of Claws Mail 3.19.1 (latest version with GTK2) on Windows 10, but the fonts are not subpixel anti-aliased (RGB), they're either raw pixel edges ("crisp"), or grayscale smoothing which makes them blurry. For example if I…
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claws-mail: can it compose mail beyond plain text?

linux 6. claws-mail 4. Claws 4 works well. But all emails are composed in plain, ascii text. No other formatting appears possible. I want to know if claws supports the equivalent of rich-text: i.e. bold, bullets, numbered lists, colours, fonts,…
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