Claws Mail is a free and open-source, C/GTK-based e-mail client, which is both lightweight and highly configurable. Claws Mail runs on both Windows and Unix-like systems such as Linux, BSD, and Solaris. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format. Plugins allow to read HTML mail, but there is none to compose HTML messages.
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Features
Claws Mail is also a news client and RSS aggregator. Further features – integrated or supplied via plugins – include:
Search and filtering, optionally via Perl and Python scripting
Security (GPG, SSL, anti-phishing)
Anti-spam (SpamAssassin, Bogofilter)
Per-folder preferences
Optional external editor
Templates for messages
Themes support, customisable toolbars, X-Face support, foldable quotes
Viewers for HTML mail (Dillo, Gtkhtml2, Fancy (WebKit), LiteHTML)
TNEF attachment parser
PDF viewer
Various notification plugins, e. g. trayicon and LED handler
Archiving, import/export from standard formats
Support for Mbox mailbox format
Calendaring with events as kind of messages
History
Development started in April 2001 as Sylpheed-Claws off the development version of Sylpheed, where new features could be tested and debugged. In August 2005 Claws Mail forked completely from Sylpheed.