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CLAWS MAIL(1) User Manuals CLAWS MAIL(1) NAME Claws Mail - a GTK+ based fast email and news client SYNOPSIS claws-mail [options]... DESCRIPTION Claws Mail is an email client (and news reader) based on GTK+, running on the X Window System, and aiming for: • Quick response • Graceful, and sophisticated interface • Easy configuration, intuitive operation • Abundant features Currently implemented features include: • POP3 support • IMAP4rev1 support • integrated NetNews client • unlimited multiple account handling • thread display • filtering • MIME (attachments) • built-in image view • X-Face and (colour) Face support • multiple MH folder support • mbox importing / exporting • external editor support • message queueing • automatic mail checking • draft message function • template function • line-wrapping • clickable URI • XML-based address book • LDAP, vCard, and JPilot support • newly arrived and unread message management • Mew/Wanderlust-like key bind • printing • APOP authentication support • SMTP AUTH support • SSL support (POP3, SMTP, IMAP4rev1) • IPv6 support • drag & drop (partially implemented) • GnuPG support • automake + autoconf support • internationalization of UI messages by gettext • support of many code sets, including UTF-8 (Unicode) • support for plugins This list is not complete. OPTIONS --compose [address] --compose-from-file file --subscribe uri --attach file1 [file2]... --insert file1 [file2]... --import-mbox file --receive --receive-all --cancel-receiving --cancel-sending --search folder type request [recursive] --send --status --status folder[/subfolder] --status-full --status-full folder[/subfolder] --statistics --reset-statistics --select [#mh/mailbox/]folder[/msg|/msgid], a file:// uri or an ab- solute path --online --offline --exit --debug --toggle-debug --help --version --version-full --config-dir --alternate-config-dir directory --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. %TEMP%\claws-win32.log (Windows only) 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 (Windows only) 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 "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 destina- tion recipient are: subject, from, cc, bcc, in-reply-to, body, insert (insert a file in body part, needs an absolute path), at- tach (attach a file, needs an absolute path, see also: --at- tach). --compose-from-file file Open composition window with data from the given file. Use - as file name for reading from standard input. Content format: head- ers 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. --insert file1 [file2]... Open composition window with specified files inserted. --receive Receive new messages. --receive-all Receive new messages from all accounts. --cancel-receiving Cancel receiving of messages. --cancel-sending Cancel sending of messages. --search folder type request [recursive] Searches mail: folder ex.: "#mh/Mailbox/inbox" or "Mail" type: s[ubject],f[rom],t[o],e[xtended],m[ixed] or g: tag request: search string recursive: false if arg. starts with 0, n, N, f or F --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] --status-full folder[/subfolder] Show the total number of messages int the specified folder: [new][unread][unread answers to marked][total] --statistics Show session statistics. --reset-statistics Reset session statistics. --select #mh/Mailbox/inbox/123 --select file://home/johndoe/Mail/inbox/123 --select /home/johndoe/Mail/inbox/123 On startup, jump 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. --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 sec- tion). --toggle-debug Toggle debug mode of the running Claws Mail instance. --help Display the help message. --version Display version number. --version-full Display version number and compiled-in features. --config-dir Display the CONFIG-DIR. --alternate-config-dir dir Start Claws Mail with the configuration stored in the [dir] di- rectory. --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 directo- ries. 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: <https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/> COPYRIGHT 1999-2021 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, http://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> Darko Koruga <darko@users.sf.net> Ricardo Mones Lastra <ricardo@mones.org> Paul Mangan <paul@claws-mail.org> Salvatore De Paolis <iwkse@claws-mail.org> Michael Rasmussen <mir@datanom.net> Previous team members Hoa Viet Dinh, Keith Edmunds, Match Grun, Melvin Hadasht, Oliver Haertel, Christoph Hohmann, Alfons Hoogervorst, Andrej Kacian, Werner Koch, Charles Lehner, Colin Leroy, Thorsten Maerz, Pawel Pekala, Leandro A. F. Pereira, Luke Plant, Martin Schaaf, Carsten Schurig, Fabien Vantard, Sergey Vlasov and Hiroyuki Yamamoto. SEE ALSO Claws Mail Homepage <https://www.claws-mail.org> Claws Mail frequently asked questions <https://www.claws-mail.org/faq> Claws Mail online manual <https://www.claws-mail.org/manual> Claws Mail plugins <https://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php> X(7), xwininfo(1). The Claws Mail team February 17, 2024 CLAWS MAIL(1)
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