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Claws Mail Plugins

These plugins are included in the Claws Mail source package, which can be downloaded from here.

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AcpiNotifier

by Colin Leroy & the Claws Mail Team
This plugin enables mail notification via LEDs on some laptops (Acer, ASUS, Fujitsu, IBM).
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AddressKeeper

by Ricardo Mones & the Claws Mail Team
Keeps all recipient addresses in a designated addressbook folder.



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AttRemover

by Colin Leroy & the Claws Mail Team
This plugin lets you remove attachments from emails.



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AttachWarner

by Ricardo Mones & the Claws Mail Team
Warns when the user composes a message mentioning an attachment in the message body without attaching any files to the message.
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Bogofilter

by The Claws Mail Team
Enables the scanning of incoming mail received from a POP, IMAP, or LOCAL account using Bogofilter. It can optionally delete mail identified as spam or save it to a designated folder. Bogofilter is a pure Bayesian filter, therefore it has better speed performance than SpamAssassin but might catch less spam. Bogofilter is available from https://bogofilter.org/
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BSfilter

by Colin Leroy & the Claws Mail Team
Check all messages that are received from an IMAP, LOCAL or POP account for spam using Bsfilter.



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Clamd

by Michael Rasmussen & the Claws Mail Team
This plugin scans all messages that are received from an IMAP, LOCAL or POP account using clamd (Clam AV).



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Dillo HTML Viewer

by The Claws Mail Team
Enables the viewing of html messages using the Dillo web browser, version 3.0.0 or newer. It uses Dillo's --local option by default for safe browsing.
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Fancy

by Salvatore De Paolis & the Claws Mail Team
Renders HTML e-mail using the WebKit library



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Fetchinfo

by The Claws Mail Team
This plugin inserts headers containing some download information: UIDL, Claws' account name, POP server, user ID and retrieval time.



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Keyword Warner

by The Claws Mail Team
Shows a warning when sending or queueing a message and a reference to one or more keywords is found in the message text.



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Libravatar

by Ricardo Mones & the Claws Mail Team
Displays libravatar/gravatar profiles' images or a dynamically generated or predefined alternative. Libravatar federated user domains are also supported.
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LiteHTML Viewer

by Andrej Kacian & the Claws Mail Team
Viewer plugin for HTML emails, using the litehtml library (www.litehtml.com/).



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Mail Archiver

by Michael Rasmussen & the Claws Mail Team
This plugin adds archiving features to Claws Mail.



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mailMBOX

by Hoà Viêt Dinh & the Claws Mail Team
This plugin handles mailboxes in mbox format.



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ManageSieve

by Charles Lehner & the Claws Mail Team
This plugin lets you manage Sieve filters on servers that support the ManageSieve protocol.
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NewMail

by H.Merijn Brand & the Claws Mail Team
This plugin writes a msg header summary to a log file, (Default: ~/Mail/NewLog), on arrival of new mail after sorting.



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Notification

by Holger Berndt & the Claws Mail Team
This plugin provides various ways to notify the user of new and unread email.
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PDF Viewer

by Salvatore De Paolis & the Claws Mail Team
This plugin enables the viewing of PDF and PostScript attachments using the Poppler library and GhostScript.
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Perl

by Holger Berndt & the Claws Mail Team
This plugin is intended to extend the filtering possibilities of Claws Mail. It provides a Perl interface to Claws Mail's filtering mechanism, allowing the use of full Perl power in email filters.
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PGP/Core

by The Claws Mail Team
Handles core PGP functions and is a dependency of both the PGP/Inline and PGP/MIME plugins. Requires GnuPG and GPGME: http://www.gnupg.org/gpgme.html
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PGP/Inline

by The Claws Mail Team
Handles PGP/Inline signed and/or encrypted mails. You can decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails. Requires GnuPG and GPGME: http://www.gnupg.org/gpgme.html
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PGP/MIME

by The Claws Mail Team
Handles PGP/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails.You can decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails. Requires GnuPG and GPGME: http://www.gnupg.org/gpgme.html
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Python

by Holger Berndt & the Claws Mail Team
This plugin provides Python integration features.
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RSSyl

by Andrej Kacian & the Claws Mail Team
This plugin allows you to read your favourite newsfeeds in Claws. RSS 1.0, 2.0 and Atom feeds are currently supported.



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S/MIME

by The Claws Mail Team
This plugin handles S/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails. You can decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails.



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SpamAssassin

by The Claws Mail Team
Enables the scanning of incoming mail received from a POP, IMAP, or LOCAL account using SpamAssassin. It can optionally delete mail identified as spam or save it to a designated folder, and also can be used to train a local SpamAssassin (or a remote one if SpamAssassin >= 3.1 is installed both locally and remotely). According to your SpamAssassin server configuration, it can show worse performance than Bogofilter, (slower, eating more CPU), but can catch spam with better accuracy. SpamAssassin is available from http://spamassassin.apache.org/
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SpamReport

by Colin Leroy & the Claws Mail Team
This plugin reports spam to various places.



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TNEF parse

by Colin Leroy & the Claws Mail Team
This plugin enables reading application/ms-tnef attachments.
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vCalendar

by Colin Leroy & the Claws Mail Team
This plugin enables vCalendar message handling like that produced by Evolution or Outlook, and handles webCal subscriptions. It provides a personal calendar and public calendar import
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