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1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 2 <section id="ch_intro"> 3 <title>Introduction</title> 4 5 <section id="intro_what"> 6 <title>What is Claws Mail?</title> 7 <para> 8 Claws Mail is an email client aiming at being fast, easy-to-use and 9 powerful. It is mostly desktop-independent, but tries to integrate 10 with your desktop as best as possible. The Claws Mail developers try 11 hard to keep it lightweight, so that it should be usable on low-end 12 computers without much memory or CPU power. 13 </para> 14 </section> 15 16 <section id="intro_whatnot"> 17 <title>What Claws Mail is not</title> 18 <para> 19 Claws Mail is not a full-featured Personal Information Manager like 20 Evolution or Outlook, although external plugins provide these 21 functionalities. Claws Mail will not let you write and send HTML 22 emails or other kind of annoyances, hence it may not be the software 23 you need in some business environments. 24 </para> 25 </section> 26 27 <section id="intro_features"> 28 <title>Main features</title> 29 <para> 30 Claws Mail sports almost everything a perfect email client needs. 31 Mail retrieval over POP3, IMAP4, local mbox, over SSL; support for 32 various authentication schemes. It has multiple accounts and 33 mailboxes, powerful filtering and search functionality, import/export 34 capabilities using a number of formats, support for GnuPG (digital 35 signatures and encryption). It supports plugins, customisable 36 toolbars, spell checking, a number of guards to prevent any data loss, 37 per-folder preferences, and much more. A list of features can be 38 found at <ulink url="https://www.claws-mail.org/features.php" 39 >www.claws-mail.org/features.php</ulink>. 40 </para> 41 </section> 42 43 <section id="intro_history"> 44 <title>History of Claws Mail</title> 45 <para> 46 Claws Mail has existed since April 2001. It was initially named 47 Sylpheed-Claws and changed its name to Claws Mail in November 2006. 48 The primary goal of Sylpheed-Claws was to be a test-bed for potential 49 features of <ulink url="http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/" 50 >Sylpheed</ulink>, so that new features could be tested thoroughly 51 without compromising Sylpheed's stability. Sylpheed-Claws developers 52 regularly synchronised their codebase with Sylpheed's codebase, and 53 Sylpheed's author, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, took back the new features he 54 liked once they were stabilised. 55 </para><para> 56 Originally both Sylpheed and Claws Mail were based on GTK1. The work 57 on the GTK2 versions started in early 2003, and the first modern 58 (GTK2-based) Sylpheed-Claws was released in March 2005. Since about 59 this time, Sylpheed and Sylpheed-Claws' goals started to diverge more, 60 and Sylpheed-Claws became an entity of its own. This is why its name 61 is now Claws Mail. 62 </para> 63 </section> 64 65 <section id="intro_information"> 66 <title>Useful URLs</title> 67 <para> 68 Website: <ulink url="https://www.claws-mail.org" 69 >www.claws-mail.org</ulink> 70 </para> 71 <para> 72 Latest News: <ulink url="https://www.claws-mail.org/news.php" 73 >www.claws-mail.org/news.php</ulink> 74 </para> 75 <para> 76 Plugins: <ulink url="https://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php" 77 >www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php</ulink> 78 </para> 79 <para> 80 Icon Themes: <ulink url="https://www.claws-mail.org/themes.php" 81 >www.claws-mail.org/themes.php</ulink> 82 </para> 83 <para> 84 Tools: <ulink url="https://www.claws-mail.org/tools.php" 85 >www.claws-mail.org/tools.php</ulink> 86 </para> 87 <para> 88 Mailing Lists: <ulink url="https://www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php" 89 >www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php</ulink> 90 </para> 91 <para> 92 Bugtracker: <ulink url="https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/" 93 >www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/</ulink> 94 </para> 95 <para> 96 Source code: 97 </para> 98 <variablelist> 99 <varlistentry> 100 <term>Tarballs</term> 101 <listitem> 102 <para> 103 <ulink url="https://www.claws-mail.org/releases.php" 104 >www.claws-mail.org/releases.php</ulink> 105 </para> 106 </listitem> 107 </varlistentry> 108 <varlistentry> 109 <term>VCS repository</term> 110 <listitem> 111 <para> 112 <ulink url="https://git.claws-mail.org/" 113 >git.claws-mail.org/</ulink> 114 </para> 115 </listitem> 116 </varlistentry> 117 </variablelist> 118 </section> 119 120 </section> 121