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1. Figure 2 The Filtering Condition window lets you specify filtering criteria MAY 2008 sages the action decodes them all Menu Name UUdeview Command Line xdeview F amp This action pipes the Subject header value to a script Menu Name Get Subject Command Line grep Subject 2 4f cut adi f 2 2 Scrive si This action performs a whois lookup on the selected text Menu Name whois Command Line whois s gram to retrieve mail configure colors and fonts select an icon theme custom ize the toolbars set up external applica tions such as a web browser configure plugins and much more Each folder also has a smaller set of options known as Properties that over rule preferences set elsewhere This fea ture is particularly useful if you use fil tering to organize a large collection of messages into many folders A folder can be associated with a default template default dictionary or a default account Filtering Claws Mail comes with a filtering engine that enables matching based on any part of a received message You can filter 01 On date O02 from wrote 03 04 Zquoted_msg_no_sig 05 06 cursor 07 08 Regards 09 TO Paul li e E Orune ISSUE90 79 resembles the stan dard introduction that often accompanies a message reply Claws Mail offers almost total flexibility to cus tomize the text and format In this case messages as the2. pre fill fields used in templates Reading and writing to LDAP servers and vCards is supported and jPilot synchronization is supported QuickSearch Claws Mail offers other useful features such as the powerful QuickSearch tool which allows searching through folders and sub folders based on any criteria QuickSearch can search in standard headers but it also has an Extended mode which enlists the full power of the filtering engine Conclusion Claws also supports user defined hot keys and provides good mailing list sup port Several operations are available from the command line that allow inter action with external applications such as web browsers or file managers More than 20 plugins support features such as RSS reading PDF display and personal and public calendaring If you like a lot of control over your email and you re looking for a powerful application that is light on resources give Claws Mail a try E 1 Claws Mail http www claws mail org 2 Sylpheed http sylpheed sraoss jp en 3 GTK the GIMP Tool Kit http www gtk org 4 Claws Mail User Manual http www claws mail org documentation php 5 Claws Mail plugins http www claws mail org plugins php 6 Claws Mail themes http www claws mail org themes php
3. impor tant fields The data held in the address book can be used for automatic address comple tion in the Compose window Address book data can be used with anti spam plugins and whitelisting tools fs JPilot E Mypilot E 4 LDAP servers i BE MyServer Haer System administrators can create a wiz ard configuration template with the cor rect values entered in the setup wizard so users only need to enter their pass words Using the configuration tem plate the system administrator can de fine the server addresses add LDAP servers or people to the address book add filtering rules and load plugins To set up a configuration template 1 Start Claws Mail with a user who does not have a claws mail directory click through the wizard without en tering any settings and then use the Save button to exit the wizard Quit Claws Mail Edit the newly created wizard tem plate file claws mail accountrc tmpl and save it The template file is fully commented with instructions and details about each entry Delete both claws mail accountrc and claws mail folderlist xml then recursively copy the claws mail direc tory to etc skel If Claws Mail will use MH folders then also copy the Mail directory to etc skelZ Then chown both these directories in etc skel to root root MAY 2008 Figure 3 Manage your contacts with the Claws Mail address book With the address book you also can
4. sage is as simple as click ing the Compose button on the toolbar The mes sage composer is Rule CM User You can use an external editor to compose messages and insert text files directly into the body of a message Configuring Claws Mail Claws Mail offers a number of options for configuring preferences and custom izing the interface The Account Prefer ences dialog lets the user define basic in formation such as email addresses sig natures incoming and outgoing server names and ports You can also configure security parameters such as SSL set tings SMTP authentication options and GnuPG keys The Common Preferences dialog offers other configuration options with which you can choose to use an external pro Match criteria External program tesi Program returns 0 Passed a usr bin msg tester F M information equipped with spell v si Add a Replace 8 Delete checking wrapping and an undo feature Actions and templates described later in this article pro vide additional possibili ties for creating and pro cessing messages Claws also offers a variety of pri vacy options as well as a return receipt feature and priority settings New age lower 23 colorlabel 2 Current condition rules size_equal 1048576 headers_part matchcase claws mail A Message must match all of above rules X cancel ok
5. LINUXUSER Claws Mail Customize your mail environment with the light and powerful Claws Mail FLEXIBLE CLAWS Sharpen your claws on this powerful and highly configurable email client BY PAUL MANGAN laws Mail 1 started in early 2001 as Sylpheed Claws the de velopment version of Sylpheed 2 Sylpheed Claws provided a testbed for a handful of enthusiastic Sylpheed contributors and users to test patches Because many stable and useful features were not finding their way into Syl pheed Sylpheed Claws evolved on its own and was later renamed Claws Mail A small team of enthusiastic program mers continues to develop Claws Mail which has grown into a robust user friendly email client Claws Mail is a standards compliant desktop neutral email client and news reader with a GIK interface 3 re leased under the GPL license This light weight mail reader is highly configurable and offers some unique anc ful customization ti Claws Mail provides message filtering as well as templates tags support for GnuPG RSS feed reading HTML render ing calendaring and more Getting Started When you run Claws Mail for the first time the setup wizard provides a short series of dialogs for setting up a POP IMAP or Local account If you have pre viously used Sylpheed the wizard will import your settings The wizard also includes a special Template feature described later in this article that system administrators
6. can use for rapid deployment Users will recognize the default look of the main window Figure 1 which is fairly typical for email clients The menu the left side the message list appears in the top half of the screen above the cur rent message and the QuickSearch bar resides beneath the messages Claws Mail also offers four other layouts to suit different tastes and screen sizes Toolbar The default toolbar layout allows quick access to all of the common operations such as fetching sending composing forwarding and replying to messages The status bar which runs along the bottom of the window shows informa tion about currently running processes such as mail retrieval and filtering But tons for switching between online and offline modes as well as an account selector are on the right along with ana on woo ases0 0ud qJAUuUa 7 File Edit View Message Tools Configuration Help a of 2 8 Get Mail Compose Reply All This action decodes uuencoded mes sages with the xdeview decoder If an encoded file is split into multiple mes S Sender Forward Trash Spam Gi v S O Subject From Date Welcome to Claws Mail The Claws Mail Team 15 Feb 08 Fri 10 44 Folder V amp Mailbox MH lt 3 Sent Bo Drafts 39 Queue Trash v7 8 MLs C3 claws m 63 linux ker C3 Personal z S gmane News g l k anno 7 e MyIMAP IMAP4 A INBOX 4 Sent Drafts W Queue Trash v 6 ls
7. indows See the box titled Examples of Actions for a sample of some Claws Mail actions Processing Claws also includes a feature called processing that is similar to filtering Processing rules are attached to a folder and can be run automatically when en tering the folder Templates The Claws Mail s template feature lets you predefine templates for faster and easier composition You can use tem plates to fill the message headers or body with static or dynamic content This predefined content can include symbols and settings for date elements tags dictionaries account properties and information held in the address book Commands within templates let you automatically insert files or program output into a message The reply template shown in Listing 1 shows a familiar example This template Claws Mail uses MH mailboxes which means it can share mailboxes with other MUAs such as Mutt Claws also comes with support for the MBOX format The Tools page of the Claws Mail website provides various scripts for converting mailboxes address books and filtering rules from other email applications 80 _ISSUE90 the reply includes the name of the respon dent Regards Paul as well as a random Unix style fortune at the end of the mes sage Address Book The Claws Mail address book holds in formation about contacts Figure 3 The user can configure a custom attributes list allowing quick definition of
8. tlevel O 2ndLeve C3 whatever v e My Feeds RSS Planet Cla v 8 vCalendar vCa A Meetings 7 amp 3 MBOX mbox C3 claws mail 1 eocoooocoocs FW oocoacodcn 1 eowooonv i o o toolbar eA EN W Y R U ND WEWE E E o EWN RN 1 O po oo plugins From The Claws Mail Team lt claws mail users dotsrc org gt To Claws Mail User lt cm user claws mail org gt Subject Welcome to Claws Mail Date Fri 15 Feb 2008 10 44 05 0000 mmaa Welcome to Claws Mail Now that you have set up your account you can fetch your mail by clicking the Get Mail button at the left of the Claws Mail has lots of extra features accessible via C T a Inbox litem selected 2 74KB 0 new 0 unread 1 total 2 74KB v a A D f oI Figure 1 The Claws Mail Main Window To fetch new messages click the Get Mail button on the toolbar Claws lets you check incoming messages for spam with one of the anti spam plugins and you can filter and sort the messages into subfolders If you would rather not click a button to check your mail you can configure Claws to fetch your messages automati cally Use one of the notification plugins to configure automatic notification if a new messages arrives The Claws com mand interface also lets you execute an arbitrary command when a message ar rives thus providing unlimited options for custom processing Composing Composing a new mes
9. y arrive or later A filter ing rule consists of a condition or several conditions that a message must match Figure 2 and one or more actions which are operations that are carried out on a matching message A message can for example be matched by any header any phrase in the body an attachment Address book Book Address Tools Help Sources Email Address Y Remarks Address Book i bE 6376473 E Beckyaddressbook BEJ Common Address 4 i be Claws Mail i i t Claws Trans i p DUMP i i amp O other addresses i EJ Kmail address book i E Personal Address 9 Thunderbird address b B vCard 4 a MyGnomeCard Name colin claws mail org fabien claws mail org holger claws mail org iwkse claws mail org mones claws mail org paul claws mail org wwp claws mail org Colin Leroy Fabien Vantard Holger Berndt Salvatore De Paolis Ricardo Mones Paul Mangan Tristan Chabredier type a color label whether the address is found in the address book and so on Actions Actions extend the possibilities of Claws Mail enabling the full power of the Unix command line for processing mail A user can decode uuencoded messages reformat message text using external tools such as Par or pass text selections to external tools the only limit is the user s imagination The actions that are configured by the user are accessible from the Tools Actions menus of both the main and Compose w
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