Comments on: Claws Mail: The unsung powerhouse email client

By: Partho Banerjee

Partho Banerjee — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:56:54 +0000

Forgot to add, Sending HTML emails may be only frontier that many people may like Claws mail to cross. Make no mistake, you can easily read HTML emails using plugins but but sent without using an attachment. It’s not a critical feature for me so I am not complaining.

By: Partho Banerjee

Partho Banerjee — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:53:59 +0000

I have used Outlook, Evolution, Thunderbird and now Claws.

Outlook is proprietary and MS, so ruled out along with Windoze :-)

Evolution — it can’t recognize ppp (dial up network connections) like USB modems and hence will not allow me to go online. That’s plain stupid no matter other good qualities. It stops me right at the beginning if I am not using LAN or WLAN (Wifi). I use 3.2 mbps broadband USB modem (Huawei).

Thunderbird– very good and “perfect” looking but chews up lot of memory, going more rigid with every release and recently pained me heavily to connect my yahoo and gmail during new account creation, which Claws got me in the first attempt using same settings.

Claws is very lightweight but not light of features. It has enough to keep both beginners and power users happy. I think one will become a “power user” with Claws in a short time. It has a bare minimum list of plugins and “themes” and is thin on bells and whistles. Thank God.

When you want to play like a kid, Thunderbird has all the bells and whistles for you. But when you want to get serious and settled down in (emailing) life, think of Claws.

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By: Dotan Cohen

Dotan Cohen — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:10:37 +0000

I see, Jack, thank you for the explanation.

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By: Colin

Colin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:00:50 +0000

AC: MH is a standard, that we find better (more robust and faster) than mbox.
mule: you seem to be confused, IPv6 support doesn’t mean TCP/IP stack.
Rather, it means that Claws Mail uses the IPv6 compatible APIs so that it can
connect to IPv6 servers. Surprising as it is, it’s not yet the case of every networked app.

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By: paulus

paulus — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:06:13 +0000

Thanks Jack that tools does the trick for me.

By: Jack Wallen

Jack Wallen — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:56:52 +0000

paulus: which client would you be thinking of migrating from? when you install there is a packaged called “claws-mail-tools” that provides scripts for migrating addressbook conversion, etc. it would be smart to install that along with the rest of the packages.

By: Jack Wallen

Jack Wallen — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:38:10 +0000

Dotan: Yeah it’s crazy isn’t it…that’s the way we are taught here in the states – unless you are in the military. In the US military it’s:
DD/MM/YY
Which does make sense. But outside of the military we say (for instance today’s date):

July 4th, 2009.

So MM/DD/YY is correct.

By: mule

mule — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:47:37 +0000

Since when is a TCP/IP stack a feature of a mail client?

By: Dotan Cohen

Dotan Cohen — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:17:49 +0000

“My preference is: %m/%d(%a)/%y %H:%M”

You put the day between the month and the year? You do realise that years are bigger than months are bigger than days, right? So it should either be %y then %m then %d if you like the least significant unit last, or %d then %m then %y if you like the most significant unit last.

I don’t suppose that your wristwatch is configured for HH:SS:MM by any chance?

By: AC

AC — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:50:39 +0000

Nice review — but I was disappointed to read elsewhere that Claws does not use the standard .mbox format for local storage. Is there any advantage of their own MH format over mbox?

By: TJ

TJ — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:29:47 +0000

Same as Paulus, My question is, if this client can sort emails like Gmail does.

I have hard time figuring out which mail client I should settle on. At the moment, I have Outlook, Thunderbird, Postbox. I tried Zimbra but it crashed while update, removing all installation without my notice (leaving email files as it is) so I lost trust in Zimbra.
Thunderbird seems to have lost its thunder now, no new plugins coming up, old ones are not getting updated, leading to incompatibilities and it doesn’t sort like Gmail, so not preferred one.
Outlook, proprietary and no support for Gmail like sorting but easy to port due to large user support, not preferred one either.
Postbox, sorts mail like Gmail (works still needed) so if they polish it very well, I will keep using it, even if now they are planning to charge for it.

My ideal mail client, will have only one mailbox where all emails are collected, will give me an option to tag each email for the mailbox it came in from, sorts email like Gmail (MOST IMP), restricts certain mail addresses to certain email accounts (so that I don’t write them mail from another mail ID, restricting work and home communication to the respective IDs) etc. etc.

By: paulus

paulus — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:47:32 +0000

Before i give it a try i have a question for you Jack, i found in the faq: How can I convert my old mailbox / addressbook from (some mailclient). In the source distribution, you can find some scripts in the tools subdirectory, maybe your application is supported. This do not answer main question or i can set over/converd main outlook adres list? Do you know this?

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