Comments on: Set up Claws Mail to work with Gmail

By: Partho Banerjee

Partho Banerjee — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:09:12 +0000

I imported my gmail contacts into claws in a simple two step “static” process.

1. Logged in to my gmail web account, went to my profile, then contacts. I exported the selected contacts to vcf file and downloaded on my computer.
2. Opened my Claws client, opened address book. In Main menu, Book->New vCard. It opens a small dialogue box, gave it my name of choice, then browsed to the vCard file that I downloaded from gmail web in the above step.

That’s it. The new imported contacts are ready to use in Claws.

By: Garret

Garret — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:42:01 +0000

All,

Update I had to use SMTP as “smtp.googlemail.com” with port 465, and all was good. It did not work any way to Sunday with smtp.gmail.com.

Thank you, very good guide.

By: harry

harry — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:25:23 +0000

thanks for the useful info. Had trouble retrieving gmail using imap.
A small change to ur article though.
SSLSection: Send (SMTP): Use SSL for SMTP connection ——- also works.

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:01:45 +0000

and a full 1 year later…

here to say thanks for all your informative articles on Claws. Helpful.

Had a couple of questions if I’m not way too late:
1) “Don’t use SSL (under SMTP section): Enable this” Why?
2) Does one ‘sync’ one’s Gmail account this way? Fully, with attachments and all labels?

By: David

David — Sat, 22 May 2010 08:21:23 +0000

Very helpful! Thank you :)

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:01:12 +0000

> Unfortunately Claws Mail does not communicate with Exchange

Yes it does, but only if the M$Exchange admin activates IMAP support.

By: paulus

paulus — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:37:59 +0000

When William Shakespeare could write and post with claws (in combination with gmail) i am totally sure, that he (William Shakespeare) would be way more productive. By the way i am not Henry V.