Features

  • Quick response
  • Graceful, and sophisticated interface
  • Easy configuration, intuitive operation
  • Abundant features
  • Extensibility
  • Robustness and stability

The appearance and interface are designed to be familiar to new users coming from other popular email clients, as well as experienced users. Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. The messages are managed in the standard MH format, which features fast access and data security. You'll be able to import your emails from almost any other email client, and export them just as easily.

Lots of extra functionality, like an RSS aggregator, calendar, or laptop LED handling, are provided by extra plugins.

What's New

  • Marked messages in the Message List can now be displayed with bold text by setting the hidden preference "bold_marked".
  • The confirmation dialogue when saving all the attachments of a message can now be disabled.
  • The Message List tooltip for the From column now shows name and address.
  • OAuth2: various fixes and improvements.
  • The user manuals have been updated.
  • Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, French, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish.
  • Build system: GLib version 2.50 or greater is required; autoconf version 2.69 or greater is required; pkgconfig support for GPGME and libgpg-error has been added; GnuTLS is required for OAuth2; OAuth2 support can be removed with --disable-oauth2.

Bug Fixes

  • bug 4547, '--enable-tests makes compilation fail'
  • bug 4583, 'Compose window 'Discard message' dialog is displayed even though draft is already saved'
  • bug 4584, 'Compose window causing Claws to terminate unexpectedly'
  • bug 4589, 'Edit Group Details panel wording unclear.'
  • bug 4615, 'Compilation fails with --disable-gnutls'
  • bug 4620, 'German translation of Content-Transfer-Encoding adds unwanted colon'
  • bug 4628, 'typos in the README file'
  • bug 4630, 'Fancy loads remote images when remote content is disabled'
  • bug 4636, 'Handle non-ascii characters in server response'
  • AddressKeeper plugin: not saving addresses.
  • Perl plugin: building with perl v5.35.2 or greater.
  • AttRemover plugin: filenames would not be shown and corrupt the output
  • OAuth2: Use the user-configured timeout
  • 'save all' dialogues' logic.
  • Make custom headers compliant with RFC 2822 § 3.6.
  • correctly set modified flag after auto-save
  • NNTP account's SMTP server wasn't used
  • building with older GLibs