https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=213.41.175.117&feedformat=atom Claws Mail FAQ - User contributions [en] 2024-03-29T14:25:55Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.35.7 https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=General_Information&diff=1474 General Information 2006-07-13T07:39:17Z <p>213.41.175.117: /* Does Sylpheed-Claws have an anti-spam feature? */</p> <hr /> <div>=== What is Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws is an e-mail client (&amp; news reader) based on GTK+, running on the X Window System, and aiming for<br /> <br /> * Quick response<br /> * Graceful, and sophisticated interface<br /> * Easy configuration, intuitive operation<br /> * Abundant features<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws is the extended version of Sylpheed.<br /> <br /> === What are the differences between Sylpheed-Claws and Sylpheed? ===<br /> <br /> There are many differences.<br /> <br /> For an incomplete list of features, and differences between Sylpheed-Claws and Sylpheed, see http://claws.sylpheed.org/features.php.<br /> <br /> === Where can I get Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> See the Downloads page http://claws.sylpheed.org/downloads.php.<br /> <br /> === Who writes Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws is developed by the [http://claws.sylpheed.org/theteam.php Sylpheed-Claws Team].<br /> <br /> === What does the 'Sylpheed' mean? ===<br /> <br /> It means 'light weight', like air. This comes from the name of the wind spirits, the Sylphs.<br /> <br /> === How does Sylpheed-Claws store mails? ===<br /> <br /> Mails are stored in the MH mailfile format as used by MH and EMH. Maildir and mbox format are supported via two plugins available on the [http://claws.sylpheed.org/plugins.php Plugins page].<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have mail filtering? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. You can find it in Configuration-&gt;Filtering... tab.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> === Can Sylpheed-Claws handle local unix mailboxes? ===<br /> <br /> Yes.<br /> <br /> === Can Sylpheed-Claws handle IPv6? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, IPv6 is fully supported in Sylpheed-Claws.<br /> <br /> === How many POP3, News or IMAP accounts can I set up in Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> The number is unlimited. The limit is reached when your computer stops responding.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws support encryption like GPG? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. GPG is implemented and works fine. For activating it in Sylpheed-Claws, see the [[Installation_and_Configuration#How_do_I_enable_GPG_support_in_Sylpheed-Claws.3F]] section.<br /> <br /> === How does Sylpheed-Claws check for MIME types? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws uses the Mutt type of mime checking.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws allow me to write HTML styled messages? ===<br /> <br /> No. A discussion has gone around over this topic, and the outcome was that HTML mail is not wanted. If you really need to send HTML, you can of course attach a webpage to an e-mail. Several patches have been made to facilitate better HTML handling in Sylpheed. You can find these patches at the Sylpheed Patch Page (see further down in the document).<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have name completion in the address fields? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. When you search for a name that starts with &quot;don&quot;, type &quot;don&quot; (without the quotes) and press the TAB key. This will show you the correct name (when only one &quot;don&quot; exists in your addressbook. Otherwise a dropdown list appears, which allows you to select the name you want. E.g. Donald Duck, Don Johnson. But also e-mail addresses starting with &quot;don&quot; will appear in the list (like &quot;don.giovanni@maffia.org&quot;).<br /> <br /> === Why is Sylpheed-Claws so fast? ===<br /> <br /> That's what it is designed for!<br /> <br /> === How can I send in patches, report bugs, talk about Sylpheed-Claws with others? ===<br /> <br /> To talk to others, you should join the Sylpheed-Claws users' mailing list at http://claws.sylpheed.org/MLs.php.<br /> <br /> === Can I import a mbox into Sylpheed-Claws' MH mailfolders? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, just create/select the folder you want your mails in, and select &quot;Import mbox file&quot; in the File menu.<br /> <br /> === Can I use procmail to sort my mails with the MH mail handling? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. Just make sure that you add /. to the end of a rule so procmail knows that you are filtering into an MH mail folder. Example :<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> 0:<br /> <br /> * ^Subject:.*sylpheed<br /> <br /> sylpheedmail/.<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Check man procmail for details.<br /> <br /> === When I upgrade Sylpheed-Claws, are there things I should be aware of? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, some more critical than others.<br /> <br /> You should always read the RELEASE_NOTES document that is included in the release tarballs.<br /> The release notes can also be viewed on the Sylpheed-Claws [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25528 Source Forge] site ''Files'' page listing by clicking the version number of the release.<br /> <br /> === How can I quickly update the views in Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Just press Alt-U or select &quot;update&quot; from the summary menu.<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws allow me to open more than one instance at the same time for the same user on a network? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws opens a Unix-domain socket using a name constucted from your TMPDIR path plus your UID.<br /> This socket is used to arbitrate multiple instances on a given machine.<br /> In Linux, at least, named Unix-domain sockets are known only locally, to the creating machine.<br /> Pointing your TMPDIR environment variable to /home/yours/tmp doesn't have the desired effect,<br /> as the socket definition would need to be propagated across the LAN and isn't.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have an anti-spam feature? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. It has a [[Plugins | Spam Assassin]] plugin. You can find details of it on the [[Plugins]] FAQ Page.<br /> <br /> You can also use other spam filters via [[Actions]], such as Bogofilter. Instructions on how use Bogofilter with Sylpheed-Claws can be found on the [http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml#with-sc Bogofilter FAQ].<br /> <br /> More information about using Bogofilter or Popfile can be found on the [[Using_Sylpheed-Claws_with_other_programs|Using Sylpheed Claws with other programs]] page.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws support Return Receipts? ===<br /> <br /> Yes.<br /> <br /> To request a Return Receipt use '/Options/Request Return Receipt' in the Compose window.<br /> <br /> When you receive a message that requests a Return Receipt a notification area is shown just above the message view. You can either use the 'Send receipt' button, or ignore the request - no receipts are sent automatically.<br /> <br /> === Why is Sylpheed-Claws slow to load big folders? ===<br /> <br /> Certain options, although handy, slow down Sylpheed-Claws:<br /> - Use addressbook to display sender<br /> - Thread using subject in addition to standard headers<br /> - (GPG) Automatically check signatures<br /> - Sort by Subject, From or To instead of Date or other non-string headers<br /> - Processing rules, especially those based on &quot;Whole message&quot; or &quot;Body&quot; contains ...</div> 213.41.175.117 https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=General_Information&diff=1473 General Information 2006-07-13T07:37:22Z <p>213.41.175.117: -Claws</p> <hr /> <div>=== What is Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws is an e-mail client (&amp; news reader) based on GTK+, running on the X Window System, and aiming for<br /> <br /> * Quick response<br /> * Graceful, and sophisticated interface<br /> * Easy configuration, intuitive operation<br /> * Abundant features<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws is the extended version of Sylpheed.<br /> <br /> === What are the differences between Sylpheed-Claws and Sylpheed? ===<br /> <br /> There are many differences.<br /> <br /> For an incomplete list of features, and differences between Sylpheed-Claws and Sylpheed, see http://claws.sylpheed.org/features.php.<br /> <br /> === Where can I get Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> See the Downloads page http://claws.sylpheed.org/downloads.php.<br /> <br /> === Who writes Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws is developed by the [http://claws.sylpheed.org/theteam.php Sylpheed-Claws Team].<br /> <br /> === What does the 'Sylpheed' mean? ===<br /> <br /> It means 'light weight', like air. This comes from the name of the wind spirits, the Sylphs.<br /> <br /> === How does Sylpheed-Claws store mails? ===<br /> <br /> Mails are stored in the MH mailfile format as used by MH and EMH. Maildir and mbox format are supported via two plugins available on the [http://claws.sylpheed.org/plugins.php Plugins page].<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have mail filtering? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. You can find it in Configuration-&gt;Filtering... tab.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> === Can Sylpheed-Claws handle local unix mailboxes? ===<br /> <br /> Yes.<br /> <br /> === Can Sylpheed-Claws handle IPv6? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, IPv6 is fully supported in Sylpheed-Claws.<br /> <br /> === How many POP3, News or IMAP accounts can I set up in Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> The number is unlimited. The limit is reached when your computer stops responding.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws support encryption like GPG? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. GPG is implemented and works fine. For activating it in Sylpheed-Claws, see the [[Installation_and_Configuration#How_do_I_enable_GPG_support_in_Sylpheed-Claws.3F]] section.<br /> <br /> === How does Sylpheed-Claws check for MIME types? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws uses the Mutt type of mime checking.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws allow me to write HTML styled messages? ===<br /> <br /> No. A discussion has gone around over this topic, and the outcome was that HTML mail is not wanted. If you really need to send HTML, you can of course attach a webpage to an e-mail. Several patches have been made to facilitate better HTML handling in Sylpheed. You can find these patches at the Sylpheed Patch Page (see further down in the document).<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have name completion in the address fields? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. When you search for a name that starts with &quot;don&quot;, type &quot;don&quot; (without the quotes) and press the TAB key. This will show you the correct name (when only one &quot;don&quot; exists in your addressbook. Otherwise a dropdown list appears, which allows you to select the name you want. E.g. Donald Duck, Don Johnson. But also e-mail addresses starting with &quot;don&quot; will appear in the list (like &quot;don.giovanni@maffia.org&quot;).<br /> <br /> === Why is Sylpheed-Claws so fast? ===<br /> <br /> That's what it is designed for!<br /> <br /> === How can I send in patches, report bugs, talk about Sylpheed-Claws with others? ===<br /> <br /> To talk to others, you should join the Sylpheed-Claws users' mailing list at http://claws.sylpheed.org/MLs.php.<br /> <br /> === Can I import a mbox into Sylpheed-Claws' MH mailfolders? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, just create/select the folder you want your mails in, and select &quot;Import mbox file&quot; in the File menu.<br /> <br /> === Can I use procmail to sort my mails with the MH mail handling? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. Just make sure that you add /. to the end of a rule so procmail knows that you are filtering into an MH mail folder. Example :<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> 0:<br /> <br /> * ^Subject:.*sylpheed<br /> <br /> sylpheedmail/.<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Check man procmail for details.<br /> <br /> === When I upgrade Sylpheed-Claws, are there things I should be aware of? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, some more critical than others.<br /> <br /> You should always read the RELEASE_NOTES document that is included in the release tarballs.<br /> The release notes can also be viewed on the Sylpheed-Claws [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25528 Source Forge] site ''Files'' page listing by clicking the version number of the release.<br /> <br /> === How can I quickly update the views in Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Just press Alt-U or select &quot;update&quot; from the summary menu.<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws allow me to open more than one instance at the same time for the same user on a network? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws opens a Unix-domain socket using a name constucted from your TMPDIR path plus your UID.<br /> This socket is used to arbitrate multiple instances on a given machine.<br /> In Linux, at least, named Unix-domain sockets are known only locally, to the creating machine.<br /> Pointing your TMPDIR environment variable to /home/yours/tmp doesn't have the desired effect,<br /> as the socket definition would need to be propagated across the LAN and isn't.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have an anti-spam feature? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. It has a [[Plugins | Spam Assassin]] plugin. You can find details of it on the [Plugins FAQ page].<br /> <br /> You can also use other spam filters via [Actions Actions], such as Bogofilter. Instructions on how use Bogofilter with Sylpheed-Claws can be found on the [http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml#with-sc Bogofilter FAQ].<br /> <br /> More information about using Bogofilter or Popfile can be found on the [[Using_Sylpheed-Claws_with_other_programs|Using Sylpheed Claws with other programs]] page.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws support Return Receipts? ===<br /> <br /> Yes.<br /> <br /> To request a Return Receipt use '/Options/Request Return Receipt' in the Compose window.<br /> <br /> When you receive a message that requests a Return Receipt a notification area is shown just above the message view. You can either use the 'Send receipt' button, or ignore the request - no receipts are sent automatically.<br /> <br /> === Why is Sylpheed-Claws slow to load big folders? ===<br /> <br /> Certain options, although handy, slow down Sylpheed-Claws:<br /> - Use addressbook to display sender<br /> - Thread using subject in addition to standard headers<br /> - (GPG) Automatically check signatures<br /> - Sort by Subject, From or To instead of Date or other non-string headers<br /> - Processing rules, especially those based on &quot;Whole message&quot; or &quot;Body&quot; contains ...</div> 213.41.175.117 https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=General_Information&diff=1472 General Information 2006-07-13T07:36:16Z <p>213.41.175.117: Fix link</p> <hr /> <div>=== What is Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws is an e-mail client (&amp; news reader) based on GTK+, running on the X Window System, and aiming for<br /> <br /> * Quick response<br /> * Graceful, and sophisticated interface<br /> * Easy configuration, intuitive operation<br /> * Abundant features<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws is the extended version of Sylpheed.<br /> <br /> === What are the differences between Sylpheed-Claws and Sylpheed? ===<br /> <br /> There are many differences.<br /> <br /> For an incomplete list of features, and differences between Sylpheed-Claws and Sylpheed, see http://claws.sylpheed.org/features.php.<br /> <br /> === Where can I get Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> See the Downloads page http://claws.sylpheed.org/downloads.php.<br /> <br /> === Who writes Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws is developed by the [http://claws.sylpheed.org/theteam.php Sylpheed-Claws Team].<br /> <br /> === What does the 'Sylpheed' mean? ===<br /> <br /> It means 'light weight', like air. This comes from the name of the wind spirits, the Sylphs.<br /> <br /> === How does Sylpheed-Claws store mails? ===<br /> <br /> Mails are stored in the MH mailfile format as used by MH and EMH. Maildir and mbox format are supported via two plugins available on the [http://claws.sylpheed.org/plugins.php Plugins page].<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have mail filtering? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. You can find it in Configuration-&gt;Filtering... tab.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> === Can Sylpheed-Claws handle local unix mailboxes? ===<br /> <br /> Yes.<br /> <br /> === Can Sylpheed-Claws handle IPv6? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, IPv6 is fully supported in Sylpheed-Claws.<br /> <br /> === How many POP3, News or IMAP accounts can I set up in Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> The number is unlimited. The limit is reached when your computer stops responding.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws support encryption like GPG? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. GPG is implemented and works fine. For activating it in Sylpheed-Claws, see the [[Installation_and_Configuration#How_do_I_enable_GPG_support_in_Sylpheed-Claws.3F]] section.<br /> <br /> === How does Sylpheed-Claws check for MIME types? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws uses the Mutt type of mime checking.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws allow me to write HTML styled messages? ===<br /> <br /> No. A discussion has gone around over this topic, and the outcome was that HTML mail is not wanted. If you really need to send HTML, you can of course attach a webpage to an e-mail. Several patches have been made to facilitate better HTML handling in Sylpheed. You can find these patches at the Sylpheed Patch Page (see further down in the document).<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have name completion in the address fields? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. When you search for a name that starts with &quot;don&quot;, type &quot;don&quot; (without the quotes) and press the TAB key. This will show you the correct name (when only one &quot;don&quot; exists in your addressbook. Otherwise a dropdown list appears, which allows you to select the name you want. E.g. Donald Duck, Don Johnson. But also e-mail addresses starting with &quot;don&quot; will appear in the list (like &quot;don.giovanni@maffia.org&quot;).<br /> <br /> === Why is Sylpheed-Claws so fast? ===<br /> <br /> That's what it is designed for!<br /> <br /> === How can I send in patches, report bugs, talk about Sylpheed-Claws with others? ===<br /> <br /> To talk to others, you should join the Sylpheed-Claws users' mailing list at http://claws.sylpheed.org/MLs.php.<br /> <br /> === Can I import a mbox into Sylpheed-Claws' MH mailfolders? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, just create/select the folder you want your mails in, and select &quot;Import mbox file&quot; in the File menu.<br /> <br /> === Can I use procmail to sort my mails with the MH mail handling? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. Just make sure that you add /. to the end of a rule so procmail knows that you are filtering into an MH mail folder. Example :<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> 0:<br /> <br /> * ^Subject:.*sylpheed<br /> <br /> sylpheedmail/.<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Check man procmail for details.<br /> <br /> === When I upgrade Sylpheed-Claws, are there things I should be aware of? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, some more critical than others.<br /> <br /> You should always read the RELEASE_NOTES document that is included in the release tarballs.<br /> The release notes can also be viewed on the Sylpheed-Claws [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25528 Source Forge] site ''Files'' page listing by clicking the version number of the release.<br /> <br /> === How can I quickly update the views in Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Just press Alt-U or select &quot;update&quot; from the summary menu.<br /> <br /> === Why does sylpheed allow me to open more than one instance at the same time for the same user on a network? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed opens a Unix-domain socket using a name constucted from your TMPDIR path plus your UID.<br /> This socket is used to arbitrate multiple instances on a given machine.<br /> In Linux, at least, named Unix-domain sockets are known only locally, to the creating machine.<br /> Pointing your TMPDIR environment variable to /home/yours/tmp doesn't have the desired effect,<br /> as the socket definition would need to be propagated across the LAN and isn't.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have an anti-spam feature? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. It has a [[Plugins | Spam Assassin]] plugin. You can find details of it on the [Plugins FAQ page].<br /> <br /> You can also use other spam filters via [Actions Actions], such as Bogofilter. Instructions on how use Bogofilter with Sylpheed-Claws can be found on the [http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml#with-sc Bogofilter FAQ].<br /> <br /> More information about using Bogofilter or Popfile can be found on the [[Using_Sylpheed-Claws_with_other_programs|Using Sylpheed Claws with other programs]] page.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws support Return Receipts? ===<br /> <br /> Yes.<br /> <br /> To request a Return Receipt use '/Options/Request Return Receipt' in the Compose window.<br /> <br /> When you receive a message that requests a Return Receipt a notification area is shown just above the message view. You can either use the 'Send receipt' button, or ignore the request - no receipts are sent automatically.<br /> <br /> === Why is Sylpheed-Claws slow to load big folders? ===<br /> <br /> Certain options, although handy, slow down Sylpheed-Claws:<br /> - Use addressbook to display sender<br /> - Thread using subject in addition to standard headers<br /> - (GPG) Automatically check signatures<br /> - Sort by Subject, From or To instead of Date or other non-string headers<br /> - Processing rules, especially those based on &quot;Whole message&quot; or &quot;Body&quot; contains ...</div> 213.41.175.117 https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=General_Information&diff=1471 General Information 2006-07-13T07:32:35Z <p>213.41.175.117: /* Can Sylpheed-Claws handle IMAP mail? */</p> <hr /> <div>=== What is Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws is an e-mail client (&amp; news reader) based on GTK+, running on the X Window System, and aiming for<br /> <br /> * Quick response<br /> * Graceful, and sophisticated interface<br /> * Easy configuration, intuitive operation<br /> * Abundant features<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws is the extended version of Sylpheed.<br /> <br /> === What are the differences between Sylpheed-Claws and Sylpheed? ===<br /> <br /> There are many differences.<br /> <br /> For an incomplete list of features, and differences between Sylpheed-Claws and Sylpheed, see http://claws.sylpheed.org/features.php.<br /> <br /> === Where can I get Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> See the Downloads page http://claws.sylpheed.org/downloads.php.<br /> <br /> === Who writes Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws is developed by the [http://claws.sylpheed.org/theteam.php Sylpheed-Claws Team].<br /> <br /> === What does the 'Sylpheed' mean? ===<br /> <br /> It means 'light weight', like air. This comes from the name of the wind spirits, the Sylphs.<br /> <br /> === How does Sylpheed-Claws store mails? ===<br /> <br /> Mails are stored in the MH mailfile format as used by MH and EMH. Maildir and mbox format are supported via two plugins available on the [http://claws.sylpheed.org/plugins.php Plugins page].<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have mail filtering? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. You can find it in Configuration-&gt;Filtering... tab.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> === Can Sylpheed-Claws handle local unix mailboxes? ===<br /> <br /> Yes.<br /> <br /> === Can Sylpheed-Claws handle IPv6? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, IPv6 is fully supported in Sylpheed-Claws.<br /> <br /> === How many POP3, News or IMAP accounts can I set up in Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> The number is unlimited. The limit is reached when your computer stops responding.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws support encryption like GPG? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. GPG is implemented and works fine. For activating it in Sylpheed-Claws, see [[[Installation AndConfiguration Installation And Configuration]]#Q14] section.<br /> <br /> === How does Sylpheed-Claws check for MIME types? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws uses the Mutt type of mime checking.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws allow me to write HTML styled messages? ===<br /> <br /> No. A discussion has gone around over this topic, and the outcome was that HTML mail is not wanted. If you really need to send HTML, you can of course attach a webpage to an e-mail. Several patches have been made to facilitate better HTML handling in Sylpheed. You can find these patches at the Sylpheed Patch Page (see further down in the document).<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have name completion in the address fields? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. When you search for a name that starts with &quot;don&quot;, type &quot;don&quot; (without the quotes) and press the TAB key. This will show you the correct name (when only one &quot;don&quot; exists in your addressbook. Otherwise a dropdown list appears, which allows you to select the name you want. E.g. Donald Duck, Don Johnson. But also e-mail addresses starting with &quot;don&quot; will appear in the list (like &quot;don.giovanni@maffia.org&quot;).<br /> <br /> === Why is Sylpheed-Claws so fast? ===<br /> <br /> That's what it is designed for!<br /> <br /> === How can I send in patches, report bugs, talk about Sylpheed-Claws with others? ===<br /> <br /> To talk to others, you should join the Sylpheed-Claws users' mailing list at http://claws.sylpheed.org/MLs.php.<br /> <br /> === Can I import a mbox into Sylpheed-Claws' MH mailfolders? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, just create/select the folder you want your mails in, and select &quot;Import mbox file&quot; in the File menu.<br /> <br /> === Can I use procmail to sort my mails with the MH mail handling? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. Just make sure that you add /. to the end of a rule so procmail knows that you are filtering into an MH mail folder. Example :<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> 0:<br /> <br /> * ^Subject:.*sylpheed<br /> <br /> sylpheedmail/.<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Check man procmail for details.<br /> <br /> === When I upgrade Sylpheed-Claws, are there things I should be aware of? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, some more critical than others.<br /> <br /> You should always read the RELEASE_NOTES document that is included in the release tarballs.<br /> The release notes can also be viewed on the Sylpheed-Claws [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25528 Source Forge] site ''Files'' page listing by clicking the version number of the release.<br /> <br /> === How can I quickly update the views in Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Just press Alt-U or select &quot;update&quot; from the summary menu.<br /> <br /> === Why does sylpheed allow me to open more than one instance at the same time for the same user on a network? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed opens a Unix-domain socket using a name constucted from your TMPDIR path plus your UID.<br /> This socket is used to arbitrate multiple instances on a given machine.<br /> In Linux, at least, named Unix-domain sockets are known only locally, to the creating machine.<br /> Pointing your TMPDIR environment variable to /home/yours/tmp doesn't have the desired effect,<br /> as the socket definition would need to be propagated across the LAN and isn't.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have an anti-spam feature? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. It has a [[Plugins | Spam Assassin]] plugin. You can find details of it on the [Plugins FAQ page].<br /> <br /> You can also use other spam filters via [Actions Actions], such as Bogofilter. Instructions on how use Bogofilter with Sylpheed-Claws can be found on the [http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml#with-sc Bogofilter FAQ].<br /> <br /> More information about using Bogofilter or Popfile can be found on the [[Using_Sylpheed-Claws_with_other_programs|Using Sylpheed Claws with other programs]] page.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws support Return Receipts? ===<br /> <br /> Yes.<br /> <br /> To request a Return Receipt use '/Options/Request Return Receipt' in the Compose window.<br /> <br /> When you receive a message that requests a Return Receipt a notification area is shown just above the message view. You can either use the 'Send receipt' button, or ignore the request - no receipts are sent automatically.<br /> <br /> === Why is Sylpheed-Claws slow to load big folders? ===<br /> <br /> Certain options, although handy, slow down Sylpheed-Claws:<br /> - Use addressbook to display sender<br /> - Thread using subject in addition to standard headers<br /> - (GPG) Automatically check signatures<br /> - Sort by Subject, From or To instead of Date or other non-string headers<br /> - Processing rules, especially those based on &quot;Whole message&quot; or &quot;Body&quot; contains ...</div> 213.41.175.117 https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=Installation_and_Configuration&diff=1470 Installation and Configuration 2006-07-13T07:31:05Z <p>213.41.175.117: /* How do I make my own compface image? */</p> <hr /> <div>=== What do I need to compile Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> &lt;u&gt;Required:&lt;/u&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Any POSIX compliant UNIX or similar OS eg. Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris <br /> ; GTK+ 2.4.x or later <br /> ; A recent ANSI C compiler (gcc 2.7.2.3 should also work) <br /> <br /> Otherwise ./configure will fail.<br /> <br /> &lt;u&gt;Optional requirements:&lt;/u&gt;<br /> <br /> ; compface : for X-Face support<br /> ; GnuPG 1.2.1 or later and GPGME 0.4.5 or later : for GnuPG support<br /> ; OpenSSL : for SSL support<br /> ; libEtPan! 0.42 or later : for IMAP4 support<br /> ; OpenLDAP 2.0.7 or later : for LDAP support<br /> ; Aspell 0.50 or later (and dictionaries) : for spell-checker support<br /> ; libgnomeprint-2.2 and libgnomeprintui-2.2 : for extended printer support<br /> ; J-Pilot : for J-Pilot support<br /> ; SpamAssassin : for SpamAssassin plugin support<br /> ; Clam AntiVirus : for Clam AntiVirus plugin support<br /> ; Dillo : for Dillo HTML viewer plugin support<br /> ; GtkMathView : for MathML viewer plugin support<br /> <br /> === How do I set up Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> When you run Sylpheed-Claws for the first time, the Installation Wizard will appear and prompt you for the minimum required information necessary to start using Sylpheed-Claws in less than 5 minutes.<br /> <br /> === Why did the creation of the mailbox fail? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws reports such an error if it can't create the default mailboxes (inbox, outbox, etc ...). This can be because &lt;homedir&gt;/Mail already contains files with the same names. This occurs when switching from Kmail to Sylpheed-Claws, in this case backup and remove the existing Mail directory or use another name for the Sylpheed-Claws mail directory.<br /> <br /> === How do I create a new account? ===<br /> <br /> You can add an account by using the menu item '/Configuration/Create new account'<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws not delete my mails when I press &quot;delete&quot;? I set a filter, and Sylpheed-Claws does not filter. I moved a mail to a different mailbox and it did not move. ===<br /> <br /> You have the configuration option /Configuration/Preferences/Common Interface tab 'Execute immediately when moving or deleting messages' disabled.<br /> <br /> === Can I set up special addresses/ports for my mailserver / newsserver? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, you can. In the Account preferences, on the 'Advanced' tab you can specify the port addresses that you want to use.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have options for threading messages? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. You can switch it on and off in the Summary Menu, just select &quot;Thread View&quot; or press Ctrl+T. (This only affects the currently selected folder; i.e. it is a folder property.)<br /> <br /> === Can I create multiple levels of subfolders to store mail? ===<br /> <br /> Absolutely. This is no problem.<br /> <br /> === How do I apply a patch after downloading it? ===<br /> <br /> Copy patch to Sylpheed-Claws directory Apply the patch:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> % patch -p0 &lt; some.patch<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Or, if it's gzipped:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> % gzip -dc some.patch.gz | patch -p0<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Run =./autogen.sh=, remove the generated =/config.cache= file (unless you want to install in prefix /usr/local). Run =./configure= with the appropriate options and then make. (Text as found on the Sylpheed patches page.)<br /> <br /> === How do I compile in support for compface pictures? ===<br /> <br /> You have to have a package called libcompface installed, so this is available for compiling into Sylpheed-Claws. You can find out more and download it at http://freshmeat.net/projects/compface/ . Also, Tim Jackson has a spec file, which you can use to build an RPM of compface, at http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/rpms.php .<br /> <br /> === How do I make my own compface image? ===<br /> <br /> You can use the gif2xface.pl script, which converts a 48x48 gif to the format suitable for compface. This script can be found in the 'tools' directory, along with a README. It is also available from this site: http://www.sylpheed-claws.net/tools.php.<br /> You can also let Sylpheed-Claws create it by itself from a .xbm file.<br /> <br /> === How can I make Sylpheed-Claws send my compface image in the mails? ===<br /> <br /> In the Configuration menu, Preferences for current account, Send tab, check Add user-defined header and press Edit button. A dialog appears, add a header named &quot;X-Face&quot; and fill the value field with your face data. Alternatively, you can select a .xbm file in this dialog. Note that if you paste the data from a terminal into the field some spurious newlines can be added, and these can mangle your face, be careful.<br /> <br /> === How can I tell my browser/newsclient/other program to use Sylpheed-Claws as e-mail program? ===<br /> <br /> In the settings part of the program, use &lt;code&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &quot;%t?subject=%s&amp;body=%d&quot;&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Specific options for typical browsers : <br /> ; Opera:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;mailto:%t?subject=%s&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> ; Galeon:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;mailto:%t?subject=%s&amp;body=%d&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> ; Konqueror : See [[Installation_And_Configuration#konqueror|How do I make sylpheed the default mail application for KDE]]?<br /> <br /> === How do I enable GPG support in Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> GunPG support requires GnuPG &gt;= 0.4.x and GPGME &gt;= 1.x.x.<br /> <br /> You need to load the PGP/Core, PGP/MIME, and PGP/inline plugins. '/Configuration/Plugins/Load plugin'.<br /> <br /> === Mutt does not recognize Sylpheed-Claws' MH structure ===<br /> <br /> For this to work you need to use the &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; command in every MH folder. &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; the file &lt;code&gt;.xmhcache&lt;/code&gt; and Mutt should do just fine.<br /> <br /> === How can I make Sylpheed-Claws notify me when new mail arrives? ===<br /> <br /> Go to '/Configuration/Preferences/Common', on the 'Receive' tab use the settings for 'Run command when new mail arrives'. You can also use the Trayicon (which is shipped with Sylpheed-Claws) or Acpi-notifier or Notification plugins, which are available on the [http://www.sylpheed-claws.net/plugins.php Plugins page].<br /> <br /> === Can I use a spell checker with Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Install Aspell &gt;= 0.50 and use the &lt;code&gt;./configure&lt;/code&gt; option &lt;code&gt;--enable-aspell&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> === I checked out the sources using cvs and cant find any configure script. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> The cvs versions are meant to be used by developers rather than ''normal'' users, so the source (or binary) distributions are easier to use.<br /> <br /> - Yeah, but the latest features from cvs really look sexy...<br /> <br /> You need to generate the configure script by running &lt;code&gt;./autogen.sh&lt;/code&gt;. Be sure to have autoconf and automake packages installed for this.<br /> <br /> === Running &quot;autogen.sh&quot; gives errormessages that AM_PATH_GDK_PIXBUF or AM_PATH_(whatever) is not found. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> There are some *.m4 files in the &lt;code&gt;ac/missing&lt;/code&gt; directory. Try to copy them into the &lt;code&gt;ac&lt;/code&gt; directory and run &lt;code&gt;autogen.sh&lt;/code&gt; again.<br /> <br /> If there are still some .m4 files not found (e.g. those from Gtk), try to run<br /> % locate m4 | less<br /> or<br /> % locate aclocal | less<br /> to find additional directories containing those macros. If you find e.g. a &quot;gtk.m4&quot; in &quot;/opt/gnome/share/aclocal&quot;, change following line in &quot;autogen.sh&quot; from<br /> aclocal -I ac \<br /> to<br /> aclocal -I ac -I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal \<br /> and run it again.<br /> <br /> === I dont want to compile in support for ... any longer, but after running &lt;code&gt;configure&lt;/code&gt;, those libraries are still used. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> Remove the &lt;code&gt;config.cache&lt;/code&gt; file and run &lt;code&gt;configure&lt;/code&gt; again. You should also use &lt;code&gt;make clean&lt;/code&gt; to avoid undefined references.<br /> <br /> === How can I select different applications to open with specific MIME types? ===<br /> <br /> The MIME-type-&gt;application associations are kept in &lt;code&gt;/etc/mailcap&lt;/code&gt;. Note that you need metamail installed to process the opening of the attachment.<br /> <br /> === How can I change the suggested mimetype for attachments I am sending? ===<br /> <br /> The extension-&gt;MIME-type associations are kept in &lt;code&gt;/etc/mime.types&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;br&gt;Right-click an attachment in the compose window's &quot;Attachments&quot; tab, and select Properties to change the MIME-type.<br /> <br /> === Why is the folder list not updated after I manually moved/copied folders? ===<br /> <br /> You need to update Sylpheed-Claws' cache. Right click on the mailbox and choose &quot;Check for new folders&quot;.<br /> <br /> === How can I revert original settings, e.g. for fonts, keybindings, etc.? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws keeps its configuration files in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/sylpheedrc&lt;/code&gt; and creates default entries, if none are found. So the easiest way is to quit sylpheed, temporarily renaming your &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws&lt;/code&gt; e.g. to &lt;code&gt;*.bak&lt;/code&gt; and restarting sylpheed in order to get default entries.<br /> <br /> === What environment variables have effect on Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> ; Here are the most common variables : <br /> ; HOME : location of .sylpheed (config directory) and default folder for Mailboxes.<br /> ; LANG<br /> ; LC_ALL<br /> ; LC_CTYPE<br /> ; LC_MESSAGES : locale settings, e.g. language and date format.<br /> <br /> === Why are special characters (e.g. umlauts) not displayed correctly? ===<br /> <br /> In most cases, this is caused by emails with broken encodings. You can try to force it using the View/Character Encoding submenu.<br /> <br /> === How can I convert my old mailbox / adressbook from (some mailclient). ===<br /> <br /> In the source distribution, you can find some scripts in the &lt;code&gt;tools&lt;/code&gt; subdirectory, maybe your application is supported. You can also try to export your old mailbox to &lt;code&gt;MH&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;mbox&lt;/code&gt; format. If the mailbox is in &lt;code&gt;mbox&lt;/code&gt; format, it can be imported: File -&gt; Import mbox file...<br /> <br /> For the addressbook, direct import is supported for Mutt and Pine, but also LDIF, which is a standard format which most email clients can export to.<br /> <br /> Tip: Take a look at the &quot;harvest addresses&quot; function from the &lt;code&gt;Tools&lt;/code&gt; menu, it could be a useful alternative or addition, when importing your old contacts.<br /> <br /> === What config files are there, and what are they used for? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws' config files can be found in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws&lt;/code&gt;. They are in plain text format and quite easy to understand, so dont fear to take a look into them using a texteditor.<br /> <br /> ; sylpheedrc : main configuration: nearly all options from the settings window, e.g. mailbox location, font entries, etc.<br /> ; accountrc : settings for pop/imap/nntp accounts<br /> ; actionsrc : user defined actions<br /> ; customheaderrc : contains user defined header lines<br /> ; dispheaderrc : headers to display above the mail body<br /> ; filterrc : traditional filter settings<br /> ; folderitemrc : folder specific settings, e.g. default outbox<br /> ; matcherrc : new filtering and scoring settings<br /> ; menurc : Key bindings<br /> ; addrbook-*.xml : contents of your addressbook<br /> ; folderlist.xml : additional folder specific settings, e.g. hiding read messages, sort order, etc.<br /> <br /> === What's a good method for printing an e-mail? ===<br /> <br /> Most precompiled packages will use the libgnomeprintui library, which will allow you to print your emails simply with the same interface as Gnome apps. It will be compiled in if you have libgnomeprint-dev and libgnomeprintui-dev packages installed.<br /> <br /> If Sylpheed-Claws hasn't been compiled with libgnomeprintui support, you can use enscript. Use &lt;code&gt;enscript %s&lt;/code&gt; to print everything on one page, or &lt;code&gt;enscript -U2 %s&lt;/code&gt; for printing two logical pages on one physical page.<br /> <br /> As a more pretty alternative: Use [http://muttprint.sf.net muttprint]. The print-command would then look something like this: &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> Using KDE or gv you also get a &quot;print preview&quot; for free! <br /> <br /> Try &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s -p - |kghostview -&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s -p - |gv -&lt;/code&gt; respectively... BTW: muttprint, like enscript, may optionally print two logical pages on one physical page. Just have a look at the docs!<br /> <br /> === Mail is not sent because the queue folder cannot be found? ===<br /> <br /> (From the old bug tracker): Sylpheed-Claws requires a queue folder. This<br /> was changed to prevent message losses, if Sylpheed-Claws is killed while sending. Create a local folder (/File/Add Mailbox.../MH) for the queue and sending should work. I would not suggest to use the imap<br /> server for this purpose because sylpheeds queue messages have a special header that can not be handled correctly by the imap server, when the data for the summaryview is queried.<br /> <br /> If you really want to create a queueing folder in an IMAP server, you just have to create an ordinary folder in it, and then edit folderlist.xml file in sylpheed's configuration directory. In this file, you will find a &quot;folderitem&quot; tag, with its &quot;name&quot; attribute set to the IMAP folder name you just created for queueing. You should edit this tag, and set its &quot;type&quot; attribute set to &quot;queue&quot;. Note that this &quot;folderitem&quot; you're looking that will be a child of an &quot;folder&quot; tag that has its &quot;type&quot; attribute set to &quot;imap&quot;.<br /> <br /> === What is the purpose of this bizarre &quot;Enable Alternate Dictionary&quot; option? ===<br /> <br /> It is useful only if you routinely compose messages that use two or more languages. If this option is enabled, then when you switch to another language, the last one you used is not swapped out from memory, thus, when you switch again to it, there is no delay. Moreover, whenever you use two dictionaries, if you check a word and if the spell checker considers it misspelled in the current language, you can switch to the alternate language and recheck the word in one operation by selecting the &quot;Check with ALTERNATE_LANGUAGE&quot; item (keyboard short-cut: &lt;x&gt;) in the suggestions menu. This is very handy when the message contains paragraphs in two languages.<br /> <br /> === (Tips &amp; Tricks) Why doesn't the spell checker have a more traditional user interface, like KMail, Evolution etc? ===<br /> <br /> Because the developer (Melvin Hadasht) noted that by using the keyboard shortcuts the spell checking can be done faster while typing (more on that below). Moreover, there is the option &lt;Spelling/Check All or Check selection&gt; allows to do a spell checking of the whole text or just a selection. Just keep an eye where the suggestions menu shows up to look at the misspelled word, then hit one of the letters corresponding to the suggestion (&amp;lt;a&amp;gt; through &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;, press also &lt;ALT&gt; to make the selected suggestion listed as the first suggestion the next time you do exactly the same mistake --- this is the &quot;learn by mistake&quot; feature), or hit &lt;r&gt; to type a replacement, or hit &lt;ALT-SPACE&gt; to accept the word in the current message, or hit &lt;ALT-RETURN&gt; to accept the word and to add it definitively to your personal dictionary associated to this language. If you have enabled the &quot;Alternate Dictionary&quot;, you can switch to it by hitting &lt;x&gt;.<br /> <br /> If you prefer checking while you type, just bind the &lt;Spelling/Check backwards misspelled word&gt; and &lt;Spelling/Forward to next misspelled word&gt; to two quick keyboard short cuts. Then, as soon as you mistype a word, call the &lt;Check backwards...&gt; short-cut ---you do not need to move the cursor--- and without using the mouse select the suggestion. As GNU/Aspell does a good job at suggesting a replacement, you will often end to type &lt;a&gt;, and as the cursor did not move, just continue typing. In contrast, the other option, &lt;Forward to next...&gt; does move the cursor. This is because if you have text after the cursor, that also means in general that you are only editing a message, and not writing it, so advancing the cursor to the misspelled word is in general the wanted behaviour.<br /> &lt;div id=konqueror&gt;<br /> === How do I make sylpheed the default mail application for KDE? ===<br /> <br /> KDE does not support passing the full URL to a mailer (see [http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=658 bug 658] and the corresponding [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81598 KDE bug entry]).<br /> But there is a workaround - do the following as root:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> wget http://www.sylpheed-claws.net/tools/sylpheed-compose.pl<br /> mv sylpheed-compose.pl /usr/local/bin<br /> chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-compose.pl<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Then go to the KDE Control Center -&gt; KDE Components -&gt; Component Chooser -&gt; Email Client, choose &quot;Use a different email client&quot; and enter the following into the textbox:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-compose.pl --to=&quot;%t&quot; --cc=&quot;%c&quot; --bcc=&quot;%b&quot; --subject=&quot;%s&quot; --body=&quot;%B&quot; --attach=&quot;%A&quot;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> If your binary has a name other than &quot;sylpheed-claws&quot;, you must append another parameter:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> --sylpheed=&quot;/usr/bin/sylpheed&quot;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> where /usr/bin/sylpheed is the full path to sylpheed on your system.<br /> <br /> In case you don't want that perlscript or you can't use it - there is this alternative. But be aware that passing multiple lines or non-standard characters to Sylpheed-Claws from an application (e.g. konqueror trying to send form-data via email) will '''not''' work!<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;~mailto:%t?cc=%c&amp;bcc=%b&amp;subject=%s&amp;body=%B&quot; --attach &quot;%A&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Replace &quot;sylpheed-claws&quot; with the actual name of your binary here as well.<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws tell me that a gpg signature has expired? ===<br /> <br /> ; The sender used a key with a time limit, you have to update your keyring regularly to receive the updated signatures, e.g. like this : &lt;code&gt;gpg --refresh-keys&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> Note: Most keyservers have problems syncing OpenPGP type keys (see http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/keyserver.html). It is recommended to switch to SKS keyservers, e.g. subkeys.pgp.net or sks.keyserver.penguin.de .<br /> <br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws tell me that there is one unread message in some folders? ===<br /> <br /> ; When the number behind some folder tells you that you have one unread message but all are marked as read you have to do the following : Right click on toplevel MH folder and use &quot;Check for new messages&quot;, or use '/View/Update Summary'<br /> <br /> === How can I use my free Hotmail, Yahoo, or AOL email account via Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> [http://www.freepops.org/en/ FreePOPs] should allow you to create kind of a &quot;bridge&quot; between these proprietary email services and Sylpheed-Claws. Simply install FreePOPs, which is probably packaged in your distribution and configure it. After that, you can add an POP3 account to Sylpheed-Claws, which receiving server will be &lt;code&gt;localhost&lt;/code&gt; and set the port to use to &lt;code&gt;2000&lt;/code&gt; in the Advanced tab. The username to use consists of a complete email address, like &lt;code&gt; johndoe@hotmail.com&lt;/code&gt;, so that FreePOP can know which type of account it is. For more information, see [http://www.freepops.org/en/files/html-manual/ FreePOPs' user manual].</div> 213.41.175.117 https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=Installation_and_Configuration&diff=1469 Installation and Configuration 2006-07-13T07:30:20Z <p>213.41.175.117: X-Face from xbm</p> <hr /> <div>=== What do I need to compile Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> &lt;u&gt;Required:&lt;/u&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Any POSIX compliant UNIX or similar OS eg. Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris <br /> ; GTK+ 2.4.x or later <br /> ; A recent ANSI C compiler (gcc 2.7.2.3 should also work) <br /> <br /> Otherwise ./configure will fail.<br /> <br /> &lt;u&gt;Optional requirements:&lt;/u&gt;<br /> <br /> ; compface : for X-Face support<br /> ; GnuPG 1.2.1 or later and GPGME 0.4.5 or later : for GnuPG support<br /> ; OpenSSL : for SSL support<br /> ; libEtPan! 0.42 or later : for IMAP4 support<br /> ; OpenLDAP 2.0.7 or later : for LDAP support<br /> ; Aspell 0.50 or later (and dictionaries) : for spell-checker support<br /> ; libgnomeprint-2.2 and libgnomeprintui-2.2 : for extended printer support<br /> ; J-Pilot : for J-Pilot support<br /> ; SpamAssassin : for SpamAssassin plugin support<br /> ; Clam AntiVirus : for Clam AntiVirus plugin support<br /> ; Dillo : for Dillo HTML viewer plugin support<br /> ; GtkMathView : for MathML viewer plugin support<br /> <br /> === How do I set up Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> When you run Sylpheed-Claws for the first time, the Installation Wizard will appear and prompt you for the minimum required information necessary to start using Sylpheed-Claws in less than 5 minutes.<br /> <br /> === Why did the creation of the mailbox fail? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws reports such an error if it can't create the default mailboxes (inbox, outbox, etc ...). This can be because &lt;homedir&gt;/Mail already contains files with the same names. This occurs when switching from Kmail to Sylpheed-Claws, in this case backup and remove the existing Mail directory or use another name for the Sylpheed-Claws mail directory.<br /> <br /> === How do I create a new account? ===<br /> <br /> You can add an account by using the menu item '/Configuration/Create new account'<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws not delete my mails when I press &quot;delete&quot;? I set a filter, and Sylpheed-Claws does not filter. I moved a mail to a different mailbox and it did not move. ===<br /> <br /> You have the configuration option /Configuration/Preferences/Common Interface tab 'Execute immediately when moving or deleting messages' disabled.<br /> <br /> === Can I set up special addresses/ports for my mailserver / newsserver? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, you can. In the Account preferences, on the 'Advanced' tab you can specify the port addresses that you want to use.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have options for threading messages? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. You can switch it on and off in the Summary Menu, just select &quot;Thread View&quot; or press Ctrl+T. (This only affects the currently selected folder; i.e. it is a folder property.)<br /> <br /> === Can I create multiple levels of subfolders to store mail? ===<br /> <br /> Absolutely. This is no problem.<br /> <br /> === How do I apply a patch after downloading it? ===<br /> <br /> Copy patch to Sylpheed-Claws directory Apply the patch:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> % patch -p0 &lt; some.patch<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Or, if it's gzipped:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> % gzip -dc some.patch.gz | patch -p0<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Run =./autogen.sh=, remove the generated =/config.cache= file (unless you want to install in prefix /usr/local). Run =./configure= with the appropriate options and then make. (Text as found on the Sylpheed patches page.)<br /> <br /> === How do I compile in support for compface pictures? ===<br /> <br /> You have to have a package called libcompface installed, so this is available for compiling into Sylpheed-Claws. You can find out more and download it at http://freshmeat.net/projects/compface/ . Also, Tim Jackson has a spec file, which you can use to build an RPM of compface, at http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/rpms.php .<br /> <br /> === How do I make my own compface image? ===<br /> <br /> You can use the gif2xface.pl script, which converts a 48x48 gif to the format suitable for compface. This script can be found in the 'tools' directory, along with a README. It is also available from this site: http://claws.sylpheed.org/tools.php.<br /> <br /> === How can I make Sylpheed-Claws send my compface image in the mails? ===<br /> <br /> In the Configuration menu, Preferences for current account, Send tab, check Add user-defined header and press Edit button. A dialog appears, add a header named &quot;X-Face&quot; and fill the value field with your face data. Alternatively, you can select a .xbm file in this dialog. Note that if you paste the data from a terminal into the field some spurious newlines can be added, and these can mangle your face, be careful.<br /> <br /> === How can I tell my browser/newsclient/other program to use Sylpheed-Claws as e-mail program? ===<br /> <br /> In the settings part of the program, use &lt;code&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &quot;%t?subject=%s&amp;body=%d&quot;&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Specific options for typical browsers : <br /> ; Opera:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;mailto:%t?subject=%s&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> ; Galeon:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;mailto:%t?subject=%s&amp;body=%d&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> ; Konqueror : See [[Installation_And_Configuration#konqueror|How do I make sylpheed the default mail application for KDE]]?<br /> <br /> === How do I enable GPG support in Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> GunPG support requires GnuPG &gt;= 0.4.x and GPGME &gt;= 1.x.x.<br /> <br /> You need to load the PGP/Core, PGP/MIME, and PGP/inline plugins. '/Configuration/Plugins/Load plugin'.<br /> <br /> === Mutt does not recognize Sylpheed-Claws' MH structure ===<br /> <br /> For this to work you need to use the &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; command in every MH folder. &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; the file &lt;code&gt;.xmhcache&lt;/code&gt; and Mutt should do just fine.<br /> <br /> === How can I make Sylpheed-Claws notify me when new mail arrives? ===<br /> <br /> Go to '/Configuration/Preferences/Common', on the 'Receive' tab use the settings for 'Run command when new mail arrives'. You can also use the Trayicon (which is shipped with Sylpheed-Claws) or Acpi-notifier or Notification plugins, which are available on the [http://www.sylpheed-claws.net/plugins.php Plugins page].<br /> <br /> === Can I use a spell checker with Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Install Aspell &gt;= 0.50 and use the &lt;code&gt;./configure&lt;/code&gt; option &lt;code&gt;--enable-aspell&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> === I checked out the sources using cvs and cant find any configure script. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> The cvs versions are meant to be used by developers rather than ''normal'' users, so the source (or binary) distributions are easier to use.<br /> <br /> - Yeah, but the latest features from cvs really look sexy...<br /> <br /> You need to generate the configure script by running &lt;code&gt;./autogen.sh&lt;/code&gt;. Be sure to have autoconf and automake packages installed for this.<br /> <br /> === Running &quot;autogen.sh&quot; gives errormessages that AM_PATH_GDK_PIXBUF or AM_PATH_(whatever) is not found. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> There are some *.m4 files in the &lt;code&gt;ac/missing&lt;/code&gt; directory. Try to copy them into the &lt;code&gt;ac&lt;/code&gt; directory and run &lt;code&gt;autogen.sh&lt;/code&gt; again.<br /> <br /> If there are still some .m4 files not found (e.g. those from Gtk), try to run<br /> % locate m4 | less<br /> or<br /> % locate aclocal | less<br /> to find additional directories containing those macros. If you find e.g. a &quot;gtk.m4&quot; in &quot;/opt/gnome/share/aclocal&quot;, change following line in &quot;autogen.sh&quot; from<br /> aclocal -I ac \<br /> to<br /> aclocal -I ac -I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal \<br /> and run it again.<br /> <br /> === I dont want to compile in support for ... any longer, but after running &lt;code&gt;configure&lt;/code&gt;, those libraries are still used. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> Remove the &lt;code&gt;config.cache&lt;/code&gt; file and run &lt;code&gt;configure&lt;/code&gt; again. You should also use &lt;code&gt;make clean&lt;/code&gt; to avoid undefined references.<br /> <br /> === How can I select different applications to open with specific MIME types? ===<br /> <br /> The MIME-type-&gt;application associations are kept in &lt;code&gt;/etc/mailcap&lt;/code&gt;. Note that you need metamail installed to process the opening of the attachment.<br /> <br /> === How can I change the suggested mimetype for attachments I am sending? ===<br /> <br /> The extension-&gt;MIME-type associations are kept in &lt;code&gt;/etc/mime.types&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;br&gt;Right-click an attachment in the compose window's &quot;Attachments&quot; tab, and select Properties to change the MIME-type.<br /> <br /> === Why is the folder list not updated after I manually moved/copied folders? ===<br /> <br /> You need to update Sylpheed-Claws' cache. Right click on the mailbox and choose &quot;Check for new folders&quot;.<br /> <br /> === How can I revert original settings, e.g. for fonts, keybindings, etc.? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws keeps its configuration files in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/sylpheedrc&lt;/code&gt; and creates default entries, if none are found. So the easiest way is to quit sylpheed, temporarily renaming your &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws&lt;/code&gt; e.g. to &lt;code&gt;*.bak&lt;/code&gt; and restarting sylpheed in order to get default entries.<br /> <br /> === What environment variables have effect on Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> ; Here are the most common variables : <br /> ; HOME : location of .sylpheed (config directory) and default folder for Mailboxes.<br /> ; LANG<br /> ; LC_ALL<br /> ; LC_CTYPE<br /> ; LC_MESSAGES : locale settings, e.g. language and date format.<br /> <br /> === Why are special characters (e.g. umlauts) not displayed correctly? ===<br /> <br /> In most cases, this is caused by emails with broken encodings. You can try to force it using the View/Character Encoding submenu.<br /> <br /> === How can I convert my old mailbox / adressbook from (some mailclient). ===<br /> <br /> In the source distribution, you can find some scripts in the &lt;code&gt;tools&lt;/code&gt; subdirectory, maybe your application is supported. You can also try to export your old mailbox to &lt;code&gt;MH&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;mbox&lt;/code&gt; format. If the mailbox is in &lt;code&gt;mbox&lt;/code&gt; format, it can be imported: File -&gt; Import mbox file...<br /> <br /> For the addressbook, direct import is supported for Mutt and Pine, but also LDIF, which is a standard format which most email clients can export to.<br /> <br /> Tip: Take a look at the &quot;harvest addresses&quot; function from the &lt;code&gt;Tools&lt;/code&gt; menu, it could be a useful alternative or addition, when importing your old contacts.<br /> <br /> === What config files are there, and what are they used for? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws' config files can be found in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws&lt;/code&gt;. They are in plain text format and quite easy to understand, so dont fear to take a look into them using a texteditor.<br /> <br /> ; sylpheedrc : main configuration: nearly all options from the settings window, e.g. mailbox location, font entries, etc.<br /> ; accountrc : settings for pop/imap/nntp accounts<br /> ; actionsrc : user defined actions<br /> ; customheaderrc : contains user defined header lines<br /> ; dispheaderrc : headers to display above the mail body<br /> ; filterrc : traditional filter settings<br /> ; folderitemrc : folder specific settings, e.g. default outbox<br /> ; matcherrc : new filtering and scoring settings<br /> ; menurc : Key bindings<br /> ; addrbook-*.xml : contents of your addressbook<br /> ; folderlist.xml : additional folder specific settings, e.g. hiding read messages, sort order, etc.<br /> <br /> === What's a good method for printing an e-mail? ===<br /> <br /> Most precompiled packages will use the libgnomeprintui library, which will allow you to print your emails simply with the same interface as Gnome apps. It will be compiled in if you have libgnomeprint-dev and libgnomeprintui-dev packages installed.<br /> <br /> If Sylpheed-Claws hasn't been compiled with libgnomeprintui support, you can use enscript. Use &lt;code&gt;enscript %s&lt;/code&gt; to print everything on one page, or &lt;code&gt;enscript -U2 %s&lt;/code&gt; for printing two logical pages on one physical page.<br /> <br /> As a more pretty alternative: Use [http://muttprint.sf.net muttprint]. The print-command would then look something like this: &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> Using KDE or gv you also get a &quot;print preview&quot; for free! <br /> <br /> Try &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s -p - |kghostview -&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s -p - |gv -&lt;/code&gt; respectively... BTW: muttprint, like enscript, may optionally print two logical pages on one physical page. Just have a look at the docs!<br /> <br /> === Mail is not sent because the queue folder cannot be found? ===<br /> <br /> (From the old bug tracker): Sylpheed-Claws requires a queue folder. This<br /> was changed to prevent message losses, if Sylpheed-Claws is killed while sending. Create a local folder (/File/Add Mailbox.../MH) for the queue and sending should work. I would not suggest to use the imap<br /> server for this purpose because sylpheeds queue messages have a special header that can not be handled correctly by the imap server, when the data for the summaryview is queried.<br /> <br /> If you really want to create a queueing folder in an IMAP server, you just have to create an ordinary folder in it, and then edit folderlist.xml file in sylpheed's configuration directory. In this file, you will find a &quot;folderitem&quot; tag, with its &quot;name&quot; attribute set to the IMAP folder name you just created for queueing. You should edit this tag, and set its &quot;type&quot; attribute set to &quot;queue&quot;. Note that this &quot;folderitem&quot; you're looking that will be a child of an &quot;folder&quot; tag that has its &quot;type&quot; attribute set to &quot;imap&quot;.<br /> <br /> === What is the purpose of this bizarre &quot;Enable Alternate Dictionary&quot; option? ===<br /> <br /> It is useful only if you routinely compose messages that use two or more languages. If this option is enabled, then when you switch to another language, the last one you used is not swapped out from memory, thus, when you switch again to it, there is no delay. Moreover, whenever you use two dictionaries, if you check a word and if the spell checker considers it misspelled in the current language, you can switch to the alternate language and recheck the word in one operation by selecting the &quot;Check with ALTERNATE_LANGUAGE&quot; item (keyboard short-cut: &lt;x&gt;) in the suggestions menu. This is very handy when the message contains paragraphs in two languages.<br /> <br /> === (Tips &amp; Tricks) Why doesn't the spell checker have a more traditional user interface, like KMail, Evolution etc? ===<br /> <br /> Because the developer (Melvin Hadasht) noted that by using the keyboard shortcuts the spell checking can be done faster while typing (more on that below). Moreover, there is the option &lt;Spelling/Check All or Check selection&gt; allows to do a spell checking of the whole text or just a selection. Just keep an eye where the suggestions menu shows up to look at the misspelled word, then hit one of the letters corresponding to the suggestion (&amp;lt;a&amp;gt; through &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;, press also &lt;ALT&gt; to make the selected suggestion listed as the first suggestion the next time you do exactly the same mistake --- this is the &quot;learn by mistake&quot; feature), or hit &lt;r&gt; to type a replacement, or hit &lt;ALT-SPACE&gt; to accept the word in the current message, or hit &lt;ALT-RETURN&gt; to accept the word and to add it definitively to your personal dictionary associated to this language. If you have enabled the &quot;Alternate Dictionary&quot;, you can switch to it by hitting &lt;x&gt;.<br /> <br /> If you prefer checking while you type, just bind the &lt;Spelling/Check backwards misspelled word&gt; and &lt;Spelling/Forward to next misspelled word&gt; to two quick keyboard short cuts. Then, as soon as you mistype a word, call the &lt;Check backwards...&gt; short-cut ---you do not need to move the cursor--- and without using the mouse select the suggestion. As GNU/Aspell does a good job at suggesting a replacement, you will often end to type &lt;a&gt;, and as the cursor did not move, just continue typing. In contrast, the other option, &lt;Forward to next...&gt; does move the cursor. This is because if you have text after the cursor, that also means in general that you are only editing a message, and not writing it, so advancing the cursor to the misspelled word is in general the wanted behaviour.<br /> &lt;div id=konqueror&gt;<br /> === How do I make sylpheed the default mail application for KDE? ===<br /> <br /> KDE does not support passing the full URL to a mailer (see [http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=658 bug 658] and the corresponding [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81598 KDE bug entry]).<br /> But there is a workaround - do the following as root:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> wget http://www.sylpheed-claws.net/tools/sylpheed-compose.pl<br /> mv sylpheed-compose.pl /usr/local/bin<br /> chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-compose.pl<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Then go to the KDE Control Center -&gt; KDE Components -&gt; Component Chooser -&gt; Email Client, choose &quot;Use a different email client&quot; and enter the following into the textbox:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-compose.pl --to=&quot;%t&quot; --cc=&quot;%c&quot; --bcc=&quot;%b&quot; --subject=&quot;%s&quot; --body=&quot;%B&quot; --attach=&quot;%A&quot;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> If your binary has a name other than &quot;sylpheed-claws&quot;, you must append another parameter:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> --sylpheed=&quot;/usr/bin/sylpheed&quot;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> where /usr/bin/sylpheed is the full path to sylpheed on your system.<br /> <br /> In case you don't want that perlscript or you can't use it - there is this alternative. But be aware that passing multiple lines or non-standard characters to Sylpheed-Claws from an application (e.g. konqueror trying to send form-data via email) will '''not''' work!<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;~mailto:%t?cc=%c&amp;bcc=%b&amp;subject=%s&amp;body=%B&quot; --attach &quot;%A&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Replace &quot;sylpheed-claws&quot; with the actual name of your binary here as well.<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws tell me that a gpg signature has expired? ===<br /> <br /> ; The sender used a key with a time limit, you have to update your keyring regularly to receive the updated signatures, e.g. like this : &lt;code&gt;gpg --refresh-keys&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> Note: Most keyservers have problems syncing OpenPGP type keys (see http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/keyserver.html). It is recommended to switch to SKS keyservers, e.g. subkeys.pgp.net or sks.keyserver.penguin.de .<br /> <br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws tell me that there is one unread message in some folders? ===<br /> <br /> ; When the number behind some folder tells you that you have one unread message but all are marked as read you have to do the following : Right click on toplevel MH folder and use &quot;Check for new messages&quot;, or use '/View/Update Summary'<br /> <br /> === How can I use my free Hotmail, Yahoo, or AOL email account via Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> [http://www.freepops.org/en/ FreePOPs] should allow you to create kind of a &quot;bridge&quot; between these proprietary email services and Sylpheed-Claws. Simply install FreePOPs, which is probably packaged in your distribution and configure it. After that, you can add an POP3 account to Sylpheed-Claws, which receiving server will be &lt;code&gt;localhost&lt;/code&gt; and set the port to use to &lt;code&gt;2000&lt;/code&gt; in the Advanced tab. The username to use consists of a complete email address, like &lt;code&gt; johndoe@hotmail.com&lt;/code&gt;, so that FreePOP can know which type of account it is. For more information, see [http://www.freepops.org/en/files/html-manual/ FreePOPs' user manual].</div> 213.41.175.117 https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=Installation_and_Configuration&diff=1467 Installation and Configuration 2006-07-13T07:28:48Z <p>213.41.175.117: notifier plugins</p> <hr /> <div>=== What do I need to compile Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> &lt;u&gt;Required:&lt;/u&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Any POSIX compliant UNIX or similar OS eg. Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris <br /> ; GTK+ 2.4.x or later <br /> ; A recent ANSI C compiler (gcc 2.7.2.3 should also work) <br /> <br /> Otherwise ./configure will fail.<br /> <br /> &lt;u&gt;Optional requirements:&lt;/u&gt;<br /> <br /> ; compface : for X-Face support<br /> ; GnuPG 1.2.1 or later and GPGME 0.4.5 or later : for GnuPG support<br /> ; OpenSSL : for SSL support<br /> ; libEtPan! 0.42 or later : for IMAP4 support<br /> ; OpenLDAP 2.0.7 or later : for LDAP support<br /> ; Aspell 0.50 or later (and dictionaries) : for spell-checker support<br /> ; libgnomeprint-2.2 and libgnomeprintui-2.2 : for extended printer support<br /> ; J-Pilot : for J-Pilot support<br /> ; SpamAssassin : for SpamAssassin plugin support<br /> ; Clam AntiVirus : for Clam AntiVirus plugin support<br /> ; Dillo : for Dillo HTML viewer plugin support<br /> ; GtkMathView : for MathML viewer plugin support<br /> <br /> === How do I set up Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> When you run Sylpheed-Claws for the first time, the Installation Wizard will appear and prompt you for the minimum required information necessary to start using Sylpheed-Claws in less than 5 minutes.<br /> <br /> === Why did the creation of the mailbox fail? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws reports such an error if it can't create the default mailboxes (inbox, outbox, etc ...). This can be because &lt;homedir&gt;/Mail already contains files with the same names. This occurs when switching from Kmail to Sylpheed-Claws, in this case backup and remove the existing Mail directory or use another name for the Sylpheed-Claws mail directory.<br /> <br /> === How do I create a new account? ===<br /> <br /> You can add an account by using the menu item '/Configuration/Create new account'<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws not delete my mails when I press &quot;delete&quot;? I set a filter, and Sylpheed-Claws does not filter. I moved a mail to a different mailbox and it did not move. ===<br /> <br /> You have the configuration option /Configuration/Preferences/Common Interface tab 'Execute immediately when moving or deleting messages' disabled.<br /> <br /> === Can I set up special addresses/ports for my mailserver / newsserver? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, you can. In the Account preferences, on the 'Advanced' tab you can specify the port addresses that you want to use.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have options for threading messages? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. You can switch it on and off in the Summary Menu, just select &quot;Thread View&quot; or press Ctrl+T. (This only affects the currently selected folder; i.e. it is a folder property.)<br /> <br /> === Can I create multiple levels of subfolders to store mail? ===<br /> <br /> Absolutely. This is no problem.<br /> <br /> === How do I apply a patch after downloading it? ===<br /> <br /> Copy patch to Sylpheed-Claws directory Apply the patch:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> % patch -p0 &lt; some.patch<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Or, if it's gzipped:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> % gzip -dc some.patch.gz | patch -p0<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Run =./autogen.sh=, remove the generated =/config.cache= file (unless you want to install in prefix /usr/local). Run =./configure= with the appropriate options and then make. (Text as found on the Sylpheed patches page.)<br /> <br /> === How do I compile in support for compface pictures? ===<br /> <br /> You have to have a package called libcompface installed, so this is available for compiling into Sylpheed-Claws. You can find out more and download it at http://freshmeat.net/projects/compface/ . Also, Tim Jackson has a spec file, which you can use to build an RPM of compface, at http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/rpms.php .<br /> <br /> === How do I make my own compface image? ===<br /> <br /> You can use the gif2xface.pl script, which converts a 48x48 gif to the format suitable for compface. This script can be found in the 'tools' directory, along with a README. It is also available from this site: http://claws.sylpheed.org/tools.php.<br /> <br /> === How can I make Sylpheed-Claws send my compface image in the mails? ===<br /> <br /> In the Configuration menu, Preferences for current account, Send tab, check Add user-defined header and press Edit button. A dialog appears, add a header named &quot;X-Face&quot; and fill the value field with your face data. Note that if you paste the data from a terminal into the field some spurious newlines can be added, and these can mangle your face, be careful.<br /> <br /> === How can I tell my browser/newsclient/other program to use Sylpheed-Claws as e-mail program? ===<br /> <br /> In the settings part of the program, use &lt;code&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &quot;%t?subject=%s&amp;body=%d&quot;&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Specific options for typical browsers : <br /> ; Opera:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;mailto:%t?subject=%s&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> ; Galeon:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;mailto:%t?subject=%s&amp;body=%d&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> ; Konqueror : See [[Installation_And_Configuration#konqueror|How do I make sylpheed the default mail application for KDE]]?<br /> <br /> === How do I enable GPG support in Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> GunPG support requires GnuPG &gt;= 0.4.x and GPGME &gt;= 1.x.x.<br /> <br /> You need to load the PGP/Core, PGP/MIME, and PGP/inline plugins. '/Configuration/Plugins/Load plugin'.<br /> <br /> === Mutt does not recognize Sylpheed-Claws' MH structure ===<br /> <br /> For this to work you need to use the &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; command in every MH folder. &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; the file &lt;code&gt;.xmhcache&lt;/code&gt; and Mutt should do just fine.<br /> <br /> === How can I make Sylpheed-Claws notify me when new mail arrives? ===<br /> <br /> Go to '/Configuration/Preferences/Common', on the 'Receive' tab use the settings for 'Run command when new mail arrives'. You can also use the Trayicon (which is shipped with Sylpheed-Claws) or Acpi-notifier or Notification plugins, which are available on the [http://www.sylpheed-claws.net/plugins.php Plugins page].<br /> <br /> === Can I use a spell checker with Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Install Aspell &gt;= 0.50 and use the &lt;code&gt;./configure&lt;/code&gt; option &lt;code&gt;--enable-aspell&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> === I checked out the sources using cvs and cant find any configure script. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> The cvs versions are meant to be used by developers rather than ''normal'' users, so the source (or binary) distributions are easier to use.<br /> <br /> - Yeah, but the latest features from cvs really look sexy...<br /> <br /> You need to generate the configure script by running &lt;code&gt;./autogen.sh&lt;/code&gt;. Be sure to have autoconf and automake packages installed for this.<br /> <br /> === Running &quot;autogen.sh&quot; gives errormessages that AM_PATH_GDK_PIXBUF or AM_PATH_(whatever) is not found. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> There are some *.m4 files in the &lt;code&gt;ac/missing&lt;/code&gt; directory. Try to copy them into the &lt;code&gt;ac&lt;/code&gt; directory and run &lt;code&gt;autogen.sh&lt;/code&gt; again.<br /> <br /> If there are still some .m4 files not found (e.g. those from Gtk), try to run<br /> % locate m4 | less<br /> or<br /> % locate aclocal | less<br /> to find additional directories containing those macros. If you find e.g. a &quot;gtk.m4&quot; in &quot;/opt/gnome/share/aclocal&quot;, change following line in &quot;autogen.sh&quot; from<br /> aclocal -I ac \<br /> to<br /> aclocal -I ac -I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal \<br /> and run it again.<br /> <br /> === I dont want to compile in support for ... any longer, but after running &lt;code&gt;configure&lt;/code&gt;, those libraries are still used. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> Remove the &lt;code&gt;config.cache&lt;/code&gt; file and run &lt;code&gt;configure&lt;/code&gt; again. You should also use &lt;code&gt;make clean&lt;/code&gt; to avoid undefined references.<br /> <br /> === How can I select different applications to open with specific MIME types? ===<br /> <br /> The MIME-type-&gt;application associations are kept in &lt;code&gt;/etc/mailcap&lt;/code&gt;. Note that you need metamail installed to process the opening of the attachment.<br /> <br /> === How can I change the suggested mimetype for sending attachments? ===<br /> <br /> The extension-&gt;MIME-type associations are kept in &lt;code&gt;/etc/mime.types&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;br&gt;Right-click an attachment in the compose window's &quot;Attachments&quot; tab, and select Properties to change the MIME-type.<br /> <br /> === Why is the folder list not updated after I manually moved/copied folders? ===<br /> <br /> You need to update Sylpheed-Claws' cache. Right click on the mailbox and choose &quot;Check for new folders&quot;.<br /> <br /> === How can I revert original settings, e.g. for fonts, keybindings, etc.? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws keeps its configuration files in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/sylpheedrc&lt;/code&gt; and creates default entries, if none are found. So the easiest way is to quit sylpheed, temporarily renaming your &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws&lt;/code&gt; e.g. to &lt;code&gt;*.bak&lt;/code&gt; and restarting sylpheed in order to get default entries.<br /> <br /> === What environment variables have effect on Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> ; Here are the most common variables : <br /> ; HOME : location of .sylpheed (config directory) and default folder for Mailboxes.<br /> ; LANG<br /> ; LC_ALL<br /> ; LC_CTYPE<br /> ; LC_MESSAGES : locale settings, e.g. language and date format.<br /> <br /> === Why are special characters (e.g. umlauts) not displayed correctly? ===<br /> <br /> In most cases, this is caused by emails with broken encodings. You can try to force it using the View/Character Encoding submenu.<br /> <br /> === How can I convert my old mailbox / adressbook from (some mailclient). ===<br /> <br /> In the source distribution, you can find some scripts in the &lt;code&gt;tools&lt;/code&gt; subdirectory, maybe your application is supported. You can also try to export your old mailbox to &lt;code&gt;MH&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;mbox&lt;/code&gt; format. If the mailbox is in &lt;code&gt;mbox&lt;/code&gt; format, it can be imported: File -&gt; Import mbox file...<br /> <br /> For the addressbook, direct import is supported for Mutt and Pine, but also LDIF, which is a standard format which most email clients can export to.<br /> <br /> Tip: Take a look at the &quot;harvest addresses&quot; function from the &lt;code&gt;Tools&lt;/code&gt; menu, it could be a useful alternative or addition, when importing your old contacts.<br /> <br /> === What config files are there, and what are they used for? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws' config files can be found in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws&lt;/code&gt;. They are in plain text format and quite easy to understand, so dont fear to take a look into them using a texteditor.<br /> <br /> ; sylpheedrc : main configuration: nearly all options from the settings window, e.g. mailbox location, font entries, etc.<br /> ; accountrc : settings for pop/imap/nntp accounts<br /> ; actionsrc : user defined actions<br /> ; customheaderrc : contains user defined header lines<br /> ; dispheaderrc : headers to display above the mail body<br /> ; filterrc : traditional filter settings<br /> ; folderitemrc : folder specific settings, e.g. default outbox<br /> ; matcherrc : new filtering and scoring settings<br /> ; menurc : Key bindings<br /> ; addrbook-*.xml : contents of your addressbook<br /> ; folderlist.xml : additional folder specific settings, e.g. hiding read messages, sort order, etc.<br /> <br /> === What's a good method for printing an e-mail? ===<br /> <br /> Most precompiled packages will use the libgnomeprintui library, which will allow you to print your emails simply with the same interface as Gnome apps. It will be compiled in if you have libgnomeprint-dev and libgnomeprintui-dev packages installed.<br /> <br /> If Sylpheed-Claws hasn't been compiled with libgnomeprintui support, you can use enscript. Use &lt;code&gt;enscript %s&lt;/code&gt; to print everything on one page, or &lt;code&gt;enscript -U2 %s&lt;/code&gt; for printing two logical pages on one physical page.<br /> <br /> As a more pretty alternative: Use [http://muttprint.sf.net muttprint]. The print-command would then look something like this: &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> Using KDE or gv you also get a &quot;print preview&quot; for free! <br /> <br /> Try &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s -p - |kghostview -&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s -p - |gv -&lt;/code&gt; respectively... BTW: muttprint, like enscript, may optionally print two logical pages on one physical page. Just have a look at the docs!<br /> <br /> === Mail is not sent because the queue folder cannot be found? ===<br /> <br /> (From the old bug tracker): Sylpheed-Claws requires a queue folder. This<br /> was changed to prevent message losses, if Sylpheed-Claws is killed while sending. Create a local folder (/File/Add Mailbox.../MH) for the queue and sending should work. I would not suggest to use the imap<br /> server for this purpose because sylpheeds queue messages have a special header that can not be handled correctly by the imap server, when the data for the summaryview is queried.<br /> <br /> If you really want to create a queueing folder in an IMAP server, you just have to create an ordinary folder in it, and then edit folderlist.xml file in sylpheed's configuration directory. In this file, you will find a &quot;folderitem&quot; tag, with its &quot;name&quot; attribute set to the IMAP folder name you just created for queueing. You should edit this tag, and set its &quot;type&quot; attribute set to &quot;queue&quot;. Note that this &quot;folderitem&quot; you're looking that will be a child of an &quot;folder&quot; tag that has its &quot;type&quot; attribute set to &quot;imap&quot;.<br /> <br /> === What is the purpose of this bizarre &quot;Enable Alternate Dictionary&quot; option? ===<br /> <br /> It is useful only if you routinely compose messages that use two or more languages. If this option is enabled, then when you switch to another language, the last one you used is not swapped out from memory, thus, when you switch again to it, there is no delay. Moreover, whenever you use two dictionaries, if you check a word and if the spell checker considers it misspelled in the current language, you can switch to the alternate language and recheck the word in one operation by selecting the &quot;Check with ALTERNATE_LANGUAGE&quot; item (keyboard short-cut: &lt;x&gt;) in the suggestions menu. This is very handy when the message contains paragraphs in two languages.<br /> <br /> === (Tips &amp; Tricks) Why doesn't the spell checker have a more traditional user interface, like KMail, Evolution etc? ===<br /> <br /> Because the developer (Melvin Hadasht) noted that by using the keyboard shortcuts the spell checking can be done faster while typing (more on that below). Moreover, there is the option &lt;Spelling/Check All or Check selection&gt; allows to do a spell checking of the whole text or just a selection. Just keep an eye where the suggestions menu shows up to look at the misspelled word, then hit one of the letters corresponding to the suggestion (&amp;lt;a&amp;gt; through &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;, press also &lt;ALT&gt; to make the selected suggestion listed as the first suggestion the next time you do exactly the same mistake --- this is the &quot;learn by mistake&quot; feature), or hit &lt;r&gt; to type a replacement, or hit &lt;ALT-SPACE&gt; to accept the word in the current message, or hit &lt;ALT-RETURN&gt; to accept the word and to add it definitively to your personal dictionary associated to this language. If you have enabled the &quot;Alternate Dictionary&quot;, you can switch to it by hitting &lt;x&gt;.<br /> <br /> If you prefer checking while you type, just bind the &lt;Spelling/Check backwards misspelled word&gt; and &lt;Spelling/Forward to next misspelled word&gt; to two quick keyboard short cuts. Then, as soon as you mistype a word, call the &lt;Check backwards...&gt; short-cut ---you do not need to move the cursor--- and without using the mouse select the suggestion. As GNU/Aspell does a good job at suggesting a replacement, you will often end to type &lt;a&gt;, and as the cursor did not move, just continue typing. In contrast, the other option, &lt;Forward to next...&gt; does move the cursor. This is because if you have text after the cursor, that also means in general that you are only editing a message, and not writing it, so advancing the cursor to the misspelled word is in general the wanted behaviour.<br /> &lt;div id=konqueror&gt;<br /> === How do I make sylpheed the default mail application for KDE? ===<br /> <br /> KDE does not support passing the full URL to a mailer (see [http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=658 bug 658] and the corresponding [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81598 KDE bug entry]).<br /> But there is a workaround - do the following as root:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> wget http://www.sylpheed-claws.net/tools/sylpheed-compose.pl<br /> mv sylpheed-compose.pl /usr/local/bin<br /> chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-compose.pl<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Then go to the KDE Control Center -&gt; KDE Components -&gt; Component Chooser -&gt; Email Client, choose &quot;Use a different email client&quot; and enter the following into the textbox:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-compose.pl --to=&quot;%t&quot; --cc=&quot;%c&quot; --bcc=&quot;%b&quot; --subject=&quot;%s&quot; --body=&quot;%B&quot; --attach=&quot;%A&quot;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> If your binary has a name other than &quot;sylpheed-claws&quot;, you must append another parameter:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> --sylpheed=&quot;/usr/bin/sylpheed&quot;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> where /usr/bin/sylpheed is the full path to sylpheed on your system.<br /> <br /> In case you don't want that perlscript or you can't use it - there is this alternative. But be aware that passing multiple lines or non-standard characters to Sylpheed-Claws from an application (e.g. konqueror trying to send form-data via email) will '''not''' work!<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;~mailto:%t?cc=%c&amp;bcc=%b&amp;subject=%s&amp;body=%B&quot; --attach &quot;%A&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Replace &quot;sylpheed-claws&quot; with the actual name of your binary here as well.<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws tell me that a gpg signature has expired? ===<br /> <br /> ; The sender used a key with a time limit, you have to update your keyring regularly to receive the updated signatures, e.g. like this : &lt;code&gt;gpg --refresh-keys&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> Note: Most keyservers have problems syncing OpenPGP type keys (see http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/keyserver.html). It is recommended to switch to SKS keyservers, e.g. subkeys.pgp.net or sks.keyserver.penguin.de .<br /> <br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws tell me that there is one unread message in some folders? ===<br /> <br /> ; When the number behind some folder tells you that you have one unread message but all are marked as read you have to do the following : Right click on toplevel MH folder and use &quot;Check for new messages&quot;, or use '/View/Update Summary'<br /> <br /> === How can I use my free Hotmail, Yahoo, or AOL email account via Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> [http://www.freepops.org/en/ FreePOPs] should allow you to create kind of a &quot;bridge&quot; between these proprietary email services and Sylpheed-Claws. Simply install FreePOPs, which is probably packaged in your distribution and configure it. After that, you can add an POP3 account to Sylpheed-Claws, which receiving server will be &lt;code&gt;localhost&lt;/code&gt; and set the port to use to &lt;code&gt;2000&lt;/code&gt; in the Advanced tab. The username to use consists of a complete email address, like &lt;code&gt; johndoe@hotmail.com&lt;/code&gt;, so that FreePOP can know which type of account it is. For more information, see [http://www.freepops.org/en/files/html-manual/ FreePOPs' user manual].</div> 213.41.175.117 https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=Installation_and_Configuration&diff=1466 Installation and Configuration 2006-07-13T07:20:58Z <p>213.41.175.117: dot-slash-autogen.sh</p> <hr /> <div>=== What do I need to compile Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> &lt;u&gt;Required:&lt;/u&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Any POSIX compliant UNIX or similar OS eg. Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris <br /> ; GTK+ 2.4.x or later <br /> ; A recent ANSI C compiler (gcc 2.7.2.3 should also work) <br /> <br /> Otherwise ./configure will fail.<br /> <br /> &lt;u&gt;Optional requirements:&lt;/u&gt;<br /> <br /> ; compface : for X-Face support<br /> ; GnuPG 1.2.1 or later and GPGME 0.4.5 or later : for GnuPG support<br /> ; OpenSSL : for SSL support<br /> ; libEtPan! 0.42 or later : for IMAP4 support<br /> ; OpenLDAP 2.0.7 or later : for LDAP support<br /> ; Aspell 0.50 or later (and dictionaries) : for spell-checker support<br /> ; libgnomeprint-2.2 and libgnomeprintui-2.2 : for extended printer support<br /> ; J-Pilot : for J-Pilot support<br /> ; SpamAssassin : for SpamAssassin plugin support<br /> ; Clam AntiVirus : for Clam AntiVirus plugin support<br /> ; Dillo : for Dillo HTML viewer plugin support<br /> ; GtkMathView : for MathML viewer plugin support<br /> <br /> === How do I set up Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> When you run Sylpheed-Claws for the first time, the Installation Wizard will appear and prompt you for the minimum required information necessary to start using Sylpheed-Claws in less than 5 minutes.<br /> <br /> === Why did the creation of the mailbox fail? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws reports such an error if it can't create the default mailboxes (inbox, outbox, etc ...). This can be because &lt;homedir&gt;/Mail already contains files with the same names. This occurs when switching from Kmail to Sylpheed-Claws, in this case backup and remove the existing Mail directory or use another name for the Sylpheed-Claws mail directory.<br /> <br /> === How do I create a new account? ===<br /> <br /> You can add an account by using the menu item '/Configuration/Create new account'<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws not delete my mails when I press &quot;delete&quot;? I set a filter, and Sylpheed-Claws does not filter. I moved a mail to a different mailbox and it did not move. ===<br /> <br /> You have the configuration option /Configuration/Preferences/Common Interface tab 'Execute immediately when moving or deleting messages' disabled.<br /> <br /> === Can I set up special addresses/ports for my mailserver / newsserver? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, you can. In the Account preferences, on the 'Advanced' tab you can specify the port addresses that you want to use.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have options for threading messages? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. You can switch it on and off in the Summary Menu, just select &quot;Thread View&quot; or press Ctrl+T. (This only affects the currently selected folder; i.e. it is a folder property.)<br /> <br /> === Can I create multiple levels of subfolders to store mail? ===<br /> <br /> Absolutely. This is no problem.<br /> <br /> === How do I apply a patch after downloading it? ===<br /> <br /> Copy patch to Sylpheed-Claws directory Apply the patch:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> % patch -p0 &lt; some.patch<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Or, if it's gzipped:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> % gzip -dc some.patch.gz | patch -p0<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Run =./autogen.sh=, remove the generated =/config.cache= file (unless you want to install in prefix /usr/local). Run =./configure= with the appropriate options and then make. (Text as found on the Sylpheed patches page.)<br /> <br /> === How do I compile in support for compface pictures? ===<br /> <br /> You have to have a package called libcompface installed, so this is available for compiling into Sylpheed-Claws. You can find out more and download it at http://freshmeat.net/projects/compface/ . Also, Tim Jackson has a spec file, which you can use to build an RPM of compface, at http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/rpms.php .<br /> <br /> === How do I make my own compface image? ===<br /> <br /> You can use the gif2xface.pl script, which converts a 48x48 gif to the format suitable for compface. This script can be found in the 'tools' directory, along with a README. It is also available from this site: http://claws.sylpheed.org/tools.php.<br /> <br /> === How can I make Sylpheed-Claws send my compface image in the mails? ===<br /> <br /> In the Configuration menu, Preferences for current account, Send tab, check Add user-defined header and press Edit button. A dialog appears, add a header named &quot;X-Face&quot; and fill the value field with your face data. Note that if you paste the data from a terminal into the field some spurious newlines can be added, and these can mangle your face, be careful.<br /> <br /> === How can I tell my browser/newsclient/other program to use Sylpheed-Claws as e-mail program? ===<br /> <br /> In the settings part of the program, use &lt;code&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &quot;%t?subject=%s&amp;body=%d&quot;&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Specific options for typical browsers : <br /> ; Opera:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;mailto:%t?subject=%s&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> ; Galeon:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;mailto:%t?subject=%s&amp;body=%d&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> ; Konqueror : See [[Installation_And_Configuration#konqueror|How do I make sylpheed the default mail application for KDE]]?<br /> <br /> === How do I enable GPG support in Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> GunPG support requires GnuPG &gt;= 0.4.x and GPGME &gt;= 1.x.x.<br /> <br /> You need to load the PGP/Core, PGP/MIME, and PGP/inline plugins. '/Configuration/Plugins/Load plugin'.<br /> <br /> === Mutt does not recognize Sylpheed-Claws' MH structure ===<br /> <br /> For this to work you need to use the &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; command in every MH folder. &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; the file &lt;code&gt;.xmhcache&lt;/code&gt; and Mutt should do just fine.<br /> <br /> === How can I make Sylpheed-Claws notify me when new mail arrives? ===<br /> <br /> Go to '/Configuration/Preferences/Common', on the 'Receive' tab use the settings for 'Run command when new mail arrives'<br /> <br /> === Can I use a spell checker with Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Install Aspell &gt;= 0.50 and use the &lt;code&gt;./configure&lt;/code&gt; option &lt;code&gt;--enable-aspell&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> === I checked out the sources using cvs and cant find any configure script. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> The cvs versions are meant to be used by developers rather than ''normal'' users, so the source (or binary) distributions are easier to use.<br /> <br /> - Yeah, but the latest features from cvs really look sexy...<br /> <br /> You need to generate the configure script by running &lt;code&gt;./autogen.sh&lt;/code&gt;. Be sure to have autoconf and automake packages installed for this.<br /> <br /> === Running &quot;autogen.sh&quot; gives errormessages that AM_PATH_GDK_PIXBUF or AM_PATH_(whatever) is not found. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> There are some *.m4 files in the &lt;code&gt;ac/missing&lt;/code&gt; directory. Try to copy them into the &lt;code&gt;ac&lt;/code&gt; directory and run &lt;code&gt;autogen.sh&lt;/code&gt; again.<br /> <br /> If there are still some .m4 files not found (e.g. those from Gtk), try to run<br /> % locate m4 | less<br /> or<br /> % locate aclocal | less<br /> to find additional directories containing those macros. If you find e.g. a &quot;gtk.m4&quot; in &quot;/opt/gnome/share/aclocal&quot;, change following line in &quot;autogen.sh&quot; from<br /> aclocal -I ac \<br /> to<br /> aclocal -I ac -I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal \<br /> and run it again.<br /> <br /> === I dont want to compile in support for ... any longer, but after running &lt;code&gt;configure&lt;/code&gt;, those libraries are still used. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> Remove the &lt;code&gt;config.cache&lt;/code&gt; file and run &lt;code&gt;configure&lt;/code&gt; again. You should also use &lt;code&gt;make clean&lt;/code&gt; to avoid undefined references.<br /> <br /> === How can I select different applications to open with specific MIME types? ===<br /> <br /> The MIME-type-&gt;application associations are kept in &lt;code&gt;/etc/mailcap&lt;/code&gt;. Note that you need metamail installed to process the opening of the attachment.<br /> <br /> === How can I change the suggested mimetype for sending attachments? ===<br /> <br /> The extension-&gt;MIME-type associations are kept in &lt;code&gt;/etc/mime.types&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;br&gt;Right-click an attachment in the compose window's &quot;Attachments&quot; tab, and select Properties to change the MIME-type.<br /> <br /> === Why is the folder list not updated after I manually moved/copied folders? ===<br /> <br /> You need to update Sylpheed-Claws' cache. Right click on the mailbox and choose &quot;Check for new folders&quot;.<br /> <br /> === How can I revert original settings, e.g. for fonts, keybindings, etc.? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws keeps its configuration files in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/sylpheedrc&lt;/code&gt; and creates default entries, if none are found. So the easiest way is to quit sylpheed, temporarily renaming your &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws&lt;/code&gt; e.g. to &lt;code&gt;*.bak&lt;/code&gt; and restarting sylpheed in order to get default entries.<br /> <br /> === What environment variables have effect on Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> ; Here are the most common variables : <br /> ; HOME : location of .sylpheed (config directory) and default folder for Mailboxes.<br /> ; LANG<br /> ; LC_ALL<br /> ; LC_CTYPE<br /> ; LC_MESSAGES : locale settings, e.g. language and date format.<br /> <br /> === Why are special characters (e.g. umlauts) not displayed correctly? ===<br /> <br /> In most cases, this is caused by emails with broken encodings. You can try to force it using the View/Character Encoding submenu.<br /> <br /> === How can I convert my old mailbox / adressbook from (some mailclient). ===<br /> <br /> In the source distribution, you can find some scripts in the &lt;code&gt;tools&lt;/code&gt; subdirectory, maybe your application is supported. You can also try to export your old mailbox to &lt;code&gt;MH&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;mbox&lt;/code&gt; format. If the mailbox is in &lt;code&gt;mbox&lt;/code&gt; format, it can be imported: File -&gt; Import mbox file...<br /> <br /> For the addressbook, direct import is supported for Mutt and Pine, but also LDIF, which is a standard format which most email clients can export to.<br /> <br /> Tip: Take a look at the &quot;harvest addresses&quot; function from the &lt;code&gt;Tools&lt;/code&gt; menu, it could be a useful alternative or addition, when importing your old contacts.<br /> <br /> === What config files are there, and what are they used for? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws' config files can be found in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws&lt;/code&gt;. They are in plain text format and quite easy to understand, so dont fear to take a look into them using a texteditor.<br /> <br /> ; sylpheedrc : main configuration: nearly all options from the settings window, e.g. mailbox location, font entries, etc.<br /> ; accountrc : settings for pop/imap/nntp accounts<br /> ; actionsrc : user defined actions<br /> ; customheaderrc : contains user defined header lines<br /> ; dispheaderrc : headers to display above the mail body<br /> ; filterrc : traditional filter settings<br /> ; folderitemrc : folder specific settings, e.g. default outbox<br /> ; matcherrc : new filtering and scoring settings<br /> ; menurc : Key bindings<br /> ; addrbook-*.xml : contents of your addressbook<br /> ; folderlist.xml : additional folder specific settings, e.g. hiding read messages, sort order, etc.<br /> <br /> === What's a good method for printing an e-mail? ===<br /> <br /> Most precompiled packages will use the libgnomeprintui library, which will allow you to print your emails simply with the same interface as Gnome apps. It will be compiled in if you have libgnomeprint-dev and libgnomeprintui-dev packages installed.<br /> <br /> If Sylpheed-Claws hasn't been compiled with libgnomeprintui support, you can use enscript. Use &lt;code&gt;enscript %s&lt;/code&gt; to print everything on one page, or &lt;code&gt;enscript -U2 %s&lt;/code&gt; for printing two logical pages on one physical page.<br /> <br /> As a more pretty alternative: Use [http://muttprint.sf.net muttprint]. The print-command would then look something like this: &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> Using KDE or gv you also get a &quot;print preview&quot; for free! <br /> <br /> Try &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s -p - |kghostview -&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s -p - |gv -&lt;/code&gt; respectively... BTW: muttprint, like enscript, may optionally print two logical pages on one physical page. Just have a look at the docs!<br /> <br /> === Mail is not sent because the queue folder cannot be found? ===<br /> <br /> (From the old bug tracker): Sylpheed-Claws requires a queue folder. This<br /> was changed to prevent message losses, if Sylpheed-Claws is killed while sending. Create a local folder (/File/Add Mailbox.../MH) for the queue and sending should work. I would not suggest to use the imap<br /> server for this purpose because sylpheeds queue messages have a special header that can not be handled correctly by the imap server, when the data for the summaryview is queried.<br /> <br /> If you really want to create a queueing folder in an IMAP server, you just have to create an ordinary folder in it, and then edit folderlist.xml file in sylpheed's configuration directory. In this file, you will find a &quot;folderitem&quot; tag, with its &quot;name&quot; attribute set to the IMAP folder name you just created for queueing. You should edit this tag, and set its &quot;type&quot; attribute set to &quot;queue&quot;. Note that this &quot;folderitem&quot; you're looking that will be a child of an &quot;folder&quot; tag that has its &quot;type&quot; attribute set to &quot;imap&quot;.<br /> <br /> === What is the purpose of this bizarre &quot;Enable Alternate Dictionary&quot; option? ===<br /> <br /> It is useful only if you routinely compose messages that use two or more languages. If this option is enabled, then when you switch to another language, the last one you used is not swapped out from memory, thus, when you switch again to it, there is no delay. Moreover, whenever you use two dictionaries, if you check a word and if the spell checker considers it misspelled in the current language, you can switch to the alternate language and recheck the word in one operation by selecting the &quot;Check with ALTERNATE_LANGUAGE&quot; item (keyboard short-cut: &lt;x&gt;) in the suggestions menu. This is very handy when the message contains paragraphs in two languages.<br /> <br /> === (Tips &amp; Tricks) Why doesn't the spell checker have a more traditional user interface, like KMail, Evolution etc? ===<br /> <br /> Because the developer (Melvin Hadasht) noted that by using the keyboard shortcuts the spell checking can be done faster while typing (more on that below). Moreover, there is the option &lt;Spelling/Check All or Check selection&gt; allows to do a spell checking of the whole text or just a selection. Just keep an eye where the suggestions menu shows up to look at the misspelled word, then hit one of the letters corresponding to the suggestion (&amp;lt;a&amp;gt; through &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;, press also &lt;ALT&gt; to make the selected suggestion listed as the first suggestion the next time you do exactly the same mistake --- this is the &quot;learn by mistake&quot; feature), or hit &lt;r&gt; to type a replacement, or hit &lt;ALT-SPACE&gt; to accept the word in the current message, or hit &lt;ALT-RETURN&gt; to accept the word and to add it definitively to your personal dictionary associated to this language. If you have enabled the &quot;Alternate Dictionary&quot;, you can switch to it by hitting &lt;x&gt;.<br /> <br /> If you prefer checking while you type, just bind the &lt;Spelling/Check backwards misspelled word&gt; and &lt;Spelling/Forward to next misspelled word&gt; to two quick keyboard short cuts. Then, as soon as you mistype a word, call the &lt;Check backwards...&gt; short-cut ---you do not need to move the cursor--- and without using the mouse select the suggestion. As GNU/Aspell does a good job at suggesting a replacement, you will often end to type &lt;a&gt;, and as the cursor did not move, just continue typing. In contrast, the other option, &lt;Forward to next...&gt; does move the cursor. This is because if you have text after the cursor, that also means in general that you are only editing a message, and not writing it, so advancing the cursor to the misspelled word is in general the wanted behaviour.<br /> &lt;div id=konqueror&gt;<br /> === How do I make sylpheed the default mail application for KDE? ===<br /> <br /> KDE does not support passing the full URL to a mailer (see [http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=658 bug 658] and the corresponding [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81598 KDE bug entry]).<br /> But there is a workaround - do the following as root:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> wget http://www.sylpheed-claws.net/tools/sylpheed-compose.pl<br /> mv sylpheed-compose.pl /usr/local/bin<br /> chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-compose.pl<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Then go to the KDE Control Center -&gt; KDE Components -&gt; Component Chooser -&gt; Email Client, choose &quot;Use a different email client&quot; and enter the following into the textbox:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-compose.pl --to=&quot;%t&quot; --cc=&quot;%c&quot; --bcc=&quot;%b&quot; --subject=&quot;%s&quot; --body=&quot;%B&quot; --attach=&quot;%A&quot;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> If your binary has a name other than &quot;sylpheed-claws&quot;, you must append another parameter:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> --sylpheed=&quot;/usr/bin/sylpheed&quot;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> where /usr/bin/sylpheed is the full path to sylpheed on your system.<br /> <br /> In case you don't want that perlscript or you can't use it - there is this alternative. But be aware that passing multiple lines or non-standard characters to Sylpheed-Claws from an application (e.g. konqueror trying to send form-data via email) will '''not''' work!<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;~mailto:%t?cc=%c&amp;bcc=%b&amp;subject=%s&amp;body=%B&quot; --attach &quot;%A&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Replace &quot;sylpheed-claws&quot; with the actual name of your binary here as well.<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws tell me that a gpg signature has expired? ===<br /> <br /> ; The sender used a key with a time limit, you have to update your keyring regularly to receive the updated signatures, e.g. like this : &lt;code&gt;gpg --refresh-keys&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> Note: Most keyservers have problems syncing OpenPGP type keys (see http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/keyserver.html). It is recommended to switch to SKS keyservers, e.g. subkeys.pgp.net or sks.keyserver.penguin.de .<br /> <br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws tell me that there is one unread message in some folders? ===<br /> <br /> ; When the number behind some folder tells you that you have one unread message but all are marked as read you have to do the following : Right click on toplevel MH folder and use &quot;Check for new messages&quot;, or use '/View/Update Summary'<br /> <br /> === How can I use my free Hotmail, Yahoo, or AOL email account via Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> [http://www.freepops.org/en/ FreePOPs] should allow you to create kind of a &quot;bridge&quot; between these proprietary email services and Sylpheed-Claws. Simply install FreePOPs, which is probably packaged in your distribution and configure it. After that, you can add an POP3 account to Sylpheed-Claws, which receiving server will be &lt;code&gt;localhost&lt;/code&gt; and set the port to use to &lt;code&gt;2000&lt;/code&gt; in the Advanced tab. The username to use consists of a complete email address, like &lt;code&gt; johndoe@hotmail.com&lt;/code&gt;, so that FreePOP can know which type of account it is. For more information, see [http://www.freepops.org/en/files/html-manual/ FreePOPs' user manual].</div> 213.41.175.117 https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=Installation_and_Configuration&diff=1465 Installation and Configuration 2006-07-13T07:19:52Z <p>213.41.175.117: /* How can I change the suggested mimetype for attachments? */</p> <hr /> <div>=== What do I need to compile Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> &lt;u&gt;Required:&lt;/u&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Any POSIX compliant UNIX or similar OS eg. Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris <br /> ; GTK+ 2.4.x or later <br /> ; A recent ANSI C compiler (gcc 2.7.2.3 should also work) <br /> <br /> Otherwise ./configure will fail.<br /> <br /> &lt;u&gt;Optional requirements:&lt;/u&gt;<br /> <br /> ; compface : for X-Face support<br /> ; GnuPG 1.2.1 or later and GPGME 0.4.5 or later : for GnuPG support<br /> ; OpenSSL : for SSL support<br /> ; libEtPan! 0.42 or later : for IMAP4 support<br /> ; OpenLDAP 2.0.7 or later : for LDAP support<br /> ; Aspell 0.50 or later (and dictionaries) : for spell-checker support<br /> ; libgnomeprint-2.2 and libgnomeprintui-2.2 : for extended printer support<br /> ; J-Pilot : for J-Pilot support<br /> ; SpamAssassin : for SpamAssassin plugin support<br /> ; Clam AntiVirus : for Clam AntiVirus plugin support<br /> ; Dillo : for Dillo HTML viewer plugin support<br /> ; GtkMathView : for MathML viewer plugin support<br /> <br /> === How do I set up Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> When you run Sylpheed-Claws for the first time, the Installation Wizard will appear and prompt you for the minimum required information necessary to start using Sylpheed-Claws in less than 5 minutes.<br /> <br /> === Why did the creation of the mailbox fail? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws reports such an error if it can't create the default mailboxes (inbox, outbox, etc ...). This can be because &lt;homedir&gt;/Mail already contains files with the same names. This occurs when switching from Kmail to Sylpheed-Claws, in this case backup and remove the existing Mail directory or use another name for the Sylpheed-Claws mail directory.<br /> <br /> === How do I create a new account? ===<br /> <br /> You can add an account by using the menu item '/Configuration/Create new account'<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws not delete my mails when I press &quot;delete&quot;? I set a filter, and Sylpheed-Claws does not filter. I moved a mail to a different mailbox and it did not move. ===<br /> <br /> You have the configuration option /Configuration/Preferences/Common Interface tab 'Execute immediately when moving or deleting messages' disabled.<br /> <br /> === Can I set up special addresses/ports for my mailserver / newsserver? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, you can. In the Account preferences, on the 'Advanced' tab you can specify the port addresses that you want to use.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have options for threading messages? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. You can switch it on and off in the Summary Menu, just select &quot;Thread View&quot; or press Ctrl+T. (This only affects the currently selected folder; i.e. it is a folder property.)<br /> <br /> === Can I create multiple levels of subfolders to store mail? ===<br /> <br /> Absolutely. This is no problem.<br /> <br /> === How do I apply a patch after downloading it? ===<br /> <br /> Copy patch to Sylpheed-Claws directory Apply the patch:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> % patch -p0 &lt; some.patch<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Or, if it's gzipped:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> % gzip -dc some.patch.gz | patch -p0<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Run =./autogen.sh=, remove the generated =/config.cache= file (unless you want to install in prefix /usr/local). Run =./configure= with the appropriate options and then make. (Text as found on the Sylpheed patches page.)<br /> <br /> === How do I compile in support for compface pictures? ===<br /> <br /> You have to have a package called libcompface installed, so this is available for compiling into Sylpheed-Claws. You can find out more and download it at http://freshmeat.net/projects/compface/ . Also, Tim Jackson has a spec file, which you can use to build an RPM of compface, at http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/rpms.php .<br /> <br /> === How do I make my own compface image? ===<br /> <br /> You can use the gif2xface.pl script, which converts a 48x48 gif to the format suitable for compface. This script can be found in the 'tools' directory, along with a README. It is also available from this site: http://claws.sylpheed.org/tools.php.<br /> <br /> === How can I make Sylpheed-Claws send my compface image in the mails? ===<br /> <br /> In the Configuration menu, Preferences for current account, Send tab, check Add user-defined header and press Edit button. A dialog appears, add a header named &quot;X-Face&quot; and fill the value field with your face data. Note that if you paste the data from a terminal into the field some spurious newlines can be added, and these can mangle your face, be careful.<br /> <br /> === How can I tell my browser/newsclient/other program to use Sylpheed-Claws as e-mail program? ===<br /> <br /> In the settings part of the program, use &lt;code&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &quot;%t?subject=%s&amp;body=%d&quot;&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Specific options for typical browsers : <br /> ; Opera:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;mailto:%t?subject=%s&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> ; Galeon:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;mailto:%t?subject=%s&amp;body=%d&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> ; Konqueror : See [[Installation_And_Configuration#konqueror|How do I make sylpheed the default mail application for KDE]]?<br /> <br /> === How do I enable GPG support in Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> GunPG support requires GnuPG &gt;= 0.4.x and GPGME &gt;= 1.x.x.<br /> <br /> You need to load the PGP/Core, PGP/MIME, and PGP/inline plugins. '/Configuration/Plugins/Load plugin'.<br /> <br /> === Mutt does not recognize Sylpheed-Claws' MH structure ===<br /> <br /> For this to work you need to use the &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; command in every MH folder. &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; the file &lt;code&gt;.xmhcache&lt;/code&gt; and Mutt should do just fine.<br /> <br /> === How can I make Sylpheed-Claws notify me when new mail arrives? ===<br /> <br /> Go to '/Configuration/Preferences/Common', on the 'Receive' tab use the settings for 'Run command when new mail arrives'<br /> <br /> === Can I use a spell checker with Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Install Aspell &gt;= 0.50 and use the &lt;code&gt;./configure&lt;/code&gt; option &lt;code&gt;--enable-aspell&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> === I checked out the sources using cvs and cant find any configure script. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> The cvs versions are meant to be used by developers rather than ''normal'' users, so the source (or binary) distributions are easier to use.<br /> <br /> - Yeah, but the latest features from cvs really look sexy...<br /> <br /> You need to generate the configure script by running &lt;code&gt;autogen.sh&lt;/code&gt;. Be sure to have autoconf and automake packages installed for this.<br /> <br /> === Running &quot;autogen.sh&quot; gives errormessages that AM_PATH_GDK_PIXBUF or AM_PATH_(whatever) is not found. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> There are some *.m4 files in the &lt;code&gt;ac/missing&lt;/code&gt; directory. Try to copy them into the &lt;code&gt;ac&lt;/code&gt; directory and run &lt;code&gt;autogen.sh&lt;/code&gt; again.<br /> <br /> If there are still some .m4 files not found (e.g. those from Gtk), try to run<br /> % locate m4 | less<br /> or<br /> % locate aclocal | less<br /> to find additional directories containing those macros. If you find e.g. a &quot;gtk.m4&quot; in &quot;/opt/gnome/share/aclocal&quot;, change following line in &quot;autogen.sh&quot; from<br /> aclocal -I ac \<br /> to<br /> aclocal -I ac -I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal \<br /> and run it again.<br /> <br /> === I dont want to compile in support for ... any longer, but after running &lt;code&gt;configure&lt;/code&gt;, those libraries are still used. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> Remove the &lt;code&gt;config.cache&lt;/code&gt; file and run &lt;code&gt;configure&lt;/code&gt; again. You should also use &lt;code&gt;make clean&lt;/code&gt; to avoid undefined references.<br /> <br /> === How can I select different applications to open with specific MIME types? ===<br /> <br /> The MIME-type-&gt;application associations are kept in &lt;code&gt;/etc/mailcap&lt;/code&gt;. Note that you need metamail installed to process the opening of the attachment.<br /> <br /> === How can I change the suggested mimetype for sending attachments? ===<br /> <br /> The extension-&gt;MIME-type associations are kept in &lt;code&gt;/etc/mime.types&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;br&gt;Right-click an attachment in the compose window's &quot;Attachments&quot; tab, and select Properties to change the MIME-type.<br /> <br /> === Why is the folder list not updated after I manually moved/copied folders? ===<br /> <br /> You need to update Sylpheed-Claws' cache. Right click on the mailbox and choose &quot;Check for new folders&quot;.<br /> <br /> === How can I revert original settings, e.g. for fonts, keybindings, etc.? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws keeps its configuration files in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/sylpheedrc&lt;/code&gt; and creates default entries, if none are found. So the easiest way is to quit sylpheed, temporarily renaming your &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws&lt;/code&gt; e.g. to &lt;code&gt;*.bak&lt;/code&gt; and restarting sylpheed in order to get default entries.<br /> <br /> === What environment variables have effect on Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> ; Here are the most common variables : <br /> ; HOME : location of .sylpheed (config directory) and default folder for Mailboxes.<br /> ; LANG<br /> ; LC_ALL<br /> ; LC_CTYPE<br /> ; LC_MESSAGES : locale settings, e.g. language and date format.<br /> <br /> === Why are special characters (e.g. umlauts) not displayed correctly? ===<br /> <br /> In most cases, this is caused by emails with broken encodings. You can try to force it using the View/Character Encoding submenu.<br /> <br /> === How can I convert my old mailbox / adressbook from (some mailclient). ===<br /> <br /> In the source distribution, you can find some scripts in the &lt;code&gt;tools&lt;/code&gt; subdirectory, maybe your application is supported. You can also try to export your old mailbox to &lt;code&gt;MH&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;mbox&lt;/code&gt; format. If the mailbox is in &lt;code&gt;mbox&lt;/code&gt; format, it can be imported: File -&gt; Import mbox file...<br /> <br /> For the addressbook, direct import is supported for Mutt and Pine, but also LDIF, which is a standard format which most email clients can export to.<br /> <br /> Tip: Take a look at the &quot;harvest addresses&quot; function from the &lt;code&gt;Tools&lt;/code&gt; menu, it could be a useful alternative or addition, when importing your old contacts.<br /> <br /> === What config files are there, and what are they used for? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws' config files can be found in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws&lt;/code&gt;. They are in plain text format and quite easy to understand, so dont fear to take a look into them using a texteditor.<br /> <br /> ; sylpheedrc : main configuration: nearly all options from the settings window, e.g. mailbox location, font entries, etc.<br /> ; accountrc : settings for pop/imap/nntp accounts<br /> ; actionsrc : user defined actions<br /> ; customheaderrc : contains user defined header lines<br /> ; dispheaderrc : headers to display above the mail body<br /> ; filterrc : traditional filter settings<br /> ; folderitemrc : folder specific settings, e.g. default outbox<br /> ; matcherrc : new filtering and scoring settings<br /> ; menurc : Key bindings<br /> ; addrbook-*.xml : contents of your addressbook<br /> ; folderlist.xml : additional folder specific settings, e.g. hiding read messages, sort order, etc.<br /> <br /> === What's a good method for printing an e-mail? ===<br /> <br /> Most precompiled packages will use the libgnomeprintui library, which will allow you to print your emails simply with the same interface as Gnome apps. It will be compiled in if you have libgnomeprint-dev and libgnomeprintui-dev packages installed.<br /> <br /> If Sylpheed-Claws hasn't been compiled with libgnomeprintui support, you can use enscript. Use &lt;code&gt;enscript %s&lt;/code&gt; to print everything on one page, or &lt;code&gt;enscript -U2 %s&lt;/code&gt; for printing two logical pages on one physical page.<br /> <br /> As a more pretty alternative: Use [http://muttprint.sf.net muttprint]. The print-command would then look something like this: &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> Using KDE or gv you also get a &quot;print preview&quot; for free! <br /> <br /> Try &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s -p - |kghostview -&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s -p - |gv -&lt;/code&gt; respectively... BTW: muttprint, like enscript, may optionally print two logical pages on one physical page. Just have a look at the docs!<br /> <br /> === Mail is not sent because the queue folder cannot be found? ===<br /> <br /> (From the old bug tracker): Sylpheed-Claws requires a queue folder. This<br /> was changed to prevent message losses, if Sylpheed-Claws is killed while sending. Create a local folder (/File/Add Mailbox.../MH) for the queue and sending should work. I would not suggest to use the imap<br /> server for this purpose because sylpheeds queue messages have a special header that can not be handled correctly by the imap server, when the data for the summaryview is queried.<br /> <br /> If you really want to create a queueing folder in an IMAP server, you just have to create an ordinary folder in it, and then edit folderlist.xml file in sylpheed's configuration directory. In this file, you will find a &quot;folderitem&quot; tag, with its &quot;name&quot; attribute set to the IMAP folder name you just created for queueing. You should edit this tag, and set its &quot;type&quot; attribute set to &quot;queue&quot;. Note that this &quot;folderitem&quot; you're looking that will be a child of an &quot;folder&quot; tag that has its &quot;type&quot; attribute set to &quot;imap&quot;.<br /> <br /> === What is the purpose of this bizarre &quot;Enable Alternate Dictionary&quot; option? ===<br /> <br /> It is useful only if you routinely compose messages that use two or more languages. If this option is enabled, then when you switch to another language, the last one you used is not swapped out from memory, thus, when you switch again to it, there is no delay. Moreover, whenever you use two dictionaries, if you check a word and if the spell checker considers it misspelled in the current language, you can switch to the alternate language and recheck the word in one operation by selecting the &quot;Check with ALTERNATE_LANGUAGE&quot; item (keyboard short-cut: &lt;x&gt;) in the suggestions menu. This is very handy when the message contains paragraphs in two languages.<br /> <br /> === (Tips &amp; Tricks) Why doesn't the spell checker have a more traditional user interface, like KMail, Evolution etc? ===<br /> <br /> Because the developer (Melvin Hadasht) noted that by using the keyboard shortcuts the spell checking can be done faster while typing (more on that below). Moreover, there is the option &lt;Spelling/Check All or Check selection&gt; allows to do a spell checking of the whole text or just a selection. Just keep an eye where the suggestions menu shows up to look at the misspelled word, then hit one of the letters corresponding to the suggestion (&amp;lt;a&amp;gt; through &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;, press also &lt;ALT&gt; to make the selected suggestion listed as the first suggestion the next time you do exactly the same mistake --- this is the &quot;learn by mistake&quot; feature), or hit &lt;r&gt; to type a replacement, or hit &lt;ALT-SPACE&gt; to accept the word in the current message, or hit &lt;ALT-RETURN&gt; to accept the word and to add it definitively to your personal dictionary associated to this language. If you have enabled the &quot;Alternate Dictionary&quot;, you can switch to it by hitting &lt;x&gt;.<br /> <br /> If you prefer checking while you type, just bind the &lt;Spelling/Check backwards misspelled word&gt; and &lt;Spelling/Forward to next misspelled word&gt; to two quick keyboard short cuts. Then, as soon as you mistype a word, call the &lt;Check backwards...&gt; short-cut ---you do not need to move the cursor--- and without using the mouse select the suggestion. As GNU/Aspell does a good job at suggesting a replacement, you will often end to type &lt;a&gt;, and as the cursor did not move, just continue typing. In contrast, the other option, &lt;Forward to next...&gt; does move the cursor. This is because if you have text after the cursor, that also means in general that you are only editing a message, and not writing it, so advancing the cursor to the misspelled word is in general the wanted behaviour.<br /> &lt;div id=konqueror&gt;<br /> === How do I make sylpheed the default mail application for KDE? ===<br /> <br /> KDE does not support passing the full URL to a mailer (see [http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=658 bug 658] and the corresponding [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81598 KDE bug entry]).<br /> But there is a workaround - do the following as root:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> wget http://www.sylpheed-claws.net/tools/sylpheed-compose.pl<br /> mv sylpheed-compose.pl /usr/local/bin<br /> chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-compose.pl<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Then go to the KDE Control Center -&gt; KDE Components -&gt; Component Chooser -&gt; Email Client, choose &quot;Use a different email client&quot; and enter the following into the textbox:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-compose.pl --to=&quot;%t&quot; --cc=&quot;%c&quot; --bcc=&quot;%b&quot; --subject=&quot;%s&quot; --body=&quot;%B&quot; --attach=&quot;%A&quot;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> If your binary has a name other than &quot;sylpheed-claws&quot;, you must append another parameter:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> --sylpheed=&quot;/usr/bin/sylpheed&quot;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> where /usr/bin/sylpheed is the full path to sylpheed on your system.<br /> <br /> In case you don't want that perlscript or you can't use it - there is this alternative. But be aware that passing multiple lines or non-standard characters to Sylpheed-Claws from an application (e.g. konqueror trying to send form-data via email) will '''not''' work!<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;~mailto:%t?cc=%c&amp;bcc=%b&amp;subject=%s&amp;body=%B&quot; --attach &quot;%A&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Replace &quot;sylpheed-claws&quot; with the actual name of your binary here as well.<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws tell me that a gpg signature has expired? ===<br /> <br /> ; The sender used a key with a time limit, you have to update your keyring regularly to receive the updated signatures, e.g. like this : &lt;code&gt;gpg --refresh-keys&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> Note: Most keyservers have problems syncing OpenPGP type keys (see http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/keyserver.html). It is recommended to switch to SKS keyservers, e.g. subkeys.pgp.net or sks.keyserver.penguin.de .<br /> <br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws tell me that there is one unread message in some folders? ===<br /> <br /> ; When the number behind some folder tells you that you have one unread message but all are marked as read you have to do the following : Right click on toplevel MH folder and use &quot;Check for new messages&quot;, or use '/View/Update Summary'<br /> <br /> === How can I use my free Hotmail, Yahoo, or AOL email account via Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> [http://www.freepops.org/en/ FreePOPs] should allow you to create kind of a &quot;bridge&quot; between these proprietary email services and Sylpheed-Claws. Simply install FreePOPs, which is probably packaged in your distribution and configure it. After that, you can add an POP3 account to Sylpheed-Claws, which receiving server will be &lt;code&gt;localhost&lt;/code&gt; and set the port to use to &lt;code&gt;2000&lt;/code&gt; in the Advanced tab. The username to use consists of a complete email address, like &lt;code&gt; johndoe@hotmail.com&lt;/code&gt;, so that FreePOP can know which type of account it is. For more information, see [http://www.freepops.org/en/files/html-manual/ FreePOPs' user manual].</div> 213.41.175.117 https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=Installation_and_Configuration&diff=1464 Installation and Configuration 2006-07-13T07:19:27Z <p>213.41.175.117: label change</p> <hr /> <div>=== What do I need to compile Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> &lt;u&gt;Required:&lt;/u&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Any POSIX compliant UNIX or similar OS eg. Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris <br /> ; GTK+ 2.4.x or later <br /> ; A recent ANSI C compiler (gcc 2.7.2.3 should also work) <br /> <br /> Otherwise ./configure will fail.<br /> <br /> &lt;u&gt;Optional requirements:&lt;/u&gt;<br /> <br /> ; compface : for X-Face support<br /> ; GnuPG 1.2.1 or later and GPGME 0.4.5 or later : for GnuPG support<br /> ; OpenSSL : for SSL support<br /> ; libEtPan! 0.42 or later : for IMAP4 support<br /> ; OpenLDAP 2.0.7 or later : for LDAP support<br /> ; Aspell 0.50 or later (and dictionaries) : for spell-checker support<br /> ; libgnomeprint-2.2 and libgnomeprintui-2.2 : for extended printer support<br /> ; J-Pilot : for J-Pilot support<br /> ; SpamAssassin : for SpamAssassin plugin support<br /> ; Clam AntiVirus : for Clam AntiVirus plugin support<br /> ; Dillo : for Dillo HTML viewer plugin support<br /> ; GtkMathView : for MathML viewer plugin support<br /> <br /> === How do I set up Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> When you run Sylpheed-Claws for the first time, the Installation Wizard will appear and prompt you for the minimum required information necessary to start using Sylpheed-Claws in less than 5 minutes.<br /> <br /> === Why did the creation of the mailbox fail? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws reports such an error if it can't create the default mailboxes (inbox, outbox, etc ...). This can be because &lt;homedir&gt;/Mail already contains files with the same names. This occurs when switching from Kmail to Sylpheed-Claws, in this case backup and remove the existing Mail directory or use another name for the Sylpheed-Claws mail directory.<br /> <br /> === How do I create a new account? ===<br /> <br /> You can add an account by using the menu item '/Configuration/Create new account'<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws not delete my mails when I press &quot;delete&quot;? I set a filter, and Sylpheed-Claws does not filter. I moved a mail to a different mailbox and it did not move. ===<br /> <br /> You have the configuration option /Configuration/Preferences/Common Interface tab 'Execute immediately when moving or deleting messages' disabled.<br /> <br /> === Can I set up special addresses/ports for my mailserver / newsserver? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, you can. In the Account preferences, on the 'Advanced' tab you can specify the port addresses that you want to use.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have options for threading messages? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. You can switch it on and off in the Summary Menu, just select &quot;Thread View&quot; or press Ctrl+T. (This only affects the currently selected folder; i.e. it is a folder property.)<br /> <br /> === Can I create multiple levels of subfolders to store mail? ===<br /> <br /> Absolutely. This is no problem.<br /> <br /> === How do I apply a patch after downloading it? ===<br /> <br /> Copy patch to Sylpheed-Claws directory Apply the patch:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> % patch -p0 &lt; some.patch<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Or, if it's gzipped:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> % gzip -dc some.patch.gz | patch -p0<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Run =./autogen.sh=, remove the generated =/config.cache= file (unless you want to install in prefix /usr/local). Run =./configure= with the appropriate options and then make. (Text as found on the Sylpheed patches page.)<br /> <br /> === How do I compile in support for compface pictures? ===<br /> <br /> You have to have a package called libcompface installed, so this is available for compiling into Sylpheed-Claws. You can find out more and download it at http://freshmeat.net/projects/compface/ . Also, Tim Jackson has a spec file, which you can use to build an RPM of compface, at http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/rpms.php .<br /> <br /> === How do I make my own compface image? ===<br /> <br /> You can use the gif2xface.pl script, which converts a 48x48 gif to the format suitable for compface. This script can be found in the 'tools' directory, along with a README. It is also available from this site: http://claws.sylpheed.org/tools.php.<br /> <br /> === How can I make Sylpheed-Claws send my compface image in the mails? ===<br /> <br /> In the Configuration menu, Preferences for current account, Send tab, check Add user-defined header and press Edit button. A dialog appears, add a header named &quot;X-Face&quot; and fill the value field with your face data. Note that if you paste the data from a terminal into the field some spurious newlines can be added, and these can mangle your face, be careful.<br /> <br /> === How can I tell my browser/newsclient/other program to use Sylpheed-Claws as e-mail program? ===<br /> <br /> In the settings part of the program, use &lt;code&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &quot;%t?subject=%s&amp;body=%d&quot;&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Specific options for typical browsers : <br /> ; Opera:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;mailto:%t?subject=%s&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> ; Galeon:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;mailto:%t?subject=%s&amp;body=%d&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> ; Konqueror : See [[Installation_And_Configuration#konqueror|How do I make sylpheed the default mail application for KDE]]?<br /> <br /> === How do I enable GPG support in Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> GunPG support requires GnuPG &gt;= 0.4.x and GPGME &gt;= 1.x.x.<br /> <br /> You need to load the PGP/Core, PGP/MIME, and PGP/inline plugins. '/Configuration/Plugins/Load plugin'.<br /> <br /> === Mutt does not recognize Sylpheed-Claws' MH structure ===<br /> <br /> For this to work you need to use the &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; command in every MH folder. &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; the file &lt;code&gt;.xmhcache&lt;/code&gt; and Mutt should do just fine.<br /> <br /> === How can I make Sylpheed-Claws notify me when new mail arrives? ===<br /> <br /> Go to '/Configuration/Preferences/Common', on the 'Receive' tab use the settings for 'Run command when new mail arrives'<br /> <br /> === Can I use a spell checker with Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Install Aspell &gt;= 0.50 and use the &lt;code&gt;./configure&lt;/code&gt; option &lt;code&gt;--enable-aspell&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> === I checked out the sources using cvs and cant find any configure script. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> The cvs versions are meant to be used by developers rather than ''normal'' users, so the source (or binary) distributions are easier to use.<br /> <br /> - Yeah, but the latest features from cvs really look sexy...<br /> <br /> You need to generate the configure script by running &lt;code&gt;autogen.sh&lt;/code&gt;. Be sure to have autoconf and automake packages installed for this.<br /> <br /> === Running &quot;autogen.sh&quot; gives errormessages that AM_PATH_GDK_PIXBUF or AM_PATH_(whatever) is not found. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> There are some *.m4 files in the &lt;code&gt;ac/missing&lt;/code&gt; directory. Try to copy them into the &lt;code&gt;ac&lt;/code&gt; directory and run &lt;code&gt;autogen.sh&lt;/code&gt; again.<br /> <br /> If there are still some .m4 files not found (e.g. those from Gtk), try to run<br /> % locate m4 | less<br /> or<br /> % locate aclocal | less<br /> to find additional directories containing those macros. If you find e.g. a &quot;gtk.m4&quot; in &quot;/opt/gnome/share/aclocal&quot;, change following line in &quot;autogen.sh&quot; from<br /> aclocal -I ac \<br /> to<br /> aclocal -I ac -I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal \<br /> and run it again.<br /> <br /> === I dont want to compile in support for ... any longer, but after running &lt;code&gt;configure&lt;/code&gt;, those libraries are still used. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> Remove the &lt;code&gt;config.cache&lt;/code&gt; file and run &lt;code&gt;configure&lt;/code&gt; again. You should also use &lt;code&gt;make clean&lt;/code&gt; to avoid undefined references.<br /> <br /> === How can I select different applications to open with specific MIME types? ===<br /> <br /> The MIME-type-&gt;application associations are kept in &lt;code&gt;/etc/mailcap&lt;/code&gt;. Note that you need metamail installed to process the opening of the attachment.<br /> <br /> === How can I change the suggested mimetype for attachments? ===<br /> <br /> The extension-&gt;MIME-type associations are kept in &lt;code&gt;/etc/mime.types&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;br&gt;Right-click an attachment in the compose window's &quot;Attachments&quot; tab, and select Properties to change the MIME-type.<br /> <br /> === Why is the folder list not updated after I manually moved/copied folders? ===<br /> <br /> You need to update Sylpheed-Claws' cache. Right click on the mailbox and choose &quot;Check for new folders&quot;.<br /> <br /> === How can I revert original settings, e.g. for fonts, keybindings, etc.? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws keeps its configuration files in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/sylpheedrc&lt;/code&gt; and creates default entries, if none are found. So the easiest way is to quit sylpheed, temporarily renaming your &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws&lt;/code&gt; e.g. to &lt;code&gt;*.bak&lt;/code&gt; and restarting sylpheed in order to get default entries.<br /> <br /> === What environment variables have effect on Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> ; Here are the most common variables : <br /> ; HOME : location of .sylpheed (config directory) and default folder for Mailboxes.<br /> ; LANG<br /> ; LC_ALL<br /> ; LC_CTYPE<br /> ; LC_MESSAGES : locale settings, e.g. language and date format.<br /> <br /> === Why are special characters (e.g. umlauts) not displayed correctly? ===<br /> <br /> In most cases, this is caused by emails with broken encodings. You can try to force it using the View/Character Encoding submenu.<br /> <br /> === How can I convert my old mailbox / adressbook from (some mailclient). ===<br /> <br /> In the source distribution, you can find some scripts in the &lt;code&gt;tools&lt;/code&gt; subdirectory, maybe your application is supported. You can also try to export your old mailbox to &lt;code&gt;MH&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;mbox&lt;/code&gt; format. If the mailbox is in &lt;code&gt;mbox&lt;/code&gt; format, it can be imported: File -&gt; Import mbox file...<br /> <br /> For the addressbook, direct import is supported for Mutt and Pine, but also LDIF, which is a standard format which most email clients can export to.<br /> <br /> Tip: Take a look at the &quot;harvest addresses&quot; function from the &lt;code&gt;Tools&lt;/code&gt; menu, it could be a useful alternative or addition, when importing your old contacts.<br /> <br /> === What config files are there, and what are they used for? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws' config files can be found in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws&lt;/code&gt;. They are in plain text format and quite easy to understand, so dont fear to take a look into them using a texteditor.<br /> <br /> ; sylpheedrc : main configuration: nearly all options from the settings window, e.g. mailbox location, font entries, etc.<br /> ; accountrc : settings for pop/imap/nntp accounts<br /> ; actionsrc : user defined actions<br /> ; customheaderrc : contains user defined header lines<br /> ; dispheaderrc : headers to display above the mail body<br /> ; filterrc : traditional filter settings<br /> ; folderitemrc : folder specific settings, e.g. default outbox<br /> ; matcherrc : new filtering and scoring settings<br /> ; menurc : Key bindings<br /> ; addrbook-*.xml : contents of your addressbook<br /> ; folderlist.xml : additional folder specific settings, e.g. hiding read messages, sort order, etc.<br /> <br /> === What's a good method for printing an e-mail? ===<br /> <br /> Most precompiled packages will use the libgnomeprintui library, which will allow you to print your emails simply with the same interface as Gnome apps. It will be compiled in if you have libgnomeprint-dev and libgnomeprintui-dev packages installed.<br /> <br /> If Sylpheed-Claws hasn't been compiled with libgnomeprintui support, you can use enscript. Use &lt;code&gt;enscript %s&lt;/code&gt; to print everything on one page, or &lt;code&gt;enscript -U2 %s&lt;/code&gt; for printing two logical pages on one physical page.<br /> <br /> As a more pretty alternative: Use [http://muttprint.sf.net muttprint]. The print-command would then look something like this: &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> Using KDE or gv you also get a &quot;print preview&quot; for free! <br /> <br /> Try &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s -p - |kghostview -&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s -p - |gv -&lt;/code&gt; respectively... BTW: muttprint, like enscript, may optionally print two logical pages on one physical page. Just have a look at the docs!<br /> <br /> === Mail is not sent because the queue folder cannot be found? ===<br /> <br /> (From the old bug tracker): Sylpheed-Claws requires a queue folder. This<br /> was changed to prevent message losses, if Sylpheed-Claws is killed while sending. Create a local folder (/File/Add Mailbox.../MH) for the queue and sending should work. I would not suggest to use the imap<br /> server for this purpose because sylpheeds queue messages have a special header that can not be handled correctly by the imap server, when the data for the summaryview is queried.<br /> <br /> If you really want to create a queueing folder in an IMAP server, you just have to create an ordinary folder in it, and then edit folderlist.xml file in sylpheed's configuration directory. In this file, you will find a &quot;folderitem&quot; tag, with its &quot;name&quot; attribute set to the IMAP folder name you just created for queueing. You should edit this tag, and set its &quot;type&quot; attribute set to &quot;queue&quot;. Note that this &quot;folderitem&quot; you're looking that will be a child of an &quot;folder&quot; tag that has its &quot;type&quot; attribute set to &quot;imap&quot;.<br /> <br /> === What is the purpose of this bizarre &quot;Enable Alternate Dictionary&quot; option? ===<br /> <br /> It is useful only if you routinely compose messages that use two or more languages. If this option is enabled, then when you switch to another language, the last one you used is not swapped out from memory, thus, when you switch again to it, there is no delay. Moreover, whenever you use two dictionaries, if you check a word and if the spell checker considers it misspelled in the current language, you can switch to the alternate language and recheck the word in one operation by selecting the &quot;Check with ALTERNATE_LANGUAGE&quot; item (keyboard short-cut: &lt;x&gt;) in the suggestions menu. This is very handy when the message contains paragraphs in two languages.<br /> <br /> === (Tips &amp; Tricks) Why doesn't the spell checker have a more traditional user interface, like KMail, Evolution etc? ===<br /> <br /> Because the developer (Melvin Hadasht) noted that by using the keyboard shortcuts the spell checking can be done faster while typing (more on that below). Moreover, there is the option &lt;Spelling/Check All or Check selection&gt; allows to do a spell checking of the whole text or just a selection. Just keep an eye where the suggestions menu shows up to look at the misspelled word, then hit one of the letters corresponding to the suggestion (&amp;lt;a&amp;gt; through &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;, press also &lt;ALT&gt; to make the selected suggestion listed as the first suggestion the next time you do exactly the same mistake --- this is the &quot;learn by mistake&quot; feature), or hit &lt;r&gt; to type a replacement, or hit &lt;ALT-SPACE&gt; to accept the word in the current message, or hit &lt;ALT-RETURN&gt; to accept the word and to add it definitively to your personal dictionary associated to this language. If you have enabled the &quot;Alternate Dictionary&quot;, you can switch to it by hitting &lt;x&gt;.<br /> <br /> If you prefer checking while you type, just bind the &lt;Spelling/Check backwards misspelled word&gt; and &lt;Spelling/Forward to next misspelled word&gt; to two quick keyboard short cuts. Then, as soon as you mistype a word, call the &lt;Check backwards...&gt; short-cut ---you do not need to move the cursor--- and without using the mouse select the suggestion. As GNU/Aspell does a good job at suggesting a replacement, you will often end to type &lt;a&gt;, and as the cursor did not move, just continue typing. In contrast, the other option, &lt;Forward to next...&gt; does move the cursor. This is because if you have text after the cursor, that also means in general that you are only editing a message, and not writing it, so advancing the cursor to the misspelled word is in general the wanted behaviour.<br /> &lt;div id=konqueror&gt;<br /> === How do I make sylpheed the default mail application for KDE? ===<br /> <br /> KDE does not support passing the full URL to a mailer (see [http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=658 bug 658] and the corresponding [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81598 KDE bug entry]).<br /> But there is a workaround - do the following as root:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> wget http://www.sylpheed-claws.net/tools/sylpheed-compose.pl<br /> mv sylpheed-compose.pl /usr/local/bin<br /> chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-compose.pl<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Then go to the KDE Control Center -&gt; KDE Components -&gt; Component Chooser -&gt; Email Client, choose &quot;Use a different email client&quot; and enter the following into the textbox:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-compose.pl --to=&quot;%t&quot; --cc=&quot;%c&quot; --bcc=&quot;%b&quot; --subject=&quot;%s&quot; --body=&quot;%B&quot; --attach=&quot;%A&quot;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> If your binary has a name other than &quot;sylpheed-claws&quot;, you must append another parameter:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> --sylpheed=&quot;/usr/bin/sylpheed&quot;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> where /usr/bin/sylpheed is the full path to sylpheed on your system.<br /> <br /> In case you don't want that perlscript or you can't use it - there is this alternative. But be aware that passing multiple lines or non-standard characters to Sylpheed-Claws from an application (e.g. konqueror trying to send form-data via email) will '''not''' work!<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;~mailto:%t?cc=%c&amp;bcc=%b&amp;subject=%s&amp;body=%B&quot; --attach &quot;%A&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Replace &quot;sylpheed-claws&quot; with the actual name of your binary here as well.<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws tell me that a gpg signature has expired? ===<br /> <br /> ; The sender used a key with a time limit, you have to update your keyring regularly to receive the updated signatures, e.g. like this : &lt;code&gt;gpg --refresh-keys&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> Note: Most keyservers have problems syncing OpenPGP type keys (see http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/keyserver.html). It is recommended to switch to SKS keyservers, e.g. subkeys.pgp.net or sks.keyserver.penguin.de .<br /> <br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws tell me that there is one unread message in some folders? ===<br /> <br /> ; When the number behind some folder tells you that you have one unread message but all are marked as read you have to do the following : Right click on toplevel MH folder and use &quot;Check for new messages&quot;, or use '/View/Update Summary'<br /> <br /> === How can I use my free Hotmail, Yahoo, or AOL email account via Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> [http://www.freepops.org/en/ FreePOPs] should allow you to create kind of a &quot;bridge&quot; between these proprietary email services and Sylpheed-Claws. Simply install FreePOPs, which is probably packaged in your distribution and configure it. After that, you can add an POP3 account to Sylpheed-Claws, which receiving server will be &lt;code&gt;localhost&lt;/code&gt; and set the port to use to &lt;code&gt;2000&lt;/code&gt; in the Advanced tab. The username to use consists of a complete email address, like &lt;code&gt; johndoe@hotmail.com&lt;/code&gt;, so that FreePOP can know which type of account it is. For more information, see [http://www.freepops.org/en/files/html-manual/ FreePOPs' user manual].</div> 213.41.175.117 https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=Installation_and_Configuration&diff=1463 Installation and Configuration 2006-07-13T07:18:29Z <p>213.41.175.117: LDIF import</p> <hr /> <div>=== What do I need to compile Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> &lt;u&gt;Required:&lt;/u&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Any POSIX compliant UNIX or similar OS eg. Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris <br /> ; GTK+ 2.4.x or later <br /> ; A recent ANSI C compiler (gcc 2.7.2.3 should also work) <br /> <br /> Otherwise ./configure will fail.<br /> <br /> &lt;u&gt;Optional requirements:&lt;/u&gt;<br /> <br /> ; compface : for X-Face support<br /> ; GnuPG 1.2.1 or later and GPGME 0.4.5 or later : for GnuPG support<br /> ; OpenSSL : for SSL support<br /> ; libEtPan! 0.42 or later : for IMAP4 support<br /> ; OpenLDAP 2.0.7 or later : for LDAP support<br /> ; Aspell 0.50 or later (and dictionaries) : for spell-checker support<br /> ; libgnomeprint-2.2 and libgnomeprintui-2.2 : for extended printer support<br /> ; J-Pilot : for J-Pilot support<br /> ; SpamAssassin : for SpamAssassin plugin support<br /> ; Clam AntiVirus : for Clam AntiVirus plugin support<br /> ; Dillo : for Dillo HTML viewer plugin support<br /> ; GtkMathView : for MathML viewer plugin support<br /> <br /> === How do I set up Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> When you run Sylpheed-Claws for the first time, the Installation Wizard will appear and prompt you for the minimum required information necessary to start using Sylpheed-Claws in less than 5 minutes.<br /> <br /> === Why did the creation of the mailbox fail? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws reports such an error if it can't create the default mailboxes (inbox, outbox, etc ...). This can be because &lt;homedir&gt;/Mail already contains files with the same names. This occurs when switching from Kmail to Sylpheed-Claws, in this case backup and remove the existing Mail directory or use another name for the Sylpheed-Claws mail directory.<br /> <br /> === How do I create a new account? ===<br /> <br /> You can add an account by using the menu item '/Configuration/Create new account'<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws not delete my mails when I press &quot;delete&quot;? I set a filter, and Sylpheed-Claws does not filter. I moved a mail to a different mailbox and it did not move. ===<br /> <br /> You have the configuration option /Configuration/Preferences/Common Interface tab 'Execute immediately when moving or deleting messages' disabled.<br /> <br /> === Can I set up special addresses/ports for my mailserver / newsserver? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, you can. In the Account preferences, on the 'Advanced' tab you can specify the port addresses that you want to use.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have options for threading messages? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. You can switch it on and off in the Summary Menu, just select &quot;Thread View&quot; or press Ctrl+T. (This only affects the currently selected folder; i.e. it is a folder property.)<br /> <br /> === Can I create multiple levels of subfolders to store mail? ===<br /> <br /> Absolutely. This is no problem.<br /> <br /> === How do I apply a patch after downloading it? ===<br /> <br /> Copy patch to Sylpheed-Claws directory Apply the patch:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> % patch -p0 &lt; some.patch<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Or, if it's gzipped:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> % gzip -dc some.patch.gz | patch -p0<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Run =./autogen.sh=, remove the generated =/config.cache= file (unless you want to install in prefix /usr/local). Run =./configure= with the appropriate options and then make. (Text as found on the Sylpheed patches page.)<br /> <br /> === How do I compile in support for compface pictures? ===<br /> <br /> You have to have a package called libcompface installed, so this is available for compiling into Sylpheed-Claws. You can find out more and download it at http://freshmeat.net/projects/compface/ . Also, Tim Jackson has a spec file, which you can use to build an RPM of compface, at http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/rpms.php .<br /> <br /> === How do I make my own compface image? ===<br /> <br /> You can use the gif2xface.pl script, which converts a 48x48 gif to the format suitable for compface. This script can be found in the 'tools' directory, along with a README. It is also available from this site: http://claws.sylpheed.org/tools.php.<br /> <br /> === How can I make Sylpheed-Claws send my compface image in the mails? ===<br /> <br /> In the Configuration menu, Preferences for current account, Send tab, check Add user-defined header and press Edit button. A dialog appears, add a header named &quot;X-Face&quot; and fill the value field with your face data. Note that if you paste the data from a terminal into the field some spurious newlines can be added, and these can mangle your face, be careful.<br /> <br /> === How can I tell my browser/newsclient/other program to use Sylpheed-Claws as e-mail program? ===<br /> <br /> In the settings part of the program, use &lt;code&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &quot;%t?subject=%s&amp;body=%d&quot;&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Specific options for typical browsers : <br /> ; Opera:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;mailto:%t?subject=%s&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> ; Galeon:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;mailto:%t?subject=%s&amp;body=%d&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> ; Konqueror : See [[Installation_And_Configuration#konqueror|How do I make sylpheed the default mail application for KDE]]?<br /> <br /> === How do I enable GPG support in Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> GunPG support requires GnuPG &gt;= 0.4.x and GPGME &gt;= 1.x.x.<br /> <br /> You need to load the PGP/Core, PGP/MIME, and PGP/inline plugins. '/Configuration/Plugins/Load plugin'.<br /> <br /> === Mutt does not recognize Sylpheed-Claws' MH structure ===<br /> <br /> For this to work you need to use the &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; command in every MH folder. &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; the file &lt;code&gt;.xmhcache&lt;/code&gt; and Mutt should do just fine.<br /> <br /> === How can I make Sylpheed-Claws notify me when new mail arrives? ===<br /> <br /> Go to '/Configuration/Preferences/Common', on the 'Receive' tab use the settings for 'Run command when new mail arrives'<br /> <br /> === Can I use a spell checker with Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Install Aspell &gt;= 0.50 and use the &lt;code&gt;./configure&lt;/code&gt; option &lt;code&gt;--enable-aspell&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> === I checked out the sources using cvs and cant find any configure script. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> The cvs versions are meant to be used by developers rather than ''normal'' users, so the source (or binary) distributions are easier to use.<br /> <br /> - Yeah, but the latest features from cvs really look sexy...<br /> <br /> You need to generate the configure script by running &lt;code&gt;autogen.sh&lt;/code&gt;. Be sure to have autoconf and automake packages installed for this.<br /> <br /> === Running &quot;autogen.sh&quot; gives errormessages that AM_PATH_GDK_PIXBUF or AM_PATH_(whatever) is not found. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> There are some *.m4 files in the &lt;code&gt;ac/missing&lt;/code&gt; directory. Try to copy them into the &lt;code&gt;ac&lt;/code&gt; directory and run &lt;code&gt;autogen.sh&lt;/code&gt; again.<br /> <br /> If there are still some .m4 files not found (e.g. those from Gtk), try to run<br /> % locate m4 | less<br /> or<br /> % locate aclocal | less<br /> to find additional directories containing those macros. If you find e.g. a &quot;gtk.m4&quot; in &quot;/opt/gnome/share/aclocal&quot;, change following line in &quot;autogen.sh&quot; from<br /> aclocal -I ac \<br /> to<br /> aclocal -I ac -I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal \<br /> and run it again.<br /> <br /> === I dont want to compile in support for ... any longer, but after running &lt;code&gt;configure&lt;/code&gt;, those libraries are still used. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> Remove the &lt;code&gt;config.cache&lt;/code&gt; file and run &lt;code&gt;configure&lt;/code&gt; again. You should also use &lt;code&gt;make clean&lt;/code&gt; to avoid undefined references.<br /> <br /> === How can I select different applications to open with specific MIME types? ===<br /> <br /> The MIME-type-&gt;application associations are kept in &lt;code&gt;/etc/mailcap&lt;/code&gt;. Note that you need metamail installed to process the opening of the attachment.<br /> <br /> === How can I change the suggested mimetype for attachments? ===<br /> <br /> The extension-&gt;MIME-type associations are kept in &lt;code&gt;/etc/mime.types&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;br&gt;Right-click an attachment in the compose window's &quot;Attachments&quot; tab, and select Properties to change the MIME-type.<br /> <br /> === Why is the folder list not updated after I manually moved/copied folders? ===<br /> <br /> You need to update Sylpheed-Claws' cache. Right click on the mailbox and choose &quot;rescan folder tree&quot;.<br /> <br /> === How can I revert original settings, e.g. for fonts, keybindings, etc.? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws keeps its configuration files in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/sylpheedrc&lt;/code&gt; and creates default entries, if none are found. So the easiest way is to quit sylpheed, temporarily renaming your &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws&lt;/code&gt; e.g. to &lt;code&gt;*.bak&lt;/code&gt; and restarting sylpheed in order to get default entries.<br /> <br /> === What environment variables have effect on Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> ; Here are the most common variables : <br /> ; HOME : location of .sylpheed (config directory) and default folder for Mailboxes.<br /> ; LANG<br /> ; LC_ALL<br /> ; LC_CTYPE<br /> ; LC_MESSAGES : locale settings, e.g. language and date format.<br /> <br /> === Why are special characters (e.g. umlauts) not displayed correctly? ===<br /> <br /> In most cases, this is caused by emails with broken encodings. You can try to force it using the View/Character Encoding submenu.<br /> <br /> === How can I convert my old mailbox / adressbook from (some mailclient). ===<br /> <br /> In the source distribution, you can find some scripts in the &lt;code&gt;tools&lt;/code&gt; subdirectory, maybe your application is supported. You can also try to export your old mailbox to &lt;code&gt;MH&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;mbox&lt;/code&gt; format. If the mailbox is in &lt;code&gt;mbox&lt;/code&gt; format, it can be imported: File -&gt; Import mbox file...<br /> <br /> For the addressbook, direct import is supported for Mutt and Pine, but also LDIF, which is a standard format which most email clients can export to.<br /> <br /> Tip: Take a look at the &quot;harvest addresses&quot; function from the &lt;code&gt;Tools&lt;/code&gt; menu, it could be a useful alternative or addition, when importing your old contacts.<br /> <br /> === What config files are there, and what are they used for? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws' config files can be found in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws&lt;/code&gt;. They are in plain text format and quite easy to understand, so dont fear to take a look into them using a texteditor.<br /> <br /> ; sylpheedrc : main configuration: nearly all options from the settings window, e.g. mailbox location, font entries, etc.<br /> ; accountrc : settings for pop/imap/nntp accounts<br /> ; actionsrc : user defined actions<br /> ; customheaderrc : contains user defined header lines<br /> ; dispheaderrc : headers to display above the mail body<br /> ; filterrc : traditional filter settings<br /> ; folderitemrc : folder specific settings, e.g. default outbox<br /> ; matcherrc : new filtering and scoring settings<br /> ; menurc : Key bindings<br /> ; addrbook-*.xml : contents of your addressbook<br /> ; folderlist.xml : additional folder specific settings, e.g. hiding read messages, sort order, etc.<br /> <br /> === What's a good method for printing an e-mail? ===<br /> <br /> Most precompiled packages will use the libgnomeprintui library, which will allow you to print your emails simply with the same interface as Gnome apps. It will be compiled in if you have libgnomeprint-dev and libgnomeprintui-dev packages installed.<br /> <br /> If Sylpheed-Claws hasn't been compiled with libgnomeprintui support, you can use enscript. Use &lt;code&gt;enscript %s&lt;/code&gt; to print everything on one page, or &lt;code&gt;enscript -U2 %s&lt;/code&gt; for printing two logical pages on one physical page.<br /> <br /> As a more pretty alternative: Use [http://muttprint.sf.net muttprint]. The print-command would then look something like this: &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> Using KDE or gv you also get a &quot;print preview&quot; for free! <br /> <br /> Try &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s -p - |kghostview -&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s -p - |gv -&lt;/code&gt; respectively... BTW: muttprint, like enscript, may optionally print two logical pages on one physical page. Just have a look at the docs!<br /> <br /> === Mail is not sent because the queue folder cannot be found? ===<br /> <br /> (From the old bug tracker): Sylpheed-Claws requires a queue folder. This<br /> was changed to prevent message losses, if Sylpheed-Claws is killed while sending. Create a local folder (/File/Add Mailbox.../MH) for the queue and sending should work. I would not suggest to use the imap<br /> server for this purpose because sylpheeds queue messages have a special header that can not be handled correctly by the imap server, when the data for the summaryview is queried.<br /> <br /> If you really want to create a queueing folder in an IMAP server, you just have to create an ordinary folder in it, and then edit folderlist.xml file in sylpheed's configuration directory. In this file, you will find a &quot;folderitem&quot; tag, with its &quot;name&quot; attribute set to the IMAP folder name you just created for queueing. You should edit this tag, and set its &quot;type&quot; attribute set to &quot;queue&quot;. Note that this &quot;folderitem&quot; you're looking that will be a child of an &quot;folder&quot; tag that has its &quot;type&quot; attribute set to &quot;imap&quot;.<br /> <br /> === What is the purpose of this bizarre &quot;Enable Alternate Dictionary&quot; option? ===<br /> <br /> It is useful only if you routinely compose messages that use two or more languages. If this option is enabled, then when you switch to another language, the last one you used is not swapped out from memory, thus, when you switch again to it, there is no delay. Moreover, whenever you use two dictionaries, if you check a word and if the spell checker considers it misspelled in the current language, you can switch to the alternate language and recheck the word in one operation by selecting the &quot;Check with ALTERNATE_LANGUAGE&quot; item (keyboard short-cut: &lt;x&gt;) in the suggestions menu. This is very handy when the message contains paragraphs in two languages.<br /> <br /> === (Tips &amp; Tricks) Why doesn't the spell checker have a more traditional user interface, like KMail, Evolution etc? ===<br /> <br /> Because the developer (Melvin Hadasht) noted that by using the keyboard shortcuts the spell checking can be done faster while typing (more on that below). Moreover, there is the option &lt;Spelling/Check All or Check selection&gt; allows to do a spell checking of the whole text or just a selection. Just keep an eye where the suggestions menu shows up to look at the misspelled word, then hit one of the letters corresponding to the suggestion (&amp;lt;a&amp;gt; through &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;, press also &lt;ALT&gt; to make the selected suggestion listed as the first suggestion the next time you do exactly the same mistake --- this is the &quot;learn by mistake&quot; feature), or hit &lt;r&gt; to type a replacement, or hit &lt;ALT-SPACE&gt; to accept the word in the current message, or hit &lt;ALT-RETURN&gt; to accept the word and to add it definitively to your personal dictionary associated to this language. If you have enabled the &quot;Alternate Dictionary&quot;, you can switch to it by hitting &lt;x&gt;.<br /> <br /> If you prefer checking while you type, just bind the &lt;Spelling/Check backwards misspelled word&gt; and &lt;Spelling/Forward to next misspelled word&gt; to two quick keyboard short cuts. Then, as soon as you mistype a word, call the &lt;Check backwards...&gt; short-cut ---you do not need to move the cursor--- and without using the mouse select the suggestion. As GNU/Aspell does a good job at suggesting a replacement, you will often end to type &lt;a&gt;, and as the cursor did not move, just continue typing. In contrast, the other option, &lt;Forward to next...&gt; does move the cursor. This is because if you have text after the cursor, that also means in general that you are only editing a message, and not writing it, so advancing the cursor to the misspelled word is in general the wanted behaviour.<br /> &lt;div id=konqueror&gt;<br /> === How do I make sylpheed the default mail application for KDE? ===<br /> <br /> KDE does not support passing the full URL to a mailer (see [http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=658 bug 658] and the corresponding [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81598 KDE bug entry]).<br /> But there is a workaround - do the following as root:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> wget http://www.sylpheed-claws.net/tools/sylpheed-compose.pl<br /> mv sylpheed-compose.pl /usr/local/bin<br /> chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-compose.pl<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Then go to the KDE Control Center -&gt; KDE Components -&gt; Component Chooser -&gt; Email Client, choose &quot;Use a different email client&quot; and enter the following into the textbox:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-compose.pl --to=&quot;%t&quot; --cc=&quot;%c&quot; --bcc=&quot;%b&quot; --subject=&quot;%s&quot; --body=&quot;%B&quot; --attach=&quot;%A&quot;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> If your binary has a name other than &quot;sylpheed-claws&quot;, you must append another parameter:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> --sylpheed=&quot;/usr/bin/sylpheed&quot;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> where /usr/bin/sylpheed is the full path to sylpheed on your system.<br /> <br /> In case you don't want that perlscript or you can't use it - there is this alternative. But be aware that passing multiple lines or non-standard characters to Sylpheed-Claws from an application (e.g. konqueror trying to send form-data via email) will '''not''' work!<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;~mailto:%t?cc=%c&amp;bcc=%b&amp;subject=%s&amp;body=%B&quot; --attach &quot;%A&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Replace &quot;sylpheed-claws&quot; with the actual name of your binary here as well.<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws tell me that a gpg signature has expired? ===<br /> <br /> ; The sender used a key with a time limit, you have to update your keyring regularly to receive the updated signatures, e.g. like this : &lt;code&gt;gpg --refresh-keys&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> Note: Most keyservers have problems syncing OpenPGP type keys (see http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/keyserver.html). It is recommended to switch to SKS keyservers, e.g. subkeys.pgp.net or sks.keyserver.penguin.de .<br /> <br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws tell me that there is one unread message in some folders? ===<br /> <br /> ; When the number behind some folder tells you that you have one unread message but all are marked as read you have to do the following : Right click on toplevel MH folder and use &quot;Check for new messages&quot;, or use '/View/Update Summary'<br /> <br /> === How can I use my free Hotmail, Yahoo, or AOL email account via Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> [http://www.freepops.org/en/ FreePOPs] should allow you to create kind of a &quot;bridge&quot; between these proprietary email services and Sylpheed-Claws. Simply install FreePOPs, which is probably packaged in your distribution and configure it. After that, you can add an POP3 account to Sylpheed-Claws, which receiving server will be &lt;code&gt;localhost&lt;/code&gt; and set the port to use to &lt;code&gt;2000&lt;/code&gt; in the Advanced tab. The username to use consists of a complete email address, like &lt;code&gt; johndoe@hotmail.com&lt;/code&gt;, so that FreePOP can know which type of account it is. For more information, see [http://www.freepops.org/en/files/html-manual/ FreePOPs' user manual].</div> 213.41.175.117 https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=Installation_and_Configuration&diff=1462 Installation and Configuration 2006-07-13T07:16:41Z <p>213.41.175.117: libgnomeprintui update</p> <hr /> <div>=== What do I need to compile Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> &lt;u&gt;Required:&lt;/u&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Any POSIX compliant UNIX or similar OS eg. Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris <br /> ; GTK+ 2.4.x or later <br /> ; A recent ANSI C compiler (gcc 2.7.2.3 should also work) <br /> <br /> Otherwise ./configure will fail.<br /> <br /> &lt;u&gt;Optional requirements:&lt;/u&gt;<br /> <br /> ; compface : for X-Face support<br /> ; GnuPG 1.2.1 or later and GPGME 0.4.5 or later : for GnuPG support<br /> ; OpenSSL : for SSL support<br /> ; libEtPan! 0.42 or later : for IMAP4 support<br /> ; OpenLDAP 2.0.7 or later : for LDAP support<br /> ; Aspell 0.50 or later (and dictionaries) : for spell-checker support<br /> ; libgnomeprint-2.2 and libgnomeprintui-2.2 : for extended printer support<br /> ; J-Pilot : for J-Pilot support<br /> ; SpamAssassin : for SpamAssassin plugin support<br /> ; Clam AntiVirus : for Clam AntiVirus plugin support<br /> ; Dillo : for Dillo HTML viewer plugin support<br /> ; GtkMathView : for MathML viewer plugin support<br /> <br /> === How do I set up Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> When you run Sylpheed-Claws for the first time, the Installation Wizard will appear and prompt you for the minimum required information necessary to start using Sylpheed-Claws in less than 5 minutes.<br /> <br /> === Why did the creation of the mailbox fail? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws reports such an error if it can't create the default mailboxes (inbox, outbox, etc ...). This can be because &lt;homedir&gt;/Mail already contains files with the same names. This occurs when switching from Kmail to Sylpheed-Claws, in this case backup and remove the existing Mail directory or use another name for the Sylpheed-Claws mail directory.<br /> <br /> === How do I create a new account? ===<br /> <br /> You can add an account by using the menu item '/Configuration/Create new account'<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws not delete my mails when I press &quot;delete&quot;? I set a filter, and Sylpheed-Claws does not filter. I moved a mail to a different mailbox and it did not move. ===<br /> <br /> You have the configuration option /Configuration/Preferences/Common Interface tab 'Execute immediately when moving or deleting messages' disabled.<br /> <br /> === Can I set up special addresses/ports for my mailserver / newsserver? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, you can. In the Account preferences, on the 'Advanced' tab you can specify the port addresses that you want to use.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have options for threading messages? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. You can switch it on and off in the Summary Menu, just select &quot;Thread View&quot; or press Ctrl+T. (This only affects the currently selected folder; i.e. it is a folder property.)<br /> <br /> === Can I create multiple levels of subfolders to store mail? ===<br /> <br /> Absolutely. This is no problem.<br /> <br /> === How do I apply a patch after downloading it? ===<br /> <br /> Copy patch to Sylpheed-Claws directory Apply the patch:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> % patch -p0 &lt; some.patch<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Or, if it's gzipped:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> % gzip -dc some.patch.gz | patch -p0<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Run =./autogen.sh=, remove the generated =/config.cache= file (unless you want to install in prefix /usr/local). Run =./configure= with the appropriate options and then make. (Text as found on the Sylpheed patches page.)<br /> <br /> === How do I compile in support for compface pictures? ===<br /> <br /> You have to have a package called libcompface installed, so this is available for compiling into Sylpheed-Claws. You can find out more and download it at http://freshmeat.net/projects/compface/ . Also, Tim Jackson has a spec file, which you can use to build an RPM of compface, at http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/rpms.php .<br /> <br /> === How do I make my own compface image? ===<br /> <br /> You can use the gif2xface.pl script, which converts a 48x48 gif to the format suitable for compface. This script can be found in the 'tools' directory, along with a README. It is also available from this site: http://claws.sylpheed.org/tools.php.<br /> <br /> === How can I make Sylpheed-Claws send my compface image in the mails? ===<br /> <br /> In the Configuration menu, Preferences for current account, Send tab, check Add user-defined header and press Edit button. A dialog appears, add a header named &quot;X-Face&quot; and fill the value field with your face data. Note that if you paste the data from a terminal into the field some spurious newlines can be added, and these can mangle your face, be careful.<br /> <br /> === How can I tell my browser/newsclient/other program to use Sylpheed-Claws as e-mail program? ===<br /> <br /> In the settings part of the program, use &lt;code&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &quot;%t?subject=%s&amp;body=%d&quot;&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Specific options for typical browsers : <br /> ; Opera:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;mailto:%t?subject=%s&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> ; Galeon:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;mailto:%t?subject=%s&amp;body=%d&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> ; Konqueror : See [[Installation_And_Configuration#konqueror|How do I make sylpheed the default mail application for KDE]]?<br /> <br /> === How do I enable GPG support in Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> GunPG support requires GnuPG &gt;= 0.4.x and GPGME &gt;= 1.x.x.<br /> <br /> You need to load the PGP/Core, PGP/MIME, and PGP/inline plugins. '/Configuration/Plugins/Load plugin'.<br /> <br /> === Mutt does not recognize Sylpheed-Claws' MH structure ===<br /> <br /> For this to work you need to use the &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; command in every MH folder. &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; the file &lt;code&gt;.xmhcache&lt;/code&gt; and Mutt should do just fine.<br /> <br /> === How can I make Sylpheed-Claws notify me when new mail arrives? ===<br /> <br /> Go to '/Configuration/Preferences/Common', on the 'Receive' tab use the settings for 'Run command when new mail arrives'<br /> <br /> === Can I use a spell checker with Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Install Aspell &gt;= 0.50 and use the &lt;code&gt;./configure&lt;/code&gt; option &lt;code&gt;--enable-aspell&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> === I checked out the sources using cvs and cant find any configure script. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> The cvs versions are meant to be used by developers rather than ''normal'' users, so the source (or binary) distributions are easier to use.<br /> <br /> - Yeah, but the latest features from cvs really look sexy...<br /> <br /> You need to generate the configure script by running &lt;code&gt;autogen.sh&lt;/code&gt;. Be sure to have autoconf and automake packages installed for this.<br /> <br /> === Running &quot;autogen.sh&quot; gives errormessages that AM_PATH_GDK_PIXBUF or AM_PATH_(whatever) is not found. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> There are some *.m4 files in the &lt;code&gt;ac/missing&lt;/code&gt; directory. Try to copy them into the &lt;code&gt;ac&lt;/code&gt; directory and run &lt;code&gt;autogen.sh&lt;/code&gt; again.<br /> <br /> If there are still some .m4 files not found (e.g. those from Gtk), try to run<br /> % locate m4 | less<br /> or<br /> % locate aclocal | less<br /> to find additional directories containing those macros. If you find e.g. a &quot;gtk.m4&quot; in &quot;/opt/gnome/share/aclocal&quot;, change following line in &quot;autogen.sh&quot; from<br /> aclocal -I ac \<br /> to<br /> aclocal -I ac -I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal \<br /> and run it again.<br /> <br /> === I dont want to compile in support for ... any longer, but after running &lt;code&gt;configure&lt;/code&gt;, those libraries are still used. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> Remove the &lt;code&gt;config.cache&lt;/code&gt; file and run &lt;code&gt;configure&lt;/code&gt; again. You should also use &lt;code&gt;make clean&lt;/code&gt; to avoid undefined references.<br /> <br /> === How can I select different applications to open with specific MIME types? ===<br /> <br /> The MIME-type-&gt;application associations are kept in &lt;code&gt;/etc/mailcap&lt;/code&gt;. Note that you need metamail installed to process the opening of the attachment.<br /> <br /> === How can I change the suggested mimetype for attachments? ===<br /> <br /> The extension-&gt;MIME-type associations are kept in &lt;code&gt;/etc/mime.types&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;br&gt;Right-click an attachment in the compose window's &quot;Attachments&quot; tab, and select Properties to change the MIME-type.<br /> <br /> === Why is the folder list not updated after I manually moved/copied folders? ===<br /> <br /> You need to update Sylpheed-Claws' cache. Right click on the mailbox and choose &quot;rescan folder tree&quot;.<br /> <br /> === How can I revert original settings, e.g. for fonts, keybindings, etc.? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws keeps its configuration files in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/sylpheedrc&lt;/code&gt; and creates default entries, if none are found. So the easiest way is to quit sylpheed, temporarily renaming your &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws&lt;/code&gt; e.g. to &lt;code&gt;*.bak&lt;/code&gt; and restarting sylpheed in order to get default entries.<br /> <br /> === What environment variables have effect on Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> ; Here are the most common variables : <br /> ; HOME : location of .sylpheed (config directory) and default folder for Mailboxes.<br /> ; LANG<br /> ; LC_ALL<br /> ; LC_CTYPE<br /> ; LC_MESSAGES : locale settings, e.g. language and date format.<br /> <br /> === Why are special characters (e.g. umlauts) not displayed correctly? ===<br /> <br /> In most cases, this is caused by emails with broken encodings. You can try to force it using the View/Character Encoding submenu.<br /> <br /> === How can I convert my old mailbox / adressbook from (some mailclient). ===<br /> <br /> In the source distribution, you can find some scripts in the &lt;code&gt;tools&lt;/code&gt; subdirectory, maybe your application is supported. You can also try to export your old mailbox to &lt;code&gt;MH&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;mbox&lt;/code&gt; format. If the mailbox is in &lt;code&gt;mbox&lt;/code&gt; format, it can be imported: File -&gt; Import mbox file...<br /> <br /> Tip: Take a look at the &quot;harvest addresses&quot; function from the &lt;code&gt;Tools&lt;/code&gt; menu, it could be a useful alternative or addition, when importing your old contacts.<br /> <br /> === What config files are there, and what are they used for? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws' config files can be found in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws&lt;/code&gt;. They are in plain text format and quite easy to understand, so dont fear to take a look into them using a texteditor.<br /> <br /> ; sylpheedrc : main configuration: nearly all options from the settings window, e.g. mailbox location, font entries, etc.<br /> ; accountrc : settings for pop/imap/nntp accounts<br /> ; actionsrc : user defined actions<br /> ; customheaderrc : contains user defined header lines<br /> ; dispheaderrc : headers to display above the mail body<br /> ; filterrc : traditional filter settings<br /> ; folderitemrc : folder specific settings, e.g. default outbox<br /> ; matcherrc : new filtering and scoring settings<br /> ; menurc : Key bindings<br /> ; addrbook-*.xml : contents of your addressbook<br /> ; folderlist.xml : additional folder specific settings, e.g. hiding read messages, sort order, etc.<br /> <br /> === What's a good method for printing an e-mail? ===<br /> <br /> Most precompiled packages will use the libgnomeprintui library, which will allow you to print your emails simply with the same interface as Gnome apps. It will be compiled in if you have libgnomeprint-dev and libgnomeprintui-dev packages installed.<br /> <br /> If Sylpheed-Claws hasn't been compiled with libgnomeprintui support, you can use enscript. Use &lt;code&gt;enscript %s&lt;/code&gt; to print everything on one page, or &lt;code&gt;enscript -U2 %s&lt;/code&gt; for printing two logical pages on one physical page.<br /> <br /> As a more pretty alternative: Use [http://muttprint.sf.net muttprint]. The print-command would then look something like this: &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> Using KDE or gv you also get a &quot;print preview&quot; for free! <br /> <br /> Try &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s -p - |kghostview -&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s -p - |gv -&lt;/code&gt; respectively... BTW: muttprint, like enscript, may optionally print two logical pages on one physical page. Just have a look at the docs!<br /> <br /> === Mail is not sent because the queue folder cannot be found? ===<br /> <br /> (From the old bug tracker): Sylpheed-Claws requires a queue folder. This<br /> was changed to prevent message losses, if Sylpheed-Claws is killed while sending. Create a local folder (/File/Add Mailbox.../MH) for the queue and sending should work. I would not suggest to use the imap<br /> server for this purpose because sylpheeds queue messages have a special header that can not be handled correctly by the imap server, when the data for the summaryview is queried.<br /> <br /> If you really want to create a queueing folder in an IMAP server, you just have to create an ordinary folder in it, and then edit folderlist.xml file in sylpheed's configuration directory. In this file, you will find a &quot;folderitem&quot; tag, with its &quot;name&quot; attribute set to the IMAP folder name you just created for queueing. You should edit this tag, and set its &quot;type&quot; attribute set to &quot;queue&quot;. Note that this &quot;folderitem&quot; you're looking that will be a child of an &quot;folder&quot; tag that has its &quot;type&quot; attribute set to &quot;imap&quot;.<br /> <br /> === What is the purpose of this bizarre &quot;Enable Alternate Dictionary&quot; option? ===<br /> <br /> It is useful only if you routinely compose messages that use two or more languages. If this option is enabled, then when you switch to another language, the last one you used is not swapped out from memory, thus, when you switch again to it, there is no delay. Moreover, whenever you use two dictionaries, if you check a word and if the spell checker considers it misspelled in the current language, you can switch to the alternate language and recheck the word in one operation by selecting the &quot;Check with ALTERNATE_LANGUAGE&quot; item (keyboard short-cut: &lt;x&gt;) in the suggestions menu. This is very handy when the message contains paragraphs in two languages.<br /> <br /> === (Tips &amp; Tricks) Why doesn't the spell checker have a more traditional user interface, like KMail, Evolution etc? ===<br /> <br /> Because the developer (Melvin Hadasht) noted that by using the keyboard shortcuts the spell checking can be done faster while typing (more on that below). Moreover, there is the option &lt;Spelling/Check All or Check selection&gt; allows to do a spell checking of the whole text or just a selection. Just keep an eye where the suggestions menu shows up to look at the misspelled word, then hit one of the letters corresponding to the suggestion (&amp;lt;a&amp;gt; through &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;, press also &lt;ALT&gt; to make the selected suggestion listed as the first suggestion the next time you do exactly the same mistake --- this is the &quot;learn by mistake&quot; feature), or hit &lt;r&gt; to type a replacement, or hit &lt;ALT-SPACE&gt; to accept the word in the current message, or hit &lt;ALT-RETURN&gt; to accept the word and to add it definitively to your personal dictionary associated to this language. If you have enabled the &quot;Alternate Dictionary&quot;, you can switch to it by hitting &lt;x&gt;.<br /> <br /> If you prefer checking while you type, just bind the &lt;Spelling/Check backwards misspelled word&gt; and &lt;Spelling/Forward to next misspelled word&gt; to two quick keyboard short cuts. Then, as soon as you mistype a word, call the &lt;Check backwards...&gt; short-cut ---you do not need to move the cursor--- and without using the mouse select the suggestion. As GNU/Aspell does a good job at suggesting a replacement, you will often end to type &lt;a&gt;, and as the cursor did not move, just continue typing. In contrast, the other option, &lt;Forward to next...&gt; does move the cursor. This is because if you have text after the cursor, that also means in general that you are only editing a message, and not writing it, so advancing the cursor to the misspelled word is in general the wanted behaviour.<br /> &lt;div id=konqueror&gt;<br /> === How do I make sylpheed the default mail application for KDE? ===<br /> <br /> KDE does not support passing the full URL to a mailer (see [http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=658 bug 658] and the corresponding [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81598 KDE bug entry]).<br /> But there is a workaround - do the following as root:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> wget http://www.sylpheed-claws.net/tools/sylpheed-compose.pl<br /> mv sylpheed-compose.pl /usr/local/bin<br /> chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-compose.pl<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Then go to the KDE Control Center -&gt; KDE Components -&gt; Component Chooser -&gt; Email Client, choose &quot;Use a different email client&quot; and enter the following into the textbox:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-compose.pl --to=&quot;%t&quot; --cc=&quot;%c&quot; --bcc=&quot;%b&quot; --subject=&quot;%s&quot; --body=&quot;%B&quot; --attach=&quot;%A&quot;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> If your binary has a name other than &quot;sylpheed-claws&quot;, you must append another parameter:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> --sylpheed=&quot;/usr/bin/sylpheed&quot;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> where /usr/bin/sylpheed is the full path to sylpheed on your system.<br /> <br /> In case you don't want that perlscript or you can't use it - there is this alternative. But be aware that passing multiple lines or non-standard characters to Sylpheed-Claws from an application (e.g. konqueror trying to send form-data via email) will '''not''' work!<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;~mailto:%t?cc=%c&amp;bcc=%b&amp;subject=%s&amp;body=%B&quot; --attach &quot;%A&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Replace &quot;sylpheed-claws&quot; with the actual name of your binary here as well.<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws tell me that a gpg signature has expired? ===<br /> <br /> ; The sender used a key with a time limit, you have to update your keyring regularly to receive the updated signatures, e.g. like this : &lt;code&gt;gpg --refresh-keys&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> Note: Most keyservers have problems syncing OpenPGP type keys (see http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/keyserver.html). It is recommended to switch to SKS keyservers, e.g. subkeys.pgp.net or sks.keyserver.penguin.de .<br /> <br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws tell me that there is one unread message in some folders? ===<br /> <br /> ; When the number behind some folder tells you that you have one unread message but all are marked as read you have to do the following : Right click on toplevel MH folder and use &quot;Check for new messages&quot;, or use '/View/Update Summary'<br /> <br /> === How can I use my free Hotmail, Yahoo, or AOL email account via Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> [http://www.freepops.org/en/ FreePOPs] should allow you to create kind of a &quot;bridge&quot; between these proprietary email services and Sylpheed-Claws. Simply install FreePOPs, which is probably packaged in your distribution and configure it. After that, you can add an POP3 account to Sylpheed-Claws, which receiving server will be &lt;code&gt;localhost&lt;/code&gt; and set the port to use to &lt;code&gt;2000&lt;/code&gt; in the Advanced tab. The username to use consists of a complete email address, like &lt;code&gt; johndoe@hotmail.com&lt;/code&gt;, so that FreePOP can know which type of account it is. For more information, see [http://www.freepops.org/en/files/html-manual/ FreePOPs' user manual].</div> 213.41.175.117 https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=Installation_and_Configuration&diff=1461 Installation and Configuration 2006-07-13T07:15:15Z <p>213.41.175.117: Add FreePOP stuff</p> <hr /> <div>=== What do I need to compile Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> &lt;u&gt;Required:&lt;/u&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Any POSIX compliant UNIX or similar OS eg. Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris <br /> ; GTK+ 2.4.x or later <br /> ; A recent ANSI C compiler (gcc 2.7.2.3 should also work) <br /> <br /> Otherwise ./configure will fail.<br /> <br /> &lt;u&gt;Optional requirements:&lt;/u&gt;<br /> <br /> ; compface : for X-Face support<br /> ; GnuPG 1.2.1 or later and GPGME 0.4.5 or later : for GnuPG support<br /> ; OpenSSL : for SSL support<br /> ; libEtPan! 0.42 or later : for IMAP4 support<br /> ; OpenLDAP 2.0.7 or later : for LDAP support<br /> ; Aspell 0.50 or later (and dictionaries) : for spell-checker support<br /> ; libgnomeprint-2.2 and libgnomeprintui-2.2 : for extended printer support<br /> ; J-Pilot : for J-Pilot support<br /> ; SpamAssassin : for SpamAssassin plugin support<br /> ; Clam AntiVirus : for Clam AntiVirus plugin support<br /> ; Dillo : for Dillo HTML viewer plugin support<br /> ; GtkMathView : for MathML viewer plugin support<br /> <br /> === How do I set up Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> When you run Sylpheed-Claws for the first time, the Installation Wizard will appear and prompt you for the minimum required information necessary to start using Sylpheed-Claws in less than 5 minutes.<br /> <br /> === Why did the creation of the mailbox fail? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws reports such an error if it can't create the default mailboxes (inbox, outbox, etc ...). This can be because &lt;homedir&gt;/Mail already contains files with the same names. This occurs when switching from Kmail to Sylpheed-Claws, in this case backup and remove the existing Mail directory or use another name for the Sylpheed-Claws mail directory.<br /> <br /> === How do I create a new account? ===<br /> <br /> You can add an account by using the menu item '/Configuration/Create new account'<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws not delete my mails when I press &quot;delete&quot;? I set a filter, and Sylpheed-Claws does not filter. I moved a mail to a different mailbox and it did not move. ===<br /> <br /> You have the configuration option /Configuration/Preferences/Common Interface tab 'Execute immediately when moving or deleting messages' disabled.<br /> <br /> === Can I set up special addresses/ports for my mailserver / newsserver? ===<br /> <br /> Yes, you can. In the Account preferences, on the 'Advanced' tab you can specify the port addresses that you want to use.<br /> <br /> === Does Sylpheed-Claws have options for threading messages? ===<br /> <br /> Yes. You can switch it on and off in the Summary Menu, just select &quot;Thread View&quot; or press Ctrl+T. (This only affects the currently selected folder; i.e. it is a folder property.)<br /> <br /> === Can I create multiple levels of subfolders to store mail? ===<br /> <br /> Absolutely. This is no problem.<br /> <br /> === How do I apply a patch after downloading it? ===<br /> <br /> Copy patch to Sylpheed-Claws directory Apply the patch:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> % patch -p0 &lt; some.patch<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Or, if it's gzipped:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;&lt;nowiki&gt;<br /> % gzip -dc some.patch.gz | patch -p0<br /> &lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Run =./autogen.sh=, remove the generated =/config.cache= file (unless you want to install in prefix /usr/local). Run =./configure= with the appropriate options and then make. (Text as found on the Sylpheed patches page.)<br /> <br /> === How do I compile in support for compface pictures? ===<br /> <br /> You have to have a package called libcompface installed, so this is available for compiling into Sylpheed-Claws. You can find out more and download it at http://freshmeat.net/projects/compface/ . Also, Tim Jackson has a spec file, which you can use to build an RPM of compface, at http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/rpms.php .<br /> <br /> === How do I make my own compface image? ===<br /> <br /> You can use the gif2xface.pl script, which converts a 48x48 gif to the format suitable for compface. This script can be found in the 'tools' directory, along with a README. It is also available from this site: http://claws.sylpheed.org/tools.php.<br /> <br /> === How can I make Sylpheed-Claws send my compface image in the mails? ===<br /> <br /> In the Configuration menu, Preferences for current account, Send tab, check Add user-defined header and press Edit button. A dialog appears, add a header named &quot;X-Face&quot; and fill the value field with your face data. Note that if you paste the data from a terminal into the field some spurious newlines can be added, and these can mangle your face, be careful.<br /> <br /> === How can I tell my browser/newsclient/other program to use Sylpheed-Claws as e-mail program? ===<br /> <br /> In the settings part of the program, use &lt;code&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &quot;%t?subject=%s&amp;body=%d&quot;&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> ; Specific options for typical browsers : <br /> ; Opera:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;mailto:%t?subject=%s&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> ; Galeon:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;mailto:%t?subject=%s&amp;body=%d&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> ; Konqueror : See [[Installation_And_Configuration#konqueror|How do I make sylpheed the default mail application for KDE]]?<br /> <br /> === How do I enable GPG support in Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> GunPG support requires GnuPG &gt;= 0.4.x and GPGME &gt;= 1.x.x.<br /> <br /> You need to load the PGP/Core, PGP/MIME, and PGP/inline plugins. '/Configuration/Plugins/Load plugin'.<br /> <br /> === Mutt does not recognize Sylpheed-Claws' MH structure ===<br /> <br /> For this to work you need to use the &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; command in every MH folder. &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; the file &lt;code&gt;.xmhcache&lt;/code&gt; and Mutt should do just fine.<br /> <br /> === How can I make Sylpheed-Claws notify me when new mail arrives? ===<br /> <br /> Go to '/Configuration/Preferences/Common', on the 'Receive' tab use the settings for 'Run command when new mail arrives'<br /> <br /> === Can I use a spell checker with Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> Install Aspell &gt;= 0.50 and use the &lt;code&gt;./configure&lt;/code&gt; option &lt;code&gt;--enable-aspell&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> === I checked out the sources using cvs and cant find any configure script. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> The cvs versions are meant to be used by developers rather than ''normal'' users, so the source (or binary) distributions are easier to use.<br /> <br /> - Yeah, but the latest features from cvs really look sexy...<br /> <br /> You need to generate the configure script by running &lt;code&gt;autogen.sh&lt;/code&gt;. Be sure to have autoconf and automake packages installed for this.<br /> <br /> === Running &quot;autogen.sh&quot; gives errormessages that AM_PATH_GDK_PIXBUF or AM_PATH_(whatever) is not found. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> There are some *.m4 files in the &lt;code&gt;ac/missing&lt;/code&gt; directory. Try to copy them into the &lt;code&gt;ac&lt;/code&gt; directory and run &lt;code&gt;autogen.sh&lt;/code&gt; again.<br /> <br /> If there are still some .m4 files not found (e.g. those from Gtk), try to run<br /> % locate m4 | less<br /> or<br /> % locate aclocal | less<br /> to find additional directories containing those macros. If you find e.g. a &quot;gtk.m4&quot; in &quot;/opt/gnome/share/aclocal&quot;, change following line in &quot;autogen.sh&quot; from<br /> aclocal -I ac \<br /> to<br /> aclocal -I ac -I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal \<br /> and run it again.<br /> <br /> === I dont want to compile in support for ... any longer, but after running &lt;code&gt;configure&lt;/code&gt;, those libraries are still used. What can I do? ===<br /> <br /> Remove the &lt;code&gt;config.cache&lt;/code&gt; file and run &lt;code&gt;configure&lt;/code&gt; again. You should also use &lt;code&gt;make clean&lt;/code&gt; to avoid undefined references.<br /> <br /> === How can I select different applications to open with specific MIME types? ===<br /> <br /> The MIME-type-&gt;application associations are kept in &lt;code&gt;/etc/mailcap&lt;/code&gt;. Note that you need metamail installed to process the opening of the attachment.<br /> <br /> === How can I change the suggested mimetype for attachments? ===<br /> <br /> The extension-&gt;MIME-type associations are kept in &lt;code&gt;/etc/mime.types&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;br&gt;Right-click an attachment in the compose window's &quot;Attachments&quot; tab, and select Properties to change the MIME-type.<br /> <br /> === Why is the folder list not updated after I manually moved/copied folders? ===<br /> <br /> You need to update Sylpheed-Claws' cache. Right click on the mailbox and choose &quot;rescan folder tree&quot;.<br /> <br /> === How can I revert original settings, e.g. for fonts, keybindings, etc.? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws keeps its configuration files in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws/sylpheedrc&lt;/code&gt; and creates default entries, if none are found. So the easiest way is to quit sylpheed, temporarily renaming your &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws&lt;/code&gt; e.g. to &lt;code&gt;*.bak&lt;/code&gt; and restarting sylpheed in order to get default entries.<br /> <br /> === What environment variables have effect on Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> ; Here are the most common variables : <br /> ; HOME : location of .sylpheed (config directory) and default folder for Mailboxes.<br /> ; LANG<br /> ; LC_ALL<br /> ; LC_CTYPE<br /> ; LC_MESSAGES : locale settings, e.g. language and date format.<br /> <br /> === Why are special characters (e.g. umlauts) not displayed correctly? ===<br /> <br /> In most cases, this is caused by emails with broken encodings. You can try to force it using the View/Character Encoding submenu.<br /> <br /> === How can I convert my old mailbox / adressbook from (some mailclient). ===<br /> <br /> In the source distribution, you can find some scripts in the &lt;code&gt;tools&lt;/code&gt; subdirectory, maybe your application is supported. You can also try to export your old mailbox to &lt;code&gt;MH&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;mbox&lt;/code&gt; format. If the mailbox is in &lt;code&gt;mbox&lt;/code&gt; format, it can be imported: File -&gt; Import mbox file...<br /> <br /> Tip: Take a look at the &quot;harvest addresses&quot; function from the &lt;code&gt;Tools&lt;/code&gt; menu, it could be a useful alternative or addition, when importing your old contacts.<br /> <br /> === What config files are there, and what are they used for? ===<br /> <br /> Sylpheed-Claws' config files can be found in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.sylpheed-claws&lt;/code&gt;. They are in plain text format and quite easy to understand, so dont fear to take a look into them using a texteditor.<br /> <br /> ; sylpheedrc : main configuration: nearly all options from the settings window, e.g. mailbox location, font entries, etc.<br /> ; accountrc : settings for pop/imap/nntp accounts<br /> ; actionsrc : user defined actions<br /> ; customheaderrc : contains user defined header lines<br /> ; dispheaderrc : headers to display above the mail body<br /> ; filterrc : traditional filter settings<br /> ; folderitemrc : folder specific settings, e.g. default outbox<br /> ; matcherrc : new filtering and scoring settings<br /> ; menurc : Key bindings<br /> ; addrbook-*.xml : contents of your addressbook<br /> ; folderlist.xml : additional folder specific settings, e.g. hiding read messages, sort order, etc.<br /> <br /> === What's a good method for printing an e-mail? ===<br /> <br /> Most precompiled packages will use the libgnomeprintui library, which will allow you to print your emails simply with the same interface as Gnome apps. It will be compiled in if you have libgnomeprint-dev and libgnomeprintui-dev packages installed.<br /> <br /> You can use enscript. Use &lt;code&gt;enscript %s&lt;/code&gt; to print everything on one page, or &lt;code&gt;enscript -U2 %s&lt;/code&gt; for printing two logical pages on one physical page.<br /> <br /> As a more pretty alternative: Use [http://muttprint.sf.net muttprint]. The print-command would then look something like this: &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> Using KDE or gv you also get a &quot;print preview&quot; for free! <br /> <br /> Try &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s -p - |kghostview -&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;muttprint -f %s -p - |gv -&lt;/code&gt; respectively... BTW: muttprint, like enscript, may optionally print two logical pages on one physical page. Just have a look at the docs!<br /> <br /> === Mail is not sent because the queue folder cannot be found? ===<br /> <br /> (From the old bug tracker): Sylpheed-Claws requires a queue folder. This<br /> was changed to prevent message losses, if Sylpheed-Claws is killed while sending. Create a local folder (/File/Add Mailbox.../MH) for the queue and sending should work. I would not suggest to use the imap<br /> server for this purpose because sylpheeds queue messages have a special header that can not be handled correctly by the imap server, when the data for the summaryview is queried.<br /> <br /> If you really want to create a queueing folder in an IMAP server, you just have to create an ordinary folder in it, and then edit folderlist.xml file in sylpheed's configuration directory. In this file, you will find a &quot;folderitem&quot; tag, with its &quot;name&quot; attribute set to the IMAP folder name you just created for queueing. You should edit this tag, and set its &quot;type&quot; attribute set to &quot;queue&quot;. Note that this &quot;folderitem&quot; you're looking that will be a child of an &quot;folder&quot; tag that has its &quot;type&quot; attribute set to &quot;imap&quot;.<br /> <br /> === What is the purpose of this bizarre &quot;Enable Alternate Dictionary&quot; option? ===<br /> <br /> It is useful only if you routinely compose messages that use two or more languages. If this option is enabled, then when you switch to another language, the last one you used is not swapped out from memory, thus, when you switch again to it, there is no delay. Moreover, whenever you use two dictionaries, if you check a word and if the spell checker considers it misspelled in the current language, you can switch to the alternate language and recheck the word in one operation by selecting the &quot;Check with ALTERNATE_LANGUAGE&quot; item (keyboard short-cut: &lt;x&gt;) in the suggestions menu. This is very handy when the message contains paragraphs in two languages.<br /> <br /> === (Tips &amp; Tricks) Why doesn't the spell checker have a more traditional user interface, like KMail, Evolution etc? ===<br /> <br /> Because the developer (Melvin Hadasht) noted that by using the keyboard shortcuts the spell checking can be done faster while typing (more on that below). Moreover, there is the option &lt;Spelling/Check All or Check selection&gt; allows to do a spell checking of the whole text or just a selection. Just keep an eye where the suggestions menu shows up to look at the misspelled word, then hit one of the letters corresponding to the suggestion (&amp;lt;a&amp;gt; through &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;, press also &lt;ALT&gt; to make the selected suggestion listed as the first suggestion the next time you do exactly the same mistake --- this is the &quot;learn by mistake&quot; feature), or hit &lt;r&gt; to type a replacement, or hit &lt;ALT-SPACE&gt; to accept the word in the current message, or hit &lt;ALT-RETURN&gt; to accept the word and to add it definitively to your personal dictionary associated to this language. If you have enabled the &quot;Alternate Dictionary&quot;, you can switch to it by hitting &lt;x&gt;.<br /> <br /> If you prefer checking while you type, just bind the &lt;Spelling/Check backwards misspelled word&gt; and &lt;Spelling/Forward to next misspelled word&gt; to two quick keyboard short cuts. Then, as soon as you mistype a word, call the &lt;Check backwards...&gt; short-cut ---you do not need to move the cursor--- and without using the mouse select the suggestion. As GNU/Aspell does a good job at suggesting a replacement, you will often end to type &lt;a&gt;, and as the cursor did not move, just continue typing. In contrast, the other option, &lt;Forward to next...&gt; does move the cursor. This is because if you have text after the cursor, that also means in general that you are only editing a message, and not writing it, so advancing the cursor to the misspelled word is in general the wanted behaviour.<br /> &lt;div id=konqueror&gt;<br /> === How do I make sylpheed the default mail application for KDE? ===<br /> <br /> KDE does not support passing the full URL to a mailer (see [http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=658 bug 658] and the corresponding [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81598 KDE bug entry]).<br /> But there is a workaround - do the following as root:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> wget http://www.sylpheed-claws.net/tools/sylpheed-compose.pl<br /> mv sylpheed-compose.pl /usr/local/bin<br /> chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-compose.pl<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Then go to the KDE Control Center -&gt; KDE Components -&gt; Component Chooser -&gt; Email Client, choose &quot;Use a different email client&quot; and enter the following into the textbox:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> /usr/local/bin/sylpheed-compose.pl --to=&quot;%t&quot; --cc=&quot;%c&quot; --bcc=&quot;%b&quot; --subject=&quot;%s&quot; --body=&quot;%B&quot; --attach=&quot;%A&quot;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> If your binary has a name other than &quot;sylpheed-claws&quot;, you must append another parameter:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> --sylpheed=&quot;/usr/bin/sylpheed&quot;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> where /usr/bin/sylpheed is the full path to sylpheed on your system.<br /> <br /> In case you don't want that perlscript or you can't use it - there is this alternative. But be aware that passing multiple lines or non-standard characters to Sylpheed-Claws from an application (e.g. konqueror trying to send form-data via email) will '''not''' work!<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> sylpheed-claws --compose &lt;nowiki&gt;&quot;~mailto:%t?cc=%c&amp;bcc=%b&amp;subject=%s&amp;body=%B&quot; --attach &quot;%A&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> Replace &quot;sylpheed-claws&quot; with the actual name of your binary here as well.<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws tell me that a gpg signature has expired? ===<br /> <br /> ; The sender used a key with a time limit, you have to update your keyring regularly to receive the updated signatures, e.g. like this : &lt;code&gt;gpg --refresh-keys&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> Note: Most keyservers have problems syncing OpenPGP type keys (see http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/keyserver.html). It is recommended to switch to SKS keyservers, e.g. subkeys.pgp.net or sks.keyserver.penguin.de .<br /> <br /> <br /> === Why does Sylpheed-Claws tell me that there is one unread message in some folders? ===<br /> <br /> ; When the number behind some folder tells you that you have one unread message but all are marked as read you have to do the following : Right click on toplevel MH folder and use &quot;Check for new messages&quot;, or use '/View/Update Summary'<br /> <br /> === How can I use my free Hotmail, Yahoo, or AOL email account via Sylpheed-Claws? ===<br /> <br /> [http://www.freepops.org/en/ FreePOPs] should allow you to create kind of a &quot;bridge&quot; between these proprietary email services and Sylpheed-Claws. Simply install FreePOPs, which is probably packaged in your distribution and configure it. After that, you can add an POP3 account to Sylpheed-Claws, which receiving server will be &lt;code&gt;localhost&lt;/code&gt; and set the port to use to &lt;code&gt;2000&lt;/code&gt; in the Advanced tab. The username to use consists of a complete email address, like &lt;code&gt; johndoe@hotmail.com&lt;/code&gt;, so that FreePOP can know which type of account it is. For more information, see [http://www.freepops.org/en/files/html-manual/ FreePOPs' user manual].</div> 213.41.175.117 https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=Plugins&diff=1455 Plugins 2006-07-04T09:35:06Z <p>213.41.175.117: /* I have loaded plugin X but how can I configure it? */</p> <hr /> <div>=== What are plugins? ===<br /> <br /> Plugins are modules loaded (or unloaded) by Sylpheed-Claws at runtime. They provide a<br /> way to extend Sylpheed-Claws with new capabilities you really need without having all of them wasting memory.<br /> <br /> === Where are plugins located? ===<br /> <br /> Plugins are located in your &lt;tt&gt;$PREFIX/lib/sylpheed-claws/plugins&lt;/tt&gt;. Typical locations are<br /> &lt;tt&gt;/usr/lib/sylpheed-claws/plugins&lt;/tt&gt; if you installed a packaged plugin and &lt;tt&gt;/usr/local/lib/sylpheed-claws/plugins&lt;/tt&gt; if you're installing from source. (plugins have<br /> a suffix of '.so')<br /> <br /> Note that in older versions of Sylpheed-Claws (=&lt; 0.9.11) the directory name was sylpheed and not sylpheed-claws (i.e. &lt;tt&gt;$PREFIX/lib/sylpheed/plugins&lt;/tt&gt;).<br /> <br /> === I have loaded plugin X but how can I configure it? ===<br /> <br /> Plugin configuration options can be found under '/Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/' and/or '/Configuration/[Account Preferences]/Plugins'.<br /> <br /> Some plugins have a separate interface plugin which provides the<br /> configuration pane for the X plugin. If you have loaded plugin &lt;tt&gt;X.so&lt;/tt&gt; typical name<br /> for the configuration plugin will be &lt;tt&gt;X_gtk.so&lt;/tt&gt;, but this is not mandatory, read<br /> plugin's documentation in case of doubt.<br /> <br /> === What plugins are currently available? ===<br /> <br /> The following plugins are included in the Sylpheed-Claws release tarballs<br /> <br /> ; Clam AntiVirus<br /> : Enables the scanning of message attachments in mail received from a POP, IMAP or LOCAL account using Clam AntiVirus. It can optionally delete the mail or save it to a designated folder. Preferences can be found in '/Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/Clam AntiVirus'. <br /> : Clam AntiVirus is available from http://clamav.sourceforge.net/<br /> <br /> ;Dillo HTML Viewer<br /> : Enables the viewing of html messages using the Dillo web browser, version 0.7.0 or newer. It uses Dillo's --local option by default for safe browsing. Preferences can be found in '/Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/Dillo Browser'.<br /> : Dillo is available from http://www.dillo.org/<br /> <br /> ; PGP/Core<br /> : Handles core PGP functions and is required by the PGP/Inline and PGP/MIME plugins.<br /> : Uses GnuPG/GPGME, ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/<br /> <br /> ; PGP/inline<br /> : Handles inline PGP signed and/or encrypted mails. You can decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails.<br /> : Uses GnuPG/GPGME, ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/<br /> <br /> ; PGP/MIME<br /> : Handles PGP/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails. You can decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails.<br /> : Uses GnuPG/GPGME, ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/<br /> <br /> ; SpamAssassin<br /> : Enables the scanning of incoming mail received from a POP, IMAP or LOCAL account using SpamAssassin. It can optionally delete mail identified as spam or save it to a designated folder. Preferences can be found in '/Configuration/ Preferences/Plugins/SpamAssassin'.<br /> : SpamAssassin is available from http://spamassassin.apache.org/<br /> <br /> ; Trayicon<br /> : Places an icon in the notification area that indicates whether you have any new mail. A tooltip also shows the current new, unread and total number of messages<br /> <br /> The following plugins are included in the External Plugins release tarballs<br /> <br /> ; acpi notifier<br /> : Enables mail notification via LEDs on some laptops.<br /> <br /> ; CacheSaver<br /> : Saves the caches every 60 seconds (or user-defined period).<br /> <br /> ; etPan-Privacy<br /> : Handles signature verification and decryption of encrypted messages in S/MIME, OpenPGP, and ascii-armored PGP formats.<br /> <br /> ; fetchinfo<br /> : Inserts headers containing some download information: UIDL, Sylpheed-Claws' account name, POP server, user ID and retrieval time.<br /> <br /> ; maildir<br /> : Provides direct support for Maildir++ mailboxes. With this plugin you can share your Maildir++ mailbox with other mailers or IMAP servers.<br /> <br /> ; mailmbox<br /> : Handles mailboxes in mbox format.<br /> <br /> ; perl<br /> : Intended to extend the filtering possibilities of Sylpheed-Claws. It provides a Perl interface to Sylpheed-Claws' filtering mechanism, allowing the use of full Perl power in email filters.<br /> <br /> ; RSSyl<br /> : Allows you to read your favorite newsfeeds in Sylpheed-Claws. RSS 1.0, 2.0 and Atom feeds are currently supported.<br /> <br /> ; SynCE<br /> : Assists in keeping the addressbook of a Windows CE device (Pocket PC/iPAQ, Smartphone etc) in sync with Sylpheed-Claws' addressbook, with respect to email addresses.<br /> <br /> ; vCalendar<br /> : Enables vCalendar message handling like that produced by Evolution or Outlook. It provides a personal calendar and public calendar import and export.<br /> <br /> === How do I configure SpamAssassin and the SpamAssassin plugin? ===<br /> <br /> There are many configurations possible, this answer applies when the spamassassin daemon spamd is running on your local computer.<br /> <br /> If you have the dependencies installed, the SpamAssassin plugin will be built automatically when building Sylpheed-Claws. When you start Sylpheed-Claws the plugin is NOT loaded or enabled. Load the plugins: Configuration|Plugins|Load Plugins, browse to your plugin directory location as described above. Load &lt;tt&gt;spamassassin.so&lt;/tt&gt;. You then need to configure it in: Configuration|Preferences|Plugins|Spamassassin. There are six items to set correctly.<br /> # Transport: For our configuration set this to Localhost. If ever you want to turn spam checking off, set this to Disabled.<br /> # Spamd: This should be set to the IP port number that spamd is listening on, it's normally 783.<br /> # Save Spam: If cleared, this tickbox tells Sylpheed-Claws to delete mails that spamassassin thinks are spam.<br /> # Save Folder: If Save Spam is set, this is the folder that Sylpheed-Claws will send spam to.<br /> # Maximum Size: Spam is usually small, so it's a waste of resources to spam check very large emails, this sets the size threshold in KBytes.<br /> # Timeout: This is the time that sylpheed will wait while spamd checks each message. The default of 30 seconds is OK for most machines, but slow ones may need this increased.<br /> <br /> Now you need to test the installation. Send yourself some spam. When you receive it, it should be placed into the spam folder that you configured. To check that spamd is being called, put a tail on your sys.log (mine is in &lt;tt&gt;/var/log/sys.log&lt;/tt&gt;, so &lt;tt&gt;tail -f /var/log/sys.log&lt;/tt&gt; works) and see if spamd runs and what it says. If it is not running for every mail message received then check carefully both the SpamAssassin and Sylpheed-Claws settings. If it is running, but not detecting spam, then you may need to train the bayesian filter - see SpamAssassin's documentation for that.<br /> <br /> === Does the SpamAssassin plugin change the email headers? ===<br /> <br /> No, it only uses the return value from SpamAssassin, (SPAM/NOT SPAM). To use header changing ability of SpamAssassin you can either configure an [[Actions|Action]] (Report as SPAM: spamassassin -r &lt; %f), or a [[Filtering and Processing of Messages|Filtering]] rule (test &quot;!(spamc -c &lt; %f)&quot;), or setup fetchmail and procmail to filter emails into your Sylpheed-Claws mailbox instead of using the plugin.<br /> <br /> === How do I configure gpg-agent and the PGP plugin? ===<br /> <br /> Attempts to use your gpg key to sign/encrypt messages will fail with a 'Signature failed' message without even asking you for your password if:<br /> # Your OS automatically starts the gpg-agent daemon AND<br /> # you only have the CURSES based pinentry program installed AND<br /> # you started sylpheed from a menu or icon<br /> (Note: my Fedora Core 4 workstation install was configured this way).<br /> The solution is to make sure that you have the pinentry-gtk or pinentry-qt programs installed. Sylpheed-Claws will then present the pinentry dialog box to get your GPG passphrase.<br /> <br /> You can tell if this is working by the dialog box presented to you for your passphrase. The pinentry dialog is a little uglier than the Sylpheed-Claws version, and the window title is 'pinentry'.<br /> <br /> One advantage of using the gpg-agent over Sylpheed-Claws password dialog is that the password caching then works with other applications using the gpg-agent (eg the command line when you specify --use-agent).<br /> <br /> Note 2: If it still refuses to work you might want to try the following steps:<br /> * Make sure your ''~/.gnupg/gpg.conf'' contains the line<br /> &lt;code&gt;use-agent&lt;/code&gt;<br /> * Create a file ''~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf'' with the following contents:<br /> &lt;code&gt;<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt<br /> no-grab<br /> default-cache-ttl 1800<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> &lt;/code&gt;<br /> * Add the following line to some startup script. (In case of KDE you could use ''~/.kde/env/gpgagent.sh'' - The filename does not matter, the contents of ''~/.kde/env/'' is sourced by startkde)<br /> &lt;pre&gt;eval &quot;$(gpg-agent --daemon)&quot;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> === I love maildir format. Is there a useful replacement in Sylpheed-Claws, better than the maildir plugin ? ===<br /> <br /> The maildir plugin works well in Sylpheed-Claws. Nevertheless, if you plan to use tons of emails (i.e. X GB of mails), then the maildir plugin is not enough efficient to be usable (tested with 2Go of mails, folders with 30000 mails are long to display).<br /> <br /> The good solution is to use the native format of Sylpheed-Claws: the MH format. You have two ways of doing this:<br /> <br /> * Use a local account in MH format: you use the filters of Sylpheed-Claws to drop the mails directly on your disk in MH format. Then searching, indexing is very very fast.<br /> <br /> * Use an IMAP account: if doing this way, your emails remains on the IMAP server BUT, when displayed, your mails are downloaded and stored in MH format on your disk too. They are dropped in ~/.sylpheed-claws/imapcache/ and are synchronized with the server (see Synchronize folder in File menu).<br /> <br /> In the two cases, Sylpheed-Claws uses the MH format and you can browse your emails with an alternative mail client able to read MH.</div> 213.41.175.117 https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=Plugins&diff=1454 Plugins 2006-07-04T09:34:37Z <p>213.41.175.117: /* What plugins are currently available? */</p> <hr /> <div>=== What are plugins? ===<br /> <br /> Plugins are modules loaded (or unloaded) by Sylpheed-Claws at runtime. They provide a<br /> way to extend Sylpheed-Claws with new capabilities you really need without having all of them wasting memory.<br /> <br /> === Where are plugins located? ===<br /> <br /> Plugins are located in your &lt;tt&gt;$PREFIX/lib/sylpheed-claws/plugins&lt;/tt&gt;. Typical locations are<br /> &lt;tt&gt;/usr/lib/sylpheed-claws/plugins&lt;/tt&gt; if you installed a packaged plugin and &lt;tt&gt;/usr/local/lib/sylpheed-claws/plugins&lt;/tt&gt; if you're installing from source. (plugins have<br /> a suffix of '.so')<br /> <br /> Note that in older versions of Sylpheed-Claws (=&lt; 0.9.11) the directory name was sylpheed and not sylpheed-claws (i.e. &lt;tt&gt;$PREFIX/lib/sylpheed/plugins&lt;/tt&gt;).<br /> <br /> === I have loaded plugin X but how can I configure it? ===<br /> <br /> Plugin configuaration options can be found under '/Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/' and/or '/Configuration/[Account Preferences]/Plugins'.<br /> <br /> Some plugins have a separate interface plugin which provides the<br /> configuration pane for the X plugin. If you have loaded plugin &lt;tt&gt;X.so&lt;/tt&gt; typical name<br /> for the configuration plugin will be &lt;tt&gt;X_gtk.so&lt;/tt&gt;, but this is not mandatory, read<br /> plugin's documentation in case of doubt.<br /> <br /> === What plugins are currently available? ===<br /> <br /> The following plugins are included in the Sylpheed-Claws release tarballs<br /> <br /> ; Clam AntiVirus<br /> : Enables the scanning of message attachments in mail received from a POP, IMAP or LOCAL account using Clam AntiVirus. It can optionally delete the mail or save it to a designated folder. Preferences can be found in '/Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/Clam AntiVirus'. <br /> : Clam AntiVirus is available from http://clamav.sourceforge.net/<br /> <br /> ;Dillo HTML Viewer<br /> : Enables the viewing of html messages using the Dillo web browser, version 0.7.0 or newer. It uses Dillo's --local option by default for safe browsing. Preferences can be found in '/Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/Dillo Browser'.<br /> : Dillo is available from http://www.dillo.org/<br /> <br /> ; PGP/Core<br /> : Handles core PGP functions and is required by the PGP/Inline and PGP/MIME plugins.<br /> : Uses GnuPG/GPGME, ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/<br /> <br /> ; PGP/inline<br /> : Handles inline PGP signed and/or encrypted mails. You can decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails.<br /> : Uses GnuPG/GPGME, ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/<br /> <br /> ; PGP/MIME<br /> : Handles PGP/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails. You can decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails.<br /> : Uses GnuPG/GPGME, ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/<br /> <br /> ; SpamAssassin<br /> : Enables the scanning of incoming mail received from a POP, IMAP or LOCAL account using SpamAssassin. It can optionally delete mail identified as spam or save it to a designated folder. Preferences can be found in '/Configuration/ Preferences/Plugins/SpamAssassin'.<br /> : SpamAssassin is available from http://spamassassin.apache.org/<br /> <br /> ; Trayicon<br /> : Places an icon in the notification area that indicates whether you have any new mail. A tooltip also shows the current new, unread and total number of messages<br /> <br /> The following plugins are included in the External Plugins release tarballs<br /> <br /> ; acpi notifier<br /> : Enables mail notification via LEDs on some laptops.<br /> <br /> ; CacheSaver<br /> : Saves the caches every 60 seconds (or user-defined period).<br /> <br /> ; etPan-Privacy<br /> : Handles signature verification and decryption of encrypted messages in S/MIME, OpenPGP, and ascii-armored PGP formats.<br /> <br /> ; fetchinfo<br /> : Inserts headers containing some download information: UIDL, Sylpheed-Claws' account name, POP server, user ID and retrieval time.<br /> <br /> ; maildir<br /> : Provides direct support for Maildir++ mailboxes. With this plugin you can share your Maildir++ mailbox with other mailers or IMAP servers.<br /> <br /> ; mailmbox<br /> : Handles mailboxes in mbox format.<br /> <br /> ; perl<br /> : Intended to extend the filtering possibilities of Sylpheed-Claws. It provides a Perl interface to Sylpheed-Claws' filtering mechanism, allowing the use of full Perl power in email filters.<br /> <br /> ; RSSyl<br /> : Allows you to read your favorite newsfeeds in Sylpheed-Claws. RSS 1.0, 2.0 and Atom feeds are currently supported.<br /> <br /> ; SynCE<br /> : Assists in keeping the addressbook of a Windows CE device (Pocket PC/iPAQ, Smartphone etc) in sync with Sylpheed-Claws' addressbook, with respect to email addresses.<br /> <br /> ; vCalendar<br /> : Enables vCalendar message handling like that produced by Evolution or Outlook. It provides a personal calendar and public calendar import and export.<br /> <br /> === How do I configure SpamAssassin and the SpamAssassin plugin? ===<br /> <br /> There are many configurations possible, this answer applies when the spamassassin daemon spamd is running on your local computer.<br /> <br /> If you have the dependencies installed, the SpamAssassin plugin will be built automatically when building Sylpheed-Claws. When you start Sylpheed-Claws the plugin is NOT loaded or enabled. Load the plugins: Configuration|Plugins|Load Plugins, browse to your plugin directory location as described above. Load &lt;tt&gt;spamassassin.so&lt;/tt&gt;. You then need to configure it in: Configuration|Preferences|Plugins|Spamassassin. There are six items to set correctly.<br /> # Transport: For our configuration set this to Localhost. If ever you want to turn spam checking off, set this to Disabled.<br /> # Spamd: This should be set to the IP port number that spamd is listening on, it's normally 783.<br /> # Save Spam: If cleared, this tickbox tells Sylpheed-Claws to delete mails that spamassassin thinks are spam.<br /> # Save Folder: If Save Spam is set, this is the folder that Sylpheed-Claws will send spam to.<br /> # Maximum Size: Spam is usually small, so it's a waste of resources to spam check very large emails, this sets the size threshold in KBytes.<br /> # Timeout: This is the time that sylpheed will wait while spamd checks each message. The default of 30 seconds is OK for most machines, but slow ones may need this increased.<br /> <br /> Now you need to test the installation. Send yourself some spam. When you receive it, it should be placed into the spam folder that you configured. To check that spamd is being called, put a tail on your sys.log (mine is in &lt;tt&gt;/var/log/sys.log&lt;/tt&gt;, so &lt;tt&gt;tail -f /var/log/sys.log&lt;/tt&gt; works) and see if spamd runs and what it says. If it is not running for every mail message received then check carefully both the SpamAssassin and Sylpheed-Claws settings. If it is running, but not detecting spam, then you may need to train the bayesian filter - see SpamAssassin's documentation for that.<br /> <br /> === Does the SpamAssassin plugin change the email headers? ===<br /> <br /> No, it only uses the return value from SpamAssassin, (SPAM/NOT SPAM). To use header changing ability of SpamAssassin you can either configure an [[Actions|Action]] (Report as SPAM: spamassassin -r &lt; %f), or a [[Filtering and Processing of Messages|Filtering]] rule (test &quot;!(spamc -c &lt; %f)&quot;), or setup fetchmail and procmail to filter emails into your Sylpheed-Claws mailbox instead of using the plugin.<br /> <br /> === How do I configure gpg-agent and the PGP plugin? ===<br /> <br /> Attempts to use your gpg key to sign/encrypt messages will fail with a 'Signature failed' message without even asking you for your password if:<br /> # Your OS automatically starts the gpg-agent daemon AND<br /> # you only have the CURSES based pinentry program installed AND<br /> # you started sylpheed from a menu or icon<br /> (Note: my Fedora Core 4 workstation install was configured this way).<br /> The solution is to make sure that you have the pinentry-gtk or pinentry-qt programs installed. Sylpheed-Claws will then present the pinentry dialog box to get your GPG passphrase.<br /> <br /> You can tell if this is working by the dialog box presented to you for your passphrase. The pinentry dialog is a little uglier than the Sylpheed-Claws version, and the window title is 'pinentry'.<br /> <br /> One advantage of using the gpg-agent over Sylpheed-Claws password dialog is that the password caching then works with other applications using the gpg-agent (eg the command line when you specify --use-agent).<br /> <br /> Note 2: If it still refuses to work you might want to try the following steps:<br /> * Make sure your ''~/.gnupg/gpg.conf'' contains the line<br /> &lt;code&gt;use-agent&lt;/code&gt;<br /> * Create a file ''~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf'' with the following contents:<br /> &lt;code&gt;<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt<br /> no-grab<br /> default-cache-ttl 1800<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> &lt;/code&gt;<br /> * Add the following line to some startup script. (In case of KDE you could use ''~/.kde/env/gpgagent.sh'' - The filename does not matter, the contents of ''~/.kde/env/'' is sourced by startkde)<br /> &lt;pre&gt;eval &quot;$(gpg-agent --daemon)&quot;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> === I love maildir format. Is there a useful replacement in Sylpheed-Claws, better than the maildir plugin ? ===<br /> <br /> The maildir plugin works well in Sylpheed-Claws. Nevertheless, if you plan to use tons of emails (i.e. X GB of mails), then the maildir plugin is not enough efficient to be usable (tested with 2Go of mails, folders with 30000 mails are long to display).<br /> <br /> The good solution is to use the native format of Sylpheed-Claws: the MH format. You have two ways of doing this:<br /> <br /> * Use a local account in MH format: you use the filters of Sylpheed-Claws to drop the mails directly on your disk in MH format. Then searching, indexing is very very fast.<br /> <br /> * Use an IMAP account: if doing this way, your emails remains on the IMAP server BUT, when displayed, your mails are downloaded and stored in MH format on your disk too. They are dropped in ~/.sylpheed-claws/imapcache/ and are synchronized with the server (see Synchronize folder in File menu).<br /> <br /> In the two cases, Sylpheed-Claws uses the MH format and you can browse your emails with an alternative mail client able to read MH.</div> 213.41.175.117 https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=Plugins&diff=1453 Plugins 2006-07-04T09:34:03Z <p>213.41.175.117: typos</p> <hr /> <div>=== What are plugins? ===<br /> <br /> Plugins are modules loaded (or unloaded) by Sylpheed-Claws at runtime. They provide a<br /> way to extend Sylpheed-Claws with new capabilities you really need without having all of them wasting memory.<br /> <br /> === Where are plugins located? ===<br /> <br /> Plugins are located in your &lt;tt&gt;$PREFIX/lib/sylpheed-claws/plugins&lt;/tt&gt;. Typical locations are<br /> &lt;tt&gt;/usr/lib/sylpheed-claws/plugins&lt;/tt&gt; if you installed a packaged plugin and &lt;tt&gt;/usr/local/lib/sylpheed-claws/plugins&lt;/tt&gt; if you're installing from source. (plugins have<br /> a suffix of '.so')<br /> <br /> Note that in older versions of Sylpheed-Claws (=&lt; 0.9.11) the directory name was sylpheed and not sylpheed-claws (i.e. &lt;tt&gt;$PREFIX/lib/sylpheed/plugins&lt;/tt&gt;).<br /> <br /> === I have loaded plugin X but how can I configure it? ===<br /> <br /> Plugin configuaration options can be found under '/Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/' and/or '/Configuration/[Account Preferences]/Plugins'.<br /> <br /> Some plugins have a separate interface plugin which provides the<br /> configuration pane for the X plugin. If you have loaded plugin &lt;tt&gt;X.so&lt;/tt&gt; typical name<br /> for the configuration plugin will be &lt;tt&gt;X_gtk.so&lt;/tt&gt;, but this is not mandatory, read<br /> plugin's documentation in case of doubt.<br /> <br /> === What plugins are currently available? ===<br /> <br /> The following plugins are included in the Sylpheed-Claws release tarballs<br /> <br /> ; Clam AntiVirus<br /> : Enables the scanning of message attachments in mail received from a POP, IMAP or LOCAL account using Clam AntiVirus. It can optionally delete the mail or save it to a designated folder. Preferences can be found in '/Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/Clam AntiVirus'. <br /> : Clam AntiVirus is available from http://clamav.sourceforge.net/<br /> <br /> ;Dillo HTML Viewer<br /> : Enables the viewing of html messages using the Dillo web browser, version 0.7.0 or newer. It uses Dillo's --local option by default for safe browsing. Preferences can be found in '/Configuration/Preferences/Plugins/Dillo Browser'.<br /> : Dillo is available from http://www.dillo.org/<br /> <br /> ; PGP/Core<br /> : Handles core PGP functions and is required by the PGP/Inline and PGP/MIME plugins.<br /> : Uses GnuPG/GPGME, ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/<br /> <br /> ; PGP/inline<br /> : Handles inline PGP signed and/or encrypted mails. You can decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails.<br /> : Uses GnuPG/GPGME, ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/<br /> <br /> ; PGP/MIME<br /> : Handles PGP/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails. You can decrypt mails, verify signatures or sign and encrypt your own mails.<br /> : Uses GnuPG/GPGME, ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/<br /> <br /> ; SpamAssassin<br /> : Enables the scanning of incoming mail received from a POP, IMAP or LOCAL account using SpamAssassin. It can optionally delete mail identified as spam or save it to a designated folder. Preferences can be found in '/Configuration/ Preferences/Plugins/SpamAssassin'.<br /> : SpamAssassin is available from http://spamassassin.apache.org/<br /> <br /> ; Trayicon<br /> : Places an icon in the notification area that indicates whether you have any new mail. A tooltip also shows the current new, unread and total number of messages<br /> <br /> The following plugins are included in the External Plugins release tarballs<br /> <br /> ; acpi notifier<br /> : Enables mail notification via LEDs on some laptops.<br /> <br /> ; CacheSaver<br /> : Saves the caches every 60 seconds (or user-defined period).<br /> <br /> ; etPan-Privacy<br /> : Handles signature verification and decryption of encrypted messages in S/MIME, OpenPGP, and ascii-armored PGP formats.<br /> <br /> ; fetchinfo<br /> : Inserts headers containing some download information: UIDL, Sylpheed-Claws' account name, POP server, user ID and retrieval time.<br /> <br /> ; maildir<br /> : Provides direct support for Maildir++ mailboxes. With this plugin you can share your Maildir++ mailbox with other mailers or IMAP servers.<br /> <br /> ; mailmbox<br /> : Handles mailboxes in mbox format.<br /> <br /> ; perl<br /> : Intended to extend the filtering possibilities of Sylpheed-Claws. It provides a Perl interface to Sylpheed-Claws' filtering mechanism, allowing the use of full Perl power in email filters.<br /> <br /> ; RSSyl<br /> : Allows you to read your favorite newsfeeds in Sylpheed-Claws. RSS 1.0, 2.0 and Atom feeds are currently supported.<br /> <br /> ; SynCE<br /> : Assists in keeping the addressbook of a Windows CE device (Pocket PC/iPAQ, Smartphone etc) in sync with Sylpheed-Claws' addressbook, with respect to email addresses.<br /> <br /> ; vCalendar<br /> : Enables vCalendar message handling like that produced by Evolution or Outlook.<br /> <br /> === How do I configure SpamAssassin and the SpamAssassin plugin? ===<br /> <br /> There are many configurations possible, this answer applies when the spamassassin daemon spamd is running on your local computer.<br /> <br /> If you have the dependencies installed, the SpamAssassin plugin will be built automatically when building Sylpheed-Claws. When you start Sylpheed-Claws the plugin is NOT loaded or enabled. Load the plugins: Configuration|Plugins|Load Plugins, browse to your plugin directory location as described above. Load &lt;tt&gt;spamassassin.so&lt;/tt&gt;. You then need to configure it in: Configuration|Preferences|Plugins|Spamassassin. There are six items to set correctly.<br /> # Transport: For our configuration set this to Localhost. If ever you want to turn spam checking off, set this to Disabled.<br /> # Spamd: This should be set to the IP port number that spamd is listening on, it's normally 783.<br /> # Save Spam: If cleared, this tickbox tells Sylpheed-Claws to delete mails that spamassassin thinks are spam.<br /> # Save Folder: If Save Spam is set, this is the folder that Sylpheed-Claws will send spam to.<br /> # Maximum Size: Spam is usually small, so it's a waste of resources to spam check very large emails, this sets the size threshold in KBytes.<br /> # Timeout: This is the time that sylpheed will wait while spamd checks each message. The default of 30 seconds is OK for most machines, but slow ones may need this increased.<br /> <br /> Now you need to test the installation. Send yourself some spam. When you receive it, it should be placed into the spam folder that you configured. To check that spamd is being called, put a tail on your sys.log (mine is in &lt;tt&gt;/var/log/sys.log&lt;/tt&gt;, so &lt;tt&gt;tail -f /var/log/sys.log&lt;/tt&gt; works) and see if spamd runs and what it says. If it is not running for every mail message received then check carefully both the SpamAssassin and Sylpheed-Claws settings. If it is running, but not detecting spam, then you may need to train the bayesian filter - see SpamAssassin's documentation for that.<br /> <br /> === Does the SpamAssassin plugin change the email headers? ===<br /> <br /> No, it only uses the return value from SpamAssassin, (SPAM/NOT SPAM). To use header changing ability of SpamAssassin you can either configure an [[Actions|Action]] (Report as SPAM: spamassassin -r &lt; %f), or a [[Filtering and Processing of Messages|Filtering]] rule (test &quot;!(spamc -c &lt; %f)&quot;), or setup fetchmail and procmail to filter emails into your Sylpheed-Claws mailbox instead of using the plugin.<br /> <br /> === How do I configure gpg-agent and the PGP plugin? ===<br /> <br /> Attempts to use your gpg key to sign/encrypt messages will fail with a 'Signature failed' message without even asking you for your password if:<br /> # Your OS automatically starts the gpg-agent daemon AND<br /> # you only have the CURSES based pinentry program installed AND<br /> # you started sylpheed from a menu or icon<br /> (Note: my Fedora Core 4 workstation install was configured this way).<br /> The solution is to make sure that you have the pinentry-gtk or pinentry-qt programs installed. Sylpheed-Claws will then present the pinentry dialog box to get your GPG passphrase.<br /> <br /> You can tell if this is working by the dialog box presented to you for your passphrase. The pinentry dialog is a little uglier than the Sylpheed-Claws version, and the window title is 'pinentry'.<br /> <br /> One advantage of using the gpg-agent over Sylpheed-Claws password dialog is that the password caching then works with other applications using the gpg-agent (eg the command line when you specify --use-agent).<br /> <br /> Note 2: If it still refuses to work you might want to try the following steps:<br /> * Make sure your ''~/.gnupg/gpg.conf'' contains the line<br /> &lt;code&gt;use-agent&lt;/code&gt;<br /> * Create a file ''~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf'' with the following contents:<br /> &lt;code&gt;<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt<br /> no-grab<br /> default-cache-ttl 1800<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> &lt;/code&gt;<br /> * Add the following line to some startup script. (In case of KDE you could use ''~/.kde/env/gpgagent.sh'' - The filename does not matter, the contents of ''~/.kde/env/'' is sourced by startkde)<br /> &lt;pre&gt;eval &quot;$(gpg-agent --daemon)&quot;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> === I love maildir format. Is there a useful replacement in Sylpheed-Claws, better than the maildir plugin ? ===<br /> <br /> The maildir plugin works well in Sylpheed-Claws. Nevertheless, if you plan to use tons of emails (i.e. X GB of mails), then the maildir plugin is not enough efficient to be usable (tested with 2Go of mails, folders with 30000 mails are long to display).<br /> <br /> The good solution is to use the native format of Sylpheed-Claws: the MH format. You have two ways of doing this:<br /> <br /> * Use a local account in MH format: you use the filters of Sylpheed-Claws to drop the mails directly on your disk in MH format. Then searching, indexing is very very fast.<br /> <br /> * Use an IMAP account: if doing this way, your emails remains on the IMAP server BUT, when displayed, your mails are downloaded and stored in MH format on your disk too. They are dropped in ~/.sylpheed-claws/imapcache/ and are synchronized with the server (see Synchronize folder in File menu).<br /> <br /> In the two cases, Sylpheed-Claws uses the MH format and you can browse your emails with an alternative mail client able to read MH.</div> 213.41.175.117 https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=1423 Main Page 2006-05-17T07:16:58Z <p>213.41.175.117: /* Microsoft Windows */</p> <hr /> <div>== Sylpheed-Claws FAQ ==<br /> <br /> === General ===<br /> <br /> * [[General Information]]<br /> * [[Installation and Configuration]]<br /> * [[Interface]]<br /> * [[Composing Mails Or News]]<br /> * [[Filtering and Processing of Messages]]<br /> * [[Actions]]<br /> * [[Templates]]<br /> * [[Plugins]]<br /> * [[Using Sylpheed-Claws with other programs]]<br /> <br /> === Microsoft Windows ===<br /> <br /> * [[Windows: Downloads | Deprecated Downloads]]<br /> ----<br /> : If you edit the FAQ pages please keep the style. If you change anchor names you might break links from other pages, so don't do that. Invent better names for new anchors. That makes it easier to reference them from other pages. You don't have to add new questions to the end of the list, if you think it's better placed after another question.</div> 213.41.175.117