Geek Software of the Week (EXTRA): Claws Mail!
Open Source, totally free, and very light and fast. Claws Mail! (The screen shot above is my mail, so I have blurred out my actual email info.)
“Claws Mail is an email client (and news reader,) based on GTK+, featuring:
- Quick response
- Graceful, and sophisticated interface
- Easy configuration, intuitive operation
- Abundant features
- Extensibility
- Robustness and stability
The appearance and interface are designed to be familiar to new users coming from other popular email clients, as well as experienced users. Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard.
The messages are managed in the standard MH format, which features fast access and data security. You’ll be able to import your emails from almost any other email client, and export them just as easily.
Lots of extra functionality, like an RSS aggregator, calendar, or laptop LED handling, are provided by extra plugins.
Claws Mail is distributed under the GPL.
Claws Mail includes all of the features you’d expect, such as:
- Multiple accounts
- Threaded display
- Filtering
- Mime attachments
- Usenet news reading and posting
- SSL over POP3, SMTP, IMAP4rev1 and NNTP protocols
- GnuPG support (with GPGME)
- User-defined headers
- Color labels
- Multiple MH folder support
- Mbox import/export
- External editor
- Message queueing and drafting
- Automated mail checking
- Line-wrapping
- Clickable URIs
- Addressbook
- Printing”