14 DAY TRIAL // Claws Mail, an email client that is aiming at being fast, easy to use, and powerful, has just received a major update, integrating a huge number of changes and improvements.
Claws Mail has been around for quite some time, a little over 13 years. It used to have another name, Sylpheed-Claws. The project started as a fork or Sylpheed, but it evolved over the years and its devs separated it completely from the original software a few years back.
The makers of this software also explained that this is not a full-featured Personal Information Manager like Evolution or Outlook, but it can be enhanced with plugins to obtain the same kind of functionalities.
One of the most important changes in this version has to do with the security certificates and how are they handled by the application.
“Complete SSL certificate chains are now saved, and if built with Libetpan 1.4.1, the IMAP SSL connection's certificate chain is made available. Both of these allow correct certificate verification instead of a bogus ‘No certificate issuer found’ status,” said the devs in the official announcement.
According to the changelog, the auto-configuration of account email servers, based on SRV records, is now possible, a preference to avoid automatically drafting emails that are sent encrypted has been added, the messages saved as Drafts are now also saved as New, highlighting the Drafts folder in order to draw the attention to unfinished mails there, users can now add a “Replace signature” button to the Compose window toolbar, quotation wrapping and undo/redo in the Compose window functions have been improved and “Reply to all” now excludes your own address.
Also, the “Generate X-Mailer header” option has been renamed to “Add user agent header” and applies to both X-Mailer and X-Newsreader headers, the hidden preferences address_search_wildcard and folder_search_wildcard have been added, when using the Redirect function, the account's address is now used in the SMTP MAIL FROM, a new libravatar plugin has been added, avatars are now included when printing mails, and the GPG keyring can now be used as the source for address auto-completion.
The developers usually provide repositories for most of the major distributions out there, but it's going to take a little while until most of them integrate it.
You can check the official announcement for more details about this release and you can download the Claws Mail 3.10.0 source package right now from Softpedia, if you want to compile the software yourself.