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claws-mail mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop, winget installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für claws-mail in AI-Agent-Workflows.

Installationsbefehl Sicherheitshinweise

Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install claws-mail

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverifiziert · 94%

sudo port install claws-mail

MacPorts ports tree · mail/claws-mail/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverifiziert · 92%

sudo apk add claws-mail

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · claws-mail · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverifiziert · 92%

sudo apt install claws-mail

Debian stable package indexes · claws-mail · Quelle: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%

sudo dnf install claws-mail

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · claws-mail · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#claws-mail

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/cl/claws-mail/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverifiziert · 92%

sudo pacman -S claws-mail

Arch Linux sync databases · claws-mail · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%

sudo zypper install claws-mail

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · claws-mail · Quelle: download.opensuse.org

Windows

Scoopverifiziert · 92%

scoop install extras/claws-mail

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/claws-mail.json · Quelle: api.github.com

Windows Package Managerverifiziert · 92%

winget install --id ClawsMail.ClawsMail -e

Windows Package Manager source index · ClawsMail.ClawsMail · Quelle: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

User-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

claws-mail

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Claws Mail is a GTK-based email and news client known for being lightweight, fast, and extensible. Its official manual traces the project to April 2001, when it began as Sylpheed-Claws, a development test bed for Sylpheed features, before becoming an independent project and taking the Claws Mail name in November 2006.

Projektgeschichte

The official manual says Sylpheed-Claws was created so new mail-client features could be tested without compromising Sylpheed stability, with developers regularly synchronizing with Hiroyuki Yamamoto's Sylpheed codebase. The projects later diverged: work on GTK2 started in early 2003, the first GTK2-based Sylpheed-Claws release arrived in March 2005, and the project became Claws Mail in 2006.

Claws Mail continued to emphasize a traditional Unix desktop mail-client model: multiple accounts and mailboxes, POP3, IMAP, local mbox, SSL, authentication methods, filtering, searching, import/export, GnuPG, plugins, configurable toolbars, per-folder preferences, and safeguards against data loss.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The package has broad distribution coverage across Unix-like and Windows package ecosystems. The batch metadata lists Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, openSUSE, Alpine, Nix, MacPorts, Scoop, and WinGet package names, which reflects its long life as a cross-platform desktop utility rather than a single-distro niche app.

The official news page for 4.4.0 on 2026-03-09 calls that release the project's 25-year milestone, showing continued upstream maintenance into the mid-2020s.

Wie es verwendet wird

Claws Mail is used as a graphical mail and news reader for users who want a fast, configurable client without a full personal-information-manager stack. Official FAQ entries document MH mail storage, local Unix mailbox handling, POP3, IMAP, SMTP-only accounts, GPG support, filtering, plugins, address completion, and an explicit no-HTML-message-composition stance.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package maintainers, Claws Mail is interesting because it is a mature GTK desktop application with many optional integrations: TLS, libetpan, GPG, spam filtering, HTML rendering plugins, notification plugins, translations, manuals, and platform-specific packaging. It is also a useful example of an old-school GUI mail client that remains packageable across Unix package managers and Windows package catalogs.

Zeitleiste

2001: Sylpheed-Claws begins in April as a Sylpheed feature test bed.
2003: GTK2 work begins for Sylpheed and Sylpheed-Claws.
2005: First GTK2-based Sylpheed-Claws release appears in March.
2006: The project changes its name to Claws Mail in November.
2026: Claws Mail 4.4.0 release notes mark 25 years of the project.

Related projects

Sylpheed is the direct ancestor and early upstream counterpart named in the Claws Mail manual.
The official manual positions Claws Mail beside other mail clients such as Evolution and Outlook by saying it is not a full personal information manager.
Plugins and related tools include GnuPG support, Bogofilter, SpamAssassin, mailMBOX, RSSyl, notification plugins, and HTML display plugins documented by the manual, FAQ, and release notes.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Noch keine Protected-Tool-Abdeckung gefunden

Für claws-mail wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Installiert mit 12 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.
Build-Metadaten listen 1 Build-Abhängigkeiten.

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local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ~/.claws-mail/clawsrc~/.claws-mail/accountrc~/.claws-mail/actionsrc~/.claws-mail/customheaderrc~/.claws-mail/dispheaderrc~/.claws-mail/folderitemrc~/.claws-mail/folderlist.xml~/.claws-mail/matcherrc~/.claws-mail/menurc~/.claws-mail/addrbook/addrbook-*.xml

Credential files

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

Unix: ~/.claws-mail/passwordstorerc~/.claws-mail/oauth2rc

Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`claws-mail`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-10

Manager-Version4.4.0

Manager aktualisiert2026-06-14

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamnot checked

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

https://www.claws-mail.org/

InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.claws-mail.org/none Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:claws-mail
Version	4.4.0
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/claws-mail
Homepage	https://www.claws-mail.org/
Repository	https://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git%3Ba%3Dsummary
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Installation_and_Configuration
Lizenz	GPL-3.0-or-later
Quellarchiv	https://www.claws-mail.org/releases/claws-mail-4.4.0.tar.gz
Zuletzt aktualisiert	2026-06-14T23:21:49Z
Pulse	updated
Abhängigkeiten	at-spi2-core, cairo, gdk-pixbuf, gettext, glib, gnutls, gtk+3, harfbuzz, libetpan, nettle, openssl@3, pango
Build-Abhängigkeiten	pkgconf
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	claws-mail
Version Scheme	0
Revision	3
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Debian apt95%

claws-mail 4.3.1-1

Fast, lightweight and user-friendly GTK based email client