Claws Mail For Mac
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What is Claws mail?
Claws Mail is an email client aiming at being fast, easy-to-use and powerful. It is mostly desktop-independent, but tries to integrate with your desktop as best as possible. The Claws Mail developers try hard to keep it lightweight, so that it should be usable on low-end computers without much memory or CPU power, which is great when running it on a Raspberry Pi embedded SOC computer.
What is Claws mail not?
Claws Mail is not a full-featured Personal Information Manager like Evolution or Outlook, although external plugins provide these functionalities. Claws Mail will not let you write and send HTML emails or other kind of annoyances, hence it may not be the software you need in some business environments.
Gmail Configuration
The first thing you have to do is set up Google Mail to allow IMAP connections.
Step 1: Check that IMAP is turned on in your g-mail account:
- On your computer, open Gmail.
- In the top right, click Settings .
- Click Settings.
- Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
- In the “IMAP Access” section, select Enable IMAP.
- Click Save Changes.
Gmail denies access to desktop email clients such as Claws Mail by default. Any sign-in attempt fails as if you had used an incorrect password for smtp authentication. To allow access, you need to modify an option in your account’s security settings.
1. Log in to the Google Accounts homepage.
2. Under Signing in, click Access for less secure apps
3. Select Turn on
Step 2: Configure Claws Mail on the Raspberry Pi:
Start the Claw mail application on your Raspberry Pi and go to the Configuration menu and select Create New Account. Use the table below to update your client with the correct information.
| Incoming Mail (IMAP4 protocol) Server | imap.gmail.com Requires SSL: Yes Port: 993 |
| Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server | smtp.gmail.com Requires SSL: Yes Requires TLS: Yes (if available) Requires Authentication: Yes Port for SSL: 465 Port for TLS/STARTTLS: 587 |
| Full Name or Display Name | Your name |
| Account Name, User name, or Email address | Your full email address |
| Password | Your Gmail password |
Step 3: The final step
Go back to the main Claws Mail window. If you right click on the Gmail main folder you will see an entry for Subscriptions. Under that entry there are three sub entries. Click the Subscribe entry to subscribe to your Gmail mail. Once you have done that, you can click Get Mail to download all of your Gmail mail. You are ready to go.
Step by step…..
For reference, your Raspberry Pi Claw Mail Account preferences should be setup like below when configured for your Gmail imap account:
- Select Configurations – “Create new account”
2.Basic Claw mail settings:
3. Receive configuration:
4. Send configuration:
5. Compose configuration:
6. Privacy configuration:
7. SSL configuration:
8. Advanced settings:
Claws Mail Client
At last !
Claw Mail Outlook
It took me more time than expected, but I finally got the beast properly compiled and bundled for Mac OS X.
Go grab Claws Mail for Mac OS X here
Beware, it’s a PPC only bundle for now. Universal bundle should follow in some weeks.
And of course the usual screenshot :
So now some explanation. In my previous post, I explained roughly how to compile Claws on Mac OS X. Since then, I have successfully embedded the whole application in a bundle, and made an image of it. More information are available on the developper page.
Install Claws Mail
Next step : recompile using GTK+ natively on Mac OS X.