Claws Mail

By Cat Ellis

Claws Mail is an open source email client with more bite than most. It’s not quite as slick as rivals like Mailbird Free, but whatever it lacks in polish it makes up for in speed and flexibility. It’s made primarily for Linux, but there’s also a port for Windows users, with an experimental 64-bit version.

Claws Mail is packed with tools to help you tame even the most unwieldy of inboxes, including quick importing of contacts, a fast message cache system, the ability to download all attachments in an email at once, and a powerful quick search tool.

That’s not all; Claws Mail is an open source project, so anyone can use its code to make plugins to expand its capabilities. Many users have done just that, and spent their free time building include tools that you never realised you needed, like one that strips attachments out of emails automatically, and another that alerts you to new emails by illuminating lights on your laptop.

User experience

Setting up your accounts in Claws Mail isn’t quite as straightforward as it is in Mailbird Free (which just requests your webmail login details), but it’s not excessively complicated.

Importantly, Claws Mail doesn’t place a limit on …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac