How to install Claws mail 3.16.0 on Ubuntu 18.04
To install Claws mail 3.16.0 on Ubuntu 18.04
Claws Mail is a fast, light-weight, and open source email client and a news reader built based on GTK+. It offers easy configuration and user-friendly features. Although it is primarily built for Linux, it can also be used for Windows users through a port, with an experimental 64-bit version. In this tutorial, we will see the installation of claws-mail 3.16.0. On Ubuntu 18.04
Installation
Download the Claws mail Debian package using wget command from the terminal as follows.
root@linuxhelp1:/home/user1/Downloads# wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/claws-mail/claws-mail-plugins_3.16.0-1_all.deb
--2018-05-04 14:31:04-- http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/claws-mail/claws-mail-plugins_3.16.0-1_all.deb
Resolving archive.ubuntu.com (archive.ubuntu.com)... 91.189.88.162, 91.189.88.161, 91.189.88.149, ...
Connecting to archive.ubuntu.com (archive.ubuntu.com)|91.189.88.162|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4652 (4.5K) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: ‘ claws-mail-plugins_3.16.0-1_all.deb’
claws-mail-plugins_3.16 100%[==============================> ] 4.54K --.-KB/s in 0s
2018-05-04 14:31:05 (342 MB/s) - ‘ claws-mail-plugins_3.16.0-1_all.deb’ saved [4652/4652]
Then we need to install a Gdebi package, which will be used to install Debian packages along with their dependencies.
root@linuxhelp1:/home/user1/Downloads# apt-get install gdebi -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
libaprutil1-ldap
Use ' sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
gdebi-core gnome-icon-theme libgtk2-perl libpango-perl
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Setting up gdebi-core (0.9.5.7+nmu2) ...
Setting up gnome-icon-theme (3.12.0-3) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/debian-swirl.svg to provide /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg (start-here.svg) in auto mode
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libpango-perl (1.227-2build1) ...
Setting up gdebi (0.9.5.7+nmu2) ...
Setting up libgtk2-perl (2:1.24992-1build1) ...
Now, install Claws-mail using Gdebi command as shown here.
root@linuxhelp1:/home/user1/Downloads# gdebi claws-mail-plugins_3.16.0-1_all.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Requires the installation of the following packages: bogofilter bogofilter-bdb bogofilter-common claws-mail claws-mail-bogofilter claws-mail-i18n claws-mail-pgpinline claws-mail-pgpmime claws-mail-smime-plugin claws-mail-spamassassin gcc gcc-7 libasan4 libatomic1 libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libcilkrts5 libcompfaceg1 libcrypt-openssl-bignum-perl libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl liberror-perl libetpan20 libgcc-7-dev libgsl23 libgslcblas0 libitm1 liblockfile-bin liblockfile1 liblsan0 libmail-dkim-perl libmail-spf-perl libmpx2 libnetaddr-ip-perl libquadmath0 libsys-hostname-long-perl libtsan0 libubsan0 linux-libc-dev make manpages-dev re2c sa-compile spamassassin spamc xfonts-100dpi
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Setting up gcc (4:7.3.0-3ubuntu2) ...
Setting up claws-mail-bogofilter:amd64 (3.16.0-1) ...
Setting up a-compile (3.4.1-8build1) ...
Running sa-compile (may take a long time)
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ...
Selecting previously unselected package claws-mail-plugins.
(Reading database ... 178768 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack claws-mail-plugins_3.16.0-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking claws-mail-plugins (3.16.0-1) ...
Setting up claws-mail-plugins (3.16.0-1) ...
After installation, you can access the claws-mail from the Ubuntu menu.
After opening the application you will see the claws-mail setup wizard.
Now setup the user details and click on forward.
And then you have to Make configuration for the receiving mail.
Assign a name for mailbox and click forward.
Q
is there any alternative available for this tool?
A
yeah , there is ,
Tools like Thunderbird , QuiteRSS,Evolution are similar to claws mail
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