Comments on: Claws Mail.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:01:56 +0000

@Big Brother: I’m a bit late on this reply, nearly 3 months have passed, but not as late as you. I refer to your statement “in recent versions your passwords were written in clear text to the filesystem”, actually they have not been in clear text since March 2003, (not to mention the fact that using an encrypted file system is secure, not encrypting everything inside it). As regards proxy use, you can implement this at a system level, as regards privacy, it’s had support for GPG since day 1 and has had support for encrypted connections to servers for as long. And as for ‘ok for kids’ and ‘but in real life’, it’s time that you woke up.

By: Big Brother

Big Brother — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:02:11 +0000

In a modern (and therefore police-state-like) world there is one HUGE problem with claws: it has NO support for proxies and therefore it is not able to protect your privacy – thunderbird is not perfect, but can also tunnel dns queries via a proxy. Privacy seems to be a constant non-issue for claws authors – in recent versions your passwords were written in clear text to the filesystem – this changed now, I think.
Claws may be ok for kids or as a software study – but in real life it is not usable. Not implementing privacy in an emaiil client as a first class citizen is like buiding a house without doors.
Also privacy features should be a concern for any software review published on the net – we are far beyond 1984.

By: joe

joe — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:00:18 +0000

Awesome, thanks!

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:02:11 +0000

“would be nice if they loaded as soon as you arrowed to it”: You want to check the “Always open messages when selected” option in Preferences/Summaries