CLAWS-MAIL-ADDRESS-KEEPER(7)

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💖 CLAWS-MAIL-ADDRESS-KEEPER 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for claws-mail-address-keeper — the section 7 (miscellaneous) one, from the Claws Mail family. sit down, grab a strawberry, we're doing this 💅

✨ NAME ✨

claws-mail-address-keeper — keep outgoing addresses in address book 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this page is the brief little rundown of the claws-mail-address-keeper package. that's it. that's the job. it's giving "documentation but make it concise" ✨

it was written specifically for the Debian distribution, and the reason is honestly kinda iconic: the original program straight up does not have a manual page. so Debian said "fine, i'll do it myself" 💅

claws-mail-address-keeper is a plugin (a loadable module, iykyk) for the Claws Mail mailer.

and here's what it actually does, the whole point, the main character moment: it lets you save typed outgoing addresses into the address book automatically — but only in case they're unknown, meaning they're not already present in the address book. no duplicates, no mess, we love a considerate queen 👑

🌈 USAGE 🌈

before you can use a plugin, you must tell Claws Mail to load it on startup. it's not gonna just show up on its own, bestie, you have to invite it in 🎀

here's the whole ritual:

  1. go to the “Configuration” menu on the main window toolbar
  2. open the “Plugins...” dialog
  3. click the “Load plugin...” button
  4. select the plugin file, named address_keeper.so
  5. press the “Open” button

and boom, you're done. slay 💖

💀 LIMITATIONS 💀

listen, there's a catch, and we're being honest about it:

  • messages have to be sent or saved for later sending for the address collection to actually work. it's not doing anything just from you typing, okay? it needs the send moment 😭
  • addresses will be saved regardless of the success of the sending operation. yep. even if the send flops, the address got collected. it said "not my problem, i did my part" 💅
ngl that second one trips people up, so like... clock it. address kept either way.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read those too, they're the friend group 🫶

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Ricardo Mones <ricardo@mones.org> — wrote the claws-mail-address-keeper plugin. the icon herself ✨
  • Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org> — wrote this manpage for the Debian™ system. double duty, we stan 💜

Copyright © 2010-2020 Ricardo Mones

this manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others). sharing is caring, no gatekeeping here 🧚

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was version 4.4.0-1build1, dated 2026-08-21 — go forth and let your addresses keep themselves 💅✨🎀

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