CLAWS-MAIL-FETCHINFO-PLUGIN(7)

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version 4.4.0 · 6 versions
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💖 NAME 💖

claws-mail-fetchinfo-plugin — it literally inserts headers with download info, no cap

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay bestie, so this manual page is the short-ish lowdown on the claws-mail-fetchinfo-plugin package. Just the highlights. 🎀

Real talk: this manual page got written for the Debian™ distribution because the original program 🫠 does not have a manual page of its own. So we made one. You're welcome.

claws-mail-fetchinfo-plugin is a plugin, aka a loadable module, for the Claws Mail mailer. It's giving "little add-on that pulls its weight." 💅

What it does: it lets you slap several extra headers onto the mails you receive, and those headers carry extra download info. Then later you can use those headers in filtering or processing rules, which extends your mail identification and/or classification capabilities. Obsessed, actually. 🌸

Currently, these are the headers it can add:

  • X-FETCH-ACCOUNT — the receiving account name, straight from your Claws Mail configuration (exactly as it appears in the accountrc file).
  • X-FETCH-SERVER — the POP3 server that was used for downloading.
  • X-FETCH-TIME — timestamp of the download, RFC-822 formatted. ✨
  • X-FETCH-UIDL — the UIDL specifying the message on the server.
  • X-FETCH-USERID — the username in the receiving account.

🌈 USAGE 🌈

Before you can use a plugin, you gotta tell Claws Mail to load it on startup. No shortcut here, bestie. 🦋

So here's the vibe:

  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, which is named fetchinfo_plugin.so. 👑
  5. Press the "Open" button.

And that's it. Iconic.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

  • Thorsten Maerz <torte@netztorte.de> — wrote the claws-mail-fetchinfo-plugin plugin. Main character energy fr fr. 🔥
  • Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org> — wrote this manpage for the Debian™ system.

Copyright © 2006-2020 Ricardo Mones

This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Inclusive king behavior. 💜

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.

⚠️ Note: that's Version 3, or at your option any later version. Don't get cute with the license, bestie.

And that's the whole page! 💖 This one's from the Claws Mail manual, claws-mail-fetchinfo-plugin(7), source/version 4.4.0-1build1, dated 2026-08-21. Slay, go forth, and go load that plugin. 🎀✨🦋

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