CLAWS-MAIL-LIBRAVATAR(7)

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version 4.4.0 · 6 versions
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💌 CLAWS-MAIL-LIBRAVATAR ✨

okay so bestie, you know how every app ever has little profile pics next to people's names? yeah. this is that, but for Claws Mail. this page lives in section 7 of the manual (CLAWS-MAIL-LIBRAVATAR(7)), and it's your whole guide to the claws-mail-libravatar package. it's giving "I just want to see your face in my inbox" energy. let's go 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

claws-mail-libravatar — show profile images from a libravatar server 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so real talk: this manual page is the quick lil rundown of the claws-mail-libravatar package. no cap.

this manual page was written for the Debian™ distribution because the original program literally does not ship a manual page. so Debian said "fine, we'll do it ourselves" and here we are 🎀

claws-mail-libravatar is a plugin — like, a loadable module — for the Claws Mail mailer. it plugs in. it does its lil thing. iconic.

what's it do? it lets you see the sender profile image stored in the libravatar server that's configured in the sender's domain (that's a federated domain, iykyk). and if that domain's server isn't available? it falls back to the libravatar.org server. slay.

and if there's no profile available on libravatar.org at all — which is, like, the current fallback behavior of the service — it will also try gravatar.com servers. fr fr. but bestie, if that's not your vibe, you can turn that whole thing off in the plugin's configuration. your inbox, your rules 💖

and if there's literally no profile image found anywhere? the plugin can be configured to ask the libravatar service for a generated image instead (through one of the available methods), or even pull from a custom URL that you provide. the customization possibilities... we love to see it 🌈

💫 USAGE 💫

before you can use a plugin, you gotta tell Claws Mail to load it on startup. like, it can't just show up uninvited, that's not the vibe 🙈

here's the whole thing:

  1. open the “Configuration” menu on the main window toolbar.
  2. open the “Plugins...” dialog.
  3. click the “Load plugin...” button.
  4. pick the plugin file — it's named libravatar.so 👑
  5. hit the “Open” button. and that's it. periodt.

⚠️ CAVEATS ⚠️

okay bestie, listen. this is the important part, don't scroll past 🫣

this plugin may slow down message display because of the extra network access it needs to go grab your images. and it's especially rough on flaky networks. we've all been there, the wifi is giving nothing 😭

heads up: disabling the image cache, or setting a cache refresh interval too low, will only make this slowness more noticeable. it is not recommended. do not do it. I'm begging.

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Ricardo Mones <ricardo@mones.org> — wrote the claws-mail-libravatar plugin. a legend, honestly.
  • Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org> — wrote this manpage for the Debian™ system. same icon, different hat 💜

Copyright © 2014-2020 Ricardo Mones

this manual page was written for the Debian system (but it may be used by others too, we're not gatekeeping 🫶).

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. so yeah. GPL energy.

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. go read it if you want, it's there 🌸

and that's the whole page, bestie!! ✨💖🎀

this was claws-mail-libravatar from the Claws Mail era, version 4.4.0-1build1, dated 2026-08-21. go forth and see some profile pics in your mail. mwah 💅🦋

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