CLAWS-MAIL-MAILMBOX-PLUGIN(7)

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version 4.4.0 · 6 versions
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💅 CLAWS-MAIL-MAILMBOX-PLUGIN(7) 💅

okay bestie, so this is a Claws Mail manual page, section 7 (that's the "miscellaneous / conventions" girlies, iykyk). sit down, grab a strawberry, we're learning about a plugin 🍓✨

✨ NAME ✨

claws-mail-mailmbox-plugin — handle mbox format mailboxes 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This manual page documents briefly the claws-mail-mailmbox-plugin package. Just briefly bestie, we're not writing a dissertation 📝

Not me having to explain this, but: this manual page was written for the Debian™ distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. So Debian said "fine, I'll do it myself" 💅 and here we are.

claws-mail-mailmbox-plugin is a plugin (a loadable module, in case you were wondering what a plugin technically is 💀) for the Claws Mail mailer.

What does it do tho?? It provides the ability of handling mbox format files — the kind that some other popular mailers use — as if they were the native mailer's folders. Like, they just show up like normal folders. Just add them and play. Yes, that is the official energy of the original text, and no I will not be toning it down 🎀

🌸 USAGE 🌸

Before using a plugin you must instruct Claws Mail to load it on startup. No loading = no plugin = sad girl hours 😭

Here's the whole little 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 mailmbox.so 👑
  5. Press the “Open” button

And then mailboxes can be added in the “File” menu:

  • Open the “Add mailbox” item
  • Select the “mbox (etPan!)...” option

That's it. That's the whole thing. Ate, no crumbs 🌈

heads up bestie: that option is literally spelled mbox (etPan!)... with the exclamation mark and the three dots. copy it exactly, don't get creative 🙈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read those if you want the full lore, i'm just the messenger 💌

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • DINH Viêt Hoà <dinh.viet.hoa@free.fr> — Wrote the claws-mail-mailmbox-plugin plugin. the actual legend who made it happen 🫶
  • Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org> — Wrote this manpage for the Debian™ system. the one who put pen to paper for us fr fr ✍️

Copyright © 2006-2020 Ricardo Mones

This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Sharing is caring, periodt 💞

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 🎀 no cap, we kept every single detail and it's still giving main character energy. this one's version 4.4.0-1build1, dated 2026-08-21 — mwah, iconic, go load that plugin 💅✨🦋

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