CLAWS-MAIL-PGPMIME(7)

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💖 CLAWS-MAIL-PGPMIME — claws-mail-pgpmime 💖

okay bestie, gathering round, this is the manual page for the claws-mail-pgpmime package, and it's giving very niche but very iconic. it lives in the Claws Mail section of the manual pages, so let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

claws-mail-pgpmime — handle PGP/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So basically, this manual page documents briefly the claws-mail-pgpmime package. quick lil overview energy. 🎀

Real talk: this manual page was written for the Debian™ distribution, because the original program does not have a manual page. so we made one. you're welcome. 💅

claws-mail-pgpmime is a plugin (a.k.a. a loadable module) for the Claws Mail mailer. that's the whole vibe.

What does it do though? It lets you:

  • decrypt mails 🔓
  • verify signatures ✅
  • sign or encrypt your own mails using PGP/MIME 🔐

and it requires GnuPG and GPGME. no cap, those two are non-negotiable. periodt.

🦋 USAGE 🦋

okay so before you can use any plugin, you must instruct Claws Mail to load it on startup. it's not just gonna show up on its own, bestie. 🙈

Here's the whole ritual, step by step, lowkey easy:

  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 pgpmime.so 📁
  5. press the “Open” button

and boom. loaded. main character energy achieved. 👑

⚠️ Note the exact filename: it's pgpmime.so, not pgpmime, not pgp-mime.so. don't come for me, just type it right. 💀

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf — configuration file for GnuPG. for the details, go read the gpg and gpgconf manual pages. iykyk 📖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, in no particular order:

💜 AUTHORS 💜

  • The Claws Mail Team <theteam@claws-mail.org> — wrote the claws-mail-pgpmime plugin. absolute legends, fr fr 🔥
  • Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org> — wrote this manpage for the Debian™ system. thank you for your service 🫶

Copyright © 2008-2020 Ricardo Mones

This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others — sharing is caring 💖).

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.

aaaand that's the whole page! 💅✨ this was version 4.4.0-1build1 dated 2026-08-21, filed under CLAWS-MAIL-PGPMIME(7). slay, go sign some mail, bestie 🎀🦋💖

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