CLAWS-MAIL-SMIME-PLUGIN(7)

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version 4.4.0 · 6 versions
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💌 claws-mail-smime-plugin(7) — the manual page bestie 💌

okay so. this is claws-mail-smime-plugin, a section 7 manual page from the Claws Mail crew, and she's here to handle S/MIME signed and encrypted mails. buckle up, it's short but she's iconic 💅

✨ NAME ✨

claws-mail-smime-plugin — handle S/MIME signed and encrypted mails 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this manual page documents the claws-mail-smime-plugin package briefly. like, the highlights. the vibe check. no cap.

bestie, fair warning: this manual page was written for the Debian™ distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. not me filling in the gaps because nobody else would 😭

claws-mail-smime-plugin is a plugin (a loadable module, iykyk) for the Claws Mail mailer ✨

and what does she actually do?? literally everything S/MIME:

  • decrypting mails 🔓
  • verifying signatures ✅
  • signing your own mails ✍️
  • encrypting your own mails 🔐

all of it using the S/MIME standard, aka RFC 8551. periodt. 👑

🎀 USAGE 🎀

okay so before you can use a plugin you must instruct Claws Mail to load it on startup. it's not gonna just show up uninvited, bestie, we have boundaries 💅

for this you must go “Configuration” menu on main window toolbar, open the “Plugins...” dialog, click on the “Load plugin...” button and select the plugin file — named smime.so — and press the “Open” button 🦋

that's it. that's the whole ritual. slay.

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

go read those too, they're giving required reading 💖

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net> — wrote the claws-mail-smime-plugin plugin. main character energy fr fr 🌟
  • Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org> — wrote this manpage for the Debian™ system. 🫡

Copyright © 2008-2020 Ricardo Mones

This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others — she's generous like that 💜).

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 — go look, it's all there, fr 📂

and that's the whole page bestie!! no notes, she ate 💅✨

version 4.4.0-1build1 🌸 dated 2026-08-21 🦋 Claws Mail forever 💖 mwah 😘

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