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Clawsker - A Claws Mail Tweaker
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Clawsker is a Perl-GTK applet to edit hidden preferences for Claws Mail,
and to do it in a safe and user friendly way, preventing users from raw
editing of configuration files.

Claws Mail is a fast and lightweight Mail User Agent by the Claws Mail Team.

You can download the latest version from Clawsker homepage:

  http://www.claws-mail.org/clawsker.php

Dependencies
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  - Building:

  Nothing special: make, sed, install, gettext and pod2man.

  On Debian systems and derivatives:
  # apt-get install make sed coreutils gettext perl
  (Although you probably already have some of these installed)

  - Running:

  Perl - http://www.perl.com (>= 5.10)
  GTK+3 bindings for Perl - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/perl-gtk3
  (>= 0.030)
  Locale::gettext - http://search.cpan.org/~pvandry/gettext-1.05/ (>= 1.05)
  File::Which - https://metacpan.org/pod/File::Which (>= 1.21)
  Claws Mail - http://www.claws-mail.org (>= 3.9.1)

  On Debian systems:
  # apt-get install libgtk3-perl liblocale-gettext-perl libfile-which-perl
  # apt-get install claws-mail

  - Test suite:

  Test::More - https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::More
  Test::Output - https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Output
  Test::Exception - https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Exception
  Test::NeedsDisplay - https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::NeedsDisplay

Install
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After downloading the tarball:

  tar xJf clawsker-VERSION.tar.xz
  cd clawsker-VERSION
  make

If finished correctly, become root and:

  make install

Replace VERSION with the actual version number of the tarball.

Default install is under /usr/local prefix. If you want to install in another
location (for example /usr) replace last line with:

  make install PREFIX=/usr

Optionally you can provide also a DESTDIR as a root tree for the installation.

Test suite
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You can run the test suite with:

  make test

If running test suite fails please report a bug with all the messages
printed by the above command, the versions of Perl and the version of
Clawsker dependencies you're using.

Contributing
------------

Patches, bug fixes, and specially, new translations (or updates to the
existing ones) are welcome. Development uses git as VCS and takes place
on http://git.claws-mail.org.

Translators please read po/README file for details about translations.

Thanks
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* The Claws Mail Team, for such great mail program
* Larry Wall and all Perl hackers all over the world
* The Perl-GTK2 folks and Phillip Vandry
* Dirk van der Walt, for his Gtk2-Perl Study Guide [0]
* Debian, for the Operating System
* GitHub Inc., for providing the initial git hosting and more

[0] http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/doc/gtk2-perl-study-guide/

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