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Sylpheed / Claws for Win32:

Before downloading, please note:

• Have a look at the README-w32.txt and the tips section below.
• The window ports of Sylpheed and especially Sylpheed-claws are work in progress.
• Although they usually run stable, they may crash and even destroy your data, so be sure to make backups.
• The main part of porting Sylpheed to Windows was done by Munesato Nakada <munesato@post.co.jp>.
• This english installation help and the Sylpheed-Claws port are derived from his work by Thorsten Maerz <info@netztorte.de>.

More files available at the download archive.

Binaries :

Sources :

Tips :

Naming convention:

• Win9x : Windows 95, 98, 98se, Millenium
• WinNT : Windows NT 4.0, NT 2000, XP (all flavours)

Configuration:

• Set the evironment variable LANG to select your native language.
  Available translations: cs de el en_GB es fr hr it ja ko nl pl pt_BR ru sv
• Set the evironment variable HOME to a path where Gtk+ and Sylpheed store their configuration and data files.
• Sylpheed requires following registry key to work:
  • in [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sylpheed] create a new string value called InstalledDir that points to your Sylpheed root directory (e.g. C:\Sylpheed).
  • in [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sylpheed] create a new string value called HomeDir that points to your home directory (e.g. C:\home).
  • or download sylpheed.reg, patch it to your needs and import it using a double click.
  Otherwise, Sylpheed assumes it is installed in C:\Sylpheed.
• The GPGME interface requires following registry key to work:
  • in [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\GnuPG] create a new string value called gpgProgram that points to your gnupg executable (e.g. C:\gnupg\gpg.exe)
  • or download gpgme_sylpheed.reg, patch it to your needs and import it using a double click.
• To install sylpheed as the default mailer when clicking mailto: links, download and doubleclick default-mailer.reg (thanks to Jonas Diemer) (thanks to Jonas Diemer)
• To track down problems, start sylpheed with the --debug option. It appends many useful information to .sylpheed\debug.log.
  You can also use the binary debug versions from the additional download section (you will need the debug-dll pack as well), which gives some more output and prints it to a console window.
• If Sylpheed hangs during transfer, you may have a different glib.dll (e.g. the original). Get the patched standard-dll pack.
• The external editor must neither fork nor be started by a loader, as the PID is used to watch the application.
• If parts of the text are not displayed correctly, this could be caused by a wrong charset / encoding.
  Standard Sylpheed does not yet offer all font settings in the menu (Claws does), so you need to edit the font entries in .sylpheed\sylpheedrc manually. Change entries like
  
  • bold_font=-*-*-normal-r-normal--10-*-*-*-m-*-jisx0208.1983-0 to
  
  
  • bold_font=-*-*-normal-r-normal--10-*-*-*-m-*-*-*
  
  (you can also force a specific encoding by using e.g. iso8859-2 instead of *-*).
• Menufonts and widgetcolours can be set using gtk themes. There are two sample gtkrc which select a smaller menufont (you may need them to get Claws configure dialog fit into 800x600 pixels). Put either gtkrc.95 or gtkrc.xp into %HOME%\.sylpheed\gtk\ and rename it to gtkrc to install them.
• Sharing the local mailbox between several OS is possible.
  a symlink to it in your *nix HOME directory:
  A common setup is having the mail folder on a FAT32 partition and creating a symlink to it in your *nix HOME directory:
     ln -s /windows/C/home/Mail ~/Mail
  If you have problems mounting the partition at startup and/or grant write access to users, you may get some tips from following email conversation
• You can use placeholders for Windows specific path names (only Claws/Win32):
  • ?p : program files (e.g. "C:\Program files")
  • ?w : windows dir (e.g. "C:\Windows")
  • ?s : system dir (e.g. "C:\Windows\system")
  • ?t : temp dir (e.g. "C:\TEMP")
  • ?? : question mark
• You can define applications for opening attachments in a mailcap.win32 file in your %install%/etc (global) or %HOME% directory. You can download a sample here.
• When working with local mail- or newsservers (e.g. Hamster), make sure your HOSTS file contains a localhost entry like:
       localhost     127.0.0.1
  This file should be located in \WINDOWS on Win9x or
  \WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC on WinNT and above.
• GnuPG isnt distributed with Sylpheed / Claws any longer, as it caused problems on systems, which already had a working gpg installation (gpg version, HOME directory,...). You can download GnuPG from following locations:
  
  • http://www.gnupg.org/ (Original GnuPG home)
  • http://www.gnupp.org (Win32 packages, recommended by german government)
  • http://www.nullify.org (Patched Win32 versions. Up to you, if you trust them...)

Compilation:

• When running in debugger: If you encounter lots of exceptions on pop transfers, you will also need the patched dlls.
• When compiling -standard- sylpheed, you have to copy all *.lib to \dev\lib and all *.h to \dev\include, or adjust the path settings in the project options.
• There are some autogenerated files on *nix systems (translations, bison/flex generated parsers, config.h, version.h). The standard sylpheed currently provides them, the Claws version creates them using the unix-tools from below.
• When compiling translations using msgfmt, remember to convert the *.po files to utf8 first.

Known bugs:

• Actions: Running external apps not yet implemented (matchactions are working).
• Image display in MIME-view: Not working yet.
• Double-clicks in textview: Not working ->use <Shift-RightClick> and <RightClick> instead.
• News: Crashes after retrieving the group list have been reported. To fix this, create a folder in the newscache directory with the name of your NNTP server, e.g. .sylpheed\newscache\news.provider.com.
• Attachments: Standard Sylpheed seems to have difficulties with attachment names containing locale characters.

Getting Help:

Win32 related questions and experience reports regarding both Sylpheed versions are welcome at the claws-w32-users mailinglist.

• claws-w32-users (no subscription needed for postings)


If you have feature requests, usage questions or bugreports not related to Windows, please commit them via the mailing lists or tracking system below.

• Sylpheed Mailinglist
• Claws-Users Mailinglist
• Claws Support/Patch/Bugtracker (no subscription needed for postings)

Additional downloads :

• unix utilities (patch,msgfmt,grep,...) : unix-tools.zip

• .reg file for sylpheed : sylpheed.reg
• .reg file for gpgme : gpgme_sylpheed.reg
• .reg file for setting default mailer : default-mailer.reg

• InnoSetup Extensions (Freeware installer) : http://www.wintax.nl/isx/
  based on InnoSetup (http://www.innosetup.com)
• Sylpheed installer script : Sylpheed-075.iss
• Sylpheed-Claws installer script : sylpheed-setup.iss

• Debugging DLL pack : dll_debug_020502.zip
• Standard DLL pack : dll_standard_020502.zip
• All DLLs pack : dll_all_020502.zip

• Sylpheed-debug : sylpheed-0.7.5-20020429-debug.lzh
• Sylpheed-claws-debug : sylpheed_078claws29_d_exe.zip
• Sylpheed-claws-debug : sylpheed_080claws4-1_d_exe.zip

Links :

Original Sylpheed : by Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp>
http://sylpheed.good-day.net

Sylpheed-Claws homepage :
http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net

Gtk+ / Win32 homepage : by Tor Lillqvist (tml) <tml@iki.fi>
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32

Sylpheed forWin32 : by Munesato Nakada (NAK) <munesato@post.co.jp>
http://www2.odn.ne.jp/munesato/sylpheed

Sylpheed-Claws for Win32 : by Thorsten Maerz <torte@netztorte.de>
http://netztorte.de/sylpheed