colin@colino.net

Once again, and for the last time I hope, no GTK2 version is officially available. I uploaded a gtk2 tarball of this release. Please note that this is not an official gtk2 release, although it is stable. Migration warnings: As a few configuration files differ from the gtk1 version, the default configuration directory is .sylpheed-gtk2….

I’ve recently been dragged into a sterile discussion about Xubuntu’s default email client, which is currently Thunderbird. Apparently, some people would prefer to have Claws Mail instead, as it’s more lightweight. Feature-wise, Claws Mail has, in my opinion, nothing to envy to Thunderbird. However, from this discussion, which took place both on Xubuntu’s forum and…

My free/busy work on the vCalendar plugin was motivated by the fact the manager at work wanted to be able to get engineers’ availability more easily on his Outlook. As two of them used Sylpheed-Claws already, a few others Evolution or Kontact, and the rest Thunderbird, I worked a bit on the plugin to make…

Latest CVS snapshot of the vCalendar plugin now has support for free/busy information publishing and retrieving. This means that Sylpheed-Claws will be completely corporate-compatible now! Here is the new preferences window: And the result of trying to invite a busy person: …

Sylpheed-Claws isn’t especially heavy on RAM, but something that can feel strange is that when switching from a big folder to an empty one, the RAM usage doesn’t go down. This is because the GtkCTree widget uses GMemChunks to allocate memory, and this thing doesn’t free it when not needed anymore; rather, the glib reuses…