Claws Mail is one of my favorite e-mail client/pieces of GUI software ever, simply because of its uniqueness and good variety of features. I’ve been using Claws Mail again recently because my dissatisfaction with Home Manager’s email option grew and I wasn’t very motivated to resolve the issues I had with it.

Since I’m probably going back to using Claws Mail in the long-term, I think I would be nice to write a post about it for future references and probably to advertise this underrated piece of software.

Notice: Claws Mail can also function as a RSS feed reader and a calendar. But I’m only focusing on the e-mail part of the program in this post.

You can read more about Claws Mail plugins here

Making configurations declarable on NixOS

By default, Claws Mail will save your configurations in ~/.claws-mail, unless you’ve specifically used the --alternate-config-dir flag on every run. You can run claws-mail --config-dir to show the location of your Claws Mail config.

The Claws Mail’s FAQ page contains a section that lists all files that represents your config. They are all in plain text format, so it should be easy to integrate them into your NixOS config.

LabWC integration

Claws Mail’s tray icon doesn’t work on NixOS somehow.