The user-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client
Claws Mail is NOT on GitHub.
Latest Release: 4.4.0 (News), on 09 March 2026

Downloads

Claws Mail is widely available, if your distro is not listed here then check your package manager.

claws-mail.org
The main download site for source tarballs
claws-mail.org
Ubuntu
Official Ubuntu packages
http://packages.ubuntu.com
SuSE
SuSE packages
software.opensuse.org
Fedora
Official Fedora packages
packages.fedoraproject.org
Other RPMs
rpmfind
rpmfind.net
Debian
Official Debian packages
debian.org
Gentoo
Ebuilds for Claws Mail are in official Gentoo Portage
gentoo.org
FreeBSD
FreeBSD port
www.freebsd.org
OpenBSD
OpenBSD port
openports.pl
Windows
Windows port
More information

Requirements

Linux or other POSIX-compliant Unix-like operating system
GTK+ 3.x.x

Optional requirements

only needed if you require the additional functionality
compface
for X-Face support
GnuPG 1.2.1 or later and GPGME 1.1.1 or later
for GnuPG support
gnuTLS 3.4.0 or later
for SSL support
libEtPan! 1.9.4 or later
for IMAP4 and NNTP support
OpenLDAP 2.0.7 or later
for LDAP support
Enchant 1.4.0 or later (and dictionaries)
for spell-checker support
J-Pilot
for J-Pilot support
Bogofilter
for Bogofilter plugin support
SpamAssassin
for SpamAssassin plugin support
NetworkManager and D-Bus
for NetworkManager support, and automatic offline switching