HTML Plugin for Claws-Mail - 18.04?

[Lee Underwood]

Thanks, Ralf. I haven't done something like that before but I'll give it a try.

Thanks,
Lee


On Wed, May  1, 2019, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:06 -0400, Lee Underwood wrote:
> > I recently upgraded to v18.04. I was a bit disappointed to find that
> > the HTML plugins were removed (I realize it was for security
> > purposes). I have checked around and there doesn't seem to be an
> > alternative. I am under the impression that there never will be one
> > for 18.04. Is that true?
> > 
> > I would hate to have to change to a different email client after using
> > CM for 10+ years.  
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Dillo is available for 18.04
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/dillo.
> 
> I build Claws from git on 16.04. I'm neither using the webkit based, nor
> the Dillo plug-in, IOW I don't care about HTML view at all.
> 
> First remove all claws-mail packages, but don't remove the dependencies.
> Install all required "dev"elopment packages, IOW the dev packages of all
> run-time dependencies.
> 
> Open a terminal and run
> 
> git clone git://git.claws-mail.org/claws.git
> cd claws/
> git checkout d2f6919629e3da32181ef9a3918db0c1821680f9   #for release 3.17.3
> make clean
> ./autogen.sh
> 
> I don't know if you need to add something to configure, if you want to
> build the Dillo plug-in or if it's build automagically, if Dillo is
> detected.
> At first try to use configure as shown below and read the output, maybe
> it confirms that the Dillo plug-in will be build, too.
> 
> ./configure --build=$HOSTTYPE-ubuntu-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --disable-static --enable-enchant --enable-gnutls --enable-ldap --enable-crash-dialog --enable-pgpmime-plugin --enable-spamassassin-plugin --enable-bogofilter-plugin
> 
> sh version   #it's helpful if you shouldn't checkout a dedicated version, to edit the checkinstall version
> make
> sudo checkinstall
> ----
> 
> 0 -  Maintainer: [ You <Your-email-address at foo.com> ]
> 1 -  Summary: [ A GTK+ based e-mail client - git checkout ]
> 2 -  Name:    [ claws-mail-git ]
> 3 -  Version: [ 3.17.3 ]
> 4 -  Release: [ 1 ]
> 5 -  License: [ GPL3 ]
> 6 -  Group:   [ checkinstall ]
> 7 -  Architecture: [ amd64 ]
> 8 -  Source location: [ claws ]
> 9 -  Alternate source location: [  ]
> 10 - Requires: [  ]
> 11 - Provides: [ claws-mail ]
> 12 - Conflicts: [  ]
> 13 - Replaces: [  ]
> 
> There's no need to add all required dependencies to the package
> information, it's just important that the dependencies are installed.
> Instead of splitting the package, you now have calws-mail completely
> provided by a single package.
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 
> 
> 
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