[Gpg4win-devel] Claws Mail status

[Colin Leroy]

Hello,

I've worked quite a lot to make Claws work better on Windows, and I'm
pretty happy with the result.

Latest SVN of gpg4win will build a Claws Mail that:
- has IMAP, NNTP and SSL working
- doesn't leak megabytes (it was due to regcomp/regexec/regfree, where
  regfree looks like a noop, so I disabled regexps in Win32 builds)
- doesn't crash as much (the majority of the crashes were due to
  gmtime(-1), localtime(-1), and the filtering log for some reason - I
  disabled it)
- integrates better with Win32 (using the MS-Windows gtk theme and
  Windows fonts)
- plugins: PGP/* and S/Mime, of course, and I've ported Notification
  (systray icon), GtkHTML (html emails viewer), RSSyl (RSS feed reader)
  and VCalendar (ical meetings).

From the tests I and a few users who use it in real conditions have
done, it's not crashy. 

I'd like to port the Bogofilter plugin, but I didn't manage to build a
native Bogofilter. Maybe one of you would have more luck, if you have
enough time; else, antispam could be provided by proxying for those who
really need it. 

The other asked-for feature is spell-checking, but I didn't manage to
build enchant+aspell. Also, shipping a spell-checker that works out of
the box means shipping its dictionaries, which is quickly huge.

Finally, I've chosen to include all plugins in the gpg4win-light
version, which made it grow from 8 to 10 MB. I hope this is acceptable?
-- 
Colin