claws-mail-python-plugin - python scripting and console

Holger Berndt <berndth@gmx.de> Wrote the claws-mail-python-plugin. Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org> Wrote this manpage for the Debian™ system.

Copyright © 2020-2022 Ricardo Mones This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. 4.3.1-1 2025-03-08 CLAWS-MAIL-PYTHON-PLUGIN(7)

This manual page documents briefly the claws-mail-python-plugin plugin. This manual page was written for the Debian™ distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. claws-mail-python-plugin is a plugin (loadable module) for the ClawsMail mailer. This plugin offers Python scripting access to ClawsMail. Also features a console for testing scripts, which can be saved for later usage as new menu items unther the “Tools” menu.

claws-mail-python-plugin - python scripting and console

claws-mail(1), claws-mail-extra-plugins(7), The Python web site <https://www.python.org>.

Before using a plugin you must instruct ClawsMail to load it on startup. For this you must go “Configuration” menu on main window toolbar, open “Plugins...” dialog, click on the “Load plugin...” button and select the plugin file, named python.so, and press the “Open” button.