[Users] Updating Windows version of claws-mail

[Pierre A.]

On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 05:38:32 -0500
"Jerry" <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:

> The latest version of claws-mail is “3.17.8”. The newest Windows version is “3.17.4-1”. Are there any plans to update the current Windows version?


Hello,

as Claws Mail is open source, you should be able to compile the most recent version for yourself with gcc.  I have just done it in Ubuntu but it should be similar for Windows.  It took about 40 mins.  The error messages indicate dependencies to install.


git clone https://git.claws-mail.org/readonly/claws.git

cd claws

sudo apt install bison flex libetpan-dev
sudo apt-get install gtk2.0

./aytogen.sh  

claws-mail 3.17.8git13

Using Address Book : Original stable interface
JPilot             : no
LDAP               : no
gnuTLS             : yes
iconv              : yes
compface           : no
IPv6               : yes
enchant            : no
IMAP4              : yes
NNTP               : yes
Crash dialog       : no
LibSM              : yes
DBUS               : no
NetworkManager     : no
Manual             : no
Generic UMPC code  : no
SVG support        : yes
Config dir         : .claws-mail
Password crypto    : gnutls
Unit tests         : no
Plugins
   Built:
            - acpi_notifier
            - address_keeper
            - att_remover
            - attachwarner
            - bogofilter
            - bsfilter
            - clamd
            - dillo
            - fetchinfo
            - libravatar
            - mailmbox
            - managesieve
            - newmail
            - notification
                Features:
                    banner
                    command
                    hotkeys
                    lcdproc
                    popup
                    trayicon
                Disabled due to missing dependencies:
                    unity/messaging-menu
                    libnotify
                    libcanberra-gtk
            - rssyl
            - spamassassin
            - spam_report
   Disabled:
            - demo
   Disabled due to missing dependencies:
            - archive
            - fancy
            - gdata
            - litehtml_viewer
            - pdf_viewer
            - perl
            - python
            - pgpcore
            - pgpmime
            - pgpinline
            - smime
            - tnef_parse
            - vcalendar

The binary will be installed in /usr/local/bin

Configure finished, type 'make' to build.

I did not see any error message for disabled features, that is annoying. 
I don't know how to improve this.

Command to install:

sudo make install


Best regards.