[Users] Installing bogofilter and other plugins

[Dave Howorth]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 18:48:08 +0000
Adrian via Users <users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote:

> With a previous install of Claws Mail, I seem to remember it was easy
> to install popular plugins.  Either they came pre-populated or there
> was a link to download them to a given directory.  Maybe I built it
> from source and it created them.
> 
> This time I installed from a Ubuntu snap (which didn't work) and then
> an Ubuntu .deb package.  Neither contain bogofilter.so.

Have you installed the claws-mail-bogofilter package from the same
repository as the claws-mail .deb?

> Trying to build from source is getting me into all sorts of dependency
> problems.  Ubuntu 24.04 doesn't have the required glib and gtk
> dependency packages, or else has renamed them beyond all recognition.
> I know I'll need to work out the new way of installing C etc
> development tools, but while recovering from a system disaster it's
> not top of my priorities.
> 
> I found some old bogofilter.so files, but trying to install them gave
> "Your version of Claws Mail is newer than the version the 'Bogofilter'
> plugin was built with."
> 
> Is there a source for pre-built plugin .so files for the different
> releases for standard architectures?  I'm using Claws Mail 4.2.0.
> 
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