Clawsmail & missing plugins

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Since 12.1 I’ve switched to Clawsmail & tend to like it much (much, much) better than Thunderbird; however, I have relied on the GTKHTML2VIEWER plugin because many vendors refuse to send emails in anything other than HTML. I’ve been searching for the plugin and cannot find it anywhere.

I did, however, find the following:

http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-commit/2013-05/msg00491.html

Update to version 3.9.1:

    • All plugins previously packaged as ‘Extra Plugins’ are now
  • contained within the Claws Mail package.** In addition to that,
  • the following plugins have been dropped: TrayIcon, Dillo
  • Viewer, and Gtkhtml2 Viewer**.
    (emphasis mine)

Why on earth would they drop those plugins, specifically one as useful as an HTML viewer? I cannot find a way to contact the developers to ask them to re-include the gtkhtmlviewer.so & cannot find a way to download the specific plugin; the link does not work from the clawsmail website. Is anybody aware of another way to view in HTML or a place to download the gtkhtml2viewer.so file?

Thank you in advance.

EDIT: I tried looking in the Plugins while in Claws & it does not exist. I searched on the Internet & only found links to sites I do not trust for RPM versions of the plugin.

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Why on earth would they drop those plugins,…

Wrong place to ask, because this was an upstream decision: see Claws Mail 3.9.1 unleashed!!(from 05/2013).
Use “Fancy HTML Viewer” instead “Gtkhtml2 Viewer”.
:slight_smile:

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On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 07:56:02 GMT
susecmail <susecmail@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
> Since 12.1 I’ve switched to Clawsmail & tend to like it much (much,
> much) better than Thunderbird; however, I have relied on the
> GTKHTML2VIEWER plugin because many vendors refuse to send emails in
> anything other than HTML. I’ve been searching for the plugin and
> cannot find it anywhere.
>

Have you tried the ‘fancy’ plug-in?

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