---
name: "claws-mail-attach-warner"
section: "7"
platform: "linux"
package: "claws-mail-attach-warner"
version: "4.3.1-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/claws-mail-attach-warner/7"
---

# claws-mail-attach-warner(7)

missing attachments warning before sending

## NAME

claws-mail-attach-warner - missing attachments warning before sending

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **claws-mail-attach-warner** package.

This manual page was written for the Debian™ distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**claws-mail-attach-warner** is a plugin (loadable module) for the *Claws Mail* mailer.

It's aimed at prevention of forgetting attachments, by warning the user if some attachment is mentioned in the mail text but no attached file is found in the composed mail.

Mentions are found by simple regex matching, although some care is taken to avoid false positives. In the plugin configuration panel the user can define the expressions or words to be looked for in the message text.

## USAGE

Before using a plugin you must instruct *Claws Mail* 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 **attachwarner.so**, and press the “Open” button.

## SEE ALSO

[**claws-mail**(1)](/claws-mail/1.md), [**claws-mail-extra-plugins**(7)](/claws-mail-extra-plugins/7.md).

## AUTHORS

- Ricardo Mones \<ricardo@mones.org\>

  Wrote the **claws-mail-attach-warner** plugin.

- Ricardo Mones \<mones@debian.org\>

  Wrote this manpage for the Debian™ system.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2006-2020 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*.