---
name: "claws-mail-geolocation-plugin"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "claws-mail-geolocation-plugin"
version: "3.7.6-1+b1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/claws-mail-geolocation-plugin"
---

# claws-mail-geolocation-plugin(1)

Geographic location plugin.

## NAME

claws-mail-geolocation-plugin — Geographic location plugin.

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the  **claws-mail-geolocation-plugin**.

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

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

This plugin allows to deduce the geographical location of email  senders, and shows it in a map on the message window.

Notice that inferring geographical location from mail headers is  by nature inaccurate, and some servers, mainly mail list servers, are  known to mangle message headers. Mails comming from them will appear  located at the mail list server position and not at sender's position.

In case of doubt do not rely on the results shown by this plugin.

## 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 **geolocation\_plugin.so**, and press the   \`\`*Open*'' button.

## SEE ALSO

claws-mail (1), claws-mail-extra-plugins (1).

## AUTHOR

**claws-mail-geolocation-plugin** was written by Holger Berndt berndth@gmx.de

This manual page was written by Ricardo Mones mones@debian.org 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 2 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.