---
name: "claws-mail-html2-viewer"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "claws-mail-html2-viewer"
version: "3.8.1-2"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/claws-mail-html2-viewer"
---

# claws-mail-html2-viewer(1)

Renders HTML mail using the gtkhtml2 rendering widget.

## NAME

claws-mail-html2-viewer — Renders HTML mail using the gtkhtml2 rendering widget.

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the  **claws-mail-html2-viewer**

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

**claws-mail-html2-viewer** is a plugin (loadable module) for   the Claws Mail mailer.

This plugin enables viewing HTML mails (and HTML attachments)   within the Claws Mail message window using the gtkhtml2 widget  for the rendering.

## 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 **gtkhtml2\_viewer.so**, and press the   \`\`*Open*'' button.

## SEE ALSO

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

## AUTHOR

**claws-mail-html2-viewer** was written by iSteve isteve@bofh.cz     and Colin Leroy colin@colino.net

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.