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

# claws-mail-newmail-plugin(7)

message header summary to a log file

## NAME

claws-mail-newmail-plugin - message header summary to a log file

## DESCRIPTION

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

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

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

This plugin writes a summary of new mail headers and message related values to a log file. Writing is done after sorting.

The message headers written are: `"Date:"`, `"Subject:"`, `"From:"`, `"To:"` and `"Cc:"`. Additionally the message related values currently written are the following:

- "Size:"

  The size of the message in bytes.

- "Path:"

  The full path to the message file.

- "Message:"

  The number of the message.

- "Folder:"

  The folder of the message.

## 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 **newmail.so**, and press the “Open” button.

## FILES

- *~/Mail/NewLog*

  Default filename where header summary is written.

## SEE ALSO

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

## AUTHORS

- H. Merijn Brand \<h.m.brand@xs4all.nl\>

  Wrote the **claws-mail-newmail-plugin** 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*.