Sylpheed Plug-ins
Sylpheed officially supports plug-in system since version 3.0. This allows feature enhancements of Sylpheed without modifying Sylpheed itself. Anyone can create plug-ins by preparing development environment.
Some features of current Sylpheed will be re-implemented as plug-ins and various plug-ins will be released in the future.
Plug-ins for Sylpheed and information about plug-ins will be put on this page.
Currently distributed plug-ins
Attachment-Tool Plug-in
This is a plug-in for handling messages with attached files. This plug-in is included in Sylpheed 3.1beta3 or later, and distributed under the LGPL.
Currently, this plug-in can only remove data of attached files with file name. MIME structure will be retained, and users will see 0 byte files.
This tool is available on local folders only.
This plug-in module is included in the Windows version and users can use it by just installing Sylpheed.
Build
Enter the directory plugin/attachment_tool/ and type:
make install-plugin
It will be installed at /usr/local/lib/sylpheed/plugins/attachment_tool.so by default.
Usage
- Select target messages in the summary view.
- Select 'Tools - Remove attachments'.
Information for plug-in developers
You can see information for plug-in development at the following page.