Sylpheed - lightweight and user-friendly e-mail client Copyright(C) 1999-2005 Hiroyuki Yamamoto This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. For more details see the file COPYING. What's Sylpheed =============== Sylpheed is an e-mail client and news reader based on GTK+ GUI toolkit, and runs on X Window System. Sylpheed is a free software distributed under the GNU GPL. Sylpheed has the following features: * Simple, beautiful, and well-polished user interface * Comfortable operationality which is built in detail * Immediately available with minimal configuration * Lightweight operation * High reliability * Internationalization and Multilingualization support * High-level Japanese processing * Various protocols support * Powerful filtering * Junk mail control * Flexible cooperation with external commands The appearance and interface are similar to some popular e-mail clients for Windows, such as Outlook Express, Becky!. The interface is also designed to emulate the Emacs-based mailers, and almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. So you will able to migrate to Sylpheed without much discomfort in the case where you are accustomed to other mailers. The messages are managed by MH format, and you'll be able to use it together with another mailer based on MH format (like Mew). It has less possibility of losing mails on failures since one file corresponds to one mail. You can import or export mbox format messages. You can also utilize fetchmail or/and procmail, and external programs on receiving (like inc or imget). Currently implemented major features ==================================== Supported protocols o POP3 o IMAP4rev1 o SMTP o NNTP o SSL/TLSv1 (POP3, SMTP, IMAP4rev1, NNTP) o IPv6 Features o multiple accounts o thread display o powerful filtering o Junk mail control o MIME (attachments) o integrated News reader o SMTP AUTH support (PLAIN / LOGIN / CRAM-MD5) o CRAM-MD5 authentication (SMTP AUTH / IMAP4rev1) o APOP authentication (POP3) o PGP signature / encryption (requires GPGME) o spell checking (requires GtkSpell) o inline image display o X-Face display o user-defined headers o mark / color label o Mew/Wanderlust compatible key bind o multiple MH folder support o mbox importing / exporting o action function to work with external commands o external editor o message queueing o automatic mail checking o draft message o template o line-wrapping o clickable URI o address book o newly arrived and unread message management o printing o offline mode o remote operation by command line o per-folder configuration o LDAP, vCard, and JPilot support o Drag & Drop o autoconf, automake support o internationalization of messages by gettext o m17n (multilingualization) support and more. Installation ============ See INSTALL for installation instructions. Usage ===== Preparation before running -------------------------- If you are using a character encodings other than UTF-8 for filename, you must set the following environmental variable (it will not work if it is not specified): (use locale-specific encoding) % export G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@locale or (manually specifying encoding) % export G_FILENAME_ENCODING=ISO-8859-1 If you want to display messages translated to your language, you must specify some environmental variables related to locale. For example: % export LANG=de_DE (replace de_DE to the actual locale name) If you don't want translated messages, set LC_MESSAGES to "C" (and unset LC_ALL if specified). How to run ---------- Input `sylpheed' on a command line, or double-click the icon on a file manager to execute. Initial startup --------------- When Sylpheed is executed for the first time, it automatically creates the configuration files under ~/.sylpheed-2.0/, and asks you the location of mailbox. The default is ~/Mail. If some files which are non-MH format already exist on the directory, you will have to specify another location. If ~/.sylpheed-2.0/ doesn't exist, but the previous version of configuration exists in ~/.sylpheed/, migration will be made automatically after the confirmation. If the locale encoding is not UTF-8 and the environmental variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is not set, an alert dialog will be displayed. Required settings ----------------- Initially, you have to create at least one account to send or receive messages (you can read messages that already exist without creating accounts). The configuration dialog will be shown by clicking "Configuration -> Create new account..." on the menu, or "Account" on the toolbar. Then, fill the required settings. Refer to the manual supplied with this program for the general usage. Hidden settings --------------- You can configure most of the features in Sylpheed through the preferences dialog, but there are a few parameters which don't have user interface (you don't have to modify them in normal use). You must edit ~/.sylpheed-2.0/sylpheedrc by an editor when Sylpheed is not running. allow_jisx0201_kana allow JIS X 0201 Kana (half-width kana) on sending 0: off 1: on [default: 0] translate_header translate headers such as 'From:', 'To:' and 'Subject:' 0: off 1: on [default: 1] enable_rules_hint enable alternating row colors for summary view 0: off 1: on [default: 1] bold_unread show unread messages using bold font in summary view 0: off 1: on [default: 1] textview_cursor_visible show cursor in the text view 0: off 1: on [default: 0] logwindow_line_limit specify the limit of line numbers of log window 0: unlimited n (> 0): n lines [default: 1000] Unlike 1.0.x, this version doesn't allow the direct modification of menu shortcuts by default. You can use the follwing methods to configure them: 1. Using GNOME 2.8 or later Run gconf-editor from 'Applications - System Tools - Configuration Editor'. Select 'desktop - gnome - interface' and check 'can-change-accels' in it. 2. Using before GNOME 2.8 or other environments Add (or create a new one) gtk-can-change-accels = 1 to ~/.gtkrc-2.0. 3. When Sylpheed is not running, directly edit ~/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc using editors. Information =========== You can check the newest version and information about Sylpheed at: http://sylpheed.good-day.net/ There's also the manual of Sylpheed written by Yoichi Imai on: http://y-imai.good-day.net/sylpheed/ Feedback ======== Comments, ideas and (most of all) bug reports (and especially patches) are very welcome. Subversion ========== You can get the newest source code from the Subversion repository. Move to an appropriate directory, and with the command: svn checkout svn://sylpheed.good-day.net/sylpheed a source tree named `sylpheed' is created under the current directory. The subdirectory of sylpheed is divided as following: * trunk/ Main tree * branches/ Miscellaneous experimental branches * tags/ Release-tagged branches To update to the newest source tree, run the command: svn update at the target directory. -- Hiroyuki Yamamoto