Balsa User's Guide
Copyright © 1997-2001 by Stuart Parmenter and others, see AUTHORS for a list of people
| Abstract |
Balsa is a graphical mail client. While it is in active development, Balsa has many features such as: IMAP and POP3 support; sendmail or direct SMTP support; optional multi-threaded retrieval and sending of messages; support for all configurations of local mail folders; automatic mail checking; mail printing; inline attachment viewing; and the proverbial much, much more. This document will introduce a person who understands mail to using Balsa. However, it will not explain email to a confused individual. If you're looking for that, try asking a friend or visiting the Email FAQ. |
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Getting Started with Balsa
- The Main Window
- The Message Composer
- The Message Window
- The Preferences Window
- Mail Servers
- Address Books
- Mail Options
- Display
- Spelling
- Misc
- Startup
- IMAP Folder configuration
- Toolbar customization
- Identities
- Available mailbox formats
- Common Tasks with Balsa
- It's not Working!!!
- Authors
- Glossary
Introduction
Balsa is a graphical mail client similar to Eudora on Windows. It supports the standard features of any good reader and has new features added continually. See the abstract above for a quick feature rundown.
Balsa is written using GTK+ and GNOME. It is based on libmutt, the back end code to Mutt, but expands far beyond being a graphical Mutt.
If you want to learn more about Balsa, your best bet is the mailing list <balsa-list@gnome.org>, which can be subscribed to by going to the website http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list or by sending a message with a subject of subscribe to <balsa-list-request@gnome.org>. Bugs can be reported via bug-buddy, gnome-bug or to <submit@bugs.gnome.org>.