Balsa User's Guide

Copyright © 1997-2000 by Stuart Parmenter and others, see AUTHORS for a list of people

Abstract

Balsa is a graphical mail client. While it is still 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 email 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 Preferences Window
Available mailbox formats
Common Tasks with Balsa
IMAP Folder configuration
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 , 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 . Bugs can be reported via bug-buddy, gnome-bug or to .

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