A. Any POSIX compliant UNIX or similar OS eg. Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris GTK+ 1.2.6 or later A recent ANSI C compiler (gcc 2.7.2.3 should also work) Note: it is reported that Sun C will not compile Sylpheed. Optionally:
A. When you run Sylpheed for the first time, it will ask you where you want to store your mailboxes. The default is <homedir>/Mail. You can change this to anything you like as long as it is a valid directory name.
Please note: When Sylpheed is executed for the first time, it automatically creates the configuration files under $HOME/.sylpheed/, and asks you the location of mailbox. The default is $HOME/Mail. If some files which are non-MH format already exist on the directory, you will have to specify another location.
A. After loading Sylpheed for the first time, you can add an e-mail account by clicking the "Configuration" menu. Select the option "Create new account" and fill in the appropriate fields.
A. The number is unlimited. The limit is reached when your computer stops responding.
A. You have to click the "execute" button. The other solution: in the configuration settings (common preferences -> interface tab) you have to check the "execute commands immediately" box.
A. Yes, you can. In the configuration per account you can specify the exact port addresses you want to use.
A. Yes. You can switch it on and off in the Summary Menu, just select "Thread View" or press Ctrl+T.
A. Absolutely. This is no problem.
A. You need to create at least one account in order to send. (This is a wonderful gotcha on LAN installs with only a local mailbox feed).
A. Copy patch to sylpheed directory Apply the patch:
% patch -p0 < some.patch
Or, if it's gzipped:
% gzip -dc some.patch.gz | patch -p0
Run ./autogen.sh, remove the generated /config.cache
file (unless you want to install in prefix
/usr/local).
Run ./configure with the appropriate options and
then make.
(Text as found on the Sylpheed patches page.)
A. You have to have a package called libcompface
installed, so this is available for compiling into
Sylpheed.
A. The faces package contains a program called xbm2ikon script, which converts a 48x48 xbm to the format suitable for compface. Thanks to Jeff Dairiki, you can have a complete online course in this. Visit http://www.dairiki.org/xface/ for the details.
A. In the settings part of the program, write
sylpheed --compose
A. When compiling Sylpheed, make sure you add --enable-gpgme in the ./configure command.
When that completes successfully, there is a "privacy" section in the Common preferences.
A. For this to work you need to use the "touch" command in every MH folder. "touch" the file .xmhcache and Mutt should do just fine.
A. In case this happens, you can easily fix that by adding the following to /etc/mime.types:
image/gif gif
A. For this you can do several things:
* Look at the Sylpheed patch page at http://www.teledix.net/sylpheed/ for a new mail patch.
* Download Gkrellm or a similar program that is able to notify you of new incoming mail. Gkrellm is available at http://www.gkrellm.net