A. Any POSIX compliant UNIX or similar OS eg. Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris GTK+ 1.2.6 or later A recent ANSI C compiler (gcc 2.95 should also work). Optionally:
A. When you run Sylpheed-Claws 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-Claws is executed for the first time, it automatically creates the configuration files under $HOME/.sylpheed-gtk2/, 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. Sylpheed-Claws reports such an error if it can't create the default mailboxes (inbox, outbox, etc ...). This can be because <homedir>/Mail already contains files with the same names. This occurs when switching from Kmail to Sylpheed-Claws, in this case backup and remove the existing Mail directory or use another name for the Sylpheed-Claws mail directory.
A. After loading Sylpheed-Claws for the first time, you should already have an account, as defined by the wizard. However 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 (Preferences -> Summaries 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 this page for the details.
A. In the settings part of the program, write
sylpheed --compose
A. When compiling Sylpheed, make sure you you have gpgme >= 0.4.5 available before running 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.thewildbeast.co.uk/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 the Gkrellm page
A. Yes. You can use aspell for this if it is compiled in.
A. In the Configuration menu, Preferences for current account, Send tab, check Add user-defined header and press Edit button. A dialog appears, add a header named "X-Face" and fill the value field with your face data. Note that if you paste the data from a terminal into the field some spurious newlines can be added, and these can mangle your face, be careful.