Sylpheed FAQ

Paul Kater (paul@nlpagan.net) and Jens Oberender (j.obi@troja.net) Maintained by François Barrière (barriere.francois@libertysurf.fr)

Copyright (c) 2002 François Barrière. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

This FAQ consists of the following sections:

1. Sylpheed FAQ - General information

• 1.1 Q01 Are there FAQ's in other languages?
• 1.2 Q02 What is Sylpheed?
• 1.3 Q03 Where can I get Sylpheed?
• 1.4 Q04 Who writes Sylpheed?
• 1.5 Q05 What does the name Sylpheed mean?
• 1.6 Q06 How does Sylpheed store mails?
• 1.7 Q07 Why does the auto collection of mail not work?
• 1.8 Q08 Does Sylpheed have mail filtering?
• 1.9 Q09 Can Sylpheed handle IMAP mail?
• 1.10 Q10 Can Sylpheed handle local unix mailboxes?
• 1.11 Q11 Can Sylpheed handle IPv6?
• 1.12 Q12 Does Sylpheed support encryption like GPG?
• 1.13 Q13 How does Sylpheed check for MIME types?
• 1.14 Q14 Does Sylpheed allow me to write HTML styled messages?
• 1.15 Q15 Does Sylpheed have name completion in the address fields?
• 1.16 Q16 Fine, but when I hit the TAB key I get an error message.
• 1.17 Q17 Why is Sylpheed so fast?
• 1.18 Q18 Where can I get the current patches for Sylpheed?
• 1.19 Q19 How can I send in patches, report bugs, talk about Sylpheed with others?
• 1.20 Q20 When I send mail, the Content-Type header says the mail is in US-ASCII, even when I specified ISO-8859-1?
• 1.21 Q21 Why does it look like word wrap is not working?
• 1.22 Q22 Where can I find the latest FAQ on Sylpheed?
• 1.23 Q23 Can I import a mbox into Sylpheed's MH mailfolders?
• 1.24 Q24 Can I use procmail to sort my mails with the MH mail handling?
• 1.25 Q25 When I upgrade Sylpheed, are there things I should be aware of?
• 1.26 Q26 How can I quickly update the views in Sylpheed?
• 1.27 Q27 Why can't I use gvim as external editor?

2. Sylpheed FAQ - Installation and Configuration

• 2.1 Q01 What does it take to compile Sylpheed?
• 2.2 Q02 How do I set up Sylpheed?
• 2.3 Q03 Why did the creation of the mailbox fail?
• 2.4 Q04 How do I set up an account?
• 2.5 Q05 How many accounts can I set up in Sylpheed?
• 2.6 Q06 Why does Sylpheed not delete my mails when I press "delete"? I set a filter, and Sylpheed does not filter. I moved a mail to a different mailbox and it did not move.
• 2.7 Q07 Can I set up special addresses/ports for my mailserver / newsserver?
• 2.8 Q08 Does Sylpheed have options for threading messages?
• 2.9 Q09 Can I create multiple levels of subfolders to store mail?
• 2.10 Q10 Why isn't Sylpheed sending my mail out?
• 2.11 Q11 How do I apply a patch after downloading it?
• 2.12 Q12 How do I compile in support for compface pictures?
• 2.13 Q13 How do I make my own compface image?
• 2.14 Q14 How can I tell my browser/newsclient/other program to use Sylpheed as e-mail program?
• 2.15 Q15 How do I enable GPG support in Sylpheed?
• 2.16 Q16 Mutt does not recognize Sylpheed's MH structure
• 2.17 Q17 Viewing a GIF file within Sylpheed causes a segmentation fault.
• 2.18 Q18 How can I make Sylpheed notify me when new mail arrives?
• 2.19 Q19 Can I use a spell checker with Sylpheed?
• 2.20 Q20 How can I make Sylpheed send my compface image in the mails?

3. Sylpheed FAQ - Interface

• 3.1 Q01 How do I make Sylpheed display my language?
• 3.2 Q02 I don't like the default font. Can I change that?
• 3.3 Q03 There are too many columns in the message list!!
• 3.4 Q04 Can I use a different editor to write my mails?
• 3.5 Q05 How to change the font size in the Sylpheed interface?
• 3.6 Q06 Sylpheed saves my outgoing mail (in Outbox). Can I make it stop doing that?
• 3.7 Q07 How can I change the key-bindings (hot-keys) in Sylpheed?
• 3.8 Q08 Can I close windows without the mouse?
• 3.9 Q09 Can I change the way the date is displayed in the message summary?
• 3.10 Q10 Why can't I see the compface pictures?
• 3.11 Q11 I still can't see the pictures. Why not?
• 3.12 Q12 Why does the URL Launcher not launch my webbrowser?
• 3.13 Q13 Attachments with spaces in the name won't open!

Appendix

4. GNU Free Documentation License

• 4.1 PREAMBLE
• 4.2 APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
• 4.3 VERBATIM COPYING
• 4.4 COPYING IN QUANTITY
• 4.5 MODIFICATIONS
• 4.6 COMBINING DOCUMENTS
• 4.7 COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
• 4.8 AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
• 4.9 TRANSLATION
• 4.10 TERMINATION
• 4.11 FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
• 4.12 How to use this License for your documents