Sylpheed - a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast e-mail client
- Copyright(C) 1999-2001 Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp>
+ Copyright(C) 1999-2004 Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
For more details see the file COPYING.
What's Sylpheed
===============
-Sylpheed is an e-mail client (and news reader) based on GTK+, running on
-X Window System, and aiming for
+Sylpheed is an e-mail client and news reader based on GTK+ GUI toolkit,
+and runs on X Window System.
- * Quick response
- * Graceful, and sophisticated interface
- * Easy configuration, intuitive operation
- * Abundant features
+Sylpheed is a free software distributed under the GNU GPL.
+
+The development of Sylpheed sets the following things as its goal:
+
+ * Quick response by keeping CPU and memory usage to a minimum
+ * Fast processing even though a folder contains large number of messages
+ (more than 10 thousand)
+ * Enables intuitive operation by simple, graceful, and well-polished
+ interface
+ * Similar operation methods to other mailers.
+ * Readily available with simple configuration
+ * Fully equipped with features required as a mailer
+ * Full support of Japanese, and support of i18n
+ * Enables flexible interaction with external commands
+ * Stable, and don't lose any data (to the utmost) in case of crash
The appearance and interface are similar to some popular e-mail clients for
Windows, such as Outlook Express, Becky!, and Datula. The interface is also
-designed to emulate the mailers on Emacsen, and almost all commands are
-accessible with the keyboard. You'll figure out the usage if you have ever
-used some e-mail clients for Windows, or Mew or Wanderlust.
+designed to emulate the Emacs-based mailers, and almost all commands are
+accessible with the keyboard. So you will able to migrate to Sylpheed
+without much discomfort in the case where you are accustomed to other
+mailers.
The messages are managed by MH format, and you'll be able to use it together
-with another mailer based on MH format (like Mew). You can also utilize
-fetchmail or/and procmail, and external programs on receiving (like inc or
-imget).
+with another mailer based on MH format (like Mew). It has less possibility
+of losing mails on failures since one file corresponds to one mail. You can
+import or export mbox format messages. You can also utilize fetchmail or/and
+procmail, and external programs on receiving (like inc or imget).
+
+Currently implemented major features
+====================================
+
+Supported protocols
+
+ o POP3
+ o IMAP4rev1
+ o SMTP
+ o NNTP
+ o SSL/TLSv1 (POP3, SMTP, IMAP4rev1, NNTP)
+ o IPv6
-Currently implemented features are:
+Features
- o POP3 support
- o IMAP4rev1 support
- o integrated NetNews client
- o unlimited multiple account handling
+ o multiple accounts
o thread display
- o filtering
+ o powerful filtering
o MIME (attachments)
+ o integrated News reader
+ o SMTP AUTH support
+ o CRAM-MD5 authentication (SMTP AUTH / IMAP4rev1)
+ o APOP authentication (POP3)
+ o PGP signature / encryption (requires GPGME)
o built-in image view
- o X-Face support
+ o X-Face display
+ o user-defined headers
+ o color label
+ o Mew/Wanderlust compatible key bind
o multiple MH folder support
o mbox importing / exporting
- o external editor support
+ o external editor
o message queueing
o automatic mail checking
- o draft message function
+ o draft message
+ o template
o line-wrapping
o clickable URI
o XML-based address book
- o LDAP, vCard, and JPilot support
o newly arrived and unread message management
- o Mew/Wanderlust-like key bind
o printing
- o APOP authentication support
- o SMTP AUTH support
- o SSL support (POP3, SMTP, IMAP4rev1)
- o IPv6 support
- o drag & drop (partially implemented)
- o GnuPG support (currently implementing)
- o automake + autoconf support
+ o offline mode
+ o remote operation by command line
+ o per-folder configuration
+ o LDAP, vCard, and JPilot support
+ o Drag & Drop
+ o autoconf, automake support
o internationalization of messages by gettext
- o support of many code sets, including UTF-8 (Unicode) (when using
- libjconv)
+ o support of many code sets, including UTF-8 (Unicode)
and more.
Usage
=====
+Preparation before running
+--------------------------
+
+If you want to use characters other than English (aka US-ASCII),
+you must specify some environmental variables related to locale.
+For example:
+
+% export LANG=de_DE (sh, bash etc.)
+
+or
+
+% setenv LANG de_DE (csh, tcsh etc.)
+
+(replace de_DE to appropriate locale name)
+
+If you don't want translated messages, set LC_MESSAGES to "C"
+(and unset LC_ALL if specified).
+
How to run
----------
Refer to the manual supplied with this program for the general usage.
+Hidden settings
+---------------
+
+You can configure most of the features in Sylpheed through the preferences
+dialog, but there are a few parameters which don't have user interface
+(you don't have to modify them in normal use). You must edit
+~/.sylpheed/sylpheedrc by an editor when Sylpheed is not running.
+
+allow_jisx0201_kana allow JIS X 0201 Kana (half-width kana) on
+ sending.
+ 0: off 1: on [default: 0]
+bold_font bold font used in folder, summary and text view
+small_font small font used in summary view etc.
+enable_hscrollbar enable horizontal scroll bar in summary view
+ 0: off 1: on [default: 1]
+bold_unread show unread messages using bold font in
+ summary view
+ 0: off 1: on [default: 1]
+folderview_vscrollbar_policy specify the policy of vertical scroll bar
+ of folder view
+ 0: always 1: automatic 2: never [default: 0]
+
Information
===========
on the top directory of the source tree.
---
+--
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp>
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