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Balsa - the GNOME email client.
You can use Balsa to fetch, read, write and send e-mails.
It supports
* local mailboxes in maildir, mbox and/or mh format,
* nested mailboxes,
* protocols POP3, IMAP and SMTP,
* multithreaded mail retrieval,
* GnuPG/GPG encryption, LDAP, Kerberos and SSL,
* MIME (view images, save parts),
* multiple character sets,
* GPE address book,
* printing and spell-checking.
Balsa is an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment, but it
can
also be used standalone though it may print some error messages then.
For help on using Balsa, see the documentation in its help menu
using
Yelp Gnome 2 help/documentation browser.
This man page tells about the options of the 'balsa'
command,
which is used to start Balsa.
When you start Balsa from the command line of an (x)terminal,
not only can you use the command line options described below,
any error messages are printed to that terminal too
(whether you execute that command in the background or not).
balsa [ --help ] [ --version ] [ -c | --check-mail ] [( -m | --compose=)email-address ] [( -a | --attach=)filename ] [( -o | --open-mailbox=)mailbox[:mailbox]... ] [ -u | --open-unread-mailbox ] [ -d | --debug-pop ] [ -D | --debug-imap ]
-? , --help
--version
-c , --check-mail
-i , --open-inbox
-m email-address , --compose=email-address
-a FILENAME , --attach=FILENAME
-o MAILBOX, --open-mailbox=MAILBOX...
-u , --open-unread-mailbox
-d , --debug-pop
-D , --debug-imap
Balsa's website is http://balsa.gnome.org
Any bugs found in Balsa can be reported through
the Balsa Developer mailing list at balsa-list@gnome.org ,
or the online bug-tracking system at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ .
Before reporting bugs, please check to see if the bug is mentioned in the FAQ's or the mailing list archive http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list
When reporting Balsa bugs, it is important to include
* a reliable way to reproduce the bug,
* version number of Balsa (as well as GTK and GNOME),
* OS name and version,
* any relevant hardware specs.
If a bug is causing a crash, it is very useful if a stack trace can be provided.
And of course, patches to rectify the bug are even better.See the AUTHORS file included with Balsa, probably at /usr/share/doc/balsa-2.5.6/AUTHORS .
~/.gnome2/balsa Balsa's preferences file. ~/.gnome2_private/balsa Balsa's POP and IMAP passwords file. /etc/sound/events/balsa.soundlist system-wide configuration file
Package names given in parenthesis are Debian package names.
mailcap (5) - metamail capabilities file (package: mime-support)
metamail (1) - infrastructure for mailcap-based multimedia mail(c) 1997-2003 Stuart Parmenter and others, see AUTHORS for a list of people.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
03 January 2003 | Version 2.5.6 |