peter@newton.cx
19 December 1999
Balsa is a graphical mail client. While it is still in active development, Balsa has many features such as: IMAP and POP3 support; sendmail or direct SMTP support; optional multithreaded retrieval and sending of messages; support for all configurations of local mail folders; automatic mail checking; mail printing; inline attachment viewing; and the proverbial much, much more.
This document will introduce a person who understands email to using Balsa. However, it will not explain email to a confused individual. If you're looking for that, try asking a friend; they'll explain it best.
Balsa is a graphical mail client similar to Eudora on Windows. It supports the standard features of any good reader and has new features added continually. See the abstract above for a quick feature rundown.
Balsa is written using GTK+ and Gnome. It is based on libmutt, the backend code to Mutt, but expands far beyond being a graphical Mutt.
If you want to learn more about Balsa, your best bet is the mailing list <balsa-list@gnome.org>, which can be subscribed to by sending a message with a subject of subscribe to <balsa-list-request@gnome.org>. Bugs can be reported via bug-buddy, gnome-bug or to <submit@bugs.gnome.org>.
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