Balsa User's Guide
Peter Williams
peter@newton.cx
Matthew Guenther
mguenther@netcom.ca
Copyright © 2000 by Stuart Parameter
Copyright © 2000 by Jay Painter
20 May 2000
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 multi-threaded 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 or visiting the Email FAQ
Introduction
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 back end 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>.