# Balsa User's Guide

### Peter Williams

peter@newton.cx

### Matthew Guenther

mguenther@netcom.ca

This is version 1.1 of the Balsa manual.

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>`.

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