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Are there FAQ's in other languages? |
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Yes. Here are links to several translations:
You can always download this FAQ from http://sylpheeddoc.sf.net. Did not found your language in the list? Would you like to contribute with a new translation to the Sylpheed Documentation Project? Then please contact the Project members at their website. Thank you. |
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What is Sylpheed? |
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Sylpheed is an e-mail client (and news reader) based on GTK+, running on the X Window System, and aiming for:
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| 1.3. |
Where can I get Sylpheed? |
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You can download it from |
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| 1.4. |
Who writes Sylpheed? |
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Hiroyuki Yamamoto |
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| 1.5. |
What does the name Sylpheed mean? |
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It means 'light weight', like air. This comes from the name of the wind spirits, the Sylphs. |
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| 1.6. |
How does Sylpheed store mails? |
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Mails are stored in the MH mailfile format as used by MH and EMH. Maildir, mbox, and eml formats are not (yet) supported, although it is possible to import an mbox file or an eml file into a Sylpheed mailbox. |
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| 1.7. |
Why does the auto collection of mail not work? |
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Autocollection works since version 0.5.1. If you need it or want it, you should upgrade. |
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| 1.8. |
Does Sylpheed have mail filtering? |
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Yes. You can find it in -> Please note that filtering is not yet implemented for IMAP accounts. |
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| 1.9. |
Can Sylpheed handle IMAP mail? |
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Yes. As of version 0.4.99 IMAP is supported. |
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| 1.10. |
Can Sylpheed handle local unix mailboxes? |
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Yes. |
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| 1.11. |
Can Sylpheed handle IPv6? |
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Yes, IPv6 is fully supported in Sylpheed. |
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| 1.12. |
Does Sylpheed support encryption like GPG? |
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Yes. GPG is implemented and works fine. For activating it in Sylpheed, see the appropriate question in the Installation section. |
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| 1.13. |
How does Sylpheed check for MIME types? |
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Sylpheed uses the Mutt type of mime checking. |
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| 1.14. |
Does Sylpheed allow me to write HTML styled messages? |
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No. A discussion has gone around over this topic, and the outcome was that HTML mail is not wanted. If you really need to send HTML, you can of course attach a webpage to an e-mail. |
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| 1.15. |
Does Sylpheed have name completion in the address fields? |
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Yes. When you search for a name that starts with " |
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| 1.16. |
Fine, but when I hit the Tab key I get an error message. |
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When you want to use name completion, make sure that there are names in your address book. If there are no names, even Sylpheed has a hard time completing something. |
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| 1.17. |
Why is Sylpheed so fast? |
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That's what it is designed for! |
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| 1.18. |
Where can I get the current patches for Sylpheed? |
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In most cases, current patches are being posted by Sylpheed users and contributors to the Sylpheed mailing list |
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| 1.19. |
How can I send in patches, report bugs, talk about Sylpheed with others? |
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To talk to others, you should join the Sylpheed mailing
list at
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| 1.20. |
When I send mail, the Content-Type header says the mail is in US-ASCII, even when I specified ISO-8859-1? |
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If ISO-8859-1 characters (>= 0x80) are not used in the message body, Sylpheed will automatically set the charset value in the Content-Type header as US-ASCII. |
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| 1.21. |
Why does it look like word wrap is not working? |
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Word wrapping is a bit peculiar perhaps. You can type lines as long as you like. By the time you send or queue a mail with long lines, Sylpheed will first wrap the lines to the line length you set up, and then the mail is queued. This is more convenient than you think. Once a line is wrapped (hard line breaks are inserted in the text) and you add something in a line there, the next line will move to a separate new line, leaving one or two words from the previous line "hanging there" alone. E.g. This is a long line that Now you add one word in the first line: This is a very long line This would cause you a lot of manual reformatting to get a presentable mail again. Note: As of Sylpheed 0.8.0., active wordwrap has been implemented. You can turn it on in ->->+Wrap on input. |
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| 1.22. |
Can I import a mbox into Sylpheed's MH mailfolders? |
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Yes, just create/select the folder you want your mails in, and select in the menu. |
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| 1.23. |
Can I use procmail to sort my mails with the MH mail handling? |
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Yes. Just make sure that you add /. to the end of a rule so
procmail knows you are filtering into an MH mail folder. Example:
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| 1.24. |
When I upgrade Sylpheed, are there things I should be aware of? |
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Yes!
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| 1.25. |
How can I quickly update the views in Sylpheed? |
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Just press Alt-Uor select from the menu. |
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| 1.26. |
Why can't I use gvim as external editor? |
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If one wishes to use gvim as an external editor it's necessary to start it with the no-fork option -f, i.e. in the configuration dialog box you need to enter gvim -f %s. If not the editor forks and open up a separate file and when one quits the editor the changes are lost and don't show up in the composer window. (Thanks, Ed Collins!) |
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| 1.27. |
Can I quote just parts of the original message when replying? |
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Yes, select the part in the textview and choose Reply. |
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| 1.28. |
Can I reply without quoting at all? |
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You need to disable quoting by editing the reply format under ->->-> (also works with forward format which you can see below the reply format in the configuration dialog). |
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| 1.29. |
Where can I find the latest FAQ on Sylpheed? |
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Go to http://sylpheeddoc.sf.net and check out the FAQ and manual from the sylpheeddoc project. Both documents are available in multiple languages there and usually contain the latest updates. Also see the question about available language versions at the top of this section. |
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| 1.30. |
I have found an error and/or outdated information in this document! |
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Please report any errors, misleading and/or outdated information to the Sylpheed Documentation Project. You can see the list of Project members in the following question, so you can also contact them directly. |
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| 1.31. |
Who are the members of the Sylpheed Documentation Project? |
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The current members of the Sylpheed Documentation Project are: Francois Barriere fbarriere@users.sourceforge.net Petr Kovar pknbe@users.sourceforge.net Below is the list of former members of the Sylpheed Documentation Project. Big thank you goes to all of them! Martin Bretschneider furbour@users.sourceforge.net Olivier Delhomme dup@users.sourceforge.net Doruk Fisek dobidik@users.sourceforge.net Melvin Hadasht mhadasht@users.sourceforge.net Nicolas Kaiser nikai@users.sourceforge.net Paul Kater pkater@users.sourceforge.net Ricardo Mones Lastra mones@users.sourceforge.net Jens Oberender jobi@users.sourceforge.net Marcelo Ramos hackpando@users.sourceforge.net Guido Rudolphi malatesta@users.sourceforge.net Frank Weng fweng@users.sourceforge.net |