Sylpheed is a fast e-mail and news client. It will run on just about any Linux or Unix compliant system.
Sylpheed is:
Light on system resources.
Very fast.
easy to learn and operate, due to its graceful and sophisticated interface.
Loaded with features.
This list is not complete, but the most common features of Sylpheed are:
Unlimited multiple account handling
Thread display
Filtering
MIME (attachments)
built-in image view
X-Face support
External editor support
Message queueing
Draft message function
Template
Line-wrapping
Clickable URI
XML-based addressbook
LDAP addressbook
Jpilot addressbook (for Palm types handhelds)
Newly arrived and unread message management
Multiple MH folder support
Mew/Wanderlust compatible key bindings
News reader function
Printing
UIDL support
APOP authentication
SMTP AUTH support
IPv6 support
GPG encryption and signature
Autoconf, automake support
Support of i18n of messages by gettext
Supports many locales, including UTF-8 (Unicode), when using libjconv
IMAP4 compliant
There are several ways to manage messages. The best known is “not at all”.
Many people receive an unmanageable amount of e-mail, which usually ends up in the INBOX folder, ignored and forgotten. If you are one of these people, you are constantly trying to locate that one important email you got 5 days ago in a inbox that contains more than 5000 messages. Locating one email out of very many unsorted messages is always a time-consuming and frustrating experience.
Sylpheed helps this situation with its mailfolders and mailboxes.
Different mailboxes can store different kinds of mails. Suppose you are a member of a kiting club, and you get at least 30 e-mails per day from that club. You can create a separate kiting club mailbox, in which you can move any e-mail that comes from this club. You will always have all your kiting e-mails in one place.
Tedious, you say, to move 30 mails a day to that box, when email comes in at random moments? It is certain that you will miss that very important email about transport to the kiting ground where you will have the contest of biggest and most beautiful kite!
Well, for this situation there is also a solution- filters.
Filters can automate the process of moving e-mails to new mailboxes. Further on in this manual you will also learn about setting up filters, so you do not have to manually move these kiting e-mails to the kiting club mailbox.
This is the same way you organize information on your harddisk. You create directories in which you put files or more directories.
In Sylpheed, you can create mailboxes within mailboxes For example, you could create a mailbox (folder) that contains the mailboxes for all the different mailing lists to which you belong .
A word of clarification- In Sylpheed, a maillbox is nothing more than a directory. In a directory you can create either a new directory or files. Sylpheed stores each e-mail in a separate file on disk. An example of how a mailbox tree could look is
As you can see, there is no real limit to the way you can set up your mailboxes. As long as you have diskspace available, you can create mailboxes and mailboxes within mailboxes.
Of course, you should observe some common sense when you start creating mailboxes. It is not a good idea to keep all mail in one place but to create a maze of mailboxes is not a good idea either!