Sylpheed User's Manual

Paul Kater


          
        

Nick Selby


          
        

Francois Barriere


          
        

Petr Kovář


          
        

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Revision History
Revision 2.12006/01/15FBe
Ported to DocBook XML.
Revision 2.22009/08/12PK
Finished porting to DocBook XML.

Abstract

Sylpheed User's Manual authored by the Sylpheed Documentation Team deals with both the basic and advanced usage description of Sylpheed.


1. What is Sylpheed?
1.1. Introduction to Sylpheed
1.2. Main features
1.3. Methods for managing messages
1.3.1. Okay, so what is the difference between a mailbox and a mailfolder?
2. Quick-guide to mail setup
2.1. Starting Sylpheed for the first time
2.2. Setup for reading your Unix mailbox in a hurry
2.3. Setup for reading POP3 mail in a hurry
3. Quick-guide for news setup
3.1. Getting news in a hurry.
4. Installation
4.1. Required environment
4.2. Environments known as valid for Sylpheed
4.3. Nuts and bolts of installation
4.3.1. Compiling Sylpheed with options
4.3.2. Installation on Linux using RPM
4.3.3. Installation on Debian Linux
4.3.4. Installation on Gentoo Linux
4.3.5. Installation on FreeBSD
5. Starting and quitting Sylpheed
5.1. Starting Sylpheed
5.2. Quitting Sylpheed
6. The menu options of Sylpheed
6.1. File menu
6.2. Edit menu
6.3. View menu
6.4. Message menu
6.5. Tool menu
6.6. Configuration menu
6.7. Help menu
6.8. Context menu
7. Dialogs and views
7.1. Folder view
7.1.1. Special folders
7.2. Summary view
7.3. Message view
8. Sylpheed configuration
8.1. Common preferences
8.1.1. Receive tab
8.1.2. Send tab
8.1.3. Compose tab
8.1.4. Quote tab
8.1.5. Display tab
8.1.6. Message tab
8.1.7. Interface tab
8.1.8. Other tab
8.2. Setting up an account/changing an account
8.2.1. Basic tab
8.2.1.1. Passwords:
8.2.2. Receive tab
8.2.3. Send tab
8.2.3.1. X-face pictures:
8.2.4. Compose tab
8.2.5. Privacy tab
8.2.6. Advanced tab
8.2.7. Attaching accounts to folders
8.2.8. Using accounts in the real life
9. Viewing messages
9.1. Reading a message
9.2. Viewing Multipart MIME (Attached Files)
9.3. Extending and Closing Threads
9.4. Message Operations (Moving, Deleting, etc.)
9.5. URL in a Message
10. Recieving Messages
10.1. Using POP Reception Function in Sylpheed
10.2. Using Other Programs such as fetchmail
11. Composing Messages
11.1. Composing a New Message
11.2. Replying to a Message
11.3. Replying to a Message with Quotation
11.4. Forwarding Messages
12. Address Book
12.1. Adding and Deleting Addresses
12.2. Folders and Groups
12.3. Combination with Message Composition Window
12.4. Using your PDA addressbook (with Jpilot)
12.5. LDAP server connection
13. Filters, actions and templates
13.1. Filters
13.2. Finding The Filter Setting Dialog
13.3. Setting Up Filters
13.4. Message Processing
13.5. Filter Registration
13.6. Registered Rule Order
13.7. How to Filter Messages
13.8. Filtering mail with Procmail
13.9. Actions
13.10. Usage
13.11. Examples
13.12. Templates
14. Handling MIME types
14.1. How Sylpheed checks for Mime types
14.2. How Sylpheed handles attachments (reception)
15. Conversion of Other Mail Format into Sylpheed (MH Format)
15.1. Importing Messages of mbox Format
15.2. Importing from Windows Mailers (Becky!, AL-Mail, Outlook Express4, etc.)
15.3. Importing dbx Format of Outlook Express 5
15.4. Exporting from Sylpheed MH format to mbox
16. NetNews
16.1. Adding and Deleting Servers
16.1.1. Adding a news server
16.1.2. Deleting a news-server.
16.2. Subscribing and Unsubscribing to NewsGroups
16.3. Reading News
16.3.1. A note about binary files
17. References, tips and tricks
17.1. Short-Cut Key List
17.1.1. Shortcuts to the File menu:
17.1.2. Shortcuts to the Edit menu
17.1.3. Shortcuts to the View menu
17.1.4. Shortcuts to the Message menu
17.1.5. Shortcuts to the Tool menu
17.2. Changing Key Binding of Short-Cut Key
17.2.1. Predefined shortcuts
17.3. Changing Fonts on Menu, etc.
17.4. How to tell another program to use Sylpheed as e-mail program
17.5. Data Format of Address Book
18. FAQ
19. Information
19.1. Websites on Sylpheed
19.2. Mailing Lists
19.3. How to unsubscribe.
19.4. Anonymous CVS
20. About This Document
20.1. Copyright Notice
20.2. GNU General Public License
20.3. Where to Get the Latest Version of This Document
20.4. Ending Remark
1. GNU Free Documentation License
1.1. PREAMBLE
1.2. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
1.3. VERBATIM COPYING
1.4. COPYING IN QUANTITY
1.5. MODIFICATIONS
1.6. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
1.7. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
1.8. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
1.9. TRANSLATION
1.10. TERMINATION
1.11. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
1.12. ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents