Balsa - the GNOME email client.
SYNOPSIS
balsa [--help] [--version] [-c] [--checkmail] [-m
USER@HOST.TLD] [--compose=USER@HOST.TLD] [-a FILENAME]
[--attach=FILENAME] [-o MAILBOX] [--open-mailbox=MAILBOX]
[-u] [--open-unread-mailbox] [-d] [--debug-pop]
DESCRIPTION
Balsa is an e-mail reader. This client is part of the
GNOME desktop environment. It supports local mailboxes,
POP3 and IMAP. For help on using Balsa, see the program
documentation in the help menu.
OPTIONS
-c, --checkmail
Balsa will immediately check for new mail when the
program is launched
-i, --open-inbox
Balsa will open the Inbox on startup.
-m USER@HOST.TLD, --compose=USER@HOST.TLD
When invoked with this option, balsa will open a
new message with the specified address in the To:
field. The parameter can be specified also in URL
format - it makes it possible to use balsa as
mailto protocol handler by setting the mailto pro
tocol command to balsa -m "%s" in URL handlers sec
tion of GNOME control center.
-a FILENAME, --attach=FILENAME
When invoked with this option, balsa will open a
new message with the specified file already
attached to the message.
-o MAILBOX, --open-mailbox=MAILBOX
Balsa will open automatically at startup the mail
box or mailboxes specified on the command line with
this option. Multiple mailboxes are delimited by
semicolons.
-u, --open-unread-mailbox
Open the first unread mailbox when balsa is
-d, --debug-pop
Dumps the POP3 communication to stderr. Useful for
debugging POP3 connections.
WEBSITE
http://www.balsa.net/
SUGGESTIONS AND BUG REPORTS
Any bugs found should be reported to the Balsa Developer
mailing list at balsa-list@gnome.org or you may want to
make use of the online bug-tracking system available on
the web at http://bugs.gnome.org/. See
http://www.balsa.net/bugs.html for more information on
reporting bugs.
Before reporting bugs, please check to see if the bug is
mentioned in the FAQ's or the mailing list archive. See
the section on Other Info for locations of these.
When reporting Balsa bugs, it is important to include a
reliable way to reproduce the bug, version number of Balsa
(as well as GTK and GNOME), OS name and version, and any
relevant hardware specs.
If a bug is causing a crash, it is very useful if a stack
trace can be provided. And of course, patches to rectify
the bug are even better.
AUTHORS
See the AUTHORS file included with Balsa, probably at
/usr/doc/balsa-1.2.3/AUTHORS
FILES
~/.gnome/balsa Balsa's preferences file.
~/.gnome_private/balsa Balsa's POP and IMAP passwords
file.
SEE ALSO
mailcap(5) metamail(1) sendmail(8)
COPYRIGHT
(c) 1997-2001 Stuart Parmenter and others, see AUTHORS for
a list of people.
ware and its documentation for any purpose and without fee
is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright
notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright
notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
documentation.
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