sylpheed1

Usage

Overview

Sylpheed is a simple, lightweight but featureful, and easy-to-use e-mail client using the GTK+ graphic user interface toolkit.

Sylpheed provides an intuitive user-interface and is also designed for keyboard-oriented operation, so Sylpheed can be widely used from beginners to power users.

Among others, Sylpheed has the following features:

 * Simple, beautiful, and well-polished user interface
 * Comfortable operation, which is built in detail
 * Well-organized and easy to understand configuration
 * Lightweight on resources operation
 * High reliability with one-mail-to-one-file format (MH)
 * Extensible through a plug-in system
 * Powerful filtering and searching capabilities
 * Junk mail control
 * Security features (GnuPG, SSL/TLSv1)
 * Support for various protocols
 * Internationalization and multilingualization support
 * High-level Japanese processing
 * Flexible cooperation with external commands

Options

--compose [<mailto URL>]

Opens composition window, with some fields preset from the given URL, if specified.

--attach <file> [<file2> ...]

Opens composition window with specified files attached.

--receive

Receives new messages.

--receive-all

Receives new messages for all accounts.

--send

Sends all queued messages.

--open <folderid>|<msgnum>

Opens the existing message in a new window.

--open <file URL>

Opens an RFC822 message file in a new window.

--configdir <dirname>

Use given directory as configuration directory.

--exit

Makes a running Sylpheed to exit, then exits.

--debug

Enables debug mode. This produces highly verbose console output.

--safe-mode

Enables safe mode. Plugins won't be loaded in this mode.

--help

Displays a brief help screen and exits.

--version

Displays version information and exits.