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# Sylpheed User's Manual

## Paul Kater (paul@nlpagan.net) Nick Selby

Sylpheed User's Manual for Sylpheed-0.8.10

Copyright (c) 2002 The sylpheed documentation team. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

The list of the members of The sylpheed documentation team is detailed in the appendix.

## 1. What is Sylpheed?

- 1.1 Introduction to Sylpheed.
- 1.2 Interface
- 1.3 Main features
- 1.4 Methods for managing messages
- 1.5 Features for the future

## 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
- 4.4 Installation on Linux using RPM
- 4.5 Installation on Debian Linux
- 4.6 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
- 7.2 Summary view
- 7.3 Message view

## 8. Sylpheed configuration

- 8.1 Common preferences
- 8.2 Setting up an account/changing an account

## 9. Composing Messages

- 9.1 Composing a New Message
- 9.2 Replying to a Message
- 9.3 Replying to a Message with Quotation
- 9.4 Forwarding Messages

## 10. Composing Messages

- 10.1 Composing a New Message
- 10.2 Replying to a Message
- 10.3 Replying to a Message with Quotation
- 10.4 Forwarding Messages

## 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 How to Filter Messages
- 13.3 Filtering mail with Procmail
- 13.4 Actions
- 13.5 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
- 16.2 Subscribing and Unsubscribing to NewsGroups
- 16.3 Reading News

## 17. Reference

- 17.1 Short-Cut Key List
- 17.2 Data Format of Address Book

## 18. FAQ

- 18.1 Unread News Messages
- 18.2 Using MSN Mail Accounts
- 18.3 Changing Fonts on Menu, etc.
- 18.4 Changing Key Binding of Short-Cut Key

## 19. Information

- 19.1 Websites on Sylpheed
- 19.2 Mailing Lists
- 19.3 Anonymous CVS
- 19.4 How to tell another program to use Sylpheed as e-mail program

## 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

## Appendix

## 21. The Sylpheed documentation team:

## 22. GNU Free Documentation License

- 22.1 PREAMBLE
- 22.2 APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
- 22.3 VERBATIM COPYING
- 22.4 COPYING IN QUANTITY
- 22.5 MODIFICATIONS
- 22.6 COMBINING DOCUMENTS
- 22.7 COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
- 22.8 AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
- 22.9 TRANSLATION
- 22.10 TERMINATION
- 22.11 FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
- 22.12 How to use this License for your documents

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