Balsa User's Guide
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# Getting Started with `Balsa`

If you're starting `Balsa` for the first time, the first thing you'll see is a Druid that will set up `Balsa`'s basic settings. `Balsa` can guess most of what it needs to know about you. It will also create five standard local mailboxes: the Inbox, Outbox, Sentbox, Draftbox, and Trash. (These can be changed to be IMAP or POP3 mailboxes later.)

Figure 1. `Balsa` Start Druid

Don't worry. `Balsa` cooperates with other MUA's very well. They share the same locking semantics for mailboxes. If `Balsa` shares the same mail directory as `pine` or `Mutt`, it will detect new folders as they are created. So if you have to telnet in to your mail machine, you won't be stuck.

There are many more settings in `Balsa`'s preferences window, but most of them do not need to be changed.

Once `Balsa` is configured, you will proceed on to the main window.

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