# Balsa User's Guide

Copyright © 1997-2001 by Stuart Parmenter and others, see AUTHORS for a list of people

Abstract

`Balsa` is a graphical mail client. While it is in active development, `Balsa` has many features such as: IMAP and POP3 support; sendmail or direct SMTP support; optional multi-threaded retrieval and sending of messages; support for all configurations of local mail folders; automatic mail checking; mail printing; inline attachment viewing; and the proverbial much, much more.

This document will introduce a person who understands mail to using `Balsa`. However, it will not explain email to a confused individual. If you're looking for that, try asking a friend or visiting the Email FAQ.

# Introduction

`Balsa` is a graphical mail client similar to Eudora on Windows. It supports the standard features of any good reader and has new features added continually. See the abstract above for a quick feature rundown.

`Balsa` is written using GTK+ and GNOME. It is based on libmutt, the back end code to `Mutt`, but expands far beyond being a graphical Mutt.

If you want to learn more about `Balsa`, your best bet is the mailing list `<balsa-list@gnome.org>`, which can be subscribed to by going to the website http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list or by sending a message with a subject of subscribe to `<balsa-list-request@gnome.org>`. Bugs can be reported via `bug-buddy`, `gnome-bug` or to `<submit@bugs.gnome.org>`.

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