Software:Balsa (email client)

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Balsa
Balsa-gpg.png
Balsa displaying built-in GPG capabilities
Written inC
Operating systemLinux
TypeEmail client
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitepawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/

Balsa is a lightweight email client written in C for the GNOME desktop environment.

Balsa has a graphical front end, support for MIME attachments coming and going, directly supports POP3 and IMAP protocols. It has a spell checker and direct support for PGP and GPG for encryption. It has some basic filtering capabilities, and natively supports several email storage protocols.[1] It also has some internationalization support, including Japanese fonts.

It builds on top of these other open source packages: GNOME, libtool, libESMTP, aspell, and gmime. It also can optionally use libgtkhtml for HTML rendering, libkrb5 for GSS-API, and openldap for LDAP functionality. It can optionally be configured to use gpg-error and gpgme libraries.

Balsa is packaged for a wide range of Linux distributions, including Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Slackware and Ubuntu, as well as for FreeBSD.[2]

See also

References

  1. Jack Wallen (2000-10-02). "Balsa: An e-mail client for the rest of us". TechRepublic. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/balsa-an-e-mail-client-for-the-rest-of-us/. "This particular e-mail client does indeed have the familiar feel of one of the greatest e-mail clients available (Eudora) and is simple to install, use, and manage." 
  2. "Search Results for balsa". https://pkgs.org/search/?q=balsa. 

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