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Sylpheed FAQ

Paul Kater (paul@nlpagan.net) and Jens Oberender (j.obi@troja.net) Maintained by François Barrière (barriere.francois@libertysurf.fr)

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.

In this FAQ, the question starting with the C letter (instead of the usual Q) concern features that are only present in the claws branch of Sylpheed.

This FAQ consists of the following sections:

1. Sylpheed FAQ - General information

• 1.1 Q01 Are there FAQ's in other languages?
• 1.2 Q02 What is Sylpheed?
• 1.3 Q03 Where can I get Sylpheed?
• 1.4 Q04 Who writes Sylpheed?
• 1.5 Q05 What does the name Sylpheed mean?
• 1.6 Q06 How does Sylpheed store mails?
• 1.7 Q07 Why does the auto collection of mail not work?
• 1.8 Q08 Does Sylpheed have mail filtering?
• 1.9 Q09 Can Sylpheed handle IMAP mail?
• 1.10 Q10 Can Sylpheed handle local unix mailboxes?
• 1.11 Q11 Can Sylpheed handle IPv6?
• 1.12 Q12 Does Sylpheed support encryption like GPG?
• 1.13 Q13 How does Sylpheed check for MIME types?
• 1.14 Q14 Does Sylpheed allow me to write HTML styled messages?
• 1.15 Q15 Does Sylpheed have name completion in the address fields?
• 1.16 Q16 Fine, but when I hit the TAB key I get an error message.
• 1.17 Q17 Why is Sylpheed so fast?
• 1.18 Q18 Where can I get the current patches for Sylpheed?
• 1.19 Q19 How can I send in patches, report bugs, talk about Sylpheed with others?
• 1.20 Q20 When I send mail, the Content-Type header says the mail is in US-ASCII, even when I specified ISO-8859-1?
• 1.21 Q21 Why does it look like word wrap is not working?
• 1.22 Q22 Where can I find the latest FAQ on Sylpheed?
• 1.23 Q23 Can I import a mbox into Sylpheed's MH mailfolders?
• 1.24 Q24 Can I use procmail to sort my mails with the MH mail handling?
• 1.25 Q25 When I upgrade Sylpheed, are there things I should be aware of?
• 1.26 Q26 How can I quickly update the views in Sylpheed?
• 1.27 Q27 Why can't I use gvim as external editor?
• 1.28 Q28 Can I quote just parts of the original message when replying?
• 1.29 Q29 Can I reply without quoting at all?
• 1.30 C30 How does selective download work?
• 1.31 C31 Why are there two filter options?
• 1.32 C32 Can I use both filter options?

2. Sylpheed FAQ - Installation and Configuration

• 2.1 Q01 What does it take to compile Sylpheed?
• 2.2 Q02 How do I set up Sylpheed?
• 2.3 Q03 Why did the creation of the mailbox fail?
• 2.4 Q04 How do I set up an account?
• 2.5 Q05 How many accounts can I set up in Sylpheed?
• 2.6 Q06 Why does Sylpheed not delete my mails when I press "delete"? I set a filter, and Sylpheed does not filter. I moved a mail to a different mailbox and it did not move.
• 2.7 Q07 Can I set up special addresses/ports for my mailserver / newsserver?
• 2.8 Q08 Does Sylpheed have options for threading messages?
• 2.9 Q09 Can I create multiple levels of subfolders to store mail?
• 2.10 Q10 Why isn't Sylpheed sending my mail out?
• 2.11 Q11 How do I apply a patch after downloading it?
• 2.12 Q12 How do I compile in support for compface pictures?
• 2.13 Q13 How do I make my own compface image?
• 2.14 Q14 How can I tell my browser/newsclient/other program to use Sylpheed as e-mail program?
• 2.15 Q15 How do I enable GPG support in Sylpheed?
• 2.16 Q16 Mutt does not recognize Sylpheed's MH structure
• 2.17 Q17 Viewing a GIF file within Sylpheed causes a segmentation fault.
• 2.18 Q18 How can I make Sylpheed notify me when new mail arrives?
• 2.19 Q19 Can I use a spell checker with Sylpheed?
• 2.20 Q20 How can I make Sylpheed send my compface image in the mails?
• 2.21 Q21 I checked out the sources using cvs and cant find any configure script.
• 2.22 Q22 Running "autogen.sh" gives errormessages that "AM_PATH_GDK_PIXBUF" or
• 2.23 Q23 I dont want to compile in support for ... any longer, but after running
• 2.24 Q24 How can I select different applications to open with specific MIME types?
• 2.25 Q25 How can I change the suggested mimetype for attachments?
• 2.26 Q26 The folderlist is not updated after I manually moved/copied folders.
• 2.27 Q27 How can I revert original settings, e.g. for fonts, keybindings, etc.?
• 2.28 Q28 What environment variables have effect on Sylpheed?
• 2.29 Q29 Special characters (e.g. umlauts) are not displayed correctly.
• 2.30 Q30 How can I convert my old mailbox / adressbook from (some mailclient).
• 2.31 Q31 What config files are there, and what are they used for?
• 2.32 Q32 What to do when printing an e-mail prints off the paper?

3. Sylpheed FAQ - Interface

• 3.1 Q01 How do I make Sylpheed display my language?
• 3.2 Q02 I don't like the default font. Can I change that?
• 3.3 Q03 There are too many columns in the message list!!
• 3.4 Q04 Can I use a different editor to write my mails?
• 3.5 Q05 How to change the font size in the Sylpheed interface?
• 3.6 Q06 Sylpheed saves my outgoing mail (in Outbox). Can I make it stop doing that?
• 3.7 Q07 How can I change the key-bindings (hot-keys) in Sylpheed?
• 3.8 Q08 Can I close windows without the mouse?
• 3.9 Q09 Can I change the way the date is displayed in the message summary?
• 3.10 Q10 Why can't I see the compface pictures?
• 3.11 Q11 I still can't see the pictures. Why not?
• 3.12 Q12 Why does the URL Launcher not launch my webbrowser?
• 3.13 Q13 Attachments with spaces in the name won't open!
• 3.14 Q14. Where is the Bcc when I compose a mail?

Appendix

4. The Sylpheed documentation team:

5. GNU Free Documentation License

• 5.1 PREAMBLE
• 5.2 APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
• 5.3 VERBATIM COPYING
• 5.4 COPYING IN QUANTITY
• 5.5 MODIFICATIONS
• 5.6 COMBINING DOCUMENTS
• 5.7 COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
• 5.8 AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
• 5.9 TRANSLATION
• 5.10 TERMINATION
• 5.11 FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
• 5.12 How to use this License for your documents