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Package: balsa (2.4.1-1 and others)

An e-mail client for GNOME

Balsa is a highly configurable and robust mail client for the GNOME desktop. It supports both POP3 and IMAP servers as well as the mbox, maildir and mh local mailbox formats. Balsa also supports SMTP and/or the use of a local MTA such as Sendmail.

Some of Balsa's other features include: 

  * Allowing nested mailboxes
  * Printing
  * Spell Checking
  * Multi-threaded mail retrieval
  * MIME support (view images inline, save parts)
  * GPE Palmtop, LDAP, LDIF and vCard address book support
  * Multiple character sets for composing and reading messages
  * File attachments on outgoing messages
  * GPG/OpenPGP mail signing and encryption

Support for Kerberos and SSL has been enabled in this package.

Tags: Implemented in: C, User Interface: X Window System, Electronic Mail: IMAP Protocol, POP3 Protocol, Mail User Agent, Networking: Client, Network Protocol: IMAP, POP3, SMTP, Role: Program, Scope: Application, Application Suite: GNOME, GNU, Interface Toolkit: GTK, Works with: Email, X Window System: Application

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Architecture Version Package Size Installed Size Files
alpha 2.4.1-1 2,444.4 kB7420 kB [list of files]
amd64 2.4.1-1 3,461.3 kB7757 kB [list of files]
armel 2.4.1-1 2,290.3 kB6704 kB [list of files]
hppa 2.4.1-1 2,396.3 kB6896 kB [list of files]
hurd-i386 2.3.28-1 2,229.6 kB6632 kB [list of files]
i386 2.4.1-1 2,301.1 kB6824 kB [list of files]
ia64 2.4.1-1 2,643.8 kB8340 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-amd64 2.4.1-1 2,363.6 kB6332 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-i386 2.4.1-1 2,301.2 kB6218 kB [list of files]
m68k (unofficial port) 2.3.28-1 2,174.7 kB6528 kB [list of files]
mips 2.4.1-1 2,358.9 kB7356 kB [list of files]
mipsel 2.4.1-1 2,338.3 kB7356 kB [list of files]
powerpc 2.4.1-1 2,357.3 kB6956 kB [list of files]
s390 2.4.1-1 2,390.1 kB6940 kB [list of files]
sparc 2.4.1-1 2,312.3 kB6744 kB [list of files]