sylpheed - Light weight e-mail client using GTK+

Author

Sylpheed is written by Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp>.

       This  manual  page  was  originally  written  by  Takuo  KITAME  <kitame@northeye.org> and Guido Guenther
       <agx@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).  Rewritten into pod  format
       and updated by Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org>.

3.8.0~beta1-2ubuntu1                               2025-02-20                                        SYLPHEED(1)

Description

Sylpheed is a simple, lightweight but featureful, and easy-to-use e-mail client using the GTK+ graphic
       user interface toolkit.

       Sylpheed provides an intuitive user-interface and is also designed for keyboard-oriented operation, so
       Sylpheed can be widely used from beginners to power users.

       Among others, Sylpheed has the following features:

        * Simple, beautiful, and well-polished user interface
        * Comfortable operation, which is built in detail
        * Well-organized and easy to understand configuration
        * Lightweight on resources operation
        * High reliability with one-mail-to-one-file format (MH)
        * Extensible through a plug-in system
        * Powerful filtering and searching capabilities
        * Junk mail control
        * Security features (GnuPG, SSL/TLSv1)
        * Support for various protocols
        * Internationalization and multilingualization support
        * High-level Japanese processing
        * Flexible cooperation with external commands

Name

       sylpheed - Light weight e-mail client using GTK+

Options

--compose [<mailto URL>]
         Opens composition window, with some fields preset from the given URL, if specified.

       --attach <file> [<file2> ...]
         Opens composition window with specified files attached.

       --receive
         Receives new messages.

       --receive-all
         Receives new messages for all accounts.

       --send
         Sends all queued messages.

       --status [<folder> ...]
         Shows the total number of messages.

       --status-full [<folder> ...]
         Shows the status of each given folder.

       --open <folderid>|<msgnum>
         Opens the existing message in a new window.

       --open <file URL>
         Opens an RFC822 message file in a new window.

       --configdir <dirname>
         Use given directory as configuration directory.

       --exit
         Makes a running Sylpheed to exit, then exits.

       --debug
         Enables debug mode. This produces highly verbose console output.

       --safe-mode
         Enables safe mode. Plugins won't be loaded in this mode.

       --help
         Displays a brief help screen and exits.

       --version
         Displays version information and exits.