Balsa-2.0.15

Introduction to Balsa

The Balsa package contains a GNOME 2 based mail reader.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://balsa.gnome.org/balsa-2.0.15.tar.bz2
Download (FTP):
Download size: 2.7 MB
Estimated Disk space required: 74.0 MB
Estimated build time: 0.82 SBU

Balsa dependencies

Required

libgtkhtml-2.6.1, libgnomeprintui-2.6.1, OpenSSL-0.9.7d, aspell-0.50.5 and libesmtp-1.0.2

Optional

PCRE-4.5, GnuPG-1.2.4 using gpgme and OpenLDAP-2.1.30

Installation of Balsa

Install Balsa by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0` \
    --localstatedir=/var/lib --with-ssl \
    --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome --with-ldap --with-gpgme &&
make &&
make install

Command explanations

--localstatedir=/var/lib: This switch puts ScrollKeeper files in /var/lib/scrollkeeper instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/var/scrollkeeper.

--with-ssl: Change the default of no ssl support.

--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome: This switch puts configuration files in /etc/gnome instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/etc.

--with-ldap: Change the default to support LDAP if it is available.

--with-gpgme: Change the default to support GPG if 'GnuPG made easy' (GPGME) is installed.

Configuring Balsa

Configuration Information

All configuration of Balsa is done through the Balsa menu system, with mailbox configuration done with the Settings->Preferences menu.

Description

balsa

balsa is the GNOME 2 based mail reader.