Sylpheed is een overzichtelijk e-mailprogramma dat werkt op verschillende besturingssystemen, zoals Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X en Windows. Het maakt gebruik van GTK+ voor de grafische interface en is beschikbaar onder de GPL. Voor een overzicht van de mogelijkheden van dit programma verwijzen we jullie door naar deze pagina. De ontwikkelaars hebben de eerste bètaversie van Sylpheed 2.4.0 uitgebracht met de volgende veranderingen sinds de vorige vermelding in de meuktracker:
Version 2.4.0 beta 1:Version 2.3.1:
- The automatic filtering of new messages in INBOX folder of IMAP4 account was implemented.
- The customization of the toolbars was implemented ('View - Customize toolbar...', or right-click the toolbar).
- The option to toggle window on trayicon click was added (enabled by default on Unix).
- Junk mails are now filtered when incorporating from local spool.
- UTF-8 is forced for headers instead of substituting characters if the code conversion failed.
- The crash of the text view when switching between MIME parts was fixed.
- Win32: the socket buffer size was increased to improve the performance of network communication.
- Win32: GTK+ and GLib was updated to the latest version.
Version 2.3.0:
- The compilation failure with GLib 2.4 was fixed.
- The compilation failure in some OSes was fixed.
- A memory leak on executing external editor was fixed.
- The bug that the handling of IMAP4 server responses became out of sync when an error occurred while fetching messages was fixed.
- "ca-root.crt" is also looked for as a CA certificates file now.
- The spaces around equals between name and value of MIME parameters are now allowed.
- The MIME header encoding of quoted multibyte strings was fixed.
- The edit account dialog is now placed at the center of the parent window.
- Win32: The crash that occurred when .sylpheed_mark file had read-only or hidden attribute and not writable was fixed.
- Win32: The bug that the composition window could not be maximized was fixed.
- Win32: The domain name is automatically obtained and passed to SMTP servers now.
- Win32: When getting Application Data folder, SHGetFolderPath() is now used instead of using the environmental variable APPDATA.
- Win32: GTK+ and GLib was updated to the latest version. This fixes the resource leaks when the tray icon is updated.
- The Japanese manual was updated.