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 wordt uitgegeven onder de gpl-licentie. Voor een overzicht van de mogelijkheden van dit programma verwijzen we jullie door naar deze pagina. De ontwikkelaars hebben versie 2.6.0 uitgebracht met de volgende veranderingen sinds de vorige uitgave:
Changes from 2.5.0:
New features:Feature improvements:
- The POP3 remote mailbox feature, which enables the direct view/download/deletion of messages on POP3 server, was added.
- The backups of configuration files are kept for four generations now.
Bugfixes:
- Enchant (with GtkSpell 2.0.13) has been supported.
- When creating filter rule automatically, the target header field is used as a default filter name.
- The Japanese manual was updated.
- In the folder selection dialog, only folders which are expanded in the folder view are expanded.
- The folders which should not be selected in the folder selection dialog became unselectable.
- Unix: Only new messages are counted when incorporating from local mbox.
- Unix: SIGHUP/SIGINT/SIGTERM/SIGQUIT signals are handled now.
- Win32: System shutdown event is also handled on debug mode.
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- The parser of IMAP4 was fixed.
- Warnings about --datarootdir on running the configure script was removed.
- The bug that the addressbook window was not refreshed when sender of message was added to the addressbook was fixed.
- A workaround for raw-JIS filename used for attachments (specifically Eudora) was made.
- The compilation error when using GTK+ 2.14.x was fixed.
- Some build fixes were made.
- Several bugfixes were made.