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 2.7.1 uitgebracht met de volgende veranderingen sinds de vorige vermelding in de Meuktracker:
Changes from 2.7.0:Changes from 2.6.0:
- The feature to import and export .eml files was added.
- Progress is displayed during import and export now.
- The warning about non-exist plug-in directory was removed.
- The comments within Content-Type header are handled now.
- The order of signals emitted at moving messages was modified.
- The sylpheed.spec file was fixed.
- The plug-in system was implemented (still experimental. See PLUGIN.txt for detail).
- LibSylph (internal version) is built as shared library now.
- The update check feature was implemented (requires curl command, included in Windows installer).
- fsync() will be called after writing configuration files.
- 'Send queued messages' is shown instead of 'Mark all read' in the context menu of the Queue folder.
- The default command line options of spam filters were modified.
- Win32: Hard link will be used to improve file I/O performance if available.
- Win32: bsfilter is included in the installer now. If you have installed bsfilter at another location, please note that the location of database files might change.
- Win32: Install/uninstall will be aborted if Sylpheed is running.
- Win32: The registration of Start menu will be applied to all users.
- Win32: The installer cannot launch Sylpheed anymore when install finishes (for Vista).
- A crash bug on CSV import of the address book was fixed.
- Several other bugfixes were made.