Sylpheed

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Sylpheed

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Screenshot of Sylpheed 3.5beta1 under Debian Jessie
Basic data

developer Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Publishing year January 1, 2000
Current  version 3.7
( January 31, 2018 )
operating system various Unix derivatives , Windows
programming language C.
category E-mail program
License GPL ( Free Software )
German speaking Yes
sylpheed.sraoss.jp

Sylpheed is a free e-mail program and newsreader for Unix-like and Windows operating systems . It is still being maintained by the first author Hiroyuki Yamamoto ( Japanese 山 本 博 之 , Yamamoto Hiroyuki ).

The priorities of the developers are speed, simple configuration, as much functionality as possible ( e.g. score file and filter) and stability. In support of HTML is deliberately avoided.

The documentation for Sylpheed is created in a separate, multilingual project.

technology

The software uses the GUI toolkit GTK + 2. The core functionality is stored in the LibSylph program library separately from the user interface. Messages are stored in MH data format , the IMAP and POP protocols are supported.

Availability

Sylpheed is distributed as free software also in source code under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It can be installed directly from the standard package sources in many popular Linux distributions . It is pre-installed as standard equipment in Damn Small Linux , lubuntu and the LXDE spin from Fedora .

history

The first ( alpha ) release of Sylpheed took place with version 0.1.0alpha on January 1st, 2000.

The more feature-rich spin-off Sylpheed-Claws , which was created in April 2001 as a development version of Sylpheed, reached version 1.0 on January 17, 2005. Since November 7, 2006, the spin-off has been expressly going its own way under the new name Claws Mail with a code base that has been further developed independently of the parent project .

Version 1.0 of Sylpheed was released on December 24, 2004. Version 1.9.0 of February 1, 2005 changed from GTK1.2 to GTK + 2 (.4). Version 2.0.0 was released on July 29, 2005. From version 2.6.0 the program includes a direct preview and delete function for messages on POP3 servers. From version 2.7.0 plug-ins are supported. Version 3.0 (stable) was released on February 24, 2010.

Web links

Commons : Sylpheed  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sylpheed - lightweight and user-friendly e-mail client . (accessed on February 3, 2018).
  2. ↑ The sylpheed Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages Page . In: Open Hub . (accessed October 18, 2018).
  3. ↑ Sylpheed FAQ - General information . Retrieved June 22, 2009.
  4. ↑ http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?sylpheed
  5. ↑ https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/sylpheed
  6. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lubuntu.net
  7. ↑ http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/lubuntu-desktop#pdeps