August 1st, 2006 by Keith
Sylpheed 2.2.7 – Lightweight and User-friendly Email Client
Posted in Linux, Mac OS, Web Apps, Windows
Want something that is lightweight, yet user-friendly email client? Try Sylpheed 2.2.7, a simple and easy-to-use email client (mailer, MUA). It was originally developed to run on Unix-like systems, such as Linux, BSD and Mac OS X. However, the latest version of Sylpheed now supports Windows.
Devloped using GTK+ GUI toolkit by Hiroyuki Yamamoto, the newest version of Sylpheed will thus, works with GTK+ 2.4 or later (2.6 or later is recommended). It is also a free software distributed under the GNU GPL (the library part is GNU LGPL), and users can freely use, modify and redistribute it under the license.
Features
- * Simple, beautiful, and well-polished user interface
- * Comfortable operationality which is built in detail
- * Immediately available with minimal configuration
- * Lightweight operation
- * High reliability
- * Internationalization and Multilingualization support
- * High-level Japanese processing
- * Various protocols support
- * Security features (GnuPG, SSL/TLSv1)
- * Powerful filtering and search
- * Junk mail control
- * Flexible cooperation with external commands
Sylpheed 2.2.7 can be obtained from the Download page.
