SYLPHEED(1)

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💌 SYLPHEED(1) — the manual page, but make it a group chat 💌

okay so bestie, you know sylpheed? It's the light weight e-mail client using GTK+, and honestly? she's that girl. Manual name is right there in the title: SYLPHEED(1), User Manuals section. Let's get into it. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

sylpheed — Light weight e-mail client using GTK+ 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sylpheed [OPTIONS ...] [URL]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Sylpheed is a simple, lightweight but featureful, and easy-to-use e-mail client using the GTK+ graphic user interface toolkit. Like, she does the most while weighing the least. Iconic behavior honestly.

She's got an intuitive user-interface and she's designed for keyboard-oriented operation too, so literally everybody can use her — from total beginners all the way to power users. No gatekeeping here, we love that for us. 🫶

Among others, Sylpheed has the following features:

  • Simple, beautiful, and well-polished user interface ✨
  • Comfortable operation, which is built in detail 💖
  • Well-organized and easy to understand configuration 🌸
  • Lightweight on resources operation 🦋
  • High reliability with one-mail-to-one-file format (MH) 👑
  • Extensible through a plug-in system 🔌
  • Powerful filtering and searching capabilities 🔍
  • Junk mail control 🚫
  • Security features (GnuPG, SSL/TLSv1) 🔒
  • Support for various protocols 🌈
  • Internationalization and multilingualization support 🌍
  • High-level Japanese processing 🇯🇵
  • Flexible cooperation with external commands 💫

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --compose [<mailto URL>] — Opens the composition window, with some fields preset from the given URL, if specified. Not her composing a whole email for you unprompted, that's main character energy fr fr. ✍️
  • --attach <file> [<file2> ...] — Opens the composition window with specified files attached. She comes with the receipts already attached, we stan a prepared queen. 📎
  • --receive — Receives new messages. Incoming mail, bestie! 📥
  • --receive-all — Receives new messages for all accounts. Not just one account — all of them. She's thorough. 👑
  • --send — Sends all queued messages. The queue is getting cleared, periodt. 📤
  • --status [<folder> ...] — Shows the total number of messages. Just the numbers, lowkey. 🔢
  • --status-full [<folder> ...] — Shows the status of each given folder. Full breakdown, no crumbs left behind. 🗂️
  • --open <folderid>|<msgnum> — Opens the existing message in a new window. Pop-up window moment. 🪟
  • --open <file URL> — Opens an RFC822 message file in a new window. Same energy, but for a file on disk. 📄
  • --configdir <dirname> — Use given directory as configuration directory. Your config, your rules, your chosen home. 🏠
  • --exit — Makes a running Sylpheed to exit, then exits. She's leaving the group chat and taking the app with her. Bye bestie! 👋
  • --debug — Enables debug mode. This produces highly verbose console output. Warning bestie: she will NOT stop talking. Like, highly verbose. You asked for this. 💀
  • --safe-mode — Enables safe mode. Plugins won't be loaded in this mode. Clean, bare, protected, no outside interference. 🛡️
  • --help — Displays a brief help screen and exits. Here for a good time, not a long time. 🙋
  • --version — Displays version information and exits. She's telling you exactly who she is and then dipping. 💁

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

  • /usr/share/doc/sylpheed/
  • /usr/share/doc/sylpheed-doc/manual/
  • claws-mail-tools(1)
  • claws-mail(1)

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Sylpheed is written by Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp>. Legend behavior, honestly. 👑

This manual page was originally written by Takuo KITAME <kitame@northeye.org> and Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Then Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org> rewrote it into pod format and updated it. Collab of the century, no cap. ✨

And that's the whole vibe check bestie — this was SYLPHEED(1), from the User Manuals, and the page itself was riding with version 3.8.0~beta1-2ubuntu1 dated 2025-02-20. Go send an email, you got this. 💖🎀🦋

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