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Balsa

Balsa displaying built-in GPG capabilities
Stable release	2.6.4 / 20 September 2022; 2 years ago (20 September 2022)
Repository	gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa
Written in	C
Operating system	Linux
Type	Email client
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Website	pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/

Balsa is a lightweight email client written in C for the GNOME desktop environment.

Balsa has a graphical front end, support for MIME attachments coming and going, directly supports POP3 and IMAP protocols. It has a spell checker and direct support for PGP and GPG for encryption. It has some basic filtering capabilities, and natively supports several email storage protocols. It also has some internationalization support, including Japanese fonts.

It builds on top of these other open source packages: GNOME, libtool, libESMTP, aspell, and gmime. It also can optionally use libgtkhtml for HTML rendering, libkrb5 for GSS-API, and openldap for LDAP functionality. It can optionally be configured to use gpg-error and gpgme libraries.

Balsa is packaged for a wide range of Linux distributions, including Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Slackware and Ubuntu, as well as for FreeBSD.

See also

• Comparison of email clients

References

1. "2.6.4 · Tags · GNOME / balsa".
2. Jack Wallen (2000-10-02). "Balsa: An e-mail client for the rest of us". TechRepublic. This particular e-mail client does indeed have the familiar feel of one of the greatest e-mail clients available (Eudora) and is simple to install, use, and manage.
3. "Search Results for balsa". pkgs.org.

External links

• Official website

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• Email client software for Linux
• Free email software
• Email clients that use GTK
• Free software programmed in C
• GNOME Applications
• GNOME stubs