Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Linux and UNIX Man Pages

Linux & Unix Commands - Search Man Pages

balsa(1) [redhat man page]

Balsa(1)							       2.0.6								  Balsa(1)

NAME

       Balsa - the GNOME email client.

SYNOPSIS

       balsa  [--help]	[--version] [-c] [--checkmail] [-m USER@HOST.TLD] [--compose=USER@HOST.TLD] [-a FILENAME] [--attach=FILENAME] [-o MAILBOX]
       [--open-mailbox=MAILBOX] [-u] [--open-unread-mailbox] [-d] [--debug-pop]

DESCRIPTION

       Balsa is an e-mail reader.  This client is part of the GNOME desktop environment.  It supports local mailboxes, POP3 and IMAP.  For help on
       using Balsa, see the program documentation in the help menu.

OPTIONS

       -c, --checkmail
	      Balsa will immediately check for new mail when the program is launched

       -i, --open-inbox
	      Balsa will open the Inbox on startup.

       -m USER@HOST.TLD, --compose=USER@HOST.TLD
	      When invoked with this option, balsa will open a new message with the specified address in the To: field. The parameter can be spec-
	      ified also in URL format - it makes it possible to use balsa as mailto protocol handler by setting the mailto  protocol  command	to
	      balsa -m "%s" in URL handlers section of GNOME control center.

       -a FILENAME, --attach=FILENAME
	      When invoked with this option, balsa will open a new message with the specified file already attached to the message.

       -o MAILBOX, --open-mailbox=MAILBOX
	      Balsa  will  open  automatically at startup the mailbox or mailboxes specified on the command line with this option.  Multiple mail-
	      boxes are delimited by semicolons.

       -u, --open-unread-mailbox
	      Open the first unread mailbox when balsa is launched.

       -d, --debug-pop
	      Dumps the POP3 communication to stderr. Useful for debugging POP3 connections.

WEBSITE

       http://balsa.gnome.org/

SUGGESTIONS AND BUG REPORTS

       Any bugs found should be reported to the Balsa Developer mailing list at balsa-list@gnome.org or you may want to make  use  of  the  online
       bug-tracking  system  available	on  the  web  at  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/. See http://balsa.gnome.org/bugs.html for more information on
       reporting bugs.

       Before reporting bugs, please check to see if the bug is mentioned in the FAQ's or the mailing list archive. See the section on Other  Info
       for locations of these.

       When  reporting	Balsa  bugs,  it  is important to include a reliable way to reproduce the bug, version number of Balsa (as well as GTK and
       GNOME), OS name and version, and any relevant hardware specs.

       If a bug is causing a crash, it is very useful if a stack trace can be provided. And of course, patches to rectify the bug are even better.

AUTHORS

       See the AUTHORS file included with Balsa, probably at /usr/share/doc/balsa-2.0.6/AUTHORS

FILES

       ~/.gnome2/balsa Balsa's preferences file.

       ~/.gnome2_private/balsa Balsa's POP and IMAP passwords file.

SEE ALSO

       mailcap(5) metamail(1) sendmail(8)

COPYRIGHT

       (c) 1997-2003 Stuart Parmenter and others, see AUTHORS for a list of people.

       Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, pro-
       vided  that  the  above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in sup-
       porting documentation.

Version 							  03 January 2003							  Balsa(1)

Check Out this Related Man Page

EXO-OPEN(1)							 Xfce Users Manual						       EXO-OPEN(1)

NAME

       exo-open - Open URLs and launch preferred applications

SYNOPSIS

       exo-open [[url]...]

       exo-open --launch [category] [[parameter]...]

DESCRIPTION

       exo-open is a command line frontend to the Xfce Preferred Applications framework. It can either be used to open a list of urls with the
       default URL handler or launch the preferred application for a certain category.

INVOCATION

       exo-open either takes a list of URLs and tries to open each of them using the default handler, or, when using the --launch tries to launch
       the preferred application for a certain category, optionally passing any number of parameters to the application.

   Options
       -?, --help
	   Print brief help and exit.

       -v, --version
	   Print version information and exit.

       --working-directory directory
	   When using the --launch option and this option is specified as well, the application will be run in the given directory. This is
	   primarily useful when running the preferred TerminalEmulator from another application and you want the command in the terminal window
	   to be run in a specific directory.

       --launch category parameters...
	   Launch the preferred application for the given category with the optional parameters..., where category is either WebBrowser,
	   MailReader, TerminalEmulator or FileManager.

       If you do not specify the --launch option, exo-open will open all specified URLs with their preferred URL handlers. Else, if you specify
       the --launch option, you can select which preferred application you want to run, and pass additional parameters to the application (i.e.
       for TerminalEmulator you can pass the command line that should be run in the terminal).

COMPOSING EMAILS

       exo-open allows users and developers to open the preferred email composer from the command line by simply invoking exo-open
       mailto:USER@HOST.TLD. This will open the composer window with USER@HOST.TLD as the recipient. This syntax is supported by all MailReaders.
       In addition the MailReaders that ship as part of libexo also support extended mailto:-URIs (but be aware that user-defined mailers do not
       necessarily support this), which allows you to also specify default values for the subject and the body of the mail, add additional
       recipients (both Cc: and To:) and attach files to emails. For example mailto:foo@foo.org?cc=bar@bar.org&subject=Foo&attach=/foo/bar.txt
       tells the composer to start an email to foo@foo.org and bar@bar.org with Foo in the subject and the file /foo/bar.txt attached to the
       message.

AUTHOR

       exo-open was written by Benedikt Meurer benny@xfce.org.

       This manual page was provided by Benedikt Meurer benny@xfce.org.

Xfce								    06/10/2011							       EXO-OPEN(1)
Man Page