Balsa (e-mail client)

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Balsa
Balsa displaying built-in GPG capabilities
Latest release	2.3.20 / September 7, 2007
OS	Linux
Genre	E-mail client
License	GNU General Public License
Website	http://balsa.gnome.org/

Balsa is a lightweight e-mail client for GNOME.

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 e-mail 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, and openldap for LDAP functionality. It can optionally be configured to use gpg-error and gpgme libraries.