Balsa 2.4.8 Review – Are you looking for a simple and safe e-mail client?

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Balsa 2.4.8 Review – Are you looking for a simple and safe e-mail client?

Balsa is a GNOME e-mail client supporting POP3, IMAP, and local mail delivery. Balsa can be compiled with multi-threading support for faster response, and can do nifty things like read your GnomeCard address book, use LDAP, and render HTML mail.

Features:

· Support for local mailbox formats: mbox, maildir, mh

· Allows nested mailboxes (see this screenshot)

· Support for POP3 and IMAP mail access protocols

· Printing

· Spell Checking

· Multi-threaded mail retrevial (optional)

· MIME support (view images inline, save parts)

· Supports SMTP and/or use of local MTA, ie. Sendmail

· Address Book that integrates with GnomeCard

· Highly configurable

· Active, open development (see the mailing list page)

· Multiple character sets for composing and reading messages

· Allows file attachments to outgoing messages

· GPG/OpenPGP mail signing and encryption

More details, screenshots, etc. http://www.softpedia...ew-165157.shtml