Balsa - an e-mail client for GNOME

Balsa is an e-mail client for GNOME. With an interface similar to Eudora's, Balsa is highly configurable and has all the features you would expect in a robust mail client.

News

2003-02-24

We release balsa-2.0.9 containing few more fixes - consider upgrading if you experience crashes or deadlocks with earlier versions.

2003-02-16

We release balsa-2.0.8 - a quick patch update to less perfect than expected 2.0.7.

2003-02-09

We release balsa-2.0.7 - a GNOME2 port of balsa. It has a nice set of bug fixes making it a recommended for GNOME2.

2003-01-29

We release balsa-2.0.6 - a GNOME2 port of balsa. It has a nice set of fixes and portability improvements.

2003-01-05

We release balsa-2.0.5 - a GNOME2 port of balsa. We release it rather soon after 2.0.4 - not that it was bad. It is just that 2.0.5 is so much better! :-)

2002-12-24

We release balsa-2.0.4 - a GNOME2 port of balsa. Major changes include: balsa can be now compileed against aspell>=0.50 and gnome-2.2; it should not crash on concurrent access to local mailboxes; GNOME2 based help system finally works.

2002-12-22

We release balsa-1.4.2 containing several bug fixes for the GNOME1-based version of balsa.

2002-10-28

We release balsa-2.0.3 - a GNOME2 port of balsa. Many bugs have been fixed and the UI has been adapted to follow closer Human Interface Guidelines.

2002-09-15

We release balsa-2.0.2 - a GNOME2 port of balsa, quite a functional one. We think we use now pango and UTF-8 capabilites of GNOME2 to the fullest now.

2002-09-14

balsa-1.4.1 containing some bug and build errors fixes has been released.

2002-08-19

balsa-1.4.0 officially released!

2002-08-09

Try balsa-1.3.7. This is a prerelease to stable 1.4.0.

2002-05-15

GNOME2 port of balsa - second preview - is released. It is mostly work behind the scenes but the outcome is definetely visible.

2002-05-15

Development balsa-1.3.6 is released. It can search with reasonable speed in message bodies held in IMAP mailboxes. It has few portability fixes for Solaris. It should not crash any more when called with -a option. It has minor filter UI improvements (widgets are sensitive). It is more verbose on common SMTP errore and again does RFC-compliant header encoding. Some build fixes has been resolved as well.

2002-04-24

Development balsa-1.3.5 is released - observer though that we approach a stable phase with this branch. Major changes are: New mailboxes scanned in a thread. Improved message include function. It preserves "References" headers over message postpone. Number of crashes and other bugs fixed. Some portability fixes.

We release also balsa-2.0.0 technology preview. It is a GNOME2 port of balsa.

2002-03-26
development balsa-1.3.4 is released. It fixes some MT-related bugs (or so we hope).
2002-03-05
development balsa-1.3.3 is released. It fixes charset and content-type related issues intruduced in in 1.3.2. All 1.3.2 users are encouraged to upgrade.
2002-02-26
development balsa-1.3.2 is released. It is loaded with bug fixes since we approach another stable set of releases.
2002-02-07
development balsa-1.3.1 is released. It includes fixes for printing of multipart messages with different content-types, rescanning of local directories, delayed message deletion (and undeletion), external editor support, imap message caching, and some bug fixes as well.
2002-01-20
balsa-1.2.4 is released. This release includes few bug fixes with respect to previous stable release: mailbox synchronize opereration is improved, IMAP passwords do not have to be stored any more in MT build, message threads are traversed more consistently, and few more.
2001-12-16
Development balsa-1.3.0 is released: first step to searching and filters; require gnome-1.4 or newer: gdk_pixbuf, gnome-vfs and some other; delayed IMAP tree scanning; "reply to group" functional.
2001-11-05
balsa-1.2.3 is released. Few bugs has been fixed and some more rough UI edges polished.
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LinuxPlanet
Connecting with GNOME Mail Clients by Michael Hall
LinuxWorld
Joe's mail woes by Joe Barr