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Balsa(1)			     2.6.5""				Balsa(1)

NAME
     Balsa - the GNOME e-mail client.

DESCRIPTION
     You can use Balsa to fetch, read, write and send e-mails.

     It supports
       * local mailboxes in maildir, mbox and/or mh format,
       * nested mailboxes,
       * protocols POP3, IMAP and SMTP,
       * multithreaded mail retrieval,
       * GnuPG/GPG encryption, LDAP, Kerberos and SSL,
       * MIME (view images, save parts),
       * multiple character sets,
       * vCard, GPE, and other address book formats,
       * printing and spell-checking.

     Balsa is an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment, but it can also
     be used standalone though it may print some error messages then.

     For  help	on using Balsa, see the documentation in its help menu using the
     Yelp Gnome help/documentation browser.

     This man page tells about the options of the 'balsa' command, which is used
     to start Balsa.

     Most of these options let you tell Balsa that when it starts it should  im-
     mediately open a mailbox, or the composer, and things like that.

     When  you	start Balsa from the command line, not only can you use the com-
     mand line options described below, any error messages are printed	to  that
     terminal too (whether you execute that command in the background or not).

SYNTAX
     balsa [  -h | --help				]
	   [  -v | --version				]
	   [  -c | --check-mail 			]
	   [  -i | --open-inbox 			]
	   [( -m | --compose=)email-address		]
	   [( -a | --attach=)filename			]
	   [( -o | --open-mailbox=)mailbox[:mailbox]... ]
	   [  -u | --open-unread-mailbox		]
	   [  -s | --get-stats				]

OPTIONS
     -h, --help
	    Displays  a  message describing command line syntax of Balsa, giving
	    many more options than are presented in this man page;  Balsa  exits
	    immediately after that.

     -v, --version
	    Balsa prints its version and exits.

     -c, --check-mail
	    Balsa starts and checks for new mail immediately.

     -i, --open-inbox
	    Balsa starts and opens the Inbox.

     -m email-address, --compose=email-address
	    When  invoked  with  this option, Balsa will open its email-composer
	    for a new message with the specified address in the To: field.

	    The email-address parameter can  be  specified  as	user@host,  e.g.
	    balsa-list@gnome.org,  or  in  URL	format, e.g. "Balsa List <balsa-
	    list@gnome.org>".

	    Balsa also serves as the mailto protocol handler.

     -a FILENAME, --attach=FILENAME
	    When invoked with this option, Balsa will  open  its  email-composer
	    for  a  new  message with the specified file already attached to the
	    message.

	    Example : balsa -a ~/balsa-new.1.gz

     -o MAILBOX, --open-mailbox=MAILBOX...
	    This makes Balsa start and open the specified mailbox.  The  mailbox
	    should be specified by its full URL.

	    Example  :	balsa  -o  imap://user@mail.example.com/INBOX  balsa  -o
	    file:///var/mail/user

     -u, --open-unread-mailbox
	    Open all mailboxes that may contain unread messages.

     -s, --get-stats
	    Balsa prints the numbers of unread and unsent messages and exits.

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