Sylpheed V3.0.3    Suggested by ashanker - Updated by webfork on 29 Jun 2010 21MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (2455) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (12) - Post comment - Permalink

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 guwapo: this version doesn't support "maildirs" yet, so this software isn't actually portable - since mails/configs are saved under "c:\document and settings..." [2007-01-01 19:20]

 Ekkehart: There are no Problems to use it portable!

In the main folder ist a file named "sample-syplheed.ini".
Rename this to "sylpheed.ini", open it an set the configdir-path to the folder you want to save the configuration files and the mailboxes.

Concerning the Size. In the Folder "\lib\locale" there are folders of many needless languages. Delete the folders of the languages you don't need.
I only need the "de"-Folder so i deleted all the other ones. Now the Sylpheed-Folder has a Size of 11,7 MB. [2007-05-16 01:44]

 Kermode: How big are your sticks anyway? The smallest i have is 2GB.
But anyway, the "just force a langauge on the user" thing is totally out of line. [2007-06-05 04:30]

 Mancubus: Am I the only one who doesn't see the To: column in the Sent folder?... [2007-07-03 23:56]

 tuxpost: > doesn't see the To: column
In Claws Mail (similar to Sylpheed: http://www.clawsmail.org) change the property (or validate the current status) of the folder with a right click. The "Sent" folder should have the folder type "sent" under the "general" tab. Problem with Sylpheed is the same like other Unix ports: the complete GTK-Stuff under Libs/. But "man kann nicht alles haben". Works fine for me. [2007-07-04 05:57]

 Luis: this receave html messages? i can´t getting display html messages [2007-10-20 02:10]

 drifter: there is an easy workaround for the language auto-detection: just deleting all but the language library you want to use from \lib\locale [2008-03-12 09:14]

 Hubbabub: You can compress the files with
AppCompactor
http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/appcompactor [2008-12-21 03:34]

 timch65: ylpheed is installed and totally contained on my thumb drive.
It works great but the problem is when I move my thumb drive to another PC (my laptop) Sylpheed won't work.
Any Ideas??? [2009-07-07 15:09]

 Lyx: Well, the ini-file hint did the trick, and even though the app started out with a bad omen (appfreeze after 30mins), it now seems to run fast and reliable here.

My first impression is that this is an interesting app, if you want a simple email-client which does the basics well. So, just a plain(-text) email-client without fancy stuff, which just works. If you remove unnecessary languages and UPX the binaries, you can get it down to about 6mb.

Downsides? Well, the GUI in some aspects feels unnecessary unintuitive. One of many examples: The option to change which columns should be shown is very difficult to find. Another aspect is that it doesn't support all popular GUI-layouts (i for example would like to have a wide message pane, but thats currently not supported).

So, if you can deal with a GUI, which feels a bit unpolished, and you are looking for a simple email-client which focusses on the basics, without any of that "modern" klimbim (not even html-messages)... then this email-client may be for you.

And in any case, if definatelly will be easier to use, than the captcha which i've got to deal with now (dude! this stuff is not just unreadable to machines, but also to humans) [2009-08-08 00:13]

 timch65: This is BS ! every time I try to install this and run it it ALWAYS puts a folder in my Appadata\roaming folder. I've followed the directions, changed the .ini created a folder called 'Profile" the whole nine yards but still won't work as portable. When I do let it install the way it want's (with files in my appdata\roaming folder) It won't work if I move my thumb drive to another PC.
This is very frustrating and I'm thinking of logging this software up as crap.... not portable. [2009-09-13 06:49]

 teacherlau: Hi guwapo.
wanna make sylpheed portable?
make a directory in install folder or somewhere else you want. In my case "data"
just right click sylpheed.exe and make a shortcut.
right click again then "Properties" turn to "shortcut" tab, then add this switch below at the end of "target":
--configdir .\data
In my case, it's ""D:\Program Files\Sylpheed\sylpheed.exe" --configdir .\data"
after all of this, all your mail data and configurations will be stored in this folder. [2010-03-06 12:02]

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