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 immediately open a mailbox, or the
       composer, and things like that.

       When  you  start  Balsa  from  the  command line, not only can you use the command 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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