	Sylpheed - a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast e-mail client

   Copyright(C) 1999,2000 Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp>

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
   any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
   Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

   For more details see the file COPYING.


What's Sylpheed
===============

This program is a GTK+ based e-mail client which has features
(or go for it :-)) like:
	o user-friendly and intuitive interface
	o 3-paned view like many Windoze-based mail client
	o ability of keyboard-only operation
	o Mew/Wanderlust-like key bind (most of normally used keys have been
	  implemented)
	o multipart MIME
	o built-in image view
	o X-Face support
	o external editor support
	o unlimited multiple account handling
	o message queueing
	o filtering
	o draft function
	o XML-based address book
	o APOP support
	o unread message management
	o MH folder support
	o IPv6 support
	o multithread support (experimental)
	o mbox importing
	o drag & drop (partially implemented)
	o fast thread display
	o high-speed message processing
	o lightweight resource usage
	o easily customizable configuration
	o "Attract by subject" faculty, which is convenient when thread is
	  broken on Mailing List and so on.
	o supports automake + autoconf, and internationalization of message
	  by gettext
	o integrated NetNews client (partially implemented)
	. IMAP support (currently implementing)

You'll figure out the usage if you have used a mailer on Windows, or
Mew or Wanderlust.

Installation
============

See INSTALL for installation instructions.

Usage
=====

If you want to use languages other than 7-bit ascii English letters,
you must set the environment variables related to the locale before running
Sylpheed. For example:

% export LANG=de_DE

or

% setenv LANG de_DE

(replace de_DE to the appropriate locale name.)

If you prefer the translated messages, set LC_MESSAGES as well as LANG.

Refer to the manual supplied with this program for the general usage.

Information
===========

You can check the newest version and information about Sylpheed at:

	http://sylpheed.good-day.net/

There's also the manual of Sylpheed written by
Yoichi Imai <yoichi@silver-forest.com> on:

	http://members.linuxstart.com/~sunnyone/sylpheed-doc/

Feedback
========

Comments, ideas and (most of all) bug reports (and especially patches) are
very welcome.

Anonymous cvs
=============

You can get the newest source code with the anonymous cvs.

First, set your CVSROOT environment variable to:

	:pserver:anonymous@sylpheed.good-day.net:/cvsroot/sylpheed

Next, login with:

	cvs login

and just press Enter key to `CVS password:'.

Move to an appropriate directory, and with the command:

	cvs -z3 checkout sylpheed

a source tree named `sylpheed' is created under the current directory.

To update to the newest source tree, run the command:

	cvs -z3 update

on the top directory of the source tree.

--
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp>
