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diff --git a/manual/en/manual_001.xml b/manual/en/manual_001.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4088fc1 --- /dev/null +++ b/manual/en/manual_001.xml @@ -0,0 +1,231 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> + <chapter> + <title>What is Sylpheed?</title> + + <mediaobject> + <imageobject> + <imagedata fileref="snapshots/full_split.png" format="PNG" /> + </imageobject> + </mediaobject> + + <section> + <title>Introduction to Sylpheed</title> + + <para>Sylpheed is a fast e-mail and news client. It will run on just + about any Linux or Unix compliant system.</para> + + <para>Sylpheed is:</para> + + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>Light on system resources.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Very fast.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>easy to learn and operate, due to its graceful and + sophisticated interface.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Loaded with features.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Main features</title> + + <para>This list is not complete, but the most common features of + Sylpheed are:</para> + + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>Unlimited multiple account handling</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Thread display</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Filtering</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>MIME (attachments)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>built-in image view</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>X-Face support</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>External editor support</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Message queueing</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Draft message function</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Template</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Line-wrapping</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Clickable URI</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>XML-based addressbook</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>LDAP addressbook</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Jpilot addressbook (for Palm types handhelds)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Newly arrived and unread message management</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Multiple MH folder support</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Mew/Wanderlust compatible key bindings</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>News reader function</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Printing</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>UIDL support</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>APOP authentication</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>SMTP AUTH support</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>IPv6 support</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>GPG encryption and signature</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Autoconf, automake support</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Support of i18n of messages by gettext</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Supports many locales, including UTF-8 (Unicode), when using + libjconv</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>IMAP4 compliant</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Methods for managing messages</title> + + <para>There are several ways to manage messages. The best known is + <quote>not at all</quote>.</para> + + <para>Many people receive an unmanageable amount of e-mail, which + usually ends up in the INBOX folder, ignored and forgotten. If you are + one of these people, you are constantly trying to locate that one + important email you got 5 days ago in a inbox that contains more than + 5000 messages. Locating one email out of very many unsorted messages is + always a time-consuming and frustrating experience.</para> + + <para>Sylpheed helps this situation with its mailfolders and + mailboxes.</para> + + <para>Different mailboxes can store different kinds of mails. Suppose + you are a member of a kiting club, and you get at least 30 e-mails per + day from that club. You can create a separate kiting club mailbox, in + which you can move any e-mail that comes from this club. You will always + have all your kiting e-mails in one place.</para> + + <para>Tedious, you say, to move 30 mails a day to that box, when email + comes in at random moments? It is certain that you will miss that very + important email about transport to the kiting ground where you will have + the contest of biggest and most beautiful kite!</para> + + <para>Well, for this situation there is also a solution- filters.</para> + + <para>Filters can automate the process of moving e-mails to new + mailboxes. Further on in this manual you will also learn about setting + up filters, so you do not have to manually move these kiting e-mails to + the kiting club mailbox.</para> + + <section> + <title>Okay, so what is the difference between a mailbox and a + mailfolder?</title> + + <para>This is the same way you organize information on your harddisk. + You create directories in which you put files or more + directories.</para> + + <para>In Sylpheed, you can create mailboxes within mailboxes For + example, you could create a mailbox (folder) that contains the + mailboxes for all the different mailing lists to which you belong + .</para> + + <para>A word of clarification- In Sylpheed, a maillbox is nothing more + than a directory. In a directory you can create either a new directory + or files. Sylpheed stores each e-mail in a separate file on disk. An + example of how a mailbox tree could look is</para> + + <para><mediaobject> + <imageobject> + <imagedata fileref="snapshots/folder_tree.png" format="PNG" /> + </imageobject> + </mediaobject> As you can see, there is no real limit to the way you + can set up your mailboxes. As long as you have diskspace available, + you can create mailboxes and mailboxes within mailboxes.</para> + + <para>Of course, you should observe some common sense when you start + creating mailboxes. It is not a good idea to keep all mail in one + place but to create a maze of mailboxes is not a good idea + either!</para> + </section> + </section> + </chapter> |