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Download current balsa release

Current revision - 2.4.8 - released on 2010-02-21

This is the current release that fixes various issues observed in 2.4.3 to 2.4.8. Please note we have skipped an official 2.4.4 release. The release highlights compared to 2.4.2 are:

• QUOTA and MYRIGHTS IMAP extension support.
• IMAP compression (COMPRESS=DEFLATE) when supported by server
• making opening attachment easier by saving them in a directory
• downloadable images when using Webkit html widget
• faster opening of the compose window.
• text searching enabled in the WebKit html viewer.
• options to hide toolbars and other parts of the UI (useful on netbooks etc).
• For laptop/wifi users: not trying to reach POP3 servers while disconnected, and instead checking immediately on reconnection.
• infinite loop avoided (debian #568298).
• avoid crashes when manually verifing GPG signature.

Download (please observe that balsa is included in several linux distributions - please check there first for an appropriate version!):

• balsa-2.4.8.tar.bz2 with sha1sum 809d44a82505ca19cb202923f0683f47c8252b70
• LibESMTP Source tarball is available from libesmtp site.
• gmime-2.4.11.tar.gz on the GMIME site (check for the latest version; please note that gmime releases 2.2.17, 2.2.18, 2.2.19, 2.2.20 have known bugs).

Packages for libesmtp and gmime are also available for several Linux distributions; to build from source, you will need these and the corresponding -devel packages.

GIT source & build instructions

Balsa source is also available from the GNOME GIT repository. Check out balsa module. The GIT version is sometimes not sufficiently stable for everyday use it but has all the new features and is the best starting point if you want to hack Balsa.

To clone all the history and branches of Balsa, from a shell:

git clone git://git.gnome.org/balsa

If you want the check-out to be put in a folder that is not named balsa, specify your own folder name as a second argument to git clone.

The main branch (known as master in a GIT repository) requires recent versions of Gtk and GLib, and version 2.4 of GMime. The balsa-2-3 branch is compatible with older installations.

• Detailed build instructions