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The Bottom Line
Balsa is a nice and easy to use Gnome email client with strong aspects (ease of use, security), but also weak spots (no global search, some text reflow problems).
Pros
- Balsa comes with a powerful plain text editor
- Combining features with security, Balsa supports many standards and integrates well with Gnome
- Balsa is easy and comfortable to use
Cons
- Editor lacks HTML, has some reflow problems
- Balsa doesn't offer message templates and labels
- No spam filter integration
Description
- Balsa manages multiple POP and IMAP accounts.
- Locally, Balsa supports mbox, mh and maildir mailbox formats.
- Balsa integrates with Gnome to support all kinds of attachments and message formats smoothly.
- Delivers mail through remote SMTP server or local sendmail.
- Balsa offers flexible message filters to automatically sort mail, print it or preform other actions.
- Support for OpenPGP email cryptography provides secure and authenticated messaging.
- Balsa supports Linux/BSD/Unix and requires Gnome 2.
Guide Review - Balsa 2.2.3 - Email Program
Gnomes live in the woods, and they carve their messages in Balsa. One of the email clients developed for Gnome, Balsa shows competence and versatility.
Balsa supports all of the popular mailbox formats, can send mail through sendmail or any SMTP server and fetch it via POP or access it through IMAP. Flexible filters allow you to sort mail based on flexible criteria (including regular expressions).
The Balsa message editor is simple, but great for composing clean and properly formatted plain text messages (though there are some unfortunate and irritating goofs when it comes to reflowing quoted text).
Unfortunately, Balsa does not offer message templates or labels to organize emails easily.
