---
name: "sylpheed"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "sylpheed"
version: "3.8.0~beta1-2+deb13u1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sylpheed"
---

# sylpheed(1)

Light weight e-mail client using GTK+

## NAME

sylpheed - Light weight e-mail client using GTK+

## SYNOPSIS

**sylpheed** \[OPTIONS ...\] \[URL\]

## DESCRIPTION

**Sylpheed** is a simple, lightweight but featureful, and easy-to-use e-mail client using the GTK+ graphic user interface toolkit.

**Sylpheed** provides an intuitive user-interface and is also designed for keyboard-oriented operation, so **Sylpheed** can be widely used from beginners to power users.

Among others, **Sylpheed** has the following features:

```
 * Simple, beautiful, and well-polished user interface
 * Comfortable operation, which is built in detail
 * Well-organized and easy to understand configuration
 * Lightweight on resources operation
 * High reliability with one-mail-to-one-file format (MH)
 * Extensible through a plug-in system
 * Powerful filtering and searching capabilities
 * Junk mail control
 * Security features (GnuPG, SSL/TLSv1)
 * Support for various protocols
 * Internationalization and multilingualization support
 * High-level Japanese processing
 * Flexible cooperation with external commands
```

## OPTIONS

- **--compose** \[\<mailto URL\>\]

  Opens composition window, with some fields preset from the given URL, if specified.

- **--attach** \<file\> \[\<file2\> ...\]

  Opens composition window with specified files attached.

- **--receive**

  Receives new messages.

- **--receive-all**

  Receives new messages for all accounts.

- **--send**

  Sends all queued messages.

- **--status** \[\<folder\> ...\]

  Shows the total number of messages.

- **--status-full** \[\<folder\> ...\]

  Shows the status of each given folder.

- **--open** \<folderid\>\|\<msgnum\>

  Opens the existing message in a new window.

- **--open** \<file URL\>

  Opens an RFC822 message file in a new window.

- **--configdir** \<dirname\>

  Use given directory as configuration directory.

- **--exit**

  Makes a running Sylpheed to exit, then exits.

- **--debug**

  Enables debug mode. This produces highly verbose console output.

- **--safe-mode**

  Enables safe mode. Plugins won't be loaded in this mode.

- **--help**

  Displays a brief help screen and exits.

- **--version**

  Displays version information and exits.

## SEE ALSO

*/usr/share/doc/sylpheed/*, */usr/share/doc/sylpheed-doc/manual/*, **claws-mail-tools**(1), [**claws-mail**(1)](/claws-mail/1.md),

## AUTHOR

**Sylpheed** is written by Hiroyuki Yamamoto \<hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp\>.

This manual page was originally written by Takuo KITAME \<kitame@northeye.org\> and Guido Guenther \<agx@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Rewritten into pod format and updated by Ricardo Mones \<mones@debian.org\>.