Someone reviewed v on Jul 5, 2022

Pros: 555

Cons: 555

Bottom Line: 555

darkNiGHTS reviewed v3.4.2 on Jun 30, 2014

Email with people in the 21st century? This email client doesn't support any kind of layout, just plain text. Images are displayed as links turning newsletters into unreadable blobs of text. I've read it's intentionally not supported - too bad for a pretentious attitude ruining an otherwise great e-mail client.

FatBastard reviewed v3.2 Beta 2 on Aug 16, 2011

This is a stupid program. It doesn't let you select language :(

anomoly reviewed v3.1 Beta 6 on Dec 27, 2010

I've been using the latest devs and noticed that it occasionally will use up to 400mb of memory for some reason. Sitting idle as it does most of the time it is using quite a bit atm around 80mb. If your looking for something super light weight checkout komamail. This has encryption which koma doesn't but you have to have gpg4win installed and running for that even to work.
Don't forget to down bsfilterw.exe (or other) if you are running it in portable mode. I did not realize the exe was even missing til just now and thought it was working. Beta 5 review

anomoly reviewed v3.1.0 Beta 4 on Dec 9, 2010

Beta5 came out the ninth

anomoly reviewed v3.1.0 Beta 3 on Aug 18, 2010

I still can't drag the total column. It stays stuck to the view pane and will disappear if the view pane is too close to the accts column.
BTW, in portable mode DO NOT simply overwrite the theme files. If you do and try to use it in an envirinment without gtk, it may not display a legible font at all.

anomoly reviewed v3.1 Beta 1 on Jun 28, 2010

In this latest awesome version I tried to change the theme and it did not work for some reason. So I deleted all but the MS-Windows folder theme and copied the theme I chose in gtk (metal) (just the root file gtkrc) to the ms-windows one and it worked perfect.
The only gripe is the total tab which is locked to the border it sits next to. If you pull the border too close to the folder tab, the total tab disappears. minor
Using it in portable mode.

asaenz reviewed v3.0 Beta 3 on Dec 14, 2009

This was such a breath of fresh air after trying some of the other email clients and I think I'll continue to use it ... hope it keeps up with the times.

anomoly reviewed v2.7.1 on Oct 2, 2009

271 does not work at all for me. Why is ssl at 0985?

anomoly reviewed v2.7.0 on Jul 23, 2009

Works excellent. OpenSSL is old (0.9.8.5 ?); http://www.shininglightp...Win32OpenSSL-0_9_8k.exe.
GTK runtime & themes:
http://gtk-win.sourceforge.net/home/index.php/Downloads

timbuctoo reviewed v2.6.0 on Mar 22, 2009

The fastest and feature packed e-mail I have used. Supports IMAP too.

5 stars for being everything, and open source!

@anomoly: Thank you for letting know how to change the theme. I was scouring all over the web trying to figure how to get it done.

anomoly reviewed v2.6.0 on Mar 6, 2009

Switched from tbird to popeeper to this & couldn't be happier. Portable by simply renaming sample-sylpheed.ini. to sylpheed.ini. Theming is sooo easy. Install gtk+runtime environment with the theme selector. Copy it's themes from it's share folder to syplheed's same shared folder. Use selector in gtk and reopen sylpheed to see change. Pop peeper works great but no spam filter, no encryption, and no easy way to keep track of anything sent from it without doing a manual search.
You will have to edit & update your mail server settings & recreate acct in sylpheed if necessary. Gmail can now handle other accts like hotmail and sylpheed only needs the one. Impressive

tylerhw reviewed v2.6.0 on Dec 19, 2008

This app is meant to be light, not beautiful, hence a 5/5. It works wonderful, even on dial-up connections with an older computer with 512 mb ram. Perfect for just email and nothing else.

netean reviewed v2.6 Beta 2 on Nov 14, 2008

i'm currently a thunderbird user, but I'm really looking for something just a bit more... well..err... interesting. Thunderbird is ok, but starting to bug me with it's speed and need for addons.

So I'm looking..

Does sylpheed really look the screenshot, because it's fugly. Looks like an app that was created 10+ years ago.

Surely there's a mail client out there that is fast, functionality, and actually enjoyable to use and pleasing on the eye (doesn't need to be all eye-candy, just not fugly!)

AsianAngel reviewed v2.6 Beta 1 on Sep 30, 2008

Sweet and simple app that I love. ^__^

Very nice indeed. ^__^

finalcut reviewed v2.5.0 RC on May 20, 2008

dhry, iscribe is for 1 pop mail only for your information. To have multiple pop account, you have to buy inscribe

anonymouscowturd reviewed v2.5.0 RC on May 20, 2008

Awesome. This simply kicks Thunderbird into touch. And you can make it portable really easily.

dpcdpc11 reviewed v2.4.6 on Sep 22, 2007

glad to see that open source solutions can be used in a everyday activity... sylpheed is one of them... i've been using Thunderbird and Seamonkey for a while a an email client... but both were to damn slow starting.
glad i found this nice piece of software today!!! going to test it for a while... look and works good so far... the only thing that i miss from Tb/Sm is the spell checker... with a spell checker included, this software would be even better!

noccy reviewed v2.4.2 on Jun 17, 2007

This one gets 5/5. The lack of options to customize the main interface gets more than well compensated by the amazing featureset of this actually pretty light e-mail client.

The first thing that hit me was that it has supports OpenPGP/GPG straight out of the box so you can start sending encrypted and signed e-mails at once. Secondly, it's really fast; loads in no-time and keeps clean.

Only thing i could comment on is the menus that could look more uniform :) Menus with a tack has padding on the left to host the tack, other menus totally lack that padding etc.

But i sure as heck can not complain :) I suggest this for those of you who want a quick e-mail client set up, either alongside with ThunderBird or standalone. I have desktop running thunderbird and laptop is loaded with sylpheed. They share my IMAP inboxes perfectly.

Keep up the good work!

dhry reviewed v2.4.1 on May 2, 2007

Awesome! Love the Graviton bomb and the Photo Torpedo attack systems. Used to play this in the arcades all the time and.. eh? What's that you say? This ISN'T the famous shoot-em-up but an email client instead?? (cue furious re-evaluation..)

*ching!* 5.3Mb? Make mine i.Scribe, thanks.
http://www.memecode.com/scribe.php

tannman1 reviewed v2.3.0 Beta 6 on Dec 7, 2006

Nice Email client...easy to configure and even easier to use. The client seems stable however being a beta...

phiber0ptik reviewed v2.3.0 Beta 3 on Oct 17, 2006

dunno why but chinese/japanese apps make me feel like its well written stuff :) I use Thunderbird and is now testing this one on a virtual computer. So far it looks like a great piece of software! Im not a hardcore mailer so maybe there is better clients than this one, but not for me :) Looking forward to the stable 2.3 version. Gave it a four because im not done testing it ;)

allsiante reviewed v2.2.0 Beta 2 on Jan 3, 2006

"Do people really think html mail is going to go away?"

No, yet every client shall have the option to automatically convert every incoming to plain text. Since I don't ever prefer html mail, I don't really care how it is supported or not.

It's all about choice and ease of use.

Using html in mails can be a good thing. Unfortunately most people who embed html intheir mail don't seem to get that emphasizing _some_ information can be a good thing but colorizing and scaling everything, embedding needless images and stupid smileys is anything but useful.

KingSky reviewed v2.2.0 Beta 2 on Jan 2, 2006

I thought this program was decent, although it lacks some features I need so I may not use it all the time.

"Html mail is not a good thing..."

sigh. Do people really think html mail is going to go away? It can be a good thing if it is implemented correctly. I get sick of hearing about how people should just use text: it ain't gonna happen.

JBB reviewed v2.1.8 Beta 10 on Dec 12, 2005

I used to work with Thunderbird (great product altought some reviews from people that probably never used it).
I now changed to Sylpheed mainly because it's lightweigth than Thunderbird, an my old P3 complains about it.
Sylpheed is a small treasure: it's free, fast, lightweight, secure has a nice interface an lots of features, what do you want more ?

Jose reviewed v2.1.8 Beta 9 on Dec 4, 2005

Html mail is not a good thing...

It is intentionally unsupported.

dhry reviewed v2.1.7 Beta 8 on Nov 18, 2005

Thunderbird is so bad it doesn't even COUNT as a mail program. This one isn't much better.

complexity reviewed v2.1.5 Beta 4 on Nov 6, 2005

Thunderbird Vs Sylpheed

Using Sylpheed at the moment.

gawd21 reviewed v2.1.5 Beta 3 on Nov 2, 2005

I like the tabs for attatchments. It needs to be able to work with web based emails, such as Hotmail and then I am a user.

Kramy reviewed v2.1.4 Development on Oct 19, 2005

Why is this a windows program? X11 Windowing is a Mac OSX thing, and I assume X Windowing is Unix/Linux.

pafinator11 reviewed v2.1.2 Development Beta on Sep 15, 2005

Very good idea. However it doesn't support html e-mail. I tried this program on windows xp and suse 9.3 and its basically the same other than the GUI. Anyway it is a getting somewhere. Include html support and im a user.

ArKay74 reviewed v2.1.0 Deveopment on Aug 10, 2005

Uhm, does run on Windows. But I prefer Thunderbird nontheless.

http://claws.sylpheed.org/win32/

DarkHound reviewed v2.1.0 Deveopment on Aug 10, 2005

Mozilla Thunderbird..

nuff said

darthbeads reviewed v2.0.0 on Jul 29, 2005

Clarification: Runs on 'X Window System', NOT Windows 32 systems.

bobad reviewed v2.0.0 on Jul 28, 2005

Don't waste your time on this one.

finalcut reviewed v2.0.0 RC on Jul 25, 2005

it says win32 version and there is no win32 version
too bad

coover reviewed v2.0.0 RC on Jul 25, 2005

Doesn't seem to be installable for WinXP. Windows doesn't recognize any of the files.