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<!ENTITY % balsa SYSTEM "balsa.entities">
<!ENTITY mdash "--">
<!-- replace with actual app  version number--><!ENTITY version "2.5">
<!ENTITY Balsa '<app xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/">Balsa</app>'>
<!ENTITY Mutt '<app xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/">Mutt</app>'>
<!ENTITY GnomeCard '<app xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/">GnomeCard</app>'>
<!ENTITY Pine '<app xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/">pine</app>'>
<!ENTITY procmail '<app xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/">procmail</app>'>
<!ENTITY GnuPG '<app xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/">GnuPG</app>'>
<!ENTITY balsalist "https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list">
<!ENTITY IMAP '<link xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
           xref ="glossary#imap">IMAP</link>'>
<!ENTITY LDAP '<link xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
           xref ="glossary#ldap">LDAP</link>'>
<!ENTITY POP3 '<link xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
           xref ="glossary#pop">POP3</link>'>
<!ENTITY SMTP '<link xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
           xref ="glossary#smtp">SMTP</link>'>
<!ENTITY VCARD '<link xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
           xref ="glossary#vcard">VCARD</link>'>
]>
<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="topic" id="introduction" xml:lang="fr">
  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index"/>
    <link type="next" xref="getting-started"/>
  </info>
  <title>Introduction</title>
  <media src="figures/balsa_logo.png" format="PNG" srccredit="tigert"/>
  <p><app>Balsa</app> is a graphical mail client. It supports the
  standard features of any good reader and has new features added
  continually. See the abstract above for a quick feature
  rundown.</p>
  <p><app>Balsa</app> is written using GTK+ and GNOME. Originally based
  on libmutt, the back end code to <app>Mutt</app>, <app>Balsa</app> now uses
  a combination of GMime for handling Mime messages, and its own
  drivers for local and remote mailstores.</p>
  <p>If you want to learn more about <app>Balsa</app>, your best bet is
  the mailing list
  <code>balsa-list@gnome.org</code>, to which you can subscribe by
  going to the website
  <link href="https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list">
  https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list</link> or by
  sending a message with a subject of
  <em>subscribe</em> to
  <link href="mailto:balsa-list-request@gnome.org?subject=Subscribe">
  balsa-list-request@gnome.org</link>. Bugs can be reported to the
  <link href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/issues">
  Gnome bug tool</link>.</p>
</page>
