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The appearance of the Sylpheed windows is controlled by +a Gtk+ theme (as Sylpheed is based on the Gtk+ toolkit). +Read the Gtk+ or your distribution documentation to find +how to change the Gtk+ theme. +
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The folder view shows you all the mail folders that you have created, +in a tree-like structure. If you want to see the headers of the messages +in a specific folder, just click the name of the folder once, and in the +summary view (2) you can see the messages in the selected mail folder. +
When you see a + sign in front of a folder name, that means the folder +branch of that part of the tree is 'collapsed'. You can expand that +part by clicking the + sign. In that same manner you can also collapse +the - sign in front of an expanded branch of the folder tree. +
The folder pane can be resized be dragging (left mouse button down) +the handle found on the left of the folder view. +
The folder window can be detached from the main Sylpheed window
+by selecting the menu action: View -> Separate folder tree.
+When exiting the current state of the folder window (attached or
+detached) is saved to be restored when re-starting Sylpheed.
+To re-attach the folder window, de-select the menu entry.
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Draft: here you store messages that you want to send out more often, +or you want to work on some more. Using the 'reedit' option from the +message menu, you can edit the message further. +
Trash: in here all your deleted messages go. Depending on the common +preferences setting, this box is or is not emptied when you end Sylpheed. +
Sent: in here are saved the messages you send (enabled by a +common preference setting and the folder can be changed by an account +preference setting). +
Queue: this folder contains the composed messaged waiting to +be sent (with Sylpheed message sending can be delayed). +
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The summary pane can show you many things. You can select what you +want to see from the Summary menu, selecting the option +"Set display item". A list of all options is: +
You can sort the summary view in many ways, by clicking the button +that is above the column. Click once to sort going up (a-z), click +once more to sort going down (z-a). +
If you think the size of a column is not right, you can adjust that +by placing the mouse cursor next to the button of the column you +want to adjust, press mousebutton1 (left button) and drag the +column to the width you want it to have. +
Select a message by clicking on it with the mouse. Once the summary +pane has the focus of the program, you can also move up and down +in the list through the cursor keys, or pressing "p"(revious) and +"n"(ext) as in Pine. +
In the message view you can read the message that you selected in +the summary pane. If you entered the summary pane without selecting +a message, the message view will be empty. At the top of the +message view some info is presented about the message you are +reading, as well as some statistics on the selected folder. +
You can scroll up and down in the message by using the arrow keys +(after clicking inside the message), or by using the scrollbar. +
The size of the message and summary views can be adjusted by dragging +(with the left mouse button down) the handle that appears between +the two panes. +
The small arrow located just below the summary pane scrollbar can +be used to detach the message view. When clicked, the summary view +is extended down to the bottom of the Sylpheed window, and the messages +are displayed is a separate window (when you double click them in the +summary pane). This state is not saved on exit, and the message window +can be restored below the summary one by clicking again the small arrow. +
When the current message contains attachments, two tabs +are displayed in the message window. Selecting the first one makes +the message window display the text body of the message, while selecting +the second tab makes the message window display the attachment part +of the message. In the latter case, the message window is splitted +in two parts, the top one contains the attachments as a tree +with the MIME type, size and file name of each part, while the bottom +part contains the content of the selected attachment (if the attachment +is an image and Sylpheed has been compiled with the gdk-pixbuf or +the imlib library). +