| Port details |
- balsa Mail reader for the GNOME desktop
- 2.6.5_4 mail
 =14      2.6.5_4Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: gnome@FreeBSD.org
- Port Added: unknown
- Last Update: 2025-08-31 10:30:51
- Commit Hash: b304d8a
- People watching this port, also watch:: evolution
- Also Listed In: gnome
- License: GPLv2
- WWW:
- https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/
- Description:
- Balsa is a mail reader for the GNOME Desktop. It supports many features:
* Support for local mailbox formats: mbox, maildir, mh
* Allows nested mailboxes
* Support for POP3 and IMAP mail access protocols
* Printing
* Spell Checking
* Multi-threaded mail retrevial (optional)
* MIME support (view images inline, save parts)
* Supports SMTP and/or use of local MTA, ie. Sendmail
* Address Book that integrates with GnomeCard
* Highly configurable
* Active, open development
* Multiple character sets for composing and reading messages
* Allows file attachments to outgoing messages
* GPG/OpenPGP mail signing and encryption
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- Manual pages:
-
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
- no SUBR information found for this port
- Dependency lines:
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- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/mail/balsa/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install mail/balsa
- pkg install balsa
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: balsa
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1749210204
SHA256 (gnome/balsa-2.6.5.tar.bz2) = 89796b18d476a6cc3446c6d3d9acc45e5788d744c8479bd401614b2fc87acdad
SIZE (gnome/balsa-2.6.5.tar.bz2) = 4602383
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
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- update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
- gettext-runtime>=0.22_1 : devel/gettext-runtime
- msgfmt : devel/gettext-tools
- meson : devel/meson
- ninja : devel/ninja
- pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
- Runtime dependencies:
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- gnome-keyring : security/gnome-keyring
- update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
- Library dependencies:
-
- libgmime-3.0.so : mail/gmime30
- libcanberra-gtk3.so : audio/libcanberra-gtk3
- libical.so : devel/libical
- libgnutls.so : security/gnutls
- libfribidi.so : converters/fribidi
- libgpgme.so : security/gpgme
- libcanberra.so : audio/libcanberra
- libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
- libsoup-3.0.so : devel/libsoup3
- libgcr-base-3.so : security/gcr3
- libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so : www/webkit2-gtk@41
- libsecret-1.so : security/libsecret
- libgspell-1.so : textproc/gspell
- libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
- libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
- libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
- libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2
- libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
- libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
- libgtk-3.so : x11-toolkits/gtk30
- libgtksourceview-4.so : x11-toolkits/gtksourceview4
- libxml2.so : textproc/libxml2
- libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
- libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
- libsqlite3.so : databases/sqlite3
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:- ===> The following configuration options are available for balsa-2.6.5_4:
SPELL=on: Spell checking support
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
- Options name:
- mail_balsa
- USES:
- cpe desktop-file-utils gettext-runtime gettext-tools gnome iconv localbase meson pkgconfig sqlite tar:xz
- FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
- Master Sites:
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Number of commits found: 204 (showing only 4 on this page)
| Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) |
| Commit | Credits | Log message |
|---|
22 Jun 2000 09:01:29
 |
sobomax |
Update to 0.8.1. |
01 Jun 2000 17:25:45
|
ade |
Updates for new shared library versions in GNOME 1.2 |
29 May 2000 15:33:54
|
sobomax |
Update MASTER_SITES. |
26 May 2000 14:54:46
|
sobomax |
Update to 0.8. |
Number of commits found: 204 (showing only 4 on this page)
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