---
title: 'Setting up the Sylpheed mail client and IMAP mail'
url: 'https://ra1ahq.blog/en/nastroika-pochtovogo-klienta-sylpheed-i-pochty-imap'
markdown: 'https://ra1ahq.blog/en/nastroika-pochtovogo-klienta-sylpheed-i-pochty-imap.md'
lang: en
date: '2022-01-11'
description: 'Radio amateurs in Russia in most cases use Mail.ru email of the form call sign@mail.ru. Open source email client Sylpheed is the lightest (the installation file takes 10 MB) and supports Linux, Windows and Mac OS. This article is about setting up the client version 3.7 for Mail.ru and Yandex, using the IMAP protocol for Linux or Windows. What are the benefits of Sylpheed? 1) lightweight and fast (written in C language) email client (10 MB distribution) 2) the ability to enable encryption or signature of letters using GnuPG 3) you'
taxonomy:
  category:
    - blog
  tag:
    - Linux
  archives_month:
    - jan_2022
  archives_year:
    - '2022'
---

# Setting up the Sylpheed mail client and IMAP mail

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