# Install sylpheed with Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts Simple, lightweight email-client. Version 3.7.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-19. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:sylpheed ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install sylpheed ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install sylpheed ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: mail/sylpheed/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install sylpheed ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: sylpheed from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install sylpheed ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: sylpheed from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:sylpheed - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 3.7.0 - **Source summary:** Simple, lightweight email-client - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND MIT AND LicenseRef-Homebrew-public-domain - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-06-19T12:33:03-07:00 - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00 ## Executables - sylpheed (cli) - sylpheed (alias) ## Dependencies - at-spi2-core - cairo - gdk-pixbuf - gettext - glib - gpgme - gtk+ - harfbuzz - libassuan - libgpg-error - openssl@3 - pango ## Build dependencies - pkgconf ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 3.7.0 - Package-manager updated: 2026-06-19 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Project history and usage Sylpheed is a lightweight GTK email client with a long Unix-desktop lineage and cross-platform packaging footprint. Its package-manager appeal comes from being a traditional local mail client that can be installed as a small native application rather than a web service. ### Project history The upstream repository describes Sylpheed as a GTK-based email client and carries copyright years from 1999 through 2022 under Hiroyuki Yamamoto. The project site emphasizes a simple interface, keyboard-oriented operation, MH-style one-message-per-file storage, filtering, GnuPG, SSL/TLS, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, and NNTP support. The public project infrastructure moved toward GitHub in the 2020s: the official news page says the repository migrated to GitHub in November 2022, the wiki moved in December 2022, and bug tracking moved to GitHub Issues in January 2023. ### Adoption history Sylpheed has remained visible in Unix-like package ecosystems as a conservative GUI mail client: the input package metadata lists Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora/DNF, and MacPorts package names. The upstream project also provides Windows and macOS builds or support notes, so package maintainers care about both Unix desktop integration and cross-platform behavior. ### How it is used Users install Sylpheed when they want a local desktop mail client with conventional accounts, filters, address books, local mail storage, and command integration. It is not mainly a CLI tool, but it matters to package-manager culture because it is a mature native app that distributions can build, patch, and ship. ### Why package nerds care Sylpheed is the sort of package that tests whether a package manager still handles classic desktop software well: GTK dependencies, optional crypto/mail features, platform-specific config paths, and long-lived upstream release practices. Its persistence across Homebrew and Linux distributions gives packagers a stable, real-world mail-client workload. ### Timeline - 1999: Upstream README copyright range begins for Sylpheed. - 2006: The official news page says the Sylpheed mailing list had been used since this year. - 2018: Sylpheed 3.7 stable was released. - 2022: Sylpheed 3.8 beta added OAuth2 authentication support and the public repository migrated to GitHub. - 2023: Bug tracking moved to GitHub Issues. - 2025: The project announced discontinuation of its long-running mailing list, with GitHub Issues available for bug reports. ### Related projects - Sylpheed's README explicitly compares its keyboard-oriented workflow with Mew and Wanderlust and its MH-format storage with other MH-based mailers. The official feature list also highlights integration with external mail tools such as fetchmail and procmail. ### Sources - - - - input source_facts.package-manager ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger risk:** blue / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Linux: ~/.sylpheed-2.0/sylpheedrc, ~/.sylpheed-2.0/accountrc - macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Sylpheed/sylpheedrc, ~/Library/Application Support/Sylpheed/accountrc - Windows: %APPDATA%\Sylpheed\sylpheedrc, %APPDATA%\Sylpheed\accountrc ## Credential files - Linux: ~/.sylpheed-2.0/accountrc - macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Sylpheed/accountrc - Windows: %APPDATA%\Sylpheed\accountrc ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** sylpheed - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 8 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** yes - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - sylpheed - 3.8.0~beta1-2+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: sylpheed from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Light weight e-mail client with GTK+ | https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ - Debian apt - sylpheed-i18n - 3.8.0~beta1-2+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: sylpheed-i18n from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Locale data for Sylpheed (i18n support) | https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ - Debian apt - sylpheed-plugins - 3.8.0~beta1-2+deb13u1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: sylpheed-plugins from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Loadable modules for extending Sylpheed features | https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ - Ubuntu apt - sylpheed - 3.8.0~beta1-1ubuntu5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: sylpheed from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Light weight e-mail client with GTK+ | https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ - Ubuntu apt - sylpheed-i18n - 3.8.0~beta1-1ubuntu5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: sylpheed-i18n from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Locale data for Sylpheed (i18n support) | https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ - Ubuntu apt - sylpheed-plugins - 3.8.0~beta1-1ubuntu5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: sylpheed-plugins from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Loadable modules for extending Sylpheed features | https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ - dnf - sylpheed - 3.7.0-20.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: sylpheed from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client | http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/ - dnf - sylpheed-devel - 3.7.0-20.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: sylpheed-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Development files for sylpheed | http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/ - dnf - sylpheed-libs - 3.7.0-20.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: sylpheed-libs from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Libraries for sylpheed | http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/ - MacPorts - sylpheed: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: mail/sylpheed/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Related links - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Productivity CLI packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/productivity-cli-packages/) - Matched curated productivity category metadata from av.db. - [cairo](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cairo/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [gdk-pixbuf](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gdk-pixbuf/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [gettext](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gettext/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [glib](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/glib/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [gpgme](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gpgme/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [gtk+](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gtk/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [harfbuzz](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/harfbuzz/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [pkgconf](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [imapfilter](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/imapfilter/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, mail, productivity. - [nmail](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/nmail/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, email-client, productivity. - [s-nail](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/s-nail/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, email-client, productivity. - [aerc](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/aerc/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity. - [alot](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/alot/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity. - [alpine](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/alpine/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity. - [extract_url](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/extract-url/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity. - [gmailctl](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gmailctl/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, email, productivity. - [qalculate-gtk](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/qalculate-gtk/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: at-spi2-core, cairo, cli, core, desktop. - [claws-mail](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/claws-mail/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: at-spi2-core, cairo, cli, client, core. - [cherrytree](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cherrytree/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: at-spi2-core, cairo, cli, core, gdk. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/sylpheed.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/sylpheed.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph