mail/balsa 2.6.5_6 MidnightBSD

Mail reader for the GNOME desktop

System: MidnightBSD
Repository: mports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-09-10
Commit: a3f109b43f
License: gpl2
Categories: mail, gnome

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

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

MidnightBSD

mail/balsa

2.6.5_6

FreeBSD

mail/balsa

2.6.5_4

NetBSD

mail/balsa

2.6.3nb35

HardenedBSD

mail/balsa

2.6.5_4

GhostBSD

mail/balsa

2.6.5_4

Install

Binary package:

mport install balsa

From mports:

cd /usr/mports/mail/balsa && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	balsa>0:mail/balsa

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Library 12

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
libsecret-1.so : security/libsecret

Runtime 1

gnome-keyring : security/gnome-keyring

Build dependencies 12

Run dependencies 13

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

Options name: mail_balsa

Option

Default

Description

SPELL

Spell checking support

USES: cpe desktop-file-utils gettext-runtime gettext-tools gnome iconv localbase meson pkgconfig sqlite tar:xz
Service scripts: none

Files

Manual pages 1

balsa(1)

pkg-plist 147

bin/balsa
bin/balsa-ab
etc/sound/events/balsa.soundlist
lib/balsa/libhtmlfilter.so
share/applications/balsa-mailto-handler.desktop
share/applications/org.desktop.Balsa.desktop
share/balsa/gtksourceview-3.0/balsa-mail-style.xml
share/balsa/gtksourceview-3.0/balsa-mail.lang
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-encrypted.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-mark-all.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-mbox-draft.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-mbox-sent.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-mbox-tray-empty.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-mbox-tray-full.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-next-flagged.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-next-part.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-next-unread.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-next.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-postpone.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-previous-part.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-previous.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-reply-all.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-send-queued.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-signature-bad.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-signature-good.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-signature-notrust.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/balsa-signature-unknown.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/mail-inbox.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/mail-outbox.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/mail-queue.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/stock_book_open.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/stock_book_red.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/stock_contact.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/stock_mail-receive.png
share/balsa/hicolor/16x16/apps/stock_mail.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-crypt-check.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-encrypt.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-encrypted.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-mark-all.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-marked-new.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-next-flagged.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-next-part.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-next-unread.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-next.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-postpone.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-preview.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-previous-part.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-previous.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-reply-all.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-send-queued.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-sign.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-signature-bad.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-signature-good.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-signature-notrust.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-signature-unknown.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/balsa-trash-empty.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/mail-queue.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/stock_book_blue.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/stock_book_green.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/stock_book_open.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/stock_book_red.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/stock_book_yellow.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/stock_contact.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/stock_mail-receive.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/stock_mail.png
share/balsa/hicolor/24x24/apps/stock_view-fields.png
share/balsa/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/application-pgp-signature.png
share/balsa/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/application-pkcs7-mime.png
share/balsa/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/application-pkcs7-signature.png
share/balsa/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/application-x-pkcs7-signature.png
share/balsa/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/message-disposition-notification.png
share/balsa/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/message-external-body.png
share/balsa/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/message.png
share/balsa/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/multipart-alternative.png
share/balsa/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/multipart-encrypted.png
share/balsa/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/multipart-signed.png
share/balsa/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/multipart.png
share/balsa/icon-theme.cache
share/balsa/pixmaps/attachment.png
share/balsa/pixmaps/balsa-top.png
share/balsa/pixmaps/balsa_attention.png
share/balsa/pixmaps/balsa_icon.png
share/balsa/pixmaps/balsa_logo.png
share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/balsa.mo
share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/balsa.mo
share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/balsa.mo
share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/balsa.mo
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share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/balsa.mo
share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/balsa.mo
share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/balsa.mo

The first 100 are listed.

distinfo 1

File

Size

SHA256

gnome/balsa-2.6.5.tar.bz2

4.602383e+06

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Commit history 2

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-09-10

a3f109b43f

Lucas Holt

mail/balsa: bump PORTREVISION for gspell (#1079)

Rebuild after the gspell shared library ABI change. ## Summary by Sourcery Build: - Bump Balsa's PORTREVISION to trigger a rebuild against the updated gspell shared library ABI. Signed-off-by: Lucas Holt <[email protected]>

2026-09-06

a05b377b53

Lucas Holt

*: bump PORTREVISION for the textproc/libxml2 2.15 shared library change (#848)

`textproc/libxml2` 2.15 changed SONAME from `libxml2.so.2` to `libxml2.so.16` **and** removed ELF symbol versioning entirely — the new library defines no `LIBXML2_*` versions at all. Consumers built against the old library were never rebuilt, so they still record a dependency on `libxml2.so.2` plus version requirements nothing can satisfy, and fail at load time: ``` ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.2: version LIBXML2_2.4.30 required by /usr/local/lib/libevdocument3.so.4 not defined ``` ### Scope `Tools/scripts/bump_revision.pl -f -l textproc/libxml2` — **436 Makefiles**: 323 revisions incremented, 113 gained a `PORTREVISION` line. The diff touches nothing but `PORTREVISION` lines (verified: `git diff -U0` shows no other changed line), and spot-checked ports still …