Balsa - ArchWiki

# Balsa

Balsa is a small and light email client written the GNOME project. As such it has tight integration with Gnome, however works quite well with other desktops or window managers.

## Installation

Install the balsa package, available from the Official repositories.

## Configuration

Balsa launches with the normal email client setup wizard that takes you through most setup. In addition there is a preferences item on the edit menu. Configuration files can be found in ~/.balsa.

One issue to which I found no good solution (unless you are running GNOME) is configuring the browser to open automatically when you click on a link in an email.

Note: You will want to examine other options before using this method. It may cause breakage.

1) click on a link in an email and note which browser it is trying to load - in my case /usr/lib/firefox/firefox.

2) Check how much of that path exists and create what is missing. I had to create /usr/lib/firefox

    mkdir /usr/lib/firefox

3) Make a soft link to your preferred browser.

    ln -s /usr/bin/chromium /usr/lib/firefox/firefox

Category:

- Email clients