Package Details: sylpheed-beta-iconmod 3.8.0beta1-2

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/sylpheed-beta-iconmod.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: sylpheed-beta-iconmod
Description: Lightweight e-mail client. Latest official beta with the coonsden.com icon theme.
Upstream URL: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/
Licenses: GPL
Conflicts: sylpheed, sylpheed-beta
Provides: sylpheed
Submitter: spicey
Maintainer: spicey
Last Packager: spicey
Votes: 8
Popularity: 0.013880
First Submitted: 2009-12-22 06:25 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-05-09 19:31 (UTC)

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spicey commented on 2025-11-14 09:23 (UTC)

You're missing the part where the sylpheed project right now is sadly effectively dead and fallen out of the perpetual hamster-wheel of staying up-to-date with the rest of the world. It's not in the official repos anymore for a reason.

The build's trying to use a 1.x version gpgme and is incompatible with the current v2. You might try to build and install v1 (perhaps aur/gpgme-git might help you).

ossa commented on 2025-11-12 05:38 (UTC)

In its FAQ ( file:///usr/share/sylpheed/faq/en/sylpheed-faq-2.html ), Q&A 2.16. says: Q: How do I enable GPG support in Sylpheed? A: When compiling Sylpheed, make sure you add --enable-gpgme in the ./configure command. When that completes successfully, there is a Privacy section in the Common Preferences.

We can see the dependencies do include gpgme, but I can't find such "a Privacy section in the Common Preferences" in the program, why? Installed from yay. So how to enable PG encryption? Did I miss anything? Could you kindly also verify this feature in future releases? Thank you.

xanc commented on 2025-11-11 22:44 (UTC)

It works. Great. I pass from AUR sylphed-beta to this because the first lacks PG encryption.

spicey commented on 2025-05-09 19:34 (UTC)

Thanks! I was struggling to beat those damned argv types into the submission to avoid the newfangled error, when a good and simple solution turned out to be just revert back to the warning-not-error from leaner times.

I updated the pkgbuild, it seems to build fine for me now.

TrialnError commented on 2025-05-08 16:17 (UTC)

It doesn't need that much to make it compile again.
For reference: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=sylpheed-lite&id=611b1276241b9e8a504df7e523bdd249b60ce634

<deleted-account> commented on 2025-03-02 01:57 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I've resorted to using to Claws Mail (I don't prefer it). After struggling to get this to build on my own, I think I'm just going to go with the .deb package. Thanks for your reply.

spicey commented on 2025-03-01 16:24 (UTC)

The Sylpheed project for all practical purposes is unmaintained, very dead and done with.

Probably somebody might be able to get the sylpheed git checkout to build successfully, but I won't be chasing that squirrel wheel myself.

Perhaps switching to claws-mail (it forked from sylpheed a long time ago) might work for you — it is under active development and seems to have a small and friendly community?

<deleted-account> commented on 2025-03-01 05:05 (UTC)

This, and all of the other iterations of this software on the AUR, does not seem to build at all anymore. Can anything be done about this?

spicey commented on 2023-03-29 04:48 (UTC)

Try building https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sylpheed-iconmod-git , I just made it. It does require automake-1.15 from AUR to configure the build, though.

As the author of Sylpheed has moved its development to git, I seriously doubt he'll bother to release separate "beta" packages anymore, so *-git packages are probably a way to go.

kuon commented on 2023-03-29 03:44 (UTC)

It seems gpgme-config is gone in the latest version of gpgme I installed (1.19.0-3). So I cannot activate gpg.

Any idea how to fix this?

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