[balsa/gtk3] Update README



commit b94e7ff3d63b8b5081f25f4d64a1a92e3aab7367
Author: Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>
Date:   Sat Jul 20 13:53:17 2013 -0400

    Update README

 ChangeLog |    4 ++++
 README    |   57 +++++++++++++++++----------------------------------------
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ff5d9d8..d70bb29 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2013-07-20  Peter Bloomfield
 
+       * README: minor updates.
+
+2013-07-20  Peter Bloomfield
+
        Install and use a directory for GtkBuilder *.ui files
 
        * ui/Makefile.am: new file.
diff --git a/README b/README
index 1418b43..a972fee 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-Balsa E-Mail Client 2.0.x
+Balsa E-Mail Client 2.5.x
 =========================
 
 See ChangeLog for the list of the recent changes and NEWS for highlights.
 
-Copyright (C) 1997-2002 Stuart Parmenter and others
+Copyright (C) 1997-2013 Stuart Parmenter and others
 
 See 'COPYING' for licence information.  Please note linking against
-OpenSSL libraries is explicitely allowed.
+OpenSSL libraries is explicitly allowed.
 
 See 'AUTHORS' for a list of contributors
 
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Authors:
 
 Website:
 -------
-       http://balsa.gnome.org/
+       http://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/
 
 
 Description:
@@ -33,11 +33,6 @@ Configuration:
 should run './configure --help' to get an idea of them. More
 complete descriptions are here.
 
---enable-all
-       Will turn on some features that are less than stable,
-or unfinsished, such as filtering and spell-checking. This
-is really use-at-your-own-risk.
-
 --disable-more-warnings
        Balsa by default is very sensitive to compilation warnings
 which often mean simply programming or configuration errors. If you
@@ -89,15 +84,7 @@ Libraries:
 ---------
        Balsa uses libESMTP library available at 
 http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/
-The current version is available at
-http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/libesmtp-1.0.3r1.tar.bz2
-
-You can grab {i386,src}.rpm that has this option enabled from
-ftp://ftp.chbm.nu/pub/ (built on RH 6.2) or from
-http://balsa.gnome.org/libesmtp-1.0.3r1-1.i386.rpm
-http://balsa.gnome.org/libesmtp-devel-1.0.3r1-1.i386.rpm
-http://balsa.gnome.org/libesmtp-1.0.3r1-1.src.rpm
-       
+
 Balsa also needs the aspell spell checking libraries.
 
        Make sure you have libtool installed (if you get some error 
@@ -107,18 +94,18 @@ libtdl is missing it means you need to install just that package).
 
 Website:
 -------
-       Balsa CVS source comes with the Balsa website in the
+       Balsa source comes with the Balsa website in the
 directory for balsa/website/. Read balsa/website/README and
 balsa/website/INSTALL for more information. If you retrieved
 this source as a tarball or RPM or deb, this directory 
-probably won't exist. To get it, you need to go to ....
+may not exist. To get it, you need to go to ....
 
 
-Balsa CVS:
+Balsa GIT:
 ---------
-       Balsa is hosted on the Gnome CVS servers. To get
-the latest source, get the module 'balsa' from the CVS
-root ':pserver:anonymous anoncvs gnome org:/cvs/gnome'. 
+       Balsa is hosted on the Gnome git servers. To get
+the latest source, get the module 'balsa' from
+https://wiki.gnome.org/Git/Developers
 
 Specifying the SMTP Server:
 --------------------------
@@ -174,15 +161,14 @@ TLS extension in SMTP mail submission:
 Help System:
 -----------
        In order to compile the help files, you need to have the
-GNOME DocBook documentation system. Very good documentation
-can be found at: http://www.gnome.org/gdp/gdp-handbook/gettingstarted.html
+Mallard documentation system. Very good documentation
+can be found at: http://projectmallard.org/
 
 
 Balsa as mailto protocol handler:
 ---------------------------------
-       Balsa can be used as mailto protocol handler. You have to edit
-the GNOME URL handlers and add mailto protocol with command 
-balsa -m "%s".
+       Balsa can be used as mailto protocol handler; by default, a
+        desktop file that declares this capability is installed.
 
 Mailbox locking:
 ---------------
@@ -229,8 +215,8 @@ filename=/path/to/your/browser
 
 Reporting Bugs:
 --------------
-       See http://balsa.gnome.org/bugs.html for instructions.  Do not
-report bugs with GtkHTML - it is quite unstable. Patches are welcome.
+       See http://balsa.gnome.org/bugs.html for instructions.
+        Patches are welcome.
 
 
 
@@ -242,12 +228,3 @@ Known issues:
        Verify that balsa can create dot file in the mailbox directory.
        Recommended access privileges to /var/spool/mail are rwxrwxrwxt (01777)
 
-*      Some versions of libgnome is known to have bugs that lead to 
-       balsa crash on startup. Read for details
-       http://mail.gnome.org/archives/balsa-list/2000-October/msg00101.html
-       and make sure you have at least /usr/lib/libgnome.so.32.3.11.
-
-*       Experimental gcc 2.96 distributed with RedHat 7.0 generates 
-       spurious warning messages. You have to configure balsa with 
-       --disable-more-warnings option.
-


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