some sylpheed questions

Hi I have just installed sylpheed from ports. Just a few questions... - can i use it without X11? - how would i add an icon to my dock for this app? im more used to doing this on freeBSD. - has anyone using sylpheed set it up using gmail? I have set it up with gmail on a windows machine, which works fine receiving but i cant send my using it... OS X 10.4.8 PPC G5 Thanks Eoghan