The Main Window Think of the Main Window as your mailbox, although this isn't necessarily the case at all times. You may have many Main Windows, and they may contain different mailboxes and "virtual mailboxes", which are the results of applying an active filter to a mailbox. If you have a mailbox open, you are presented with a list of messages. To select a message, use the mouse "select" button (normally the left button). If you double-click the select button quickly, the message will be read in a separate Read Window. Many message operations may be performed from this window, and you may select multiple messages for these operations. To select a range of messages, hold down the [shift] key while depressing the mouse "select" button, and drag the mouse through the messages of interest. Alternately, if you wish to exclude certain messages within the range, hold down the [ctrl] key while dragging or selecting messages. The difference in this mode of operation is that you may toggle any individual message to be unselected or selected within a given range. The messages are displayed with the message flags, the message type, the arrival date, the sender, the size of the message, and the subject. If your operating system supports alternate languages, the dates shown and the message information may be translated to your native language and character set. The title bar displays the current mailbox or logical view in effect, and an indication of the sort order in effect. Message flags are: First character position: N New (Unseen and Recent) U Unseen (blank indicates Seen) Second character position: F Flagged (blank indicates Not Flagged) Third character position: A Answered (blank indicates Not Answered) Fourth character position: D Deleted (blank indicates Not Deleted) "Recent" indicates messages which arrived since the last time the mailbox was closed. Message types are: Fifth character position: T Text M Multipart or other MIME attachment type Message functions which you apply from this window such as "Save", "Print", "Pipe", and "Reply" are applied to the entire message, in the case of multipart messages with attachments. If you wish to access or perform operations on individual parts of a multipart message, it must be done from the Read Window. If the number of messages in the window changes due to some operation, such as new messages arriving, messages expunged from the mailbox, or as the result of re-evaluating search filters, the scroll bar location will be reset. Performing operations on groups of messages at once, and setting the value of "Mail check interval" to a longer time (from the "Option Settings" menu (under Options), will minimize any disruptions to your work. If your messages are displayed in normal order, the location will be set to the bottom of the message list when the list changes. For other sort modes, the location is set to the top. Menu Operations The Mailbox Menu: Virtual Mailboxes This displays another window which has a summary listing of the mailboxes or virtual mailboxes contained in this Main Window. New Window This opens another Main Window, along with a Mailbox Selector so that you may open another mailbox into it. The Main Window numbered [1] must exist for the life of the program. Other Main Windows may be opened or closed at any time. Open ... This brings up a Mailbox Selector Window to open another mailbox within the current Main Window. You may use the Virtual Mailboxes Window to select between other mailboxes sharing this window. New Mail Check Check for any new messages which may have recently arrived in the current mailbox. Each mailbox also has a background timer which will periodically check for new mail automatically. Remove Deleted Remove any messages from this mailbox which have the DELETED flag set. this is permanent and irreversible. Preserve Newsgroup If this mailbox is a newsgroup, all of the current messages are marked DELETED when the mailbox closes, and they will not be reloaded the nexct time the mailbox is opened. Selecting this button (before closing the mailbox) will prevent this from happening. Stop Background Fetch You may have changed your preferences so that only a certain number of messages is loaded initially, and the rest fetched in the background. This function stops additional messages from being loaded. Resume Background Fetch If you have stopped the background fetch of messages, allows it to resume. Close Close this mailbox. Close All Close every open mailbox in all Main Windows. Exit Program Exit the program. The Message Menu: View Selected Open a Read Window containing the selected messages. View New Window Open a new Read Window containing the selected messages. You may have any number of Read Windows in use. Normally a unique Read Window is assigned to every mailbox or virtual mailbox, and any messages viewed from within that mailbox or virtual mailbox will use that window. Select All Select (highlight) all messages in this mailbox or virtual mailbox. Select New Select only those messages marked NEW. Select Unseen Select only those messages marked UNSEEN. Deselect All Undo any selection in effect. Find Allows you to define a filter to locate messages within this mailbox or virtual mailbox. They will be automatically selected as a result. The filter will not be "attached" to the mailbox as a virtual mailbox. The File Menu: Copy to Mailbox Copy or Move the selected messages to an alternate mailbox. A Mailbox Selector will be displayed, which allows you to choose the destination, and to select either "Copy" or "Move". Print Send the selected messages to the system printer. Save To File Save the selected messages to a file on the local system. Pipe To Command Invoke a system command which will be passed the selected msssages as input. If the command string entered contains %s, the messages will be placed in a temporary file whose name will be placed in this location when the command is invoked. The Edit Menu: Set Flags Allows you to set specific system flags on the selected messages, such as DELETED, SEEN, FLAGGED, and ANSWERED. Clear Flags Can be used to undo the settings of the system flags on the selected messages. Sort There are four sort styles. The default is Normal, or messages displayed in ascending order of delivery. Reverse changes this so that newly arrived messages are placed at the top of the list. Sorting by Subject allows you to group related messages containing common Subject lines. Any "Re:" information is stripped from the comparison, and all messages with the same subject are further sorted in ascending order with repect to delivery time. Sorting by Sender sorts the list based on an alphabetic sort of the Sender line, with all messages from the same sender further sorted in ascending order of arrival time. The Option Menu: Configure Define your Network Configuration Preferences Set your personal preferences. Option Settings Additional preferences settings. (Also note that the Compose Window contains additional preference information related to outgoing messages and delivery). Address Book View or change your personal Address Book entries. Note Book Displays a general purpose Note Book you may use as you see fit. View System Log When the program starts, a System Messages Window is created to view the results of operations and the output of various commands. Any program errors are reported to this window, and it will be re-opened if an error occurs and you have dimissed it. Use this function to re-display the transaction log even if no errors have occurred. The Compose Menu: Compose New Message Create a message to send. Reply To ... Reply to either the sender or all recipients of the selected message or messages. Forward Include or Attach the selected message or messages in a new message. Remail Remail the entire selected message or messages to another address. Convenience Buttons View Same as Message->View Selected View + Same as Message->View Selected except that a new Read Window is created to display this message or messages. Delete Same as Edit->Set Flags->Deleted Remove Same as Mailbox->Remove Deleted Copy Same as File->Copy To Mailbox Save Same as File->Save To File Reply Same as Compose->Reply->To Sender Reply + Same as Compose->Reply->To All