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- <H2><A NAME="s6">6.</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc6">The menu options of Sylpheed.</A></H2>
- <P>The menu in Sylpheed is the primary entry to all the things
- you can do with Sylpheed. The menu structure gives you following
- options:</P>
- <H2><A NAME="ss6.1">6.1</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc6.1">File menu</A>
- </H2>
- <P>
- <UL>
- <LI><I>Add mailbox:</I> this option lets you add a new MH mail-directory.
- It will generate IN, OUT, QUEUE, DRAFT and TRASH mailfolders
- inside the new mailbox.</LI>
- <LI><I>Check for new messages in all folders:</I> rescans the entire tree
- of existing mailboxes to reflect the correct state (usually
- won't be necessary).</LI>
- <LI><I>Folder:</I> lets you add, rename or delete a mailfolder.
- <UL>
- <LI><I>Create new folder:</I> to create a new folder. You must select
- the top level node of the folder tree of a sub folder before
- using this menu entry, in order to define the location of the
- new folder to create.</LI>
- <LI><I>Rename folder:</I> change the name of the selected folder.</LI>
- <LI><I>Delete folder:</I> delete the selected folder (also delete the
- messages contained in the selected folder).</LI>
- </UL>
- </LI>
- <LI><I>Import mbox file...:</I> lets you import an mbox file
- (like created by Pine) into an MH mailbox.</LI>
- <LI><I>Export to mbox file:</I> lets you export an MH mailbox to an mbox file.</LI>
- <LI><I>Empty trash:</I> obviously, this will empty the trash folder.</LI>
- <LI><I>Save as:</I> lets you save the selected e-mail to a plain textfile
- on disk.</LI>
- <LI><I>Print:</I> lets you print the selected e-mail to a printer.</LI>
- <LI><I>Exit:</I> ends Sylpheed.</LI>
- </UL>
- </P>
- <H2><A NAME="ss6.2">6.2</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc6.2">Edit menu</A>
- </H2>
- <P>
- <UL>
- <LI><I>copy:</I> lets you copy the selected text to a buffer,
- from where you can paste it into a different place.
- Shortcut: Ctrl-C</LI>
- <LI><I>select all:</I> selects all the text in the current window.
- Shortcut: Ctrl-A</LI>
- <LI><I>select thread:</I> selects all the messages of the current thread.</LI>
- <LI><I>Find in current message:</I> searches a string in the current message.
- Shortcut: Ctrl-F</LI>
- <LI><I>search messages:</I> searches a message based on its To, From, Subject
- header fields or body content. Start searching from the selected
- message, in the selected folder.
- Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-F</LI>
- </UL>
- </P>
- <H2><A NAME="ss6.3">6.3</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc6.3">View menu</A>
- </H2>
- <P>The view menu allows you to change the way that Sylpheed appears.
- You can set different windows separately (folder view, messages etc.),
- enable or disable the statusbar and so on.
- It contains also the commands to toggle the display of some parts
- of the current message, or sort the messsages in the selected folder
- based on different attributes.</P>
- <P>
- <UL>
- <LI><I>Show or hide:</I> let you control the parts of the Sylpheed user interface
- you want to display.
- <UL>
- <LI><I>Folder tree:</I> not implemented yet</LI>
- <LI><I>Message view:</I> show or hide the message pane. When hidden, the
- messages are displayed in a separate window. To read a message
- double click in the summary pane. The message is then opened in
- a new window. You can close this new window by pressing the escape
- key.</LI>
- <LI><I>Toolbar:</I> sets how you want to see the toolbar. Icons and text,
- or one of these.
- <UL>
- <LI><I>Icon and Text:</I> show icons and text in the toolbar.</LI>
- <LI><I>Icon:</I> only display the icons, do not display the text
- below them.</LI>
- <LI><I>Text:</I> only the text, hide the icons.</LI>
- <LI><I>None:</I> hide the toolbar.</LI>
- </UL>
- </LI>
- <LI><I>Status bar:</I> show it or hide it.</LI>
- </UL>
- </LI>
- <LI><I>Separate folder tree:</I> selects between having the folder tree
- attached to the main window, or floating separately.</LI>
- <LI><I>Separate message view:</I> selects between having the selected
- message in the summary pane attached to the main window, or
- floating separately.</LI>
- <LI><I>Sort:</I> controls the way the messages are sorted in the selected
- folder. Each option sorts the messages in descending order (the
- bigger one being on the top of the summary pane), and can be
- reversed by selecting the same menu entry a second time (each
- time you select the same menu entry the order is reversed).
- <UL>
- <LI><I>Sort by number:</I> sort the message based on their MH number.</LI>
- <LI><I>Sort by size:</I> sort the message on their size.</LI>
- <LI><I>Sort by date:</I> sort the messages based on their date.</LI>
- <LI><I>Sort by from:</I> the messages are sorted by their sender address
- (From field, sorted alphabetically).</LI>
- <LI><I>Sort by recipient:</I> the messages are sorted by their recipient
- (sorted alphabetically).</LI>
- <LI><I>Sort by subject:</I> the messages are sorted by their subject
- (sorted alphabetically).</LI>
- <LI><I>Sort by color label:</I> sort the messages based on their color.
- Read the context menu description below to find how to assign
- colors to messages.</LI>
- <LI><I>Sort by mark:</I> separate marked and unmarked messages. Read the
- context menu description below to find how to mark messages.</LI>
- <LI><I>Sort by unread:</I> separate read and unread messages.</LI>
- <LI><I>Sort by attachment:</I> separate messages with and without attachment.</LI>
- <LI><I>Don't sort:</I> do not sort the messages.</LI>
- <LI><I>Ascending:</I> sort the messages in ascending order. If the field used
- to sort the messages is displayed in the summary view, a little
- arrow on the right side of the corresponding summay column header
- reflects the sort order you select from the menu.</LI>
- <LI><I>Descending:</I> sort the messages in descending order.</LI>
- <LI><I>Attract by subject:</I> move close to each other the messages
- having the same subject (or a close subject).</LI>
- </UL>
- </LI>
- <LI><I>Thread view:</I> turn the threaded view on or off. When turned on the
- messages of the same thread (the same discussion generated by replying
- to each other mail) are grouped as a tree representing the discussion
- flow. Each reply being linked to its orignal message. Each branch can
- be open or closed by using the small plus or minus sign next to it.
- The threads are based on the In-Reply-To and Reference fields of the
- mail header, so never start a new conversation by replying to an
- old message, this will add your new mail to the old unrelated thread.
- Shortcut: Ctrl-T</LI>
- <LI><I>Expand all threads:</I> if the threaded view is selected, expand all the
- threads in the opened folder.</LI>
- <LI><I>Collapse all threads:</I> if the threaded view is selected, collapse all the
- threads in the opened folder.</LI>
- <LI><I>Set display item:</I> use it to change the list of items to display
- in the summary view. This setting can also be changed through
- the common preferences.</LI>
- <LI><I>Go to:</I> use it to navigate from message to message based on the
- sub-menu criterias.
- <UL>
- <LI><I>Prev. message:</I> go to the previous message in the current
- folder.
- Shortcut: P</LI>
- <LI><I>Next message:</I> go to the next message in the current
- folder.
- Shortcut: N</LI>
- <LI><I>Prev. unread:</I> go to the previous unread message.
- Shortcut: Shift-P</LI>
- <LI><I>Next unread:</I> go to the next unread message.
- Shortcut: Shift-N</LI>
- <LI><I>Prev. new:</I> go to the previous new message.</LI>
- <LI><I>Next new:</I> go to the next new message.</LI>
- <LI><I>Prev. marked:</I> go to the previous marked message.</LI>
- <LI><I>Next marked:</I> go to the next marked message.</LI>
- <LI><I>Prev. labeled:</I> go to the previous labeled message.</LI>
- <LI><I>Next labeled:</I> go to the next labeled message.</LI>
- <LI><I>Other folder:</I> change the current folder. Opens a new window
- with the folder tree, and open the selected folder.</LI>
- </UL>
- </LI>
- <LI><I>Code set:</I> allows you to select what codeset you want to use
- for your e-mails. This codeset will be used when sending
- mails. Note Sylpheed will always try to use the more compatible
- codeset based on the characters used in your message, so unless
- you use special latin-1 characters in your mail, the encoding
- will be defined as 7bits ASCII even if you have selected the
- ISO-8859-1 character set.
- The auto-detect option let Sylpheed automatically detect the
- character set based on the content of the messages.</LI>
- <LI><I>Open in new window:</I> open the selected message in a new window.
- This new window can be closed by pressing the escape key.
- Shortcut: Ctrl-Alt-N</LI>
- <LI><I>Message source:</I> opens a new window and display the complete
- source of the message in it (without any formatting and with
- all the header fields).
- Shortcut: Ctrl-U</LI>
- <LI><I>Show all header:</I> toggles on and off the display of the complete
- message header.
- Shortcut: Ctrl-H</LI>
- <LI><I>Update summary:</I> update the Sylpheed window.
- Shortcut: Ctrl-Alt-U</LI>
- </UL>
- </P>
- <H2><A NAME="ss6.4">6.4</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc6.4">Message menu</A>
- </H2>
- <P>Here you find the following options:</P>
- <P>
- <UL>
- <LI><I>Get new mail:</I> this will collect all new mail for your
- default mail-identity.
- Shortcut: Ctrl-I</LI>
- <LI><I>Get from all accounts:</I> Sylpheed will poll all defined
- mail-identities for new mail.
- Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-I</LI>
- <LI><I>Cancel receiving:</I> stop the new mails reception.</LI>
- <LI><I>Send queued messages:</I> all the messages that you put into
- the "Queue" folder will now be sent off.</LI>
- <LI><I>Compose new message:</I> allows you to write a new e-mail
- message.
- Shortcut: Ctrl-M</LI>
- <LI><I>Reply:</I> an e-mail message will be created with the sender
- of the selected message in the summary pane as recipient.
- Depending on the settings, your signature will be added
- to the mail, and the original mail text will be quoted.
- If a part of the original mail is selected, only this
- part will be quoted in the reply.
- Shortcut: Ctrl-R</LI>
- <LI><I>Reply to</I>
- <UL>
- <LI><I>all:</I> as Reply, but the recipients will be all
- e-mail addresses in the original messages (including
- the ones in the cc: part).
- Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-R</LI>
- <LI><I>sender:</I> as Reply.</LI>
- <LI><I>Mailing list:</I> reply to the mailing list. To use
- when replying to a mailing list (unless you want to reply
- only to the poster of the message).
- Shortcut: Ctrl-L</LI>
- </UL>
- </LI>
- <LI>Reply to sender: as Reply, but the recipient is the address
- defined in the Sender header field (not the Reply-To address).</LI>
- <LI><I>Forward:</I> a message will be created with the original
- message in the summary pane as text. You can then
- enter a recipient e-mail address, edit the text if
- you want, and send it.
- Shortcut: Ctrl-Alt-F</LI>
- <LI><I>Forward as attachment:</I> as Forward, but the message
- text will sent along as a separate textfile.
- Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-F</LI>
- <LI><I>Redirect:</I> re-send the selected message to someone else. Compared
- to a forward, the message is not marked as forwarded, and the sender
- is the original mail sender.</LI>
- <LI><I>Re-edit:</I> lets you open all already sent message in
- edition mode to re-send it.</LI>
- <LI><I>Move:</I> lets you move the message to a different folder.
- You can select the destination folder from a browse-window.</LI>
- <LI><I>Copy:</I> as Move, only that the message is copied to the
- new folder, instead of moved.
- Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-O</LI>
- <LI><I>Delete:</I> lets you delete the message that is selected
- in the summary pane.
- Shortcut: Ctrl-D</LI>
- <LI><I>Mark:</I> Gives a submenu: <I>Mark/Unmark/Mark as read/Unmark
- as read</I>. When you mark messages, you can do a specific
- action (e.g. move, delete) on all of the marked messages.
- You can unmark messages that you mistakenly marked.
- The other options do as they say, they mark or unmark
- a message as read, and mark all read, marks all the messages
- of the current folder as read.</LI>
- </UL>
- </P>
- <P>A note on functions like Move, Copy and Delete: if you did not
- specify to execute the commands immediately (in the configuration),
- you will have to select the <I>Execute</I> command. This is a button
- in the toolbar, and can also be found in the Summary menu.</P>
- <H2><A NAME="ss6.5">6.5</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc6.5">Tool menu</A>
- </H2>
- <P>In the Tool menu are grouped the filters control, address book
- access and log window control.</P>
- <P>
- <UL>
- <LI><I>Address book:</I> opens the address book window.
- Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-A</LI>
- <LI><I>Add sender to address book:</I> adds the sender of the selected
- message to one of your address books. When selected a window
- opens to let you select the target address book.</LI>
- <LI><I>Filter messages:</I> apply the filter rules to the messages
- of the inbox.</LI>
- <LI><I>Create filter rule:</I> create a new filter rule based on the
- selected message.
- <UL>
- <LI><I>Automatically:</I> open the filter rules creation window
- to define a new rule.</LI>
- <LI><I>By From:</I> opens the filter rules creation window and
- fills the filter settings fields to build a filter based
- on the sender of the selected message.</LI>
- <LI><I>By To:</I> opens the filter rules creation window and
- fills the filter settings fields to build a filter based
- on the receiver of the selected message.</LI>
- <LI><I>By Subject:</I> opens the filter rules creation window and
- fills the filter settings fields to build a filter based
- on the subject of the selected message.</LI>
- </UL>
- </LI>
- <LI><I>Actions:</I> this menu is empty until you define some actions (see the
- configuration menu description).</LI>
- <LI><I>Delete duplicated messages:</I> This will remove messages from the
- active folder that were sent twice to you. For example you
- received a message directly and through a mailing list at
- the same time.</LI>
- <LI><I>Execute:</I> execute all the pending move, delete, and copy commands.
- Only if execute immediately is off in the common preferences.
- Shortcut: X</LI>
- <LI><I>Log window:</I> opens the log window. In the log window, you
- can see what Sylpheed is doing. Keeping track of things
- in that way is very good when you suspect there is something
- wrong. You can paste the info of the log window into an
- e-mail and send it to the developer or the mailing list.
- Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-L</LI>
- </UL>
- </P>
- <P>In the log window, you can see what Sylpheed is doing. Keeping
- track of things in that way is very good when you suspect there
- is something wrong. You can paste the info of the log window
- into an e-mail and send it to the developer or the mailing list.</P>
- <H2><A NAME="ss6.6">6.6</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc6.6">Configuration menu</A>
- </H2>
- <P>In the Configuration menu, clearly, you can set up Sylpheed
- the way you want it to work and react.</P>
- <P>
- <UL>
- <LI><I>Common preferences:</I> in this option you will be
- presented a dialog in which you can select a number
- of tabs. Each tab represents a specific set of settings
- in Sylpheed. In the next chapter, these dialog options
- are explained in more detail.</LI>
- <LI><I>Filter setting:</I> this option shows you a dialog in which you
- can set up the filtering rules that you want Sylpheed
- to process on receiving new e-mails. You first specify
- on which part(s) of the e-mail Sylpheed has to check,
- and then you tell Sylpheed what to do. You can move the
- message to a different directory (including trash to get
- rid of spam mail). Selecting the destination folder is
- possible through a browser window that comes up when you
- press "Select..."
- <P>You can choose not to receive the e-mail. Note that
- this will leave the message on the mailserver of your
- provider, the message will not be removed!</P>
- <P>When you press the "Register" button, the filter
- rule is added to the list of rules. Do you select
- "Substitute", then the selected rule is replaced by the
- information of the setting entered. "Delete" in the end
- will delete the selected filtering rule.</P>
- <P>Please note that you can set up two selections for a rule,
- which can be "OR'd" or "AND'd". OR means that one of the
- two selections will have to match for the rule to be
- executed. AND means that both selections have to match
- before an action is performed.</P>
- <P>To the right of the selection rules you see buttons
- called UP and DOWN. You can move rules up and down in
- the list. This will often trigger different behaviour
- in the selections, so consider the order in which
- you set the rules.</P>
- </LI>
- <LI><I>Template:</I> let your create a new message template.
- When composing a new message you can then used one
- of the defined templates and insert it (or use it to
- completely replace the content of your mail).
- The templates can contain some special characters
- that are replaced when the template is used in order
- to create a dynamic text. Use the symbols button on
- the templates definition window to see the list of
- the available symbols.</LI>
- <LI><I>Actions:</I> let your create new commands to be added to the
- 'Tools/Actions' menu. An action is a command that processes
- the select part of a message, the message body or the complete
- message file. It can be a background process, used as a filter
- (reads, modifies and replaces a message),...</LI>
- <LI><I>Preferences for current account:</I> here you can set the
- specifics for the account you are currently using.
- Should mail be deleted after fetching, what is the
- server it comes from, etc. Basically it is the same
- dialog form as shown in setting up a new account.</LI>
- <LI><I>Create new account:</I> here you name the account (each
- account has a recognizable name), you set up your name
- and e-mail address etc. You set up the type of server
- you access (POP4, IMAP4, local mailbox, newsserver)
- and where the downloaded messages have to go (default
- folder is the inbox). In the RECEIVE tab you select or
- unselect options, in SEND you can set up how to send
- your messages. In COMPOSE you can point to a specific
- signature file, and in ADVANCED you can set up alternate
- ports for the server, if these exist. (Do not mess
- with these unless you are sure you have to!!)</LI>
- <LI><I>Edit accounts:</I> here you can select one of the accounts
- you created, from a list, and edit the information about
- them. Note that you cannot edit an account for which
- you are writing a message at the same time. This to
- ensure data integrity.</LI>
- <LI><I>Change current account:</I> here you can select what
- account you want to use, to write a message.
- If you have enabled the status bar (in the view menu),
- the name of the current account is shown in the bottom
- right corner of the Sylpheed window (in the status bar)
- and can be changed by a click on it (then a menu appears
- and lists all your accounts).</LI>
- </UL>
- </P>
- <H2><A NAME="ss6.7">6.7</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc6.7">Help menu</A>
- </H2>
- <P>This menu lets you look at the manual and FAQ of Sylpheed,
- and you can also see the "about" info, who wrote Sylpheed.</P>
- <H2><A NAME="ss6.8">6.8</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc6.8">Context menu</A>
- </H2>
- <P>You can pull up context menus (through clicking button2) for
- the folder tree and the summary pane. (windows users: button2
- is the right mouse button.)</P>
- <P>In the folder view you can add, rename and remove folders
- through the context menu. You can also set the folder
- properties (define the selected folder as an inbox, outbox,
- trash, ...).</P>
- <P>In the message summary you can do a host of things from the
- context menu, like viewing message headers, opening a message
- in a separate window (also possible by double clicking on a
- message) etc...</P>
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