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  15. <H2><A NAME="s6">6.</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc6">The menu options of Sylpheed.</A></H2>
  16. <P>The menu in Sylpheed is the primary entry to all the things
  17. you can do with Sylpheed. The menu structure gives you following
  18. options:</P>
  19. <H2><A NAME="ss6.1">6.1</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc6.1">File menu</A>
  20. </H2>
  21. <P>
  22. <UL>
  23. <LI><I>Add mailbox:</I> this option lets you add a new MH mail-directory.
  24. It will generate IN, OUT, QUEUE, DRAFT and TRASH mailfolders
  25. inside the new mailbox.</LI>
  26. <LI><I>Check for new messages in all folders:</I> rescans the entire tree
  27. of existing mailboxes to reflect the correct state (usually
  28. won't be necessary).</LI>
  29. <LI><I>Folder:</I> lets you add, rename or delete a mailfolder.
  30. <UL>
  31. <LI><I>Create new folder:</I> to create a new folder. You must select
  32. the top level node of the folder tree of a sub folder before
  33. using this menu entry, in order to define the location of the
  34. new folder to create.</LI>
  35. <LI><I>Rename folder:</I> change the name of the selected folder.</LI>
  36. <LI><I>Delete folder:</I> delete the selected folder (also delete the
  37. messages contained in the selected folder).</LI>
  38. </UL>
  39. </LI>
  40. <LI><I>Import mbox file...:</I> lets you import an mbox file
  41. (like created by Pine) into an MH mailbox.</LI>
  42. <LI><I>Export to mbox file:</I> lets you export an MH mailbox to an mbox file.</LI>
  43. <LI><I>Empty trash:</I> obviously, this will empty the trash folder.</LI>
  44. <LI><I>Save as:</I> lets you save the selected e-mail to a plain textfile
  45. on disk.</LI>
  46. <LI><I>Print:</I> lets you print the selected e-mail to a printer.</LI>
  47. <LI><I>Exit:</I> ends Sylpheed.</LI>
  48. </UL>
  49. </P>
  50. <H2><A NAME="ss6.2">6.2</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc6.2">Edit menu</A>
  51. </H2>
  52. <P>
  53. <UL>
  54. <LI><I>copy:</I> lets you copy the selected text to a buffer,
  55. from where you can paste it into a different place.
  56. Shortcut: Ctrl-C</LI>
  57. <LI><I>select all:</I> selects all the text in the current window.
  58. Shortcut: Ctrl-A</LI>
  59. <LI><I>select thread:</I> selects all the messages of the current thread.</LI>
  60. <LI><I>Find in current message:</I> searches a string in the current message.
  61. Shortcut: Ctrl-F</LI>
  62. <LI><I>search messages:</I> searches a message based on its To, From, Subject
  63. header fields or body content. Start searching from the selected
  64. message, in the selected folder.
  65. Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-F</LI>
  66. </UL>
  67. </P>
  68. <H2><A NAME="ss6.3">6.3</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc6.3">View menu</A>
  69. </H2>
  70. <P>The view menu allows you to change the way that Sylpheed appears.
  71. You can set different windows separately (folder view, messages etc.),
  72. enable or disable the statusbar and so on.
  73. It contains also the commands to toggle the display of some parts
  74. of the current message, or sort the messsages in the selected folder
  75. based on different attributes.</P>
  76. <P>
  77. <UL>
  78. <LI><I>Show or hide:</I> let you control the parts of the Sylpheed user interface
  79. you want to display.
  80. <UL>
  81. <LI><I>Folder tree:</I> not implemented yet</LI>
  82. <LI><I>Message view:</I> show or hide the message pane. When hidden, the
  83. messages are displayed in a separate window. To read a message
  84. double click in the summary pane. The message is then opened in
  85. a new window. You can close this new window by pressing the escape
  86. key.</LI>
  87. <LI><I>Toolbar:</I> sets how you want to see the toolbar. Icons and text,
  88. or one of these.
  89. <UL>
  90. <LI><I>Icon and Text:</I> show icons and text in the toolbar.</LI>
  91. <LI><I>Icon:</I> only display the icons, do not display the text
  92. below them.</LI>
  93. <LI><I>Text:</I> only the text, hide the icons.</LI>
  94. <LI><I>None:</I> hide the toolbar.</LI>
  95. </UL>
  96. </LI>
  97. <LI><I>Status bar:</I> show it or hide it.</LI>
  98. </UL>
  99. </LI>
  100. <LI><I>Separate folder tree:</I> selects between having the folder tree
  101. attached to the main window, or floating separately.</LI>
  102. <LI><I>Separate message view:</I> selects between having the selected
  103. message in the summary pane attached to the main window, or
  104. floating separately.</LI>
  105. <LI><I>Sort:</I> controls the way the messages are sorted in the selected
  106. folder. Each option sorts the messages in descending order (the
  107. bigger one being on the top of the summary pane), and can be
  108. reversed by selecting the same menu entry a second time (each
  109. time you select the same menu entry the order is reversed).
  110. <UL>
  111. <LI><I>Sort by number:</I> sort the message based on their MH number.</LI>
  112. <LI><I>Sort by size:</I> sort the message on their size.</LI>
  113. <LI><I>Sort by date:</I> sort the messages based on their date.</LI>
  114. <LI><I>Sort by from:</I> the messages are sorted by their sender address
  115. (From field, sorted alphabetically).</LI>
  116. <LI><I>Sort by recipient:</I> the messages are sorted by their recipient
  117. (sorted alphabetically).</LI>
  118. <LI><I>Sort by subject:</I> the messages are sorted by their subject
  119. (sorted alphabetically).</LI>
  120. <LI><I>Sort by color label:</I> sort the messages based on their color.
  121. Read the context menu description below to find how to assign
  122. colors to messages.</LI>
  123. <LI><I>Sort by mark:</I> separate marked and unmarked messages. Read the
  124. context menu description below to find how to mark messages.</LI>
  125. <LI><I>Sort by unread:</I> separate read and unread messages.</LI>
  126. <LI><I>Sort by attachment:</I> separate messages with and without attachment.</LI>
  127. <LI><I>Don't sort:</I> do not sort the messages.</LI>
  128. <LI><I>Ascending:</I> sort the messages in ascending order. If the field used
  129. to sort the messages is displayed in the summary view, a little
  130. arrow on the right side of the corresponding summay column header
  131. reflects the sort order you select from the menu.</LI>
  132. <LI><I>Descending:</I> sort the messages in descending order.</LI>
  133. <LI><I>Attract by subject:</I> move close to each other the messages
  134. having the same subject (or a close subject).</LI>
  135. </UL>
  136. </LI>
  137. <LI><I>Thread view:</I> turn the threaded view on or off. When turned on the
  138. messages of the same thread (the same discussion generated by replying
  139. to each other mail) are grouped as a tree representing the discussion
  140. flow. Each reply being linked to its orignal message. Each branch can
  141. be open or closed by using the small plus or minus sign next to it.
  142. The threads are based on the In-Reply-To and Reference fields of the
  143. mail header, so never start a new conversation by replying to an
  144. old message, this will add your new mail to the old unrelated thread.
  145. Shortcut: Ctrl-T</LI>
  146. <LI><I>Expand all threads:</I> if the threaded view is selected, expand all the
  147. threads in the opened folder.</LI>
  148. <LI><I>Collapse all threads:</I> if the threaded view is selected, collapse all the
  149. threads in the opened folder.</LI>
  150. <LI><I>Set display item:</I> use it to change the list of items to display
  151. in the summary view. This setting can also be changed through
  152. the common preferences.</LI>
  153. <LI><I>Go to:</I> use it to navigate from message to message based on the
  154. sub-menu criterias.
  155. <UL>
  156. <LI><I>Prev. message:</I> go to the previous message in the current
  157. folder.
  158. Shortcut: P</LI>
  159. <LI><I>Next message:</I> go to the next message in the current
  160. folder.
  161. Shortcut: N</LI>
  162. <LI><I>Prev. unread:</I> go to the previous unread message.
  163. Shortcut: Shift-P</LI>
  164. <LI><I>Next unread:</I> go to the next unread message.
  165. Shortcut: Shift-N</LI>
  166. <LI><I>Prev. new:</I> go to the previous new message.</LI>
  167. <LI><I>Next new:</I> go to the next new message.</LI>
  168. <LI><I>Prev. marked:</I> go to the previous marked message.</LI>
  169. <LI><I>Next marked:</I> go to the next marked message.</LI>
  170. <LI><I>Prev. labeled:</I> go to the previous labeled message.</LI>
  171. <LI><I>Next labeled:</I> go to the next labeled message.</LI>
  172. <LI><I>Other folder:</I> change the current folder. Opens a new window
  173. with the folder tree, and open the selected folder.</LI>
  174. </UL>
  175. </LI>
  176. <LI><I>Code set:</I> allows you to select what codeset you want to use
  177. for your e-mails. This codeset will be used when sending
  178. mails. Note Sylpheed will always try to use the more compatible
  179. codeset based on the characters used in your message, so unless
  180. you use special latin-1 characters in your mail, the encoding
  181. will be defined as 7bits ASCII even if you have selected the
  182. ISO-8859-1 character set.
  183. The auto-detect option let Sylpheed automatically detect the
  184. character set based on the content of the messages.</LI>
  185. <LI><I>Open in new window:</I> open the selected message in a new window.
  186. This new window can be closed by pressing the escape key.
  187. Shortcut: Ctrl-Alt-N</LI>
  188. <LI><I>Message source:</I> opens a new window and display the complete
  189. source of the message in it (without any formatting and with
  190. all the header fields).
  191. Shortcut: Ctrl-U</LI>
  192. <LI><I>Show all header:</I> toggles on and off the display of the complete
  193. message header.
  194. Shortcut: Ctrl-H</LI>
  195. <LI><I>Update summary:</I> update the Sylpheed window.
  196. Shortcut: Ctrl-Alt-U</LI>
  197. </UL>
  198. </P>
  199. <H2><A NAME="ss6.4">6.4</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc6.4">Message menu</A>
  200. </H2>
  201. <P>Here you find the following options:</P>
  202. <P>
  203. <UL>
  204. <LI><I>Get new mail:</I> this will collect all new mail for your
  205. default mail-identity.
  206. Shortcut: Ctrl-I</LI>
  207. <LI><I>Get from all accounts:</I> Sylpheed will poll all defined
  208. mail-identities for new mail.
  209. Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-I</LI>
  210. <LI><I>Cancel receiving:</I> stop the new mails reception.</LI>
  211. <LI><I>Send queued messages:</I> all the messages that you put into
  212. the "Queue" folder will now be sent off.</LI>
  213. <LI><I>Compose new message:</I> allows you to write a new e-mail
  214. message.
  215. Shortcut: Ctrl-M</LI>
  216. <LI><I>Reply:</I> an e-mail message will be created with the sender
  217. of the selected message in the summary pane as recipient.
  218. Depending on the settings, your signature will be added
  219. to the mail, and the original mail text will be quoted.
  220. If a part of the original mail is selected, only this
  221. part will be quoted in the reply.
  222. Shortcut: Ctrl-R</LI>
  223. <LI><I>Reply to</I>
  224. <UL>
  225. <LI><I>all:</I> as Reply, but the recipients will be all
  226. e-mail addresses in the original messages (including
  227. the ones in the cc: part).
  228. Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-R</LI>
  229. <LI><I>sender:</I> as Reply.</LI>
  230. <LI><I>Mailing list:</I> reply to the mailing list. To use
  231. when replying to a mailing list (unless you want to reply
  232. only to the poster of the message).
  233. Shortcut: Ctrl-L</LI>
  234. </UL>
  235. </LI>
  236. <LI>Reply to sender: as Reply, but the recipient is the address
  237. defined in the Sender header field (not the Reply-To address).</LI>
  238. <LI><I>Forward:</I> a message will be created with the original
  239. message in the summary pane as text. You can then
  240. enter a recipient e-mail address, edit the text if
  241. you want, and send it.
  242. Shortcut: Ctrl-Alt-F</LI>
  243. <LI><I>Forward as attachment:</I> as Forward, but the message
  244. text will sent along as a separate textfile.
  245. Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-F</LI>
  246. <LI><I>Redirect:</I> re-send the selected message to someone else. Compared
  247. to a forward, the message is not marked as forwarded, and the sender
  248. is the original mail sender.</LI>
  249. <LI><I>Re-edit:</I> lets you open all already sent message in
  250. edition mode to re-send it.</LI>
  251. <LI><I>Move:</I> lets you move the message to a different folder.
  252. You can select the destination folder from a browse-window.</LI>
  253. <LI><I>Copy:</I> as Move, only that the message is copied to the
  254. new folder, instead of moved.
  255. Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-O</LI>
  256. <LI><I>Delete:</I> lets you delete the message that is selected
  257. in the summary pane.
  258. Shortcut: Ctrl-D</LI>
  259. <LI><I>Mark:</I> Gives a submenu: <I>Mark/Unmark/Mark as read/Unmark
  260. as read</I>. When you mark messages, you can do a specific
  261. action (e.g. move, delete) on all of the marked messages.
  262. You can unmark messages that you mistakenly marked.
  263. The other options do as they say, they mark or unmark
  264. a message as read, and mark all read, marks all the messages
  265. of the current folder as read.</LI>
  266. </UL>
  267. </P>
  268. <P>A note on functions like Move, Copy and Delete: if you did not
  269. specify to execute the commands immediately (in the configuration),
  270. you will have to select the <I>Execute</I> command. This is a button
  271. in the toolbar, and can also be found in the Summary menu.</P>
  272. <H2><A NAME="ss6.5">6.5</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc6.5">Tool menu</A>
  273. </H2>
  274. <P>In the Tool menu are grouped the filters control, address book
  275. access and log window control.</P>
  276. <P>
  277. <UL>
  278. <LI><I>Address book:</I> opens the address book window.
  279. Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-A</LI>
  280. <LI><I>Add sender to address book:</I> adds the sender of the selected
  281. message to one of your address books. When selected a window
  282. opens to let you select the target address book.</LI>
  283. <LI><I>Filter messages:</I> apply the filter rules to the messages
  284. of the inbox.</LI>
  285. <LI><I>Create filter rule:</I> create a new filter rule based on the
  286. selected message.
  287. <UL>
  288. <LI><I>Automatically:</I> open the filter rules creation window
  289. to define a new rule.</LI>
  290. <LI><I>By From:</I> opens the filter rules creation window and
  291. fills the filter settings fields to build a filter based
  292. on the sender of the selected message.</LI>
  293. <LI><I>By To:</I> opens the filter rules creation window and
  294. fills the filter settings fields to build a filter based
  295. on the receiver of the selected message.</LI>
  296. <LI><I>By Subject:</I> opens the filter rules creation window and
  297. fills the filter settings fields to build a filter based
  298. on the subject of the selected message.</LI>
  299. </UL>
  300. </LI>
  301. <LI><I>Actions:</I> this menu is empty until you define some actions (see the
  302. configuration menu description).</LI>
  303. <LI><I>Delete duplicated messages:</I> This will remove messages from the
  304. active folder that were sent twice to you. For example you
  305. received a message directly and through a mailing list at
  306. the same time.</LI>
  307. <LI><I>Execute:</I> execute all the pending move, delete, and copy commands.
  308. Only if execute immediately is off in the common preferences.
  309. Shortcut: X</LI>
  310. <LI><I>Log window:</I> opens the log window. In the log window, you
  311. can see what Sylpheed is doing. Keeping track of things
  312. in that way is very good when you suspect there is something
  313. wrong. You can paste the info of the log window into an
  314. e-mail and send it to the developer or the mailing list.
  315. Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-L</LI>
  316. </UL>
  317. </P>
  318. <P>In the log window, you can see what Sylpheed is doing. Keeping
  319. track of things in that way is very good when you suspect there
  320. is something wrong. You can paste the info of the log window
  321. into an e-mail and send it to the developer or the mailing list.</P>
  322. <H2><A NAME="ss6.6">6.6</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc6.6">Configuration menu</A>
  323. </H2>
  324. <P>In the Configuration menu, clearly, you can set up Sylpheed
  325. the way you want it to work and react.</P>
  326. <P>
  327. <UL>
  328. <LI><I>Common preferences:</I> in this option you will be
  329. presented a dialog in which you can select a number
  330. of tabs. Each tab represents a specific set of settings
  331. in Sylpheed. In the next chapter, these dialog options
  332. are explained in more detail.</LI>
  333. <LI><I>Filter setting:</I> this option shows you a dialog in which you
  334. can set up the filtering rules that you want Sylpheed
  335. to process on receiving new e-mails. You first specify
  336. on which part(s) of the e-mail Sylpheed has to check,
  337. and then you tell Sylpheed what to do. You can move the
  338. message to a different directory (including trash to get
  339. rid of spam mail). Selecting the destination folder is
  340. possible through a browser window that comes up when you
  341. press "Select..."
  342. <P>You can choose not to receive the e-mail. Note that
  343. this will leave the message on the mailserver of your
  344. provider, the message will not be removed!</P>
  345. <P>When you press the "Register" button, the filter
  346. rule is added to the list of rules. Do you select
  347. "Substitute", then the selected rule is replaced by the
  348. information of the setting entered. "Delete" in the end
  349. will delete the selected filtering rule.</P>
  350. <P>Please note that you can set up two selections for a rule,
  351. which can be "OR'd" or "AND'd". OR means that one of the
  352. two selections will have to match for the rule to be
  353. executed. AND means that both selections have to match
  354. before an action is performed.</P>
  355. <P>To the right of the selection rules you see buttons
  356. called UP and DOWN. You can move rules up and down in
  357. the list. This will often trigger different behaviour
  358. in the selections, so consider the order in which
  359. you set the rules.</P>
  360. </LI>
  361. <LI><I>Template:</I> let your create a new message template.
  362. When composing a new message you can then used one
  363. of the defined templates and insert it (or use it to
  364. completely replace the content of your mail).
  365. The templates can contain some special characters
  366. that are replaced when the template is used in order
  367. to create a dynamic text. Use the symbols button on
  368. the templates definition window to see the list of
  369. the available symbols.</LI>
  370. <LI><I>Actions:</I> let your create new commands to be added to the
  371. 'Tools/Actions' menu. An action is a command that processes
  372. the select part of a message, the message body or the complete
  373. message file. It can be a background process, used as a filter
  374. (reads, modifies and replaces a message),...</LI>
  375. <LI><I>Preferences for current account:</I> here you can set the
  376. specifics for the account you are currently using.
  377. Should mail be deleted after fetching, what is the
  378. server it comes from, etc. Basically it is the same
  379. dialog form as shown in setting up a new account.</LI>
  380. <LI><I>Create new account:</I> here you name the account (each
  381. account has a recognizable name), you set up your name
  382. and e-mail address etc. You set up the type of server
  383. you access (POP4, IMAP4, local mailbox, newsserver)
  384. and where the downloaded messages have to go (default
  385. folder is the inbox). In the RECEIVE tab you select or
  386. unselect options, in SEND you can set up how to send
  387. your messages. In COMPOSE you can point to a specific
  388. signature file, and in ADVANCED you can set up alternate
  389. ports for the server, if these exist. (Do not mess
  390. with these unless you are sure you have to!!)</LI>
  391. <LI><I>Edit accounts:</I> here you can select one of the accounts
  392. you created, from a list, and edit the information about
  393. them. Note that you cannot edit an account for which
  394. you are writing a message at the same time. This to
  395. ensure data integrity.</LI>
  396. <LI><I>Change current account:</I> here you can select what
  397. account you want to use, to write a message.
  398. If you have enabled the status bar (in the view menu),
  399. the name of the current account is shown in the bottom
  400. right corner of the Sylpheed window (in the status bar)
  401. and can be changed by a click on it (then a menu appears
  402. and lists all your accounts).</LI>
  403. </UL>
  404. </P>
  405. <H2><A NAME="ss6.7">6.7</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc6.7">Help menu</A>
  406. </H2>
  407. <P>This menu lets you look at the manual and FAQ of Sylpheed,
  408. and you can also see the "about" info, who wrote Sylpheed.</P>
  409. <H2><A NAME="ss6.8">6.8</A> <A HREF="sylpheed.html#toc6.8">Context menu</A>
  410. </H2>
  411. <P>You can pull up context menus (through clicking button2) for
  412. the folder tree and the summary pane. (windows users: button2
  413. is the right mouse button.)</P>
  414. <P>In the folder view you can add, rename and remove folders
  415. through the context menu. You can also set the folder
  416. properties (define the selected folder as an inbox, outbox,
  417. trash, ...).</P>
  418. <P>In the message summary you can do a host of things from the
  419. context menu, like viewing message headers, opening a message
  420. in a separate window (also possible by double clicking on a
  421. message) etc...</P>
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