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<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Replying to a Message</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <H3>Replying to a Message</H3> You can reply to a message when you want to respond to the sender (and possibly recipients) of the message. <OL> <LI>Select or open the message to which you want to reply.</LI> <LI>Select Message>Reply, or click the Reply button on the main toolbar, or press Command+R. Eudora automatically completes the To and Subject fields and the message body using the information from the original message. Each line from the original message is preceded by an excerpt bar (this is referred to as "quoting"). The excerpt bars offset the original text, so readers can distinguish your text from the text you're replying to. (Styled text is quoted with left sidebars, also called excerpt bars, which are continuous vertical bars: "|".)</LI> <LI>Remove those parts of the original text that you don't want to include in your reply, and add your own text.</LI> <LI>When you are done, click Send (or Queue).</LI> </OL> You can use the Replying Settings options (Special>Settings...>Replying) to specify whether you want your reply messages to include only the sender of the original message, or the sender and all the recipients. Tip: To toggle that reply setting, hold down the Option key and select Message>Reply To All. <H4>Forwarding a Message</H4> You can forward a message when you want someone else to read it and possibly respond to you. Note that when you forward a message, not just the message body but also the header fields of the original message are included. <OL> <LI>Select or open the message you want to forward</LI>. <LI>Select Message>Forward, or click the Forward button on the main toolbar. Eudora automatically completes the Subject field and the message body using the information from the original message. The Subject is preceded by "Fwd:" and a space. Each line from the original message (including the header lines) is preceded by a right-angle bracket marker, ">" (this is referred to as "quoting"). The ">" markers offset the original text, so readers can distinguish your text from the text you&'re forwarding. (Styled text is quoted with left sidebars, also called excerpt bars, which are continuous vertical bars: "|".)</LI> <LI>The cursor is positioned in the To field: fill in the addresses of the people to whom you want to forward the message.</LI> <LI>Edit the existing text as needed, and add your own text if desired.</LI> <LI>When you are done, click Send (or Queue).</LI> </OL> <H4>Redirecting a Message</H4> You can redirect a message when you want someone to read it and respond to the original sender. When you redirect a message, you "bounce" it to someone else: you remove yourself from the communication loop and effectively change the message to be one from the original sender to your redirected recipient (with you simply as the "handoff" person in the middle). Thus, when your redirected recipient responds to the message, the reply goes not to you but to the original sender. <OL> <LI>Select or open the message you want to redirect. </LI> <LI>Select Message>Redirect, or click the Redirect button on the main toolbar. Eudora automatically completes the From and Subject fields and the message body using the information from the original message. The From field also includes the words "by way of" followed by your name or email address. This way the recipient knows who redirected the message (you). </LI> <LI>The cursor is positioned in the To field: fill in the addresses of the people to whom you want to redirect the message.</LI> <LI>Edit the existing text as needed, and add your own text if desired.</LI> <LI>When you are done, click Send (or Queue).</LI> </OL> Note: It is good email courtesy to not do much editing of the message you&'re redirecting. If you must add comments, we recommend that you enclose them in square brackets, [ ], and include your initials: [Don: Please reply to this right away. SD] <H4>Selecting a URL Helper Application</H4> Any string of text that Eudora recognizes as a "hot link," also known as a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), is active. Active URLs in incoming Eudora messages are normally highlighted in blue text and blue underlining, and are often enclosed by left and right angle brackets, "< >". You normally double-click on a URL in an incoming message (or Command-click on it) to open the URL. This launches an Internet application that, for example, opens a World Wide Web location, transfers a file, performs a gopher search, performs a Ph, Finger, or LDAP query, etc. Typical URL prefixes include http, ftp, gopher, ph, finger, ldap, and more. To specify what Internet application to use when opening a particular type of URL, take these steps: <OL> <LI>Open the incoming message containing the URL, or preview the message in the message preview pane, making sure the URL is visible in the pane.</LI> <LI>Hold down the Option key and double-click on the URL in the message window or preview pane. A standard file dialog is displayed.</LI> <LI>In the dialog, select the application you want to use for that type of URL.</LI> <LI>Click Open. The selected application is opened and goes to that URL.</LI> </OL> From then on, when you select a URL of that type in a Eudora message, your selected application is automatically used: it opens and acts on the URL. A sample URL is <http://www.qualcomm.com/eudora>, which a web browser would use to take you to QUALCOMM&'s main Eudora web page on the World Wide Web. If you hold down the Option key and double-click on such an http URL in a Eudora message, you can then choose the default browser (or other application) that you want Eudora to launch whenever you select that type of URL in an incoming message. (You select the URL, once again, by double-clicking or Command-clicking on it.) </BODY> </HTML>