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- From: Jonathan Duddington
- Subject: Sending Messages
- Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 04:40:00
- Source: docs
-
- Replies
- =======
-
- Click on the Write button in the Article Viewer button bar, to bring up the Reply dialogue. This asks whether you want to send a Mail or News message.
- Options given are:
-
- Reply & Quote.
- This will quote the text of the original article, indenting it
- with a quotation indicator.
-
- Reply & Forward.
- This copies the text of the original article, but does not indent
- it or add quotation indicators.
-
- Reply - blank.
- No text from the original article is copied.
-
- Remove Sig.
- This option removes the signature when copying from the original
- article. This option is set by default when there is a signature.
-
- Selected Text Only.
- This option copies only the selected text from the original article.
- It is set by default if any text is selected.
-
- Mail
- This opens the Write Mail window, to allow you to compose an email.
- Confirmation is requested if you attempt to reply to a news article
- by writeing an email.
-
- News
- This opens the Write News window, to allow you to compose a news
- article.
-
- Add
- This adds the contents (or the selected text) from the Article
- Viewer window onto the end of the text in the Write Mail or Write
- News window (which must already be open). This is useful if you want
- to quote from more than one article in the message which you are
- writing.
-
- Edit
- This allows you to edit the text in the Article Viewer window,
- which is otherwise write-protected.
-
-
- Article Editing
- ===============
-
- The menu and key commands which are available in the Write Mail and Write
- News windows are the same as in the Article Viewer window, except that
- editing is allowed.
-
- The Ctrl-F (format text command) is particularly useful to tidy up
- paragraphs which have been messed up by word-wrapping of long lines
- of text.
-
- The Write Mail and Write News windows show the currently selected user
- name (in the box to the right of the Bin icon). This determines the
- "From" address and the signature in the outgoing message. You can
- change the current user by clicking with Menu over this field.
-
-
- Posting Emails
- ==============
-
- The Expand Header button (Yellow Triangle) in the Write Mail window
- reveals extra lines in the email's header:
-
- Cc Additional copies of the email are sent to any addresses
- in this field, and these addresses are included in a Cc:
- line in the email's internet header.
-
- Bcc As Cc, but these addresses are not shown in the email's
- internet header, so they are not visible to people who
- receive the message.
-
- Reply to Set this if you want people to reply to a different email
- address from the one associated with your user name.
-
- If the "Ack" option is set, then the email header will contain a
- Return-Receipt-To line, asking for an acknowledgement message when the
- email is received. The default setting for this option is controlled
- from the User dialogue.
-
-
- Posting News Articles
- =====================
-
- A warning is given if you attempt to post to more than one newsgroup.
- This is to make sure that you realise that the original article, and
- hence your reply, are cross-posted to a number of newsgroups.
-
- You can request that replies to your message are posted to a different
- set of newsgroups from the ones you send the article to, by setting
- the "Follow Ups" option in the Write News window, and writing the new
- newsgroup name(s) in the field to its right.
-
- The Write News window includes an "Email to" field. You can enter an
- email address here in order to send a copy of your message as an
- email. This field is normally hidden, but can be revealed by
- clicking the Expand Header button (Yellow Triangle icon).
-
-
- Attachments
- ===========
-
- To send a file as an attachment with a message, drag the file icon
- and drop it onto the BUTTON BAR of the Write News or Write Mail
- window.
-
- Anything dropped into the TEXT window will be inserted into the text
- at the cursor position, although if the filetype is not Text, or if
- the file is very large, a warning will be given.
-
-
- Outgoing Message Logs
- =====================
-
- When an email or news message is posted from the Write Mail or Write
- News windows, a copy is put into the appropriate Log box.
-
- The log box for News postings is specified in the Preferences->News
- dialogue.
-
- The log box for Mail postings is specified in the User dialogue for
- whatever user name is currently selected.
-
-
- Viewing Posted Messages
- =======================
-
- When a message (news or email) is posted, by clicking on the red pillar
- box button, it is stored in an outgoing message directory, waiting for
- the next time when you connect to the internet.
-
- You can view your waiting outgoing messages by clicking on the
- "Show Outgoing" button (orange square icon) in the Boxes list window.
-
- This brings up another window which lists the outgoing messages.
- You can select messages from this list and delete them, or double-
- click on one to display it in an editor, so that you can make changes
- if required.
-
- Adjust-double-click on the an email outgoing messages list will show
- "envelope" file rather than its text. This does not apply when using
- the ANT transport.
-
- If you delete a message from the outgoing message list, the
- corresponding entry from the Log box is also deleted. If you edit an
- outgoing message, then the corresponding entry in the Log box is also
- ammended.
-
- Automatic acknowledgements to emails which have been received are also
- shown in the outgoing message list, waiting to be sent.
-
- Outgoing messages can be "held" (prevented from being transmitted when
- you connect to the internet) by selecting them and clicking on the
- Cross button. The status icon by the articles is then shown in grey
- to indicate that the messages are inactive. To remove the "hold",
- select the articles and click on the Tick button.
-
-