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Reply to a message

This is used when you reply to the message shown in Main Window, Forward or when you enter a new message. The following options are available:

To:
Here you can enter or change the receiver of the message. If you enter a name that is not in the user-database, a window will pop up with suggestions of names based on what you entered. Click on the name you want or use the up and down arrows to selected a name and press enter to have it inserted into the To: field. ESC will leave the name as it is. This field may not be available, depending on the system type.
To-Address:
If the system type uses addresses instead of or in addition to names, this field is available.
Subject:
Here you can enter or change the subject of the message.
Conference:
Here you can change the conference the reply should be entered into. THOR will try to fill out the complete conference name if you do not enter a complete name of the conference. The conference can also be selected from the list of conferences that pops up if you click on the button to the right of the field.
Private:
With this you can change if the message is to be Private or readable by all. Not all systems and conferences allows you to change this status. This field may not be available, depending on which system type the current system uses.
Reflow:
By deselecting this tag, the original message is not re-formatted in the editor. This is useful on some special messages where the reflow system gives an unwanted result.
Include Text:
Option for letting you include the text of the message you write an answer to or not.
File Attachment
If the system type supports it, you can select a files to include with the message. On Internet news/mail type of systems, this files will be coded using the base64 method and sent in a multipart MIME message. Other system types might use other methods for sending this file to the receiver.
Extras...
This window contains other options available when writing or replying to a message.
PGP Encrypt
Selecting this option will let you encrypt the message with the given receivers PGP public key.
PGP User ID
This is the user id from the keyring to use when encrypting a message using PGP. This is NOT the key id, which is something else!
PGP Sign
Selecting this option will sign the message with your secret PGP key.
Urgent
If the system type supports it, you can set this flag to signify that this message is important and should be given high priority. On Fido systems, this is the same as "Crash mail".
Receipt
If the system type supports it, you can set this flag to signify that you want a receipt message from the receiver when he receives this message.
Encode as 7-bit
If the system type supports it, you can set this flag to signify that you want this message to be coded for transmition over a 7-bit (that strips national characters etc.) On Internet news/mail system types, this means that the message will be encoded with a MIME method called "quoted-printable" (or quoted-unreadable as some like to call it).

When you are satisfied with this you press return (with no active gadgets) or click on "Ok".


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