8.5 Understanding the Menus

8.51 The Microdot Menu Check for new mail logs onto your POP3 mailbox and collects any mail available. A GUI will then appear which will show the transfer of mail into your account. Microdot-II will delete all mail on the server if you set this option within the settings. Check for new news logs onto your news server and collects news for any newsgroups you have subscribe to. A GUI will appear and monitor the collection of news which is similar to the mail transfer GUI as shown above. If you have any newsgroups which (currently) have no news messages you will be presented with a GUI which asks whether you want to download "all articles" or the "last 100" - last 100 is recommended or transfer will take a long time! You will now be presented with a GUI the shows you the transfer of news per newsgroup. Check for news & mail this will carry out both the above tasks - checking for new mail and news. Hotkey: Amiga-N Send queued messages when you create a new message you can choose whether you want to send it or queue (to send at a later date). If you have any queued messages this option will send these messages. Hotkey: Amiga-S Help... if you select this option the online AmigaGuide help file will be launched. Hotkey: HELP Tip Of The Day this option brings up the Tip Of The Day (TOTD) GUI which offers you quick tips about using Microdot-II. See TOTD for more information. About Microdot... this launches a GUI which gives information about the Microdot-II programmer, copyrights, version number etc. Hotkey: Amiga-? Iconify will put Microdot-II into an iconified state (ie. will reduce the GUI to an icon size). Hotkey: Amiga-I Quit exit from Microdot-II Hotkey: Amiga-Q 8.52 The Edit Menu Copy this will copy any selected text selected within the message read window. You can then paste it into your own message. Select all selects all the text within a message read window and copies it to the clipboard. Dselect all deselects all the selected text in the message read window. Select by pattern... Not yet implemented. 8.53 The Groups Menu Open group(s)... open the contents of the group into a window - the same as double clicking a group. Hotkey: RETURN Edit group(s) parameters... you can edit the parameters of a group - signature file, name of the group and, most importantly, the filtering. You can set the topic for the mail folder (basically a longer version of the group name). Select a signature for the group - the signatures are created within the settings. Auto expire will automatically delete mails from your folder after a certain time period. ie. "auto expire after 30 days" will delete and mail/news that is over 30 days old. Information about filter option can be found here! Create new newsgroup... allows you to create a newsgroup "by hand" (ie. without using the group manager. If, however, your ISP does not support this newsgroup, you will not receive any news! Create new mail folder... you can create a new mail folder for storing incoming mail (other than in PRIV). These mailboxes can have filters assigned to them so that incoming mail is directed to the correct mailbox. Remove group(s)... remove a group from the group list. Hotkey: DEL Subscribe to group(s) you can subscribe to a newsgroup within the groups list. Say, for example, you had unsubscribed previously, you can subscribe at any time with this option. You can tell if a newsgroup has been subscribed as Microdot will insert an S in the next box after the newsgroup name. Unsubscribe from group(s) when you select a newsgroup(s) from the group manager you automatically subscribe to those groups. If, however, you decide you have had enough (maybe temporarily) you can unsubscribe with this option. A U will be placed in the box next to the newsgroup name. The next time you go to collect the latest news, unsubscribed newsgroups will be ignored. Group manager... stores all the newsgroups available from your ISP. This is where you select new groups for subscription. 8.54 The Message Menu Read... when you are within a group you can read a message by pressing return or by selecting this option. Hotkey: RETURN Write new... create a new message with this option. Will launch a GUI where you can insert the message information Hotkey: n Move to folder... select some mail messages and choose this option and you will be presented with a GUI which allows you to move the messages to another folder Hotkey: m Delete... delete a message or messages from the group Hotkey: DEL Private reply... reply privately to a message. This option is mainly for mail messages but you can also reply privately to a news message (and the message will be sent to the author) Hotkey: r Public followup... this option is only for news messages. You can select a news message and then respond and your response will be sent to the newsgroup where everyone can read it Hotkey: f Forward... forward either a mail or a news message to another person. Hotkey: w 8.55 The Settings Menu General settings... launches the settings GUI where you can then edit Microdot's preferences. Hotkey: Amiga+P Open Address book... opens the address book where you can store people's names and email addresses. Hotkey: Amiga+A More information about the address book can be found here! Single window? this is mainly for users with small screen resolutions. You can use all of Microdot's windows within the main GUI - if you select this, you will see (quite quickly) the difference. Single folder list window only? Hmm Single message window only? Hmm Reader sub-menu options as stated below... MUI... launches MUI settings for Microdot-II The Settings Reader Sub-Menu Show all headers this will show all the message headers available - ok if you have a large screen. Hotkey: Amiga+1 Show significant headers shows a limited number of headers Hotkey: Amiga+2 Show no headers shows no headers when you read a message Hotkey: Amiga+3 Use fixed font use the fixed font when reading messages Hotkey: Amiga+4 Use proportional font use the proportional font when reading messages Hotkey: Amiga+5 Wordwrap wordwrap the lines within messages so they fit within the message read GUI Hotkey: Amiga+6

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