enamel - the mailserver for the B eOS
Contents [ enamel ] [ Introduction ] [ Licence ] [ Features ] [ Restrictions ] [ What's new? ] [ Future ] [ History ] [ Installation ] [ Configuration ] [ Usage ] [ Availability ] [ Known bugs and problems ] [ Thanks ] | Using hermes After you have done your setup, start MCP and the transfer agents you will need (pop3, pop3d, smtp, smtpd or nntp). You should also launch hermes a first time. On the first startup, hermes may tell you that it is not the default application for message/rfc822 files. It will also offer you to do the necessary changes for you, which you should accept. Now you're ready to go: ### Writing mail in 3 seconds: To begin writing a mail double-click on the hermes icon and wait for the Create message window to come up. #### The interface #### The menu bar Currently only the File menu has functionality. You can only get some information about hermes and quit the program. #### The top-buttons Send With this button you can send the message. Quote This quotes the message that the current message replies to. The button has no functionality if you create a new message. Cancel This button cancels the current message. #### The tab view The tab view consists of two tabs, Recipients and Attachments. ##### Recipients The Recipients tab allows you add or change the recipients of the message. Click on Add... to bring up the Add recipient window. Here you can enter the e-mail address of the recipient. On the left you can select the type of recipient: To: The "normal" type of recipient. CC: Send a carbon copy of this message to the e-mail address given. BCC: Send a blind carbon copy of this message to the e-mail. Newsgroups: Send the message to the given newsgroups. With the Change... button ( or by double clicking on the entry) you can change the currently selected recipient. #### Attachments Reading mail In the `Attachments` tab you can add, change and remove attachments of your mail. You can click on Add... to bring up a file panel in which you can select a file to attach to the message. You can also drag a file from the Tracker into the hermes window to add it as an attachment to the message. Writing mail In the `Attachments` tab you can save a marked attachment with the `Save...` button. You can also save an attachment when you click on it and drag it into the Tracker. To view an attachment without saving it, use the `View...` button. Double-clicking the attachment with the mouse will also view the attachment. Note: This will start the default application for the attachments MIME type. #### The profile popup The profile popup lists all profiles that you specified in the configuration. It is initialised to the target of the original message or to default if you create a new message. An explanation of profiles: The profile determines which settings are used when sending mail. When you reply to a mail (or forward it or post a follow-up) the name of the profile used is the name of the target of the original message. This specifies for example the signature file used, if autoquoting is enabled, etc. These settings cannot be changed, but once the create message window is opened you can specify which profile you want to use to actually send the mail. You can use this to decide on the fly if you want to send this mail with your business or your private e-mail address or if you have configured the nntp settings accordingly you can decide to which newsserver the mail will be sent. #### The subject field Click here to enter a subject for the current message. #### The text input field Here you can type to enter the text of the message. ### Reading mail #### The interface To read a message double-click on the message and hermes will be launched and automatically displays the message. Here you can check the recipients of the message and reply to the message or forward it. If you close the window the message will be marked as "Old". If you want to retain the "New" state of the message select Close (Unchanged) from the File menu. ### Replying/forwarding/followuping mail To reply to a message click on the Reply... button in the read message window. When replying to a message hermes uses the same window as to write a new message, but, depending on the configuration, some fields in the window will be filled. When replying the Quote... button will quote the old message into the current message at the current cursor position. If you reply to a message the old From address will normally be used as the To address of the new message and the subject is changed according to the configuration. If a Reply-To is set in the original message it will be used instead of the From address. When forwarding the subject is changed, too, but no To is set. A follow up is similar to a reply, but it goes to the given newsgroups instead of to the sender of the article.