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Postoffice Distribution Lists

Other help is available from the Postoffice Documents.

Cut and Paste with other applications

VMail supports the standard X11 Selection method for cut and paste functions.

To paste text from another application into VMail, select the text from the other window by dragging the cursor with the Left button down. Release the button and then move the cursor into the target VMail window. Press the Middle button to paste the selected text. Alternatively, you could use the Insert key on the keyboard to paste the text.

To paste into another application, the reverse process should work. Simply select the text in the VMail window using the Left button and then paste it into the other application's window using the Middle button. Please note that the Insert Key will not work for this unless the other application specifically supports it.

Note that some applications such as the Sun cmdtool, shelltool, and textedit programs do not support the standard X11 Cut/Paste under OpenWindows 3.0. There is currently no known way to paste into these windows from VMail.


Customizing VMail using startup options

VMail uses a file named .vmailrc which is located in your home directory to store personally customized options. This file can be manually edited using any text editor. It overrides any defaults built into the VMail program.

Some of the options are located as menu items under the Other... menu button on the Main Screen. Changes can be made to the options by selecting the appropriate menu item which will set its state for the current session. Selecting Save Startup Options under the same menu will write the current settings to the user's .vmailrc file.

These options and their defaults are as follows :

Option		Type	Value		Description
autoopen	boolean	false		Pop open window when new messages
autoinc		boolean	false		Automatically incorporate new messages
incmess		boolean	true		Include message on replies
incmess		boolean	true		Include message on replies
compose		boolean	false		Startup windows as separate processes
replyall	boolean	false		Reply to all original recipients
nolog		boolean	false		Do not log messages
receipt		boolean	false		Ask for a return receipt
crypt		boolean	false		Encrypt messages
autosign	boolean	true		Insert signature file
headers		boolean	false		Show full message header information
beepmail	boolean	false		Sound audible beep on new mail
beeperr		boolean	false		Sound audible beep on errors
showbcc		boolean	false		Show Bcc field in compose windows
showfcc		boolean	false		Show Fcc field in compose windows
sort		menu	normal		Message sorting method
defattach	menu	sun		Default attachment format
quote		string			Insert message quote string
print		string	lpr		Default print command
filedir		string	~		Default directory to save files
fdir		string	~/Mail		Mail folder directory
inbox		string	~/Mail/inbox	Inbox folder name
record		string	~/Mail/Sent	Message log folder name
autodir		string	~/Mail/Sender	Autofile directory name
mailchk		scale	20		Check for new mail (seconds)
infotime	scale	5		Show info messages (seconds)
scrollpos	menu	left		Scrollbar position
maxfold		scale	20		Maximum number of menu entries
sendwrap	scale	0		Width to wrap on send (0=none)
compwidth	scale	79		Width of compose window
messwidth	scale	79		Width of message view window
headheight	scale	8		Height of header listing area
attachheight	scale	5		Height of attachment listing area
hfont		font	times-roman-14	Font for headers
tfont		font	courier-14	Font for displaying messages
fcolor		color	black		Foreground color (normal)
bcolor		color	bisque1		Background color (normal)
tfcolor		color	black		Foreground color for text/entry fields
tbcolor		color	seashell2	Background color for text/entry fields
mfcolor		color	black		Foreground color for alarm messages
mbcolor		color	red		Background color for alarm messages
sfcolor		color	black		Foreground color for selected text
sbcolor		color	lightskyblue	Background color for selected text
afcolor		color	black		Foreground color for active areas
abcolor		color	bisque2		Background color for active areas
ibcolor		color	black		Background color for cursor
dfcolor		color	gray50		Foreground color for disabled areas



Customizing the header suppression

How to suppress header lines in VMail:

VMail uses UNIX mail to transfer the messages. Some of you may have noticed that quite often the header information takes up much more space than the actual message. There is a way in VMail to suppress any or all of this header information.

In the .mailrc file in your home directory (create one if you do not have one), put the following lines:

ignore Received ignore Message-Id ignore Resent-Message-Id ignore Status ignore Mail-From ignore Return-Path ignore Via ignore Sender ignore Reply-To ignore X-Postoffice-In ignore X-Postoffice-Out ignore X-Skyway-In ignore X-Skyway-Out ignore X400-Received ignore X400-Originator ignore X400-Recipients ignore X400-Mts-Identifier ignore X400-Content-Type ignore Content-Identifier ignore Conversion ignore X-Mailer ignore X-Sender ignore Date Of course you can omit any lines from this list that correspond to fields that you want to see.


Command line flags


Creating and using forms

VMail has the capability of using pre-defined forms in compose windows. These forms can be used to fill in default values for existing header fields as well as to create new fields. Fields can be readonly (label) or read/write (entry). Menus and buttons can be created to assist a user in filling in the fields.

Forms can be selected for insertion into an existing Compose window by using the "Insert Form..." menu item under the "File..." menu. Compose windows can also be started from the command line (vcomp) and a form loaded by specifying the -form flag with the full pathname of the form as a parameter.

Rules for setting up a form file are listed below.


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