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.
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
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.
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.