Sending messages

11. Sending messages

11-1. Creating new message

By selecting an account from New message... submenu in Do menu, Message Editor will be displayed. If you click New message... button on Folder Viewer or Message Viewer, Message Editor will be displayed with the default outgoing account. By keeping mouse button pressed for about a half second on New message... button, the popup menu which includes the list of outgoing accounts is shown.
Message Editor has the following tab controls.

Destination
Input the destination addressed
Account
Select a account and default signature
Misc
Choose output encoding and attachment encoding

By clicking the button in the right side of labels, To:, Cc: and Bcc:, the popup menu to select an address group or an address entry. If you choose any of those, the name of group or entry is inserted to the text field. And you can input the group name and entry name to the text field directly. Use colon(:) to separate the levels of group and entry.

[Sending]
To send the message you complete to edit, click Send... button on Message Editor or select either Send Now... or Send Later... from Do menu. By keeping mouse button pressed on Send... button on Message Editor, the popup menu will be displayed and you can choose either Send Now... or Send Later....

[Saving]
Click Save button on Message Editor select Save from File menu, Musashi will save the message into Outbox folder.

11-2. Replying message

You can reply received messages by selecting messages in the list of Message Viewer, and clicking Reply button on Message Viewer or selecting Reply from Do menu.
You can select one of the following actions when replying.

Reply
Reply normally.
Reply to All
You can reply to all persons who receives the message.
Reply to Sender
For example, in a maling list, you can reply to the person who send the message, not to the list.

11-3. Forwarding message

You can forward received messages by selecting messages in the list of Message Viewer, and clicking Forward button on Message Viewer or selecting Forward from Do menu.
You can select one of the following actions when forwarding.

Forward
Forward normally.
Direct Forward
Forward message without removing sender or date of original message.

11-3. Attachment

To attach documents to a message, click Append attachment... button on Message Editor or select Append attachment... from Do menu. And then select a file to attach. Musashi will insert the attachment as an icon immediatelly after the current cursor position. And you can also append attachments by drag and drop operation.
To delete an attachment, put the cursor after the icon of attachment and press delete key same as deleting a character.

11-5. Using template

You can save the message that may be frequently used as template.
To open or insert template, select Template... from Open submenu or Insert submenu in File menu.

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