The editor/viewer

MyMAIL - Mail editor

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The editor/viewer

MyMAIL has it's own editor.
This editor has more features than just edit.
  • Detects links in a mail
    • Mail addresses
    • HTTP (www) links
    • FTP links
  • Different colors in intended text.
  • Different colors in links
The same code is used for editor and viewer
the only difference is that the viewer is not editable
you can only copy text from the viewer.

You can copy, cut and paste text in the editor
to and from the clipboard.
  • Copy
    Slelect the text and then press Ctrl+C
  • Cut
    Slelect the text and then press Ctrl+X
  • Paste
    Ctrl+V Inserts the text from clipboard at cursor position.
Function keys can be used to insert predefined text.

Other keys:
  • Save text to file
    Ctrl+S
  • Quit program
    Ctrl+Q
  • Erase line
    Ctrl+Y
  • Home
    Home
  • Close window
    Ctrl+U

Add external text

You can add text to your mail by:
  • Drag a text file to the editors text field.
  • Paste text from clipboard.

Edit/View Limits

There is some limits in the editor:
  • Max 32k of text.
  • Max 32 links is possible to view.
  • Max 40 attachments.

Some smilys is displayed as icons:

:-)
:-(
:-|
:-/
;-)
:P

Links

All links detected in the editor are displayed in the user selected color.
If you click on a the link a popup menu is displayed and from this you can select different actions.
  • Copy to clipboard
  • Activate link
  • Add to www hotlist

Dead letter

If a mail is closed by user or program termination then the mail is saved to a file named dead0.txt, dead1.txt up to dead7.txt
This can be handy if you close a mail by mistake and like to use the text again.

Just open a new edit window and drag the dead.txt file into the edit window.

File attachments

It is possible to attach files to a mail.
Read more about file attachments here

Mime

MIME encode/decode

Fonts

Read more in "Font selector"

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