To learn how to use the Help System, press the Enter or Return key on your keyboard to view the topic "Help
Help."
The POPmail/PC Help System features context-sensitive help on all the functions of the program. When you press F1 to open the help window, the help message displayed will pertain specifically to the part of the program you are currently accessing. 7
Other general topics for which help is available are: 3
Composing
Messages
Viewing
Messages
How
Menus
How
Keys"
How
Dialog
Boxes
How
Mouse
Help
Contents
Help
Index
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(System) menu
(Alt-Spacebar)
The System menu appears on the far left of the menu bar and is represented by the
symbol. Alt-Spacebar is a keyboard shortcut that may be pressed at any time to pull down this menu. /
menu contains the following menu items: X
About
Calculator
Calendar
ASCII
Table
Video
IP
Finder
Finger
About POPmail/PC
When you choose the About command from the
(System) menu, a dialog box appears, showing copyright and version information. 8
Press Esc, click OK, or click Cancel to close the box.
Calculator
The calculator is a simple four-function calculator. Numbers and numerical operations are selected by clicking on the calculator buttons or by using the keyboard.
Calendar
The calendar is a simple electronic calendar. The current month appears automatically, but you can use the arrow keys or the calendar buttons to move to a future or past month.
ASCII Table
Use this desk accessory to look up the ASCII codes for any character, including special foreign language characters.
Video Mode
The Video mode command will switch between low resolution mode (25 line mode) and high resolution mode (43/50 line).
IP Finder
This desk accessory will look up the IP address of any internet name.
Finger
You use the Finger desk accessory to look at the status of an account on a given machine. For example, if you can provide an E-mail address, Finger will tell you the person's name in real life, the last time the person logged in to his account, and other site-specific details. *
At the University of Minnesota, you can use Finger as an electronic phone book. For example, to look up all people with the name Hickman at the University of Minnesota, you would specify HICKMAN@UMN.EDU. Then Finger returns all information pertaining to Hickmans in the University phone book.
Options Menu
The Options menu contains selections that allow you to configure various POPmail options, to print items, to fetch your incoming mail, and the Exit command. C
Preferences
Configure
Printer
Setup
Print
Fetch
Trace
Exit
Options
Preferences...
POPmail is designed so that you can customize the program to meet your needs. The Preferences dialog box allows you to customize several POPmail options.
The options you can set are:
Include
reply
Display
initial
copyright
screen
Add
signature
outgoing
Save
outgoing
Check
startup
Prompt
password
43/50
default
Signature
Use the mouse to click in the little box to the left of each option in order to toggle the preference ON or OFF (when an X appears in the box to the left of preference, it is turned ON). (Using the keyboard you can toggle a preference by pressing the Alt key together with the letter that is highlighted for the preference in question; or, press the <TAB> key repeatedly until the desired preference is selected [highlighted] and then press the Spacebar to toggle that preference ON or OFF.) If you don't like the default values, you are free to change them at any time. POPmail permanently remembers your settings.
Options
Configure
The Configure dialog box allows you to set various Mail Host and Network configuration information. You can also specify the time zone and language.
User
Name Time
Password Language
Mail
Host
Address Advanced
Subdirectory
Gateways
Name
Servers
Options
Print
If you are connected to a printer, you can print the message in the Viewer window by selecting Print from the Options menu.
Options
Printer SetUp...
The Printer SetUp menu item allows you to specify which printer port to use for printing. You can also enter a printer initialization string and an end-of-print string.
Options
Fetch
If you choose this menu item, POPmail will fetch your incoming mail. Your incoming mail is held for you at the post-office server until you fetch it. When you fetch incoming mail, each message is moved from the mail server to the POPmail subdirectory you have specified. Incoming messages remain in your database until you explicitly discard them.
When you fetch your incoming mail, POPmail will present you with a dialog box to inform you whether or not you have mail. Then POPmail will display the first new message in the Viewer window.
Options
Trace...
This menu item allows you to set up optional tracing of the execution of POPmail. POPmail can write trace information to a file or to a special window.
This feature is useful in trying to track down problems you may have running POPmail. It is particularly useful in trying to isolate network problems.
Options
Exit (Alt-X)
The Exit command exits POPmail, removes it from memory, and returns you to DOS. '
The current Composer window is saved.
Edit (Alt-E)
The Edit menu provides commands to cut, copy, and paste find, and replace text in Edit windows. D
You can also open a Clipboard window to view or edit its contents. /
You can choose from these Edit menu commands: F
Undo
Copy
Paste
Find
Replace
Search
Again
Clear
Composer
Edit
This will undo the last change made to the text in the current window. It will undo the last cut, copy, paste, or typing.
Edit
Cut (Shift-Del)
The Cut command removes the selected text from your document and places the text in the Clipboard. x
You can then choose Edit
Paste to paste the cut text into any other document (or somewhere else in the same document). [
The text remains selected in the Clipboard so you can paste it as many times as you want.
Edit
Copy (Ctrl-Ins)
The Copy command leaves the selected text intact but places an exact copy of it in the Clipboard. F
To paste the copied text into any other document, choose Edit
Paste. ,
You can also copy text from a Help window: _
From the keyboard, press Shift and an
arrow key to select the text you want to
copy.
With the mouse, click and drag the text
you want to copy.
Edit
Paste (Shift-Ins)
The Paste command inserts the selected text from the Clipboard into the current window at the cursor position.
Edit
Find...
The Find command displays the Find dialog box, where you type in the text for which you want to search. C
Find will search for text within the current text edit selection.
Edit
Replace...
The Replace command displays the Replace dialog box, where you type in the text you want to search for and text you want to replace it with. F
Replace will search for text within the current text edit selection.
Edit
Search Again
The Search Again command repeats the last Find or Replace command. ]
All settings you made in the Find dialog box remain in effect when you choose Search Again.
Edit
Clear Composer
Selecting "Clear Composer" from the edit menu will clear all text that has been entered into the composer window. This allows you to start over with a new message.
Sending Mail to a Group
Sending POPmail to a group is as easy as sending a message to one person. With POPmail you can keep group lists. A group is simply a list of recipients (E-mail addresses) that have been given a one-word alias (identifier). For example, you could create a group called Marx composed of these three E-mail addresses: o
harpo@squeezebox.circus.umn.edu
groucho@cigarbox.opera.umn.edu
chico@bandbox.hollywood.umn.edu
Make
Group
Select
Group
Group
Make Group...
To create a group alias name, select the "Make Group..." menu item from the Group pull down menu. An edit box with scroll bars will appear to allow you to enter the desired alias name and the recipients you want to include in the group. When you define a Group, you must type the group name first. The group names are followed by the user names of the members of the group. Within a group, each user name is separated from the next by one or more spaces (commas are optional). When you are finished entering the user names for one group, type the <ENTER> key twice before entering information to define another group. (Groups must be separated by a blank line.) T
When you have finished making groups, click on the oK button to save your changes.
Group
Select Group...
To send mail to a group you have already defined, select the "Select Group..." menu item from the "Group" pull down menu. A list box with a vertical scroll bar will appear, giving you a list of all your group alias names. Select the group name by typing the up and down arrow keys until the desired group name becomes highlighted. Then click on the Select button to select that group. The "To" field of the Composer window will be filled in automatically with the full E-mail addresses of the members of the group; the group alias name itself does not appear in the To box.
Memo Editor
The memo editor is a simple ASCII text editor that lets you open up multiple windows for the purpose of importing and editing ASCII text. Cut, Copy , Paste, New, Open and Save operations are supported, as well as a Find and Replace facility. Memo Editor commands are accessed through the Memo and Edit pull-down menus located in POPmail's main menu bar. -
Change
Directory
Open
Save
Save
Memo
Change Dir...
Change Dir brings up the Change
Directory dialog box, where you can specify a directory to make current. T
The current directory is the one POPmail uses to save files and to look for files.
Memo
The Open command displays the Open
File dialog box. In this dialog box, you select the text file you want to open in an Edit window. &
The Open a File dialog box contains:
an input box with a history list
a list box to traverse
the standard Cancel and Help action buttons
Open action button
an information panel that describes the
selected file
Memo
New opens a new Edit window with the default name Untitled. These UNTITLEd files are used as a temporary edit buffer; POPmail prompts you to name an UNTITLEd file when you save it.
Memo
Save (F2)
The Save command saves the file that's in the active Edit window to disk.
If the file has the default name (Untitled), POPmail opens the Save File As dialog box so you can rename the file and save it in a different directory or on a different drive.
Memo
Save As...
Save As opens up the Save
dialog
box, where you can save the file in the active Edit window under a different name, in a different directory, or on a different drive. ]
You can enter the new file name, including the drive and directory, and click or choose OK. A
All windows containing this file are updated with the new name.
Window (Alt-W)
The Window menu contains commands for manipulating and opening windows.
Most of the windows you open from this menu have all the standard window elements, like scroll bars, a close box, and zoom icons. Y
Close
Resize/move
Next
Window
Zoom
Tile
Cascade
Viewer
Composer
Show
clipboard
Window
Size/Move (Ctrl-F5)
You can move the Viewer and Composer windows, as well as dialog boxes, by using a mouse or the keyboard. Using a mouse, place the mouse cursor on the top bar of the window frame, press the left mouse button, and continue to hold the mouse button down while dragging the window to a new location, then release the mouse button. Using the keyboard, press Ctrl-F5 (or select "Resize/Move" from the Window pull-down menu and use the four arrow keys to move the window. Press <ENTER> when done.)
The Clipboard window (you can view the clipboard by selecting "Show Clipboard" from the Edit menu) and the Trace Window can be resized as well as moved. To resize a window using the mouse, grab the lower right corner of the frame and press the left mouse button, dragging the mouse until the desired size is achieved; or, using the keyboard, select "Resize/Move" from the Window menu and use the arrow keys while holding the Shift key down. Press <ENTER> when done. In general, the Composer window, the Viewer window, and dialog boxes cannot be resized. However, in 43/50 (high-resolution) mode, you can click on the zoom box (the little square in the upper right-hand corner of the window) to change the window back and forth from full screen to half-screen.
Window
Close (Alt-F3)
Choose Close to close the active window. N
You can also click the Close box in the upper left corner to close a window.
Window
Choose Next to make the next window active, which makes it the topmost open window.
Window
Choose Zoom to resize the active window to the maximum size. b
If the window is already zoomed, you can choose this command to restore it to its previous size.
You can also double-click anywhere on the window's title bar (except where an icon appears), or on the Zoom box in the window's upper right corner, to zoom or unzoom the window.
Window
Choose Window
Tile to tile all your open Edit windows. L
Tiled Windows
Window
Cascade
Choose Window
Cascade to stack all open Edit windows. A
Cascaded Edit Windows
Window
Viewer
Selecting "Viewer" from the "Window" menu will put the Viewer
Window in front of any other windows on your screen. The Viewer Window shows your incoming mail messages.
Window
Composer
Selecting "Composer" from the "Window" menu will put the Compose
Window in front of any other windows on your screen. The Compose Window is used to write mail messages you wish to send.
Window
Show Clipboard
The Show Clipboard command opens the Clipboard window, which stores the text you cut and copy from other windows. Any text you cut or copy is put into the Clipboard. e
The currently selected (highlighted) Clipboard text is the text POPmail uses when you choose Paste.
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HELP CONTENTS
Help
Menus
Keys
Editor
Commands
Viewer
Window
Composer
Window
Configuring
POPmail
Printing
Groups
Memos
Windows
Help Index
ACK, ASCII
Table, About
Dialog
Box, About
Dialog, Advanced
Configuration, Append
Signature "
Calculator, Calendar, Cancel
Button, Cascade
Windows, Case
Sensitive
Search, Change
Directory, Changing
Directory, Character
Set, Check
Boxes, Check
Mail, Clear
Composer, Client/Server
Trace, Close
Window, Command
Keys, Composer
Window, Configure
Menu, Connect
Timeout, Copy, Cut 5
Dialog
Usage, Display
Copyright, Domain
Server .
Menu, Editing
Text, End
Print
String E
Fetch, Find
Dialog, Find
Text, Find, Finger
Port, Finger, Full
Name "
Gateway, Group
List, Groups
Menu J
Contents, Help
Menu, Help, High
Resolution
Mode, Host, Hotkey
Usage P
Timeout, IP
Address, Include
Text, Initialization
String, Input
Boxes )
LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, Languages, List
Boxes h
Host, Mail
Subdirectory, Make
Group, Make
Groups, Mask, Memo
Editor, Menu
Bar, Menus
Usage, Mouse A
Lookup, Name
Server, Name, Net
Mask, New
Memo, Next
Window $
Button, Open
Memo, Options
Menu
Port, Password
Prompt, Password, Paste, Preferences
Menu, Previous
Topic, Print
Menu, Printer
Print
String, Printer
String, Printer
Setup, Printer
Setup, Prompt
Replace, Push
Buttons
Quit u
Radio
Buttons, Real
Name, Replace
All, Replace
Dialog, Replace, Replacement
Text, Reside
Window, Retransmit
Timeout
As, Save
Memo, Save
Outgoing
Mail, Search
Again, Segment
Maximum, Select
Group, Select
Group, Show
Clipboard, Signature, Status
Bar, System
Menu
layer
Trace, Tile
Windows, Time
Zones, Trace
Dialog, Trace
File, Trace
Message
Receive, Trace
Message
Send, Trace
Off, Trace
Window, Trace
file, Trace, Transmit
Unit
Undo, User
Name, Using
Help
Video
Mode, Viewer
Window
Whole
Search, Window
Menu
Window
Help
Previous Topic
When you're in the Help system
Alt-F1
and want to go back to a previous
Help screen, you can page back-
ward through the last 20 Help
[Previous]
screens you viewed.
There are three ways to re-view Help screens:
1) Press Alt-F1.
2) If you're in a Turbo Help (dialog-style)
window, choose the Previous button.
3) If you're in a regular Help window,
choose Previous from the Help menu.
See also: +
Welcome to On-line Help Help
Contents
How to Use On-line Help
(To read all of this screen, scroll down.) H
You can use POPmail's on-line Help from the Help menu or via hot keys.
Wherever you are in POPmail
F1
you can press F1 to see a
Help screen about the menu
command or dialog-box item that's
currently active.
To learn more about using on-line
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Help, use the arrow keys to move the
cursor to one of the following Help
keywords and press Enter.
If you're viewing this screen in a
Tab
regular Help window, you can Tab to
the Help keywords, then press Enter.
If you're using a mouse, just click
Mouse
the Help keyword you're interested
in.
Choose one of these to find out more about the Help menu: y
Index
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Topic
Help
Help
[ OK ]
If you choose this button, the settings you've made in the dialog box will be recorded in POPmail.
[ CANCEL ]
If you choose cancel, nothing changes and no action occurs, but the dialog box is put away. X
ESC is always a keyboard shortcut for cancel, even if a cancel button does not appear.
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Calculator
Calendar
ASCII Character Set Table
Change Video Mode
Find an IP address
Finger a user
Preferences Dialog
[X] Include mail text in Reply
This feature is used in conjunction with the Reply button in the Viewer window. When there is a check in the square to the left of this preference, POPmail will collect the text in the incoming message and include it for reference as a preface to the reply you will formulate to the message while using the Reply feature on the Viewer window. The text collected from the incoming message will appear before your reply, with a leader line stating, " On [such and such a date] [so and so] writes: ". In addition, to further differentiate the incoming message from your reply which will follow in the message field, POPmail places a greater than (>) symbol before each line of the incoming message. You then type your reply following this reference text. This feature is useful because it allows each recipient of your reply to consider your reply in the context of the original incoming message.
[X] Display initial copyright screen
When there is a check in the square to the left of "Display POPmail's copyright screen", POPmail will display the POPmail copyright dialog box (POPmail's initial screen) whenever you start up POPmail.
[X] Add signature to outgoing mail
When there is a check in the square to the left of this checkbox, POPmail will automatically end each of your outgoing messages with a signature block of your choice. The signature can be entered in the text block at the bottom of the preferences dialog. If this checkbox is selected, POPmail will append the text in the signature box below to the end of every mail message you send.
[X] Save copy of outgoing Mail
When there is a check in the square to the left of this checkbox, POPmail will automatically place a copy of each outgoing message into your POPmail database. This convenient feature saves you a record of every message you send. If this checkbox is selected, POPmail will save a copy of every message you send.
[X] Check for Mail at StartUp
If this checkbox is selected, POPmail automatically fetches any mail waiting for you as soon you start POPmail.
[X] Prompt for password
When there is a check in the square to the left of "Prompt for password", POPmail will require you to enter your password every time you start POPmail. The password will not be stored in the configuration file.
[X] 43/50 Line Mode as default
When there is a check in the square to the left of this selection, POPmail will start with the program in the highest resolution mode allowed by your computer's video display adapter. You can always use POPmail's Video mode command under the = (system) menu to switch to between low resolution mode (25 line mode) and high resolution mode (43/50 line mode).
Signature
Any text placed into the Signature box will be appended to the end of every outgoing mail message. This allows you to attach your full name, address, phone number, and similar information to your messages.
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User Name
You can enter your user name in this text box. This User Name corresponds to the User Name (sometimes called the account name) that has been assigned to you for use on the host mail server. Generally, the host mail server will be a Unix machine, and by convention, Unix machines use all lower-case letters, so be careful not to capitalize letters in your user name when they shouldn't be.
Password
The Password is the key word that the host mail server uses to validate your user name. The person who sets up your account on the host mail server will assign you this password. Warning: Be sure to type in your password exactly as it was assigned, (again, be careful of upper- and lower-case considerations). Note that when you enter your password in the Configure dialog box, you will not see your actual password displayed on the screen. This is a security feature of the POPmail program, since it prevents people from viewing your password as you enter it.
Host computer
This is the name or IP address of the computer you are using as a host mail server for running POPmail. Every computer on the TCP/IP (world-wide) network has a unique numerical address called an IP address. The IP address looks something like 128.101.63.1. In much the same way as the post office uses home addresses to distinguish one residence from another, the network uses IP addresses to distinguish one computer from another when delivering electronic mail.
In addition to having an IP address, each computer on the network often has a name, e.g., vx.acs.umn.edu. Although both the IP address and name are unique for each computer, they don't have equal status. Specifying the host mail server's IP address will always work to identify the host computer successfully, while specifying its name identifier may not always work. You can use either the host computer name or IP address. The advantage in using the name, although it is less reliable on the network, is that it's easier to remember a name than it is to remember a series of numbers. If you use a name, the name will be converted to an IP address by a computer on the network called a name server.
Microcomputer IP address
This is the IP address of your individual microcomputer or workstation. See your network administrator for a microcomputer IP address assignment.
Subdirectory for mail
POPmail writes a copy of each message you receive to a file on your personal computer, one file per message. This parameter specifies the drive and subdirectory for POPmail to use when saving your messages. If this subdirectory does not exist on your disk, POPmail will ask you if you would like to create a new subdirectory when you exit the dialog box. (Note: POPmail will also ask you if you would like to create the subdirectories called ENCL and ENCL\RSRC within your subdirectory. See the section called "About Enclosures" for more details.)
Gateway
A gateway is a device which gives your computer access to the outside world, by transferring information from one type of network to another. If you want to use POPmail to send messages beyond your local area network (LAN), you must specify the IP address of one or more gateways to which your LAN has access. If more than one gateway is available to you, it is to your advantage to enter more than one, increasing the chance that you will find one that is up and running when POPmail needs it. A gateway moves your POPmail information off your LAN and routes it on to the outside world. Contact your network administrator for the IP address of gateways accessible to your LAN.
Name server
As discussed in the "Host
Computer" section, a name server converts a host mail server name into an IP address. You type in the IP address of your name server in this parameter field (see your network administrator for the value to enter). If more than one name server is available to you, it is to your advantage to enter more than one IP address, increasing the chance that you will find a name server that is up and running when POPmail needs it.
[ Time Zone ]
If you choose this button, you will be allowed to configure your local time zone.
Time Zones
The Time Zone List Box allows you to indicate your time zone, if you are
not located within the Central Standard Time zone of the United States, which is the default setting. To indicate your time zone, use the scroll arrows or the up-down arrow keys, to select your time zone from the list. Once your time zone is highlighted, type the <ENTER> key or click on the oK button. 3
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
EST Eastern Standard Time.
EDT Eastern Daylight Savings Time.
CST Central Standard Time.
CDT Central Daylight Savings Time.
MST Mountain Standard Time.
MDT Mountain Daylight Savings Time.
PST Pacific Standard Time.
PDT Pacific Daylight Savings Time.
[ Language ]
If you select this button, you will be allowed to select your language for which character set to use.
Language
The Language List Box pops up when the Language software button is activated. The Language List Box allows you to indicate the human language (e.g., Swedish, English, etc.) you use to communicate. To indicate your chosen language, use the scroll arrows or the up-down arrow keys, to select your language from the list. Once your preferred language is highlighted, type the <ENTER> key or click on the oK button.
[ Advanced ]
Most users will not have an occasion to use the Advanced... software button in the Configure dialog box. POPmail has default parameters which are appropriate for most network environments. However, if you encounter problems in installing or using POPmail on your network, consult your network administrator to see whether it might be helpful to alter the Advanced configuration parameters described in the next section. C
When you have finished entering the parameters, click on the oK button to have POPmail save your changes to the configuration. If you decide you don't want your parameter changes to be saved, click on the Cancel button. If you select this button, you will be allowed to set a number of low-level configuration options.
Preferred full name
This is your full name in real life, e.g. John A. Doe. POPmail gets your full name from the SMTP server so you should be able to leave this field blank. You can use this field to override the information returned by the server.
Net mask
The net mask parameter has to do with how your local area network is configured and connected to the backbone network at your worksite. Your network administrator will know the correct value to enter here. Most sites are configured to use a net mask of 255.255.255.0 (the default value).
Domain request timeout (sec)
This parameter sets the maximum number of seconds allowed for the name server on the network to convert your computer's host mail server name to an IP address. The default value is set to 20 seconds. If an error dialog box is displayed stating "Domain name request failed" when trying to send or fetch messages, you may need to increase this value.
Connect timeout (sec)
When POPmail attempts to connect to the host mail server, this parameter sets the maximum number of seconds POPmail will wait before the host mail server will acknowledge your attempt to connect. The default value of 20 seconds is sufficient for most mail servers. If an error dialog box is displayed stating "Open failed" when trying to send or fetch messages, try increasing this value.
I/O timeout (sec)
This parameter sets the maximum time allowed for POPmail to send and receive data from your computer to the host mail server. With the default value of 20 seconds, POPmail will wait 20 seconds for a response from the host mail server. If a response does not come through within 20 seconds, POPmail will present an error dialog box stating "error reading from network" or "error writing to network" and will abort the Send or Fetch operation in progress. Again, if your host mail server is slow and frequently times out, you may need to increase this parameter value.
Retransmit timeout (sec)
This parameter sets the length of time in seconds POPmail will wait before retransmitting a packet whose earlier transmission was not acknowledged. The default is one second.
Max transmit unit in bytes: MTU
This parameter specifies the maximum allowable packet size that POPmail will transmit in bytes. The default is 1024 (1K) bytes.
Max segment we can receive: MAXSEG
This parameter specifies the maximum size packet in bytes that a host mail server is allowed to transmit to POPmail. The default is 1024 (1K) bytes.
Most bytes we can receive without ACK
This parameter sets the maximum send/receive TCP window size in bytes. The default is 2048 (2K) bytes.
POP port
This parameter specifies the port POPmail will use to connect with the POP server. The default value is port 109. This is the default POP2 port. If you are using a mail server that uses the POP3 protocol you will probably need to change this value to 110.
Finger port
The port on the host for Finger support. This is normally port 79.
User Name
You can enter your user name in this text box. This User Name corresponds to the User Name (sometimes called the account name) that has been assigned to you for use on the host mail server. If you are running POPmail on a single local machine, this will be the name of the directory for keeping your personal mail.
Full Name
This is your full name in real life, e.g. John A. Doe. This name will be used in the mail headers to help others identify you.
Post Office Directory
When running POPmail on a single shared machine, the mail to and from other users is kept in a shared directory. Enter the name of this shared directory in this field.
Your Mail Directory
When running POPmail on a single shared machine, the mail to you is moved from the shared Post Office Directory into your own mail directory when you fetch it. Enter the name of your personal mail directory in this field.
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Output Port
You can select the output port by choosing it in these radio buttons. This is the port on your computer to which POPmail will direct all printed output. You can have POPmail send printed output to either LPT1, LPT2, or LPT3. *
( ) Route output to LPT1
( ) Route output to LPT2
( ) Route output to LPT3
Output Port
You can select the output port by choosing it in these radio buttons. This is the port on your computer to which POPmail will direct all printed output. You can have POPmail send printed output to either LPT1, LPT2, or LPT3. *
( ) Route output to LPT1
( ) Route output to LPT2
( ) Route output to LPT3
Output Port
You can select the output port by choosing it in these radio buttons. This is the port on your computer to which POPmail will direct all printed output. You can have POPmail send printed output to either LPT1, LPT2, or LPT3. *
( ) Route output to LPT1
( ) Route output to LPT2
( ) Route output to LPT3
Printer initialization string
Enter any initialization string you want sent to the printer. This string will be sent to the printer before any printed output is sent. This should be a string of ASCII characters.
End of print string
Enter any string you want sent to the printer at the end of any printed output. This should be a string of ASCII characters.
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Trace Method
Use these radio buttons to select where trace output should be displayed. You can either turn tracing off, have it displayed in a special trace window, or have it written to a DOS file. =
( ) Trace off
If you select this radio button, POPmail will not perform any tracing. a
( ) Trace to trace window
If you select this radio button, POPmail will create a special trace window and display all trace output in this window. I
( ) Trace to file
If you select this radio button, POPmail will write all trace output to a file. You can enter the file name in the text box directly to the right of this radio button.
Trace Method
Use these radio buttons to select where trace output should be displayed. You can either turn tracing off, have it displayed in a special trace window, or have it written to a DOS file. =
( ) Trace off
If you select this radio button, POPmail will not perform any tracing. a
( ) Trace to trace window
If you select this radio button, POPmail will create a special trace window and display all trace output in this window. I
( ) Trace to file
If you select this radio button, POPmail will write all trace output to a file. You can enter the file name in the text box directly to the right of this radio button.
Trace Method
Use these radio buttons to select where trace output should be displayed. You can either turn tracing off, have it displayed in a special trace window, or have it written to a DOS file. =
( ) Trace off
If you select this radio button, POPmail will not perform any tracing. a
( ) Trace to trace window
If you select this radio button, POPmail will create a special trace window and display all trace output in this window. I
( ) Trace to file
If you select this radio button, POPmail will write all trace output to a file. You can enter the file name in the text box directly to the right of this radio button.
[X] TCP layer
If you select this checkbox and turn on tracing, POPmail will provide information on all network activity at the TCP layer.
[X] Client/server interactions
If you select this checkbox and turn on tracing, POPmail will provide information on all network transaction between your POPmail machine and your mail host machine.
[X] Show body: receive
If you select this checkbox and turn on tracing, POPmail will display in the trace output the body of each message you receive.
[X] Show body: send
If you select this checkbox and turn on tracing, POPmail will display in the trace output the body of each message you send.
File:
Enter the name of the DOS file onto which POPmail should write all trace output.
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Case sensitive.
Text to find
The Text to Find input box is where you enter the search string. >
To begin the search, choose OK; choose Cancel to forget it.
[X] Case sensitive
When Case sensitive is checked on, POPmail differentiates between upper case and lower case letters when performing a search.
[X] Whole words only
When the Whole words only option is checked, POPmail will search for words only. The match string must have punctuation or spaces on both sides.
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New Text
Use this box to enter your replacement string. ]
If you choose OK, POPmail will find the string above, and then replace it with this string.
[X] Case sensitive
When Case sensitive is checked on, POPmail differentiates between upper case and lower case letters when performing a search.
[X] Whole words only
When the Whole words only option is checked, POPmail will search for words only. The match string must have punctuation or spaces on both sides.
[X] Prompt on replace
Check this box if you want POPmail to ask for your approval before it replaces the string.
[X] Replace all
Check this box if you want POPmail to replace every occurance of the search string in the entire message.
Make Group
You can create groups in this text box. z
To create a group, put the group name on a line. After this name, enter the e-mail address of each member of the group.
Groups
Select Group
This is a list of the groups that were created with Make Group. You can select one of these groups, and address to it the message in the composer window.
[ Select ]
If you choose this button, POPmail will extract the group list yuo have selected, and insert it into the To field of the message in the composer window.
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POPmail Menus
POPmail offers everything you need to write, edit, send, and receive mail
The menu bar at the top of the screen is the gateway to the menus. To go to the menu bar, press F10, or click anywhere on it. F
You can choose from any of these groups of commands on the menu bar: 1
(System) Options Edit Group Memo Window Help
For instructions on using the menu bar, go to the Help screen How
Bar. F
For information about menu hot keys, go to the Help
screen
Keys.
How to Use Menus
When you're in a window, there are three ways to select a menu command:
Press F10, then use the arrow keys
F10
to go to the menu you want and use
them again to select a command.
Press Enter to choose the selected
command.
Press Alt and the highlighted letter
Alt
of the menu you want (such as Alt-F
for the File menu), use the arrow
keys to select a command, then press
Enter to choose that command.
You can also press the highlighted letter of a menu name or command instead of using the arrow keys.
Click the title of the menu you want
Mouse
to pull down, then click the menu
command you want to choose.
The highlighted menu title is the currently selected menu. V
Menu commands are followed by either an ellipsis mark (...), an arrow, or a hot key. k
Mark
Name
What the Menu Command Does
...
Ellipsis
Brings up a dialog box
>
Arrow
Displays another menu
F4
Hot key
Initiates some action when
(etc.)
you choose that command or
press the specified hot key
Help on Help -- How to Use the Help System
To access POPmail's
System, press the F1 function key. A window will open containing information about the menu item or dialog box field that is currently in the foreground. This is known as "context-sensitive" help.
You can browse through the help text using the up arrow (
), down arrow (
), Page Up (PgUp) or Page Down (PgDn) keys on the keypad. A
When you are through with the help, press the Escape (Esc) key.
Some help messages contain Cross-References to other topics. Cross-references are displayed in a different color from normal help text. One cross-reference is always highlighted. If you press Enter, the help message associated with the cross-reference is displayed. If there are several cross-references within a help message, pressing the Tab or Shift-Tab keys to moves the highlight to the next cross-reference.
If your computer has a mouse, move the mouse pointer over a cross-reference and click the left mouse button once to select it. Double Clicking (Clicking the left mouse button twice in rapid succession) has the same effect as pressing the Enter key.
How to Use the Menus
The very top line of the computer screen contains POPmail's menu bar with seven menu labels. The menu bar looks like this: C
Options Edit Group Memo Window Help
The menu bar is the primary mechanism you use to communicate with the POPmail program. The menus have "pull-down" labels; that is, when you select Edit in the menu bar, a list of specific editing commands are dropped down from the Edit menu label and displayed in a list. If one of the commands in a pull-down menu is followed three periods (...), a modal dialog box (explained later in this section) will be displayed when you select that command. If a command in a pull-down menu is not followed by three periods, this means that once you choose it, the indicated action will occur immediately.
You can use either a mouse or keyboard to select commands. To use a mouse, click on the desired menu title to display the pull-down menu. (Use only the left mouse button if your mouse has more than one button). Then click on the desired command. Alternatively, instead of clicking, you can push the mouse button over a menu title and then continue to hold the mouse button down while you move the mouse cursor straight down from the menu title to the desired menu command, and then release the mouse button. If you decide not to choose a command, just move the mouse cursor out of the boundaries of the pull-down menu and release the mouse button. Then no action will be performed. W
To choose menu commands using the keyboard, first pull down the menu. You do this by pressing the F10 key to make the menu bar active. (When the menu bar is active, one menu title is highlighted.) If the menu title you want is not the one currently highlighted, use the arrow keys to move to the right or left along the menu bar, until the menu title you want to select appears highlighted. (Alternatively, you can just type the first letter of the menu title.) Then press the <ENTER> key. This will cause the menu to pull-down (drop-down). There also is a hot-key alternative method to pull-down a menu. Hold the Alt key down while typing the letter corresponding to the first letter of the menu title you want (e.g., type Alt-G to pull- down the Group menu). The hot key to pull-down the
menu (called the system menu) is Alt-Spacebar. (
Once the menu you want is pulled down, use the up-down arrow keys to highlight the command you want and press <ENTER> to choose (perform) the highlighted command. (As a shortcut: press the key corresponding to the highlighted letter of the desired command in order to choose that command.)
How to Use "Hot Keys"
Some menu commands are considered to be so important that they can be activated with a hot key alternative. These hot keys are shown below.
Hot-Key Command
Alt-C Configure
Alt-P Print
Alt-X Exit
Shift-Del Cut
Clipboard
Ctrl-Ins Copy
Clipboard
Shift-Ins Paste
Clipboard
Ctrl-QF Find
Ctrl-QA Replace
Ctrl-L Search
Again
F5 Select
group
F2 Save
Alt-F3 Close
Window
Ctrl-F5 Resize/move
Window
F6 Next
window
F7 Viewer
F8 Composer
How to Use Dialog Boxes
Once you execute a menu command, POPmail will do one of two things: either carry out the command immediately or display a dialog box. If a menu command is followed by three periods, (e.g., Save As...), the command opens a modal dialog box. A modal dialog box is essentially a question-and-answer session which requires you to select choices and fill in the blanks before POPmail will proceed. Note that while a modal dialog box is displayed, the menus and status bar hot spots are inactive. p
In order to set options in a dialog box, you use five on-screen gadgets. These five gadgets or "controls" are: M
radio
buttons,
check
boxes,
push
buttons,
list
boxes, and
input
boxes,
Some dialog boxes have only push buttons and are typically for displaying informational or error messages.
Other dialog boxes contain additional fields and are typically for modifying the behaviour of the program. In this case, you would select the various fields, modifying their contents as desired, then press an appropriate push button to close the dialog box. ^
Many dialog boxes have two push buttons, labelled "OK" and "Cancel". Pressing "OK" means you want to accept the current values shown in the various fields or you want to proceed with an operation. Pressing "Cancel" will either cancel an operation or close the dialog box, restoring all fields to the values they had when the box was first opened.
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Selecting a Field
One of the fields in a dialog box is "selected" and it may be drawn in a different color scheme to differentiate it from other, "unselected" fields. When a field is selected, you can manipulate it. Press the Tab key to select to the next field or press Shift-Tab to select the previous field. K
Some fields have text labels next to them containing a highlighted letter. You can quickly select that field by holding down the Alt key and pressing the highlighted letter. For instance, in the Specifications dialog box is a field labelled "X Scan Length" with the "X" highlighted. You would press Alt-X to select that field.
If your computer has a mouse, move the mouse pointer over the field or its label and click the left mouse button to select the field (or, in the case of push buttons, to "push" the button).
Note that under some circumstances, a field in a dialog box may be "disabled" or rendered inactive. In this case, you cannot select that field or modify its current setting.
Push Buttons
Push Buttons are a component of dialog
boxes. s
With a mouse, you choose a software button by moving the cursor pointer over the button and then clicking the mouse button. Most dialog boxes have two software buttons: oK and Cancel. If you choose oK, the choices you select in the dialog box are instituted. If you choose Cancel, nothing happens and the dialog box goes away without instituting any of your changes.
If you don't have a mouse, use the keyboard command equivalents to choose and activate a button. Press the <TAB> key consecutively to advance forward through the dialog box until the button you want to select becomes highlighted and then press the <ENTER> key to choose that software button. (Press Shift-<TAB> to move backwards in a dialog box.) When you have finished making your choices in a dialog box, type Alt-K (to activate the oK button). To cancel, type the ESC key.
Input Lines: Numbers & Text
Input boxes let you enter text. For example, in one of POPmail's dialog boxes, POPmail requires that you enter your full name in an input box. If you type in more text than will fit within the input box, the text will scroll automatically.
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Input Boxes are a component of dialog
boxes.
Input lines are for entering numbers or text. Select the field and simply start typing. If the existing value is highlighted, anything you type will replace that value. If the value is not highlighted then anything you type will be inserted into the existing text.
You can manuever the cursor within the field by pressing the left or right arrow keys or the Home and End keys (this will also de-highlight the text). You can selectively highlight some or all the text by holding down the Shift key while using any of the cursor movement keys. Z
You can delete a single character by pressing the Backspace (Bksp) or Delete (Del) keys. A
Pressing the Insert (Ins) key toggles text input between "Insert Mode" and "Replace Mode." During Insert Mode, when you type a character it is inserted at the cursor position between existing text. In Replace Mode, when you enter a character it replaces any existing character above the cursor with the one you typed.
Check Boxes
Some dialog
boxes also have check boxes. An X inside a square indicates that that option is set ON. An empty box indicates it's OFF. You set a check box to the ON- or OFF-state by clicking on the square or by clicking on the text immediately to the right of the square. (If you don't have a mouse, press the <TAB> key one or more times until the check box is highlighted and then press the Spacebar. Alternatively, you can turn a check box ON or OFF (toggling) by holding the Alt key down while typing the highlighted letter (if one is provided). Any number of check boxes can be checked ON at any one time.
If several check boxes are grouped together, pressing the <TAB> moves to the next group and once the group is selected, you can use the up-down arrow keys to highlight the check box you want within the group, and then press the Spacebar to turn the individual check box ON or OFF. On monochrome monitors, POPMail indicates the highlighted check box or group of check boxes by placing a chevron symbol (
) next to it. When you press <TAB>, the
symbol moves to the next check box or group of check boxes.
Radio Buttons
Radio Buttons are a component of dialog
boxes. )
Radio buttons work just like check
boxes, except that one and only one radio button in a group is ON at any one time. Since only one radio button in a group can be ON at a time, any other button in the group which was previously turned on is turned OFF automatically when you select another.
List Boxes
List Boxes are a component of dialog
boxes. ;
A list box lets you scroll through a list of choices. You activate a list box by clicking in it or by pressing the <TAB> until it's highlighted. Once a list box is active, you can use the mouse to manipulate the scroll bar (or if you don't have a mouse, press the up-down arrow keys to move within the list).
(Note: Inside a dialog box, any item with a highlighted letter indicates that that particular gadget can be accessed by holding the ALT key down while typing that highlighted letter.)
How to Use the Mouse
To use a mouse, click on the desired menu title to display the pull-down menu. (Use only the left mouse button if your mouse has more than one button). Then click on the desired command. Alternatively, instead of clicking, you can push the mouse button over a menu title and then continue to hold the mouse button down while you move the mouse cursor straight down from the menu title to the desired menu command, and then release the mouse button. If you decide not to choose a command, just move the mouse cursor out of the boundaries of the pull-down menu and release the mouse button. Then no action will be performed.
Status Bar
POPmail's status bar is located across the bottom line of the screen. The status bar looks like this: `
The status bar contains "hot spots." Hot spots are located wherever words occur in the status bar. For example, "F3 Prev Msg" constitutes one hot spot. Hot spots are separated from each other by more than one space. When you click on a hot spot with a mouse, the indicated function will be carried out. For example, when you click on the words "F4 Next Msg", POPmail displays the next message stored in your mail database, and when you click on the words "F8 Compose", POPmail opens the Composer window, allowing you to compose an outgoing mail message.
To activate a hot spot without using a mouse, you type a hot-key. For example, if you press the F8 function key, POPmail will display the Composer window; and, if you type Alt-X, you will exit from the POPmail program. /
Editing Text
POPmail contains basic word-processing features. Anywhere in POPmail, the <DEL> key deletes text forward from the current cursor position, and the <backspace> key deletes text to the left of the cursor position. Except within a modal dialog box, you can use the mouse to drag over (select) text to be cut or copied. Without a mouse, you select text by holding the Shift key down and using the arrow keys to expand the amount of text selected, starting with the current cursor position. Once the text is selected (highlighted) you can cut the selected text, by selecting Cut from the Edit menu. Likewise, to copy selected text, select Copy from the Edit menu. Once selected text has been cut or copied, it is stored temporarily in POPmail's clipboard. To paste the text contained in the clipboard, position the cursor in the desired location and then select Paste from the Edit menu. <
POPmail does not support underlined, bold, or italic text.
Users who are familiar with WordStar are advised that the POPmail editor also supports the WordStar Control Key sequences for cursor movement: U
Ctrl-E = Line Up
Ctrl-R = Page Up
Ctrl-F = Next Word
Ctrl-Y = Delete Line
etc.
Open an enclosure
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Help on the Change Directory dialog box
The Change Directory dialog box consists of an input box, a list box, the standard OK and Help buttons, and two other buttons (Chdir and Revert). |
Directory Name
The Directory Name input box is where you type in the path of the new directory.
Directory Tree
Drives
C:\
PASCAL
TEMP
The Directory Tree list box is where you point to (or move the cursor to) a directory name and choose the directory you want.
If you're using the keyboard, press Enter to make the selected directory be the current directory, then choose OK or press Esc to exit the dialog box. +
[Chdir ]
The Chdir button initiates the directory change once you've selected or typed in a directory name. +
[Revert]
The Revert button goes back to the previous directory, as long as you haven't yet exited the dialog box.
Help on the Save File As dialog box
The Save File As dialog box contains an input box, a file list, a file information panel, and the standard OK, Cancel and Help buttons, plus a history list. p
Save File As
The Save File As input box is where you enter the new name you want to save the file under, or the file-name mask for the Files list box.
Files
FILENM01.TXT
FILENM09.TXT
FILENM02.TXT
FILENM10.TXT
FILENM03.TXT
FILENM11.TXT
FILENM04.TXT
FILENM12.TXT
FILENM05.TXT
..
FILENM06.TXT
\MOREXAMP
FILENM07.TXT
\TOURS
FILENM08.TXT
\ANSWERS.DIR
The Files list box lists the names of files in the current directory that match the file-name mask in the Save File As input box, plus the parent directory and all subdirectories.
C:\TP\EXAMPLES\*.TXT
HELLO.TXT 52 May 14,1991 12:00pm
The File information panel shows the path name, file name, date, time, and size of the selected file.
Help on Open a File Dialog Box
The Open a File dialog box contains an input box, a file list, a file information panel, the standard buttons Cancel and Help, two other action buttons (Open and Replace), plus a history list that's attached to the Name input box. p
Name
The Name input box is where you enter the name of the file to load, or the file-name mask to use as a filter for the Files list box.
Files
FILENM01.PAS
FILENM09.PAS
FILENM02.PAS
FILENM10.PAS
FILENM03.PAS
FILENM11.PAS
FILENM04.PAS
FILENM12.PAS
FILENM05.PAS
..
FILENM06.PAS
\MOREXAMP
FILENM07.PAS
\TOURS
FILENM08.PAS
\ANSWERS.DIR
The Files list box lists the names of files in the current directory that match the file-name mask in the Name input box, plus the parent directory and all subdirectories.
C:\TP\EXAMPLES\*.PAS
HELLO.PAS 52 May 14,1991 12:00pm
The File information panel shows the path name, file name, date, time, and size of the selected file. =
None of the items on this information panel are selectable. +
[ Open ]
The Open button opens a new Edit window and places the selected file in that window.
Composer Window
NOT YET IMPLEMENTED
Viewer Window
The Viewer Window
Calculator
The calculator is a simple four-function calculator. Numbers and numerical operations are selected by clicking on the calculator buttons or by using the keyboard.
Calendar
The calendar is a simple electronic calendar. The current month appears automatically, but you can use the arrow keys or the calendar buttons to move to a future or past month.
ASCII Table
Use this desk accessory to look up the ASCII codes for any character, including special foreign language characters.
Video Mode
The Video mode command will switch between low resolution mode (25 line mode) and high resolution mode (43/50 line).
IP Finder
This desk accessory will look up the IP address of any internet name.
Finger
You use the Finger desk accessory to look at the status of an account on a given machine. For example, if you can provide an E-mail address, Finger will tell you the person's name in real life, the last time the person logged in to his account, and other site-specific details. *
At the University of Minnesota, you can use Finger as an electronic phone book. For example, to look up all people with the name Hickman at the University of Minnesota, you would specify HICKMAN@UMN.EDU. Then Finger returns all information pertaining to Hickmans in the University phone book.
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