The Message Read Window

The Read Message Window is made up of the following parts:

The Menu Bar

Every option setting and action is either listed under a menu choice, or can be reached from within a menu choice. The menu bar has four top level menus to help the user perform actions:

Message
This contains all the actions you can perform on a message.

Tools
This menu contains all of the choices that will aid the user in keeping track of the people e-mailed most often.

Window
This has the options for dealing with the contents of the window.

Help
You can reach this help from this menu choice.

The Tools Bar

The Tools Bar has several buttons on it with pictures representative of the actions of the button. These are just a quick way of getting some of the most frequently used menu items. Clicking them has the same effect as choosing an option from the menu. To find out what each one does, place the mouse cursor over the button. The "tool tip" will popup underneath the mouse cursor after few moments. In this popup text box there will be a brief description of the action taken when the button is clicked.

The Header Information Panel

Below the tools bar, you will see the Header Information Panel. In this panel, you will see all of the important information contained in the header of the e-mail.

The header information is laid out with the sender's information at the top with the sender's name and e-mail address in the "From" field, and the date and time the message was sent in the "Date" field. Below these fields there are two list boxes labeled "To" and "Cc". The "To" box shows all of the people to whom the e-mail is addressed, while the "Cc" box shows the e-mail address of everyone who was Carbon Copied on the e-mail.

At the bottom of this panel, you will see the "Subject" of the e-mail, which is also in the title bar of the message window.

The Message Body Text Panel

Below the subject field, you will see the Message Body Text Panel. The text from the message is automatically wrapped around the right margin of the window and color coded. Here is a brief explanation of what every color means:

Black - Normal text.

Blue - Text quoted from another message.

Green - Message header, when the Display Full Header option is selected.

Please note that Emerald Mail recognizes as quoted text every line that has a ">" (greater than) character in the first 5 positions from the left.

Emerald Mail will also detect and make clickable all e-mail and web addresses that appear inside the message text. All clickable links are marked with a blue, underlined font.
When clicking on an e-mail address, the Message Compose Window is opened with the address listed in the To: field. When clicking on a web address the configured web browser is opened.

The Attachments Panel

If there are attachments a panel with a list of all file attachments will be added to the bottom of the window just above the status bar.

If you click on an attachment button Emerald Mail will decode and save the file on a location of your choice. The default name of the saved file is the same as the original file name, if applicable.

The Status Bar

The status bar will display a short remainder of the number of messages present in the current folder and the number of messages that were not already readed.