The Message Compose Window is made up of the following parts:
The Tools BarEvery option setting and action is either listed under a menu choice, or can be reached from within a menu choice. The menu bar has five top level menus to help the user perform actions:
Message
This contains all of the choices dealing with the message.Attachments
All of the attachment options can be reached from within this menu.Signature
Either choose one of the signatures to append to the end of the message, or to create a new signature.Tools
This menu offers tools to help create an e-mail.Help
You can reach this help from this menu choice.
The Header Information PanelThe 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 Message Body Text PanelBelow 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. You can change the address and name with which the message is sent by clicking on the arrow located on the right side of the field. All addresses listed in the Alias panel of the Account properties dialog are available from the pull-down list.
Below this field there is a list box labeled "To". The "To" box shows all of the people to whom the e-mail will be addressed. By clicking on the "To" button you can change the type of addresses being listed between "To", "Cc" (carbon copy) and "Bcc" (blind carbon copy).
At the bottom of this panel, you will see the "Subject" of the e-mail.
The Attachments PanelBelow 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.
The Status BarWhen you add an attachment using the Attachment -> Attach file option the attachments panel appears just below the message body panel, showing a list of attachments to the message.
To delete an attachment just click on the entry to want to remove and select the option Attachment -> Remove selected attachment from the menu.
The status bar displays on the right side the label of the selected signature that should be added to the message, the priority level and encoding method of the attachments. All these options can be changed from the menu bar.