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<HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>Outgoing Mail Preferences</TITLE></HEAD><BODY bgcolor="#ffffff"><H1><A NAME="lQFI2.BsKL9X3cS">Outgoing Mail Preferences</H1><P>When you click the<U>M</U><B>ail ...</B> option, the<B>Outgoing Mail Preferences</B> dialogappears.<P><H4>Figure: <A NAME="nQFI2.BsKL9X3cS">Outgoing Mail Preferences Dialog</H4><IMG SRC="lQFI2.BsKL9X3cS.extobj.1.gif"><P>The<B>Outgoing Mail Preferences</B> window lets you specify how messagesare encoded, into which folders mail is copied when sent, whichmail delivery command to use, whether to validate addressesbefore use, and handling of extremely large messages.<P>Explicit help is available in the<U>H</U><B>elp</B> pull-down menu for each ofthe parameters that can be customized. From the<U>H</U><B>elp</B> pull-downmenu, select the<U>O</U><B>n Context</B> function, then move the cursor overthe item of interest and click the mouse.<H2><A NAME="cfFI2.BsKL9X3cS">Encoding</H2><P>SinceMIME messages ultimately encode all data as plain ASCIItext, MIME-formatted messages can be read using any mail tool.However, the data format may not be very readable. The<B>Outgoingmail</B> type option lets you enhance MIME message readability forpeople using non-MIME tools. There four options. The option youset in the<B>Outgoing Mail Preferences</B> dialog becomes the default.<DL><DT><B>Plain text</B><DD>The message is sent with all MIME formatting andattachments stripped from it. This is the ultimate inbackward compatibility though, of course, you lose all theadvanced MIME features.<P><DT><B>MIME</B><DD>The message is sent as a MIME message.<P><DT><B>MIME with plain text alternative if necessary</B><DD>Similar to the<B>MIME</B> option, the message is sent as plaintext unless it needs MIME formatting. It differs in that a<I>plain text alternative</I> is included in front of a MIMEmessage. The plain text alternative is the message textwith all MIME attributes stripped, like the<B>Plain text</B>option. Recipients without MIME-capability will see theplain text alternative, and can ignore the following copyof the message with encoded MIME data. MIME-capablemail tools will automatically skip the plain textalternative part and utilize the MIME encoded data. So,this is the best of both, allowing maximum backwardcompatibility while not losing MIME capability.However, the message can be much larger, up to doublethe size, due to the duplicate copies of the message indifferent formats.<P></DL><P><HR><B>NOTE:</B><BR>You can override the default encoding optionby resetting its value in the<B>Message type:</B>selection box at the bottom of the compositionwindow.<HR></P><H2><A NAME="yfFI2.BsKL9X3cS">Character set</H2><P>You can specify the character set that will be used to display themessage. The<B>ISO-8859</B> character sets are supported. You can typethe name of a character set into the field, or click the button tothe right of the field and pick a character set from the resultingpop-up list.<P>Changing the character set has two effects. First, it changes howthe text appears in the Composition window. Second, a characterset parameter is added to the message when it is sent. If thisparameter is recognized and handled by the recipient's mail tool,your message should appear as you typed it. There's noguarantee, however, that the recipient's system will have theappropriate fonts installed to show the character set you havechosen.<P><HR><B>TIP:</B><BR><CITE>Ishmail</CITE> supports MIME<I>RFC 1522</I>, whichmeans that 8-bit ASCII characters can beused in message headers. The character setyou choose here applies to the headers(<B>Subject:</B>,<B>To:</B>, etc.) as well as the message body.<HR></P><H2><A NAME="4gFI2.BsKL9X3cS">Encoding for 8-bit characters</H2><P>For compatibility with all mail transport systems, use ofcharacter sets in mail messages, as they are sent over thenetwork, must be limited to 7-bit ASCII. This is true even if boththe sender and recipient have no trouble with 8-bit characters,since an intermediate network through which the messagepasses on its way to its destination may have a limitation of 7-bitcharacters. The MIME standard provides several methods forencoding data so that it appears, while in transit, as 7-bit ASCII.<P>In this window, you can specify which encoding option to use for8-bit characters in the message body, and potentially a differentencoding option for 8-bit characters in the headers. The choicesfor the body are:<UL><LI>Mark as containing 8-bit ASCII characters<P></LI><LI>Convert to 7-bit ASCII using the Quoted Printablemethod<P></LI></UL><P>The choices for the headers are:<UL><LI>No encoding at all<P></LI><LI>Convert to 7-bit ASCII using the Quoted Printablemethod<P></LI><LI>Convert to 7-bit ASCII using the Base 64 method<P></LI></UL><P><HR><B>NOTE:</B><BR>The choices for each are not exactly the same,since the standards specifications weredeveloped by different people at differenttimes.<HR></P><H2><A NAME="DgFI2.BsKL9X3cS">Copy outgoing messages</H2><P>You can have messages copied automatically to a folder at thetime they are sent. You can use the same folder each time, orspecify a folder name based on one of the following:<DL><DT><B>User</B><DD>The folder name will be the recipient's user name, asspecified in the<B>To:</B> field. If there are multiple names inthe<B>To:</B> field, the message is copied to multiple folders (the<B>Cc:</B> and<B>Bcc:</B> fields are not included). For example, if yousend mail to<KBD>greg@ishmail.com</KBD>, the message will becopied to the folder called<I>greg</I>.<P><DT><B>Address</B><DD>This is similar to the<B>User</B> option, except that the foldername is the whole e-mail address. For example, if yousend mail to<KBD>greg@ishmail.com</KBD>, the message will becopied to the folder called<I>greg@ishmail.com</I>. This is usefulif you correspond with people in different organizationswho have the same user name.<P><P><HR><B>TIP:</B><BR>You can use links (the UNIX<B>ln</B> command) togive alias names to folders. For example, youmay want to make<I>greg</I> and<I>greg@ishmail.com</I> bethe same folder, while<I>greg@osf.org</I> is adifferent folder.<HR></P><DT><B>Year</B><DD>Use this option to group outgoing mail by year. The foldername will be<I>year.[year]</I>, for example,<I>year.1995</I>.<P><DT><B>Month</B><DD>Use this option to group outgoing mail by month. Thefolder name will be<I>month.[year].[01-12]</I>, for example,<I>month.1995.05</I>.<P><DT><B>Day</B><DD>Use this option to group outgoing mail by day of themonth. The folder name will be<I>day.[year].[01-12].[01-31]</I>,for example,<I>day.1995.05.30</I>.<P><DT><B>Week</B><DD>Use this option to group outgoing mail by week in theyear. The folder name will be<I>week.[year].[01-52]</I>, forexample,<I>week.1995.21</I>.<P></DL><P>If you want to use the same folder each time, you specify thename of that folder. Note that if the first character of the foldername is a<KBD>+</KBD> or an<KBD>=</KBD>, this is substituted with the name of yourfolder directory (as specified in the<A HREF="1j.-uyBk2I9X3cS.html">Application-relatedPreferences</A> dialog), which is typically<I>$HOME/Mail</I>.<P>If you specify the folder name as a variable, you also need tospecify the folder directory. This can be a full path name or aname relative to your home directory.<H2><A NAME="zgFI2.BsKL9X3cS">Confirm use of mail addresses</H2><P>Sometimes mail is sent that includes a<B>Cc:</B> to a mail aliascontaining a large number of recipients, such as your entireorganization. You may reply to such a message, intending only tosend mail to the originator, but inadvertently select<B>Reply All:</B>. Thiscauses you reply to be broadcast to a much wider audience thanyou intended. To guard against this kind of embarrassment, youcan specify mail aliases, which if used, cause a confirmationprompt to be shown.<P>Type the names of mail aliases you want to be careful aboutusing into the<B>Confirm mail to these addresses</B> field. The field will showa vertical scroll bar if you enter more lines than fit in the field.<P><HR><B>TIP:</B><BR>Another use for this field is to catch commontyping mistakes. For example, if you find thatyou tend to reverse two letters in a mailaddress you frequently use, put themisspelled address in this field.<HR></P><H2><A NAME="4hFI2.BsKL9X3cS">Additional mail headers</H2><P>You may want to add extra mail headers to your mail message,for example:<UL><LI><B>Reply-To:</B><P></LI><LI><B>Organization:</B><P></LI><LI><B>X-Face:</B><P></LI></UL><P>Any mail headers you enter into this field will be included inevery subsequent message you send.<P><HR><B>NOTE:</B><BR><CITE>Ishmail</CITE> doesn't check the validity ofinformation you specify here. You areresponsible for using valid header names andspelling them correctly.<HR></P><H2><A NAME="AhFI2.BsKL9X3cS">Mail delivery command</H2><P>This is the name of the mail transport command<CITE>Ishmail</CITE> uses tosend mail. The default is the<B>sendmail</B> command. You may wantto use a different command. Or, the<B>sendmail</B> command may bein a different directory on your system, and you just need tochange the path name.<P><CITE>Ishmail</CITE> passes two parameters to the<B>sendmail</B> command:<KBD>-oi</KBD>and<KBD>-oem.</KBD> If the message is being sent in multiple pieces, the<KBD>-odi</KBD> parameter is added also.<P>After the parameters the recipients' addresses are added, eachenclosed in single quote characters. This allows addresses tohave embedded double quotes and blanks (spaces).<P>After the addresses, a<KBD><</KBD> symbol is added followed by the pathname of a temporary file which holds the complete message.<P><HR><B>TIP:</B><BR>If you want to use a mail transport commandwhich accepts different parameters than<B>sendmail</B>, you can put the name of a<I>wrapper</I>command here. For example, this can be thename of a shell script that converts theparameters to the format required beforepassing them on to the other command.<HR></P><H2><A NAME="KhFI2.BsKL9X3cS">Save interrupted messages to a file</H2><P>If you have been composing a message but you close theComposition window without first sending the message, themessage will be saved to the file you specify in the<B>Save interruptedmessages to file</B> field.<P>You can disable this function by setting the toggle button<KBD>Off</KBD>.<H2><A NAME="OhFI2.BsKL9X3cS">Split large outgoing messages</H2><P>Another preference you can control from this window is thehandling of large messages. MIME messages can be very large,particularly if they include image files or audio files. Some oldermail transport systems cannot handle huge messages and maytruncate them or refuse to process them. Your messages maypass through many networks on the way to their ultimatedestination. If any of the intermediate networks cannot handlehuge messages, you will have a problem.<P>The MIME protocol has a solution for this problem. Outgoingmessages can be automatically split into two or more parts, andreassembled into a single message by the recipient's MIME mailreader. You can specify whether messages are split, and if so, howlarge the pieces should be. The default size (100,000 bytes) is astandard size which should pass through any network.<P>When you apply changes,<CITE>Ishmail</CITE> asks whether to use the folderlist preferences for the current session only, or for current andfuture sessions.<H2><A NAME="VhFI2.BsKL9X3cS">Check Addresses Before Mailing</H2><P>Toggle this button<KBD>On</KBD> to cause<CITE>Ishmail</CITE> to use the<B>sendmail</B>command's address checking option to validate that theaddress(es) in your message are valid. This will prevent mailfrom bouncing, but it may take a long time to do the checkingdepending on the address and how you are connected to theInternet.<P><HR><B>TIP:</B><BR>If you leave this option disabled, and amessage you send bounces, use the<B>Resend</B>function to bounce it back again after youhave determined the correct address. You donot need to re-compose the message.<HR></P><HR>Preceding Section: <A HREF="XBFI2.BsKL9X3cS.html">Composition Window Preferences</A><BR>Following Section: <A HREF="uhFI2.BsKL9X3cS.html">Reply/Forward Preferences</A><BR>Parent Section: <A HREF="Mr-1vFBulI9X3cS.html">Composition Options Menu</A><BR>Contents of <A HREF="zsPsIGBSYWwA0YK.html">Ishmail User's Guide</A><BR><HR></BODY></HTML>⌨️ 快捷键说明
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