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<sect>The menu options of Sylpheed.
<p>
The menu in Sylpheed is the primary entry to all the things 
you can do with Sylpheed. The menu structure gives you following 
options:

<sect1>File menu
<p>
<itemize>
	<item>
		Add mailbox: this option lets you add a new MH mail-directory. 
		It will generate IN, OUT, QUEUE, DRAFT and TRASH mailfolders 
		inside the new mailbox.
	</item>
	<item>
		Rescan folder tree: rescans the entire tree of existing mailboxes 
		to reflect the correct state (usually won't be necessary).
	</item>
	<item>
		Folder: lets you add, rename or delete a mailfolder.
		<itemize>
			<item>
				Create new folder: to create a new folder. You must select
				the top level node of the folder tree of a sub folder before
				using this menu entry, in order to define the location of the
				new folder to create.
			</item>
			<item>
				Rename folder: change the name of the selected folder.
			</item>
			<item>
				Delete folder: delete the selected folder (also delete the
				messages contained in the selected folder).
			</item>
		</itemize>
	</item>
	<item>
		Import mbox file...: lets you import an mbox file 
		(like created by Pine) into an MH mailbox.
	</item>
	<item>
		Export to mbox file: lets you export an MH mailbox to an mbox file.
	</item>
	<item>
		Empty trash: obviously, this will empty the trash folder.
	</item>
	<item>
		Save as: lets you save the selected e-mail to a plain textfile 
		on disk.
	</item>
	<item>
		Print: lets you print the selected e-mail to a printer.
	</item>
	<item>
		Exit: ends Sylpheed.
	</item>
</itemize>
</sect1>

<sect1>Edit menu
<p>
<itemize>
	<item>
		copy: lets you copy the selected text to a buffer, 
		from where you can paste it into a different place. 
		Shortcut: Ctrl-C
	</item>
	<item>
		select all: selects all the text in the current window. 
		Shortcut: Ctrl-A
	</item>
	<item>
		Find in current message: searches a string in the current message.
		Shortcut: Ctrl-F
	</item>
	<item>
		search messages: searches a message based on its  To, From, Subject
		header fields or body content. Start searching from the selected
		message, in the selected folder. 
		Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-F
	</item>
</itemize>
</sect1>

<sect1>View menu
<p>
The view menu allows you to change the way that Sylpheed appears. 
You can set different windows separately (folder view, messages etc.), 
enable or disable the statusbar and so on.
It contains also the commands to toggle the display of some parts
of the current message, or sort the messsages in the selected folder
based on different attributes.
<p>
<itemize>
	<item>
		Show or hide: let you control the parts of the Sylpheed user interface 
		you want to display.
		<itemize>
			<item>
				Folder tree: not implemented yet
			</item>
			<item>
				Message view: show or hide the message pane. When hidden, the
				messages are displayed in a separate window. To read a message
				double click in the summary pane. The message is then opened in
				a new window. You can close this new window by pressing the escape
				key.
			</item>
			<item>
				Toolbar: sets how you want to see the toolbar. Icons and text, 
				or one of these.
				<itemize>
					<item>
						Icon and Text: show icons and text in the toolbar.
					</item>
					<item>
						Icon: only display the icons, do not display the text
						below them.
					</item>
					<item>
						Text: only the text, hide the icons.
					</item>
					<item>
						None: hide the toolbar.
					</item>
				</itemize>
			</item>
			<item>
				Status bar: show it or hide it.
			</item>
		</itemize>
	</item>
	<item>
		Separate folder tree: selects between having the folder tree 
		attached to the main window, or floating separately.
	</item>
	<item>
		Separate message view: selects between having the selected 
		message in the summary pane attached to the main window, or 
		floating separately.
	</item>
	<item>
		Toggle summary view: show or hide the message pane by expanding the
		summary view down to the bottom of the Sylpheed window.
		Shortcut: v
	</item>
	<item>
		Sort: controls the way the messages are sorted in the selected
		folder. Each option sorts the messages in descending order (the
		bigger one being on the top of the summary pane), and can be
		reversed by selecting the same menu entry a second time (each
		time you select the same menu entry the order is reversed).
		<itemize>
			<item>
				Sort by number: sort the message based on their MH number.
			</item>
			<item>
				Sort by size: sort the message on their size.
			</item>
			<item>
				Sort by date: sort the messages based on their date.
			</item>
			<item>
				Sort by from: the messages are sorted by their sender address
				(From field, sorted alphabetically).
			</item>
			<item>
				Sort by subject: the messages are sorted by their subject
				(sorted alphabetically).
			</item>
			<item>
				Sort by color label: sort the messages based on their color.
				Read the context menu description below to find how to assign
				colors to messages.
			</item>
			<item>
				Sort by mark: separate marked and unmarked messages. Read the 
				context menu description below to find how to mark messages.
			</item>
			<item>
				Sort by unread: separate read and unread messages.
			</item>
			<item>
				Sort by attachment: separate messages with and without attachment.
			</item>
			<item>
				Don't sort: do not sort the messages.
			</item>
			<item>
				Ascending: sort the messages in ascending order. If the field used
				to sort the messages is displayed in the summary view, a little
				arrow on the right side of the corresponding summay column header
				reflects the sort order you select from the menu.
			</item>
			<item>
				Descending: sort the messages in descending order.
			</item>
			<item>
				Attract by subject: move close to each other the messages
				having the same subject (or a close subject).
			</item>
		</itemize>
	</item>
	<item>
		Thread view: turn the threaded view on or off. When turned on the
		messages of the same thread (the same discussion generated by replying
		to each other mail) are grouped as a tree representing the discussion
		flow. Each reply being linked to its orignal message. Each branch can
		be open or closed by using the small plus or minus sign next to it.
		The threads are based on the In-Reply-To and Reference fields of the
		mail header, so never start a new conversation by replying to an
		old message, this will add your new mail to the old unrelated thread.
		Shortcut: Ctrl-T
	</item>
	<item>
		Expand all threads: if the threaded view is selected, expand all the
		threads in the opened folder.
	</item>
	<item>
		Collapse all threads: if the threaded view is selected, collapse all the
		threads in the opened folder.
	</item>
	<item>
		Set display item: use it to change the list of items to display
		in the summary view. This setting can also be changed through
		the common preferences.
	</item>
	<item>
		Go to: use it to navigate from message to message based on the
		sub-menu criterias.
		<itemize>
			<item>
				Prev. message: go to the previous message in the current
				folder.
				Shortcut: P
			</item>
			<item>
				Next message: go to the next message in the current
				folder.
				Shortcut: N
			</item>
			<item>
				Prev. unread: go to the previous unread message.
				Shortcut: Shift-P
			</item>
			<item>
				Next unread: go to the next unread message.
				Shortcut: Shift-N
			</item>
			<item>
				Prev. new: go to the previous new message.
			</item>
			<item>
				Next new: go to the next new message.
			</item>
			<item>
				Prev. marked: go to the previous marked message.
			</item>
			<item>
				Next marked: go to the next marked message.
			</item>
			<item>
				Prev. labeled: go to the previous labeled message.
			</item>
			<item>
				Next labeled: go to the next labeled message.
			</item>
			<item>
				Other folder: change the current folder. Opens a new window
				with the folder tree, and open the selected folder.
			</item>
		</itemize>
	</item>
	<item>
		Code set: allows you to select what codeset you want to use 
		for your e-mails. This codeset will be used when sending
		mails. Note Sylpheed will always try to use the more compatible
		codeset based on the characters used in your message, so unless
		you use special latin-1 characters in your mail, the encoding
		will be defined as 7bits ASCII even if you have selected the
		ISO-8859-1 character set.
		The auto-detect option let Sylpheed automatically detect the
		character set based on the content of the messages.
	</item>
	<item>
		Open in new window: open the selected message in a new window.
		This new window can be closed by pressing the escape key.
		Shortcut: Ctrl-Alt-N
	</item>
	<item>
		Message source: opens a new window and display the complete
		source of the message in it (without any formatting and with
		all the header fields).
		Shortcut: Ctrl-U
	</item>
	<item>
		Show all header: toggles on and off the display of the complete
		message header.
		Shortcut: Ctrl-H
	</item>
	<item>
		Update summary: update the Sylpheed window.
		Shortcut: Ctrl-Alt-U
	</item>
</itemize>
</sect1>

<sect1>Message menu
<p>
Here you find the following options:

<itemize>
	<item>
		Get new mail: this will collect all new mail for your 
		default mail-identity.
		Shortcut: Ctrl-I
	</item>
	<item>
		Get from all accounts: Sylpheed will poll all defined 
		mail-identities for new mail.
		Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-I
	</item>
	<item>
		Cancel receiving: stop the new mails reception.
	</item>
	<item>
		Send queued messages: all the messages that you put into 
		the "Queue" folder will now be sent off.
	</item>
	<item>
		Compose new message: allows you to write a new e-mail 
		message.
		Shortcut: Ctrl-M
	</item>
	<item>
		Reply: an e-mail message will be created with the sender 
		of the selected message in the summary pane as recipient. 
		Depending on the settings, your signature will be added 
		to the mail, and the original mail text will be quoted.
		If a part of the original mail is selected, only this
		part will be quoted in the reply.
		Shortcut: Ctrl-R
	</item>
	<item>
		Reply to all: as Reply, but the recipients will be all 
		e-mail addresses in the original messages (including 
		the ones in the cc: part).
		Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-R
	</item>
	<item>
		Reply to sender: as Reply, but the recipient is the address
		defined in the Sender header field (not the Reply-To address).
	</item>
	<item>
		Forward: a message will be created with the original 
		message in the summary pane as text. You can then 
		enter a recipient e-mail address, edit the text if 
		you want, and send it.
		Shortcut: Ctrl-Alt-F
	</item>
	<item>
		Forward as attachment: as Forward, but the message 
		text will sent along as a separate textfile.
		Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-F
	</item>
	<item>
		Redirect: re-send the selected message to someone else. Compared
		to a forward, the message is not marked as forwarded, and the sender
		is the original mail sender.
	</item>
	<item>
		Re-edit: lets you open all already sent message in
		edition mode to re-send it.
	</item>
	<item>
		Move: lets you move the message to a different folder. 
		You can select the destination folder from a browse-window.
	</item>
	<item>
		Copy: as Move, only that the message is copied to the 
		new folder, instead of moved.
		Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-O
	</item>
	<item>
		Delete: lets you delete the message that is selected 
		in the summary pane.
		Shortcut: Ctrl-D
	</item>
	<item>
		Mark: Gives a submenu: Mark/Unmark/Mark as read/Unmark 
		as read. When you mark messages, you can do a specific 
		action (e.g. move, delete) on all of the marked messages. 
		You can unmark messages that you mistakenly marked. 
		The other options do as they say, they mark or unmark 
		a message as read, and mark all read, marks all the messages
		of the current folder as read.
	</item>
</itemize>

A note on functions like Move, Copy and Delete: if you did not 
specify to execute the commands immediately (in the configuration), 
you will have to select the "Execute" command. This is a button 
in the toolbar, and can also be found in the Summary menu.
</sect1>

<sect1>Tool menu
<p>
In the Tool menu are grouped the filters control, address book
access and log window control.

<itemize>
	<item>
		Address book: opens the address book window.
		Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-A
	</item>
	<item>
		Add sender to address book: adds the sender of the selected
		message to one of your address books. When selected a window
		opens to let you select the target address book.
	</item>
	<item>
		Filter messages: apply the filter rules to the messages
		of the inbox.
	</item>
	<item>
		Create filter rule: create a new filter rule based on the
		selected message.
		<itemize>
			<item>
				Automatically: open the filter rules creation window
				to define a new rule.
			</item>
			<item>
				By From: opens the filter rules creation window and
				fills the filter settings fields to build a filter based
				on the sender of the selected message.
			</item>
			<item>
				By To: opens the filter rules creation window and
				fills the filter settings fields to build a filter based
				on the receiver of the selected message.
			</item>
			<item>
				By Subject: opens the filter rules creation window and
				fills the filter settings fields to build a filter based
				on the subject of the selected message.
			</item>
		</itemize>
	</item>
	<item>
		Delete duplicated messages: This will remove messages from the 
		active folder that were sent twice to you. For example you 
		received a message directly and through a mailing list at 
		the same time.
	</item>
	<item>
		Actions: this menu is empty until you define some actions (see the
		configuration menu description).
	</item>
	<item>
		Execute: execute all the pending move, delete, and copy commands.
		Only if execute immediately is off in the common preferences.
		Shortcut: X
	</item>
	<item>
		Log window: opens the log window. In the log window, you 
		can see what Sylpheed is doing. Keeping track of things 
		in that way is very good when you suspect there is something 
		wrong. You can paste the info of the log window into an 
		e-mail and send it to the developer or the mailing list.
	</item>
</itemize>


In the log window, you can see what Sylpheed is doing. Keeping 
track of things in that way is very good when you suspect there 
is something wrong. You can paste the info of the log window 
into an e-mail and send it to the developer or the mailing list.
</sect1>

<sect1>Configuration menu
<p>
In the Configuration menu, clearly, you can set up Sylpheed 
the way you want it to work and react.

<itemize>
	<item>
		Common preferences: in this option you will be 
		presented a dialog in which you can select a number 
		of tabs. Each tab represents a specific set of settings 
		in Sylpheed. In the next chapter, these dialog options 
		are explained in more detail.
	</item>
	<item>
		Filter setting: this option shows you a dialog in which you 
		can set up the filtering rules that you want Sylpheed 
		to process on receiving new e-mails. You first specify 
		on which part(s) of the e-mail Sylpheed has to check, 
		and then you tell Sylpheed what to do. You can move the 
		message to a different directory (including trash to get 
		rid of spam mail). Selecting the destination folder is 
		possible through a browser window that comes up when you 
		press "Select..."
		<p>
		You can choose not to receive the e-mail. Note that 
		this will leave the message on the mailserver of your 
		provider, the message will not be removed!
		<p>
		When you press the "Register" button, the filter 
		rule is added to the list of rules. Do you select 
		"Substitute", then the selected rule is replaced by the 
		information of the setting entered. "Delete" in the end 
		will delete the selected filtering rule.
		<p>
		Please note that you can set up two selections for a rule, 
		which can be "OR'd" or "AND'd". OR means that one of the 
		two selections will have to match for the rule to be 
		executed. AND means that both selections have to match 
		before an action is performed.
		<p>
		To the right of the selection rules you see buttons 
		called UP and DOWN. You can move rules up and down in 
		the list. This will often trigger different behaviour 
		in the selections, so consider the order in which 
		you set the rules.
	</item>
	<item>
		Template: let your create a new message template.
		When composing a new message you can then used one
		of the defined templates and insert it (or use it to
		completely replace the content of your mail).
		The templates can contain some special characters
		that are replaced when the template is used in order
		to create a dynamic text. Use the symbols button on
		the templates definition window to see the list of
		the available symbols.
	</item>
	<item>
		Actions: let your create new commands to be added to the
		'Tools/Actions' menu. An action is a command that processes
		the select part of a message, the message body or the complete
		message file. It can be a background process, used as a filter
		(reads, modifies and replaces a message),...
	</item>
	<item>
		Preferences for current account: here you can set the 
		specifics for the account you are currently using. 
		Should mail be deleted after fetching, what is the 
		server it comes from, etc. Basically it is the same 
		dialog form as shown in setting up a new account.
	</item>
	<item>
		Create new account: here you name the account (each 
		account has a recognizable name), you set up your name 
		and e-mail address etc. You set up the type of server 
		you access (POP4, IMAP4, local mailbox, newsserver) 
		and where the downloaded messages have to go (default 
		folder is the inbox). In the RECEIVE tab you select or 
		unselect options, in SEND you can set up how to send 
		your messages. In COMPOSE you can point to a specific 
		signature file, and in ADVANCED you can set up alternate 
		ports for the server, if these exist. (Do not mess 
		with these unless you are sure you have to!!)
	</item>
	<item>
		Edit accounts: here you can select one of the accounts 
		you created, from a list, and edit the information about 
		them. Note that you cannot edit an account for which 
		you are writing a message at the same time. This to 
		ensure data integrity.
	</item>
	<item>
		Change current account: here you can select what 
		account you want to use, to write a message.
		If you have enabled the status bar (in the view menu),
		the name of the current account is shown in the bottom
		right corner of the Sylpheed window (in the status bar)
		and can be changed by a click on it (then a menu appears
		and lists all your accounts).
	</item>
</itemize>

</sect1>

<sect1>Help menu
<p>
This menu lets you look at the manual and FAQ of Sylpheed, 
and you can also see the "about" info, who wrote Sylpheed.
<p>

</sect1>

<sect1>Context menu
<p>
You can pull up context menus (through clicking button2) for 
the folder tree and the summary pane. (windows users: button2 
is the right mouse button.)
<p>
In the folder view you can add, rename and remove folders 
through the context menu. You can also set the folder
properties (define the selected folder as an inbox, outbox,
trash, ...).
<p>
In the message summary you can do a host of things from the 
context menu, like viewing message headers, opening a message 
in a separate window (also possible by double clicking on a 
message) etc...

</sect1>