电子邮箱

电子邮箱是 Haiku 默认的邮件查看器和编辑器。它与实际的邮件获取和发送没有任何关系，而后者通常由 mail_demon 完成，并且可以通过 电子邮箱 首选项进行配置。

本文是 电子邮件 程序总的使用概览。更多使用信息，请参考 邮件管理操作练习.

阅读邮件

双击邮件文件，在电子邮件程序中打开。其界面非常简单：

顶部是菜单和可选工具栏，中间是有关邮件的属性部分（发件人，收件人，主题，日期），最下面是邮件主体部分。如果邮件为空或者出现陌生字符，则从弹出菜单中 编码方式 修改字体编码。

如果邮件存在附加文件，它们位于邮件的末尾。右键点击，打开弹出菜单，然后选择 保存附加文件... 或 打开附加文件。您也可以直接将其拖拽至桌面或者其他文件浏览器窗口。

多数的菜单和工具栏项目都很容易理解，因此我们主要关注高亮部分。

文件

当您关闭新建邮件窗口时，其状态通常会从“新邮件”切换为“已读邮件”。但是您也可以从 关闭并... 子菜单中设置其他状态。在哪里，您也可以通过 设置为... 选项创建自定义状态，然后保存到 ~/config/settings/Mail/status/ 。

编辑

这里，您能够看到一个条目，用以打开电子邮件 首选项... （如下）以及用于管理您的 账户... 的快捷方式，它们将会打开 电子邮件 首选项面板。

视图

您只需要用到以下这两个选项：

消息

回复邮件有多个选型，它们可能需要一些说明。

The items to Forward, Resend and Copy to new are again pretty self-explaining.

When you've opened an email from a Tracker or query result window, Previous message and Next message will move to the previous/next email in the list.

Save address collects all email addresses from the header and the actual email body in a submenu. Choosing an address will open the People application in order to save the contact information.

查询

该功能还无法工作，但是其目的在于，它将会显示所有与当前打开邮件相关的邮件，如所有来自同一发件人或者具有相同主题/线索的邮件。

新建邮件

A new email is created by invoking the New mail message menu or the corresponding icon from the tool bar of an open email. Or you just start the Mail application or choose Create new message... from the context menu of the mailbox icon in the Deskbar.

The window is pretty similar to the one when reading mails. The menu and tool bar items are slightly different and the text boxes have to be filled with the recipient's email address, subject and so on, of course.

Cc is short for the anachronistic term "carbon copy" and results in copies of your mail being sent to the listed people. The difference to just listing a buch of addresses in the "To" field is, that you don't directly address the cc'ed people, thereby signaling that you probably don't expect an answer of them.
Bcc means "blind carbon copy" which does practically the same as "Cc", but hides the recipients from each other.

You can enter several recipients by separating their addresses with a comma. To, CC, and BCC are pop-up menus. They contain all email addresses on your system found by a query for People files. Their "Group" attribute will sort them in corresponding submenus.

Again, we'll focus on the more interesting features in the menus.

文件

With Save as draft you can store your work so far and come back to it later. To load it again, choose it from the Open draft submenu that will list the result of a query for all mails with the status "Draft".

编辑

Quote and Remove quote or their respective shortcuts ALT ← / → are used to add/remove a level of quoting by adjusting the number of ">" symbols in front of quoted lines. Just select some text in all the lines you want un/quoted and invoke the menu item.

Check spelling currently only offers corrections of English texts by marking wrong or unknown words red and showing them in italic. Right-clicking such a word opens a context menu offering suggestions to correct the word or to Add it to the accepted vocabulary.

Then, there are again the items to open Mail's Preferences... (see below) and a shortcut to managing your Accounts..., which will open the E-mail preference panel.

消息

With Add signature you can add predefined texts to the end of your mail. From its submenu you can choose a specific or Random one.

You create new or edit existing signatures with Edit signatures..., which will open a window where you enter the text itself and the title of your new sig. Signatures should be saved in ~/config/settings/Mail/sigantures.

Use Add enclosure... and Remove enclosure to add/remove files as attachments. You can also drag & drop files from a Tracker window. Be careful though to drop those in the header section (To/From/Subject area at the top) or they'll get pasted into the email body if they are text files.

附属文件列在邮件头下面。您可以通过右键菜单选中文件，然后按下 DEL 将其删除。

查询

这一功能还未实现，但是其用于保存查询，它将会显示与当前打开邮件相关的所有邮件，例如具有相同的收件人，或者相同的主题/线索。

首选项

电子邮件首选项分为两个部分：

用户界面

邮件相关

Hello Dr. Hawking!

On Mon, 18 Jan 1998 02:55:16 +0800 you wrote:
> so thanks again for the inspiration concerning the cosmological constant.
> ...and the rest of the quoted text following...