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Menu Items        Toolbar Buttons

Message Window

The message window used to read and reply to an email message.
Depending on the content of your email there will be up to five tabbed windows.

Html View
If your email contains html content then this tab will be available and will be automatically chosen when the message displays. Html emails are usually accompanied by a plain text version, but not always.
Email View
This is the default view. It is the plain text version of your email formatted as an email view. (more on views)
Attachments
If the email contains any file attachments then the files will be listed under this tab.
MsgInfo
Every email has header information embedded into it. This tab shows all the header and other miscellaneous information.
ViewAs
If you have selected to view the email in another format then the newly formatted message will show under this tab.

Quick Reply
Use this to reply to the message directly as opposed to launching your default email client.

Click here for more on Quick Reply.


Menu Items        Toolbar Buttons


Message
  
Reply To Sender

Loads your external default email client with the Sender and Subject fields filled in.

Quick Reply
Allows you to reply to the current message without leaving the Email Segeway software. Select the Quick Reply menu item to the left of this page for more information.

Open Attachment Folder
Opens the Email Segway attachments folder with MS Explorer.

Save As...
Opens a save dialog box.
You can save the currently viewed message information in several formats including HTML and Rich Text format.


Print
Depending on what format you are currently viewing this item print the contents of the active tab.


Display Properties
Depending on what format you are currently viewing this item will show the display properties page.
Within the properties editor you can change behavior's such as word wrap, font size, syntax colors, and a host of other options.

Show Html Images
Will display images in the HTML document. Automatically displaying HTML images is configurable from within the Options window.

There are two main reasons you may not want images to automatically display. The first is if you using a dialup internet connection and do not want to wait for the images to download. The other is to avoid inadvertently viewing an offending image.

Exit
This item will close the message view window.



Selection
  
Toggle Select

Behaves in two ways.
If there is no text selected this menu item will select all the text in the message.
If there is some text selected then all text will be deselected.

Copy Selected
Send hilighted text to the clipboard.

Send Selected To Default App
This will examine the hilighted text and ask MS Windows to open the appropriate program. For example if you have an email address hilighted your default email client will open, web links will open your browser, etc.



View As...
  
Email Segway can display messages in several formats.
Each format has a set of rules for formatting and coloring the text. Each of these formats can be customized by you from the Display Properties menu item.

Email text

Formats the following items:
Web addresses,
Email addresses,
Original message quote,
Previous message quote,
Deep message quote,
Subject.

Html code
Full HTML tag parser

C code
Full ANSI C/C++ programming language parser.

Java code
Full java programming language parser.

Plain text
Display text with no formatting.



Toolbar Buttons
  


Exit

Same as Exit menu item.

Reply
The default behavior is the same as the Reply To Sender menu item.
Can be configured via the options window to behave the same as the Quick Reply menu item.


Select
Same as Toggle Select menu item.

Copy
Same as Copy Selected menu item.

Default App
Same as Send Selected To Default App menu item.

Attachments
Same as Open Attachment Folder menu item.