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\chapter{Messages 7.0 and higher: 

A Program for Reading and Sending Messages}


This document contains the following sections on Messages:


\leftindent{What Messages is

The Basics

\leftindent{Starting Messages

Reading new and old messages

Sending messages}

Additional Messages Features

\leftindent{Folders, marking messages, the Punt button

Preferences and Options

Flames: Filtering Language for the \helptopic{AMS}}

	MIME:  Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

Pop-up menu meanings

More information on the Andrew Message System

Quick Reference

Related Tools


This document contains references to other help documents for more detailed 
information.   The Related Tools section at the end of this document contains 
pointers to other files related to the Andrew Message System.}


\section{What Messages is}

\leftindent{
Messages is an Andrew Message System (AMS) program.  All AMS programs enable 
you to read and send mail.  Messages is designed specifically to run in the 
windowing environment of Andrew workstations. 


If you do not have access to a workstation, or want to read your mail from a 
different type of terminal, there are other AMS programs available for 
different terminal types.  See the  \italic{\helptopic{mail}}  help document 
for an overview.

}
\section{Starting Messages

}
\leftindent{To read your mail, type:


\leftindent{\bold{messages}}


in the Typescript window and press Enter.  Or, choose \bold{Read News} or 
\bold{Read Mail} from the pop-up menus in the Typescript window.  


If your site uses Messages to read bulletin boards, typing "messages" shows 
you new messages on the bulletin boards you subscribe to as well as your mail. 
 You can also specify a bulletin board to read by typing:


\leftindent{\bold{messages \italic{bboardname}}}


Or, you may want to start Messages sometimes to read only your mail by typing:


\leftindent{\bold{messages -m}}


in the Typescript widow and press Enter.  Or, choose\bold{ Read Mail} from the 
pop-up menus in the Typescript window.


}\section{The first time you use Messages

}\leftindent{
Upon startup of Messages, the folders area gives the program version number, 
description and lists the program authors. Also, the captions area is 
initialized with the /etc/motd file.  


The first time you use Messages, your Messages window is divided into three 
horizontal scrollable regions.    After initialization, the top region is the 
"folder" you are subscribed to which has new messages.  

When you start Messages, the first folder with new messages (in this case, 
your mail folder) is automatically selected.  When a folder is "selected" it 
appears in boldface and its "captions" are displayed in the middle region of 
the window.  A caption looks something like this:


29-Feb-89  \italic{morning?} - Jello Biafra (385+1)


It is a one-line summary of the date (29-Feb-89), subject (morning?) and 
sender (Jello Biafra) for a message.  (385+1) tells you that there are 385 
bytes and 1  \italic{\helptopic{inset}}  contained in the message. 


The lower region of the Messages window contains basic instructions on reading 
messages when you start the program.  Left clicking on a caption in the middle 
region of the window causes its message to appear in this lower region. }


\section{Reading new and old messages}

\leftindent{
To read your mail, first you select a folder, then you choose a message to 
read by selecting its caption.


\bold{Selecting which folder to see.}  In the top region of the Messages 
window, click with the left mouse button anywhere \italic{on the name of a 
folder}.  This causes the folder to become "selected."  Several things happen:


\leftindent{--the name of the folder becomes bold, indicating that it is 
selected


--the line (Has New Messages) next to the folder name changes to a description 
of the folder, like


\leftindent{(Local Bboard, 3 of 220 new)

}
--the most recent captions of messages in the folder appear in the middle 
region of the window.}


\bold{Selecting which message to read.}  In the middle region of the Messages 
window, click with either mouse button \italic{on the caption} of the message 
you want to read.  This causes the caption and the message it represents to 
become "selected."  Several things happen:


\leftindent{--the caption becomes bold, indicating that it is selected


--the message appears in the bottom region of the window


--the caption icon becomes a check, indicating that the message has been 
"seen."  The caption icon on the left side of the caption is either a bboard 
icon (a square that looks like a piece of paper with the bottom corner turned 
up) or a mail icon (an addressed letter).


--the underline icon (a small line underneath the last check icon) moves down 
beneath the selected caption, indicating to the Messages program to treat all 
the messages above the underline icon as "seen." This means that the next time 
you run an AMS program, even if you haven't actually looked at all of the 
messages above the underline, they will not be shown to you as "new."}


\bold{Reading the message. } The body of the message is presented in the lower 
region of the window.  It is preceded by "headers."  The headers you see are 
the Date:, From:, To:, and Subject: headers.  There are more headers above 
these that you can scroll up and see, but they are only relevant to the mail 
delivery system or people diagnosing problems.


}\bold{\leftindent{Reading old mail and messages}.  }\leftindent{Reading old 
mail and messages is the same as reading new mail and messages except you 
first have to find and select the folder with old messages.  You can find a 
folder with old messages (if it is not on your list of folders with new 
messages) by either exposing your subscription list  (or a list of all the 
folders) with \bold{Expose Subscribed} (or \bold{Expose All}) or by choosing 
\bold{Read By Name}  from the \italic{Message Folders} pop-up menu card.


To see the old captions of a folder you have selected, scroll or 
\italic{Search} up through the captions when they appear in the middle region 
of the window.}


\section{Sending messages

}
\leftindent{For information related to sending mail and messages using the 
SendMessage program, see the \italic{ \helptopic{SendMessage}}  help document. 
 

}
\section{Accessing, subscribing and unsubscribing to folders}


\leftindent{This section is not particularily relevent unless your site uses 
Messages to read bulletin boards.  Still, you can subscribe to any of your 
personal \italic{ folders } the same way you would subscribe to a bulletin 
board.}


\leftindent{\bold{Seeing all the bboards available.}  To see all the available 
bulletin boards, choose \bold{Expose All} from the \italic{Message Folders} 
pop-up menu card.  A list of all the bulletin boards to which you can 
subscribe appears in the top region of the window.  If you are subscribed to a 
bboard there is a check icon beside the help icon (a rectangle with a question 
mark).  Since the All Folders list is so long, you may want to have more space 
to look at it.


\bold{To move the region boundaries within the Messages window}, place the 
cursor on a boundary, click and hold either mouse button.  Drag the cursor to 
where you would like the boundary to be and release the mouse button.


\bold{Seeing messages on a bboard without subscribing.}   After choosing 
\bold{Expose All} from the \italic{Message Folders} pop-up menu card, you can 
select any folder (bboard) by left clicking on its name.  To find a specific 
bboard, choose \bold{Read by Name} from the \italic{Message Folders} pop-up 
menu card and type the name of the bboard.  Press Enter when you are finished. 
 Once you have selected a folder by either of these means, you can read any of 
the old "posts" (messages) by scrolling or using \italic{ Search}  back up 
through the captions in the middle region.


\bold{Subscribing and unsubscribing to bboards.}  Click with either mouse 
button on the help icon (a rectangle with a question mark in it) next to the 
bboard.  Left click in the area that says "Subscribe" (or "Unsubscribe") from 
the dialogue box that comes up.  A check icon between the help icon and the 
bboard name either appears or disappears.  The check icon means you are 
subscribed to that bboard, no check means you are not subscribed.  


\bold{Seeing the bboards you are subscribed to.}  Choose \bold{Expose 
Subscribed} from the \italic{Message Folders} pop-up menu card.  


\bold{Choosing a different subscription type.}   In addition to the normal, or 
"full" subscription, Messages offers several other types of subscription types 
described below.  To change your subscription type, click with either mouse 
button on the help icon next to the bboard name.  Choose "Alter Subscription 
Status" from the dialogue box that comes up.  You will then see a second 
dialogue box with the options described below. 


\leftindent{\description{Yes (Normal subscription):  shows you all the new 
messages on the bboard each time you run an AMS program.


No (No subscription):  unsubscribes you.


'Ask' subscription (shows new notices optionally):  always shows up on your 
folder list, and is\bold{ always} skipped over by the advancing mechanisms -- 
 the space bar, \bold{Show More} or \bold{Show Next} menu options or the Punt 
button.


'ShowAll' subscription (shows all notices):   always shows up on your folder 
list, and is skipped over \bold{if the folder is empty} by the advancing 
mechanisms --  the space bar, \bold{Show More} or \bold{Show Next} menu 
options or the Punt button.


'Print' subscription (prints new notices): prints all new messages for you 
automatically when you select the folder. 

}}}
\section{Folders, marking messages, the Punt button}


\leftindent{\bold{Folders.}  Messages has the capability for you to create 
personal folders (like your mail folder) in which you can store messages so 
that you can find them easily at a later date.  The help document called 
\italic{ \helptopic{messages-folders}}  explains how to create and use 
personal folders.


\bold{Marking of messages. } The marking feature of Messages enables you to 
operate on many messages at once.  You turn on marking of messages by choosing 
\bold{Set Options} from the \italic{Other} menu card and then turning on the 
appropriate option.  Once you have marking turned on, there are two ways to 
mark messages:


--right clicking on a caption marks a single message

--dragging over a number of captions while holding down the right button marks 
the messages you drag over.  Messages that are already marked are left marked 
if you do this.


Once you have marked messages, you can use the addition Marked Message Menu 
options documented under Menu Options, below.


Note that once you select a different folder, the marks for the previous 
folder are removed.  If you return to a folder and want to see the marks 
again, use \bold{Restore Old Marks} from the  \italic{Search  }menu card.


\bold{The Punt button.}  This feature is also turned on using \bold{Set 
Options} on the \italic{Other} menu card.  It enables you to skip over many 
messages that you don't want to read by moving the underline icon within a 
folder.  You use the Punt button in the following way:


\leftindent{\italic{Left} clicking on the Punt button moves the underline icon 
down below the last message in the current folder \italic{and }selects the 
next folder on the list.  All the messages above the underline icon will not 
be shown to you as new the next time you want to read that folder.


\italic{Right} clicking on the Punt button \italic{only} moves the underline 
icon down below the last message.  It does not move you on to the next folder.


}}\indent{When the folders area is very narrow, the Punt/Commit buttons should 
be on the top.  This is automatically adjusting, with a preference to set the 
threshold for the adjustment.  You can alter the threshold by using \bold{Set 
Options} on the \italic{Other }menu card. }


\section{Preferences and Options

}
\leftindent{There are two different types of preferences which affect 
Messages.  There are preferences which you set yourself by editing your 
preferences file, and many, many other "options" which you do not need to edit 
your preference file to set.


All but one of the preferences are explained in the 
 \italic{\helptopic{preferences}}  help document.   The other preference 
allows you to change the order in which your folder appear, and is documented 
in the  \italic{\helptopic{ams-subsorder}}  help file.


The other type of preferences are referred to as "options."  Options are set 
from within the Messages program itself, and are documented inside the 
program, as well as in the the  \italic{\helptopic{messages-customization}} 
 help document.  You set options by choosing \bold{Set Options} from the 
\italic{Other} menu card in Messages. 

}
\section{Flames: Filtering Language for the AMS}


\leftindent{FLAMES is a language that lets you do automatic Mailbox processing 
to do things like automatically sort messages into folders.  You do not have 
to be a programmer to use FLAMES; the \italic{ \helptopic{flames}}  help file 
has useful cut-and-paste examples that anyone can do.  The help file also 
explains what FLAMES can (and can not) do and points to more detailed 
documentation, so it is also useful for programmers.}


\section{MIME:  Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions}


\indent{MIME is a proposed Internet standard for multipart, multimedia mail. 
 Messages, version 8.1.5 and higher, supports MIME-compliant format.  There 
are advantages of MIME-compliant format mail using messages.  Other mail 
systems that support MIME-compliant mail are able to interpret your 
multi-media messages.    You must set preferences to control whether you wish 
to send and receive MIME-compliant format messages.  


The preferences you should add are \bold{mailsendingformat}: and 
\bold{forcemetamail: <MIME type [,MIME type] ...>}.  These preferences are 
documented in the preferences help file.  

}
\section{Pop-up menu meanings

}
\leftindent{Messages has several pop-up menus, and many menu options only 
appear after you have turned on an option using \bold{Set Options} within the 
program.   The menu options are presented here grouped by functionality into 


\leftindent{Main Menus

This Message Menus

Folder Manipulation Menus

Marked Message Menus

Other Menus}


\bold{Main Menus}


When ever you don't have a message displayed in the message body region of the 
Messages window, you can press both mouse buttons (or the middle mouse button) 
to see the Main menus.  Here are some of the Main menu selections and what 
they do:


\italic{Front menu Card}


\leftindent{\bold{Read Mail}\italic{:}  Checks your mailbox for mail and then 
reads your mail folder,displaying the captions of any new mail you have 
received.  


\bold{Send/Post Message:}  Creates a SendMessage window in which you can 
compose a mail message or a bboard post.  See the 
 \italic{\helptopic{SendMessage}}  help document for information on how to 
send a message.


\bold{Delete Window: }Deletes window.  If you only have one window (you are 
not using the "-w" switch), this acts as Quit.

\bold{\italic{
}}\bold{Quit}:  Quits Messages.  Also quits the SendMessage window started 
from within Messages, if you have one.  If you have deleted messages, Messages 
asks in a dialogue box whether you want to purge the deletions (permanently 
remove them).}


\italic{Other Menu Card}


\leftindent{\bold{Check New Messages:}  Starts the program over from the 
beginning.


\bold{Purge Deletions: } Purges all deleted messages from all folders.  Note 
that it does not prompt for selective purging if deleted messages exist in 
more than one folder.


\bold{Set Options:}  Brings up list of options with switches to set them in 
the body region of the Messages window.  In the captions region is a list of 
switches of the options.  A click list appears in the captions region to let 
you move easily within the list of options.  Clicking on an option in the 
captions region scrolls the body region to that option.   See the 
 \italic{\helptopic{messages-customization}} help document for descriptions of 
the options.


\bold{Set Printer:}  Prompts you for a printer name in the message line at the 
bottom of the window.  Type in the name of the printer you want to use and 
press Enter.  The messages you send to be printed will be queued for the 
printer you set.}


\italic{Search Menu Card


}See the \italic{ searching}  help document for more detailed information on 
searches.


\leftindent{\bold{Folders Forward:}  Searches among the folders displayed from 
the current cursor position forward (i.e. - down).  If the search is 
successful, Messages scrolls to display and highlight the item that is 
matched. 

 

\bold{Folders Backward:}  Searches among the folders displayed from the 
current cursor position backward (i.e. - up).  If the search is successful, 
Messages scrolls to display and highlight the item that is matched.}


\leftindent{\bold{Captions Forward:}  Searches the currently selected folder's 
message captions from the currently selected caption forward (i.e. - down). 
  If the search is successful, Messages scrolls to display and highlight the 
item that is matched.


\bold{Captions Backward:}  Searches the currently selected folder's message 
captions from the currently selected caption backward (i.e. - up).  If the 
search is successful, Messages scrolls to display and highlight the item that 
is matched.


\bold{Body Forward:}  Searches the currently selected message  forward (i.e. - 
down).   If the search is successful, Messages scrolls to display and 
highlight the region that is matched.


\bold{Body Backward:} Searches the currently selected message  backward (i.e. 
- up).   If the search is successful, Messages scrolls to display and 
highlight the region that is matched.


}\italic{Message Folders}\italic{\italic{ }Menu Card}\bold{

}
\leftindent{\bold{Expose Changed:}  Exposes a list of the folders to which you 
are subscribed which have new messages in them since you last used Messages.  


\bold{Expose Subscribed}:  Exposes a list of folders to which you are 
subscribed.}


\leftindent{\bold{Expose All:}  Exposes the list of all the folders to which 
you might consider subscribing.


\bold{Expose Tree:}  Brings up an  \italic{org}  window that you can use to 
see in a heirarchical manner what bulletin boards are available.   Clicking 
with the right button on a node in the org window causes its corresponding 
folder to become selected in the Messages window.


\bold{Read By Name:}  Prompts you for the name of a folder.  Type in the full 
name of the folder you want to read and press Enter.  Messages selects that 
folder and presents its captions in the captions region.}


\bold{Message Menus}


These menu options appear only when you have a message displayed that you can 
act upon.  The Message Menus do not include Marked Message Menus or Folder 
Manipulation Menus.


\italic{Front Menu Card}


\leftindent{\bold{Copy:}  (appears when you have selected a region of text) 
 Copies the selected text into the cutbuffer.  You can put the text you copied 
most recently back into any document by choosing \bold{Paste}.


\bold{Delete / Undelete:}  Deletes or undeletes the currently selected 
message, if you have access to delete or undelete it.  In general, you can 
delete or undelete messages in your mail and personal folders, but not 
messages on bboards. 


Deleted messages are not permanently removed until they are "purged."  Purging 
occurs when you quit the program, or when you click on the help icon for that 
folder and choose "Update."


\bold{Reply to Sender:}  Creates a SendMessage window in which the To: header 
is automatically filled in with the sender of the current message's address. 
 The Subject: header is also filled in, with the addition of "Re: ".


\bold{Reply to All:}  Creates a SendMessage window in which the To: and CC: 
headers are automatically filled in with the headers of the currently selected 
message's headers. 


Messages determines whether or not to include the sender in the recipient list 
based on whether you have administrative access to the folder in which the 
selected message appears.  If you have administrative rights (like to your 
personal mail folders) \bold{Reply To All} includes the sender's address in 
the To: header.  If you do not have administrative rights to the folder (like 
most bboards) \bold{Reply To All} only includes the addresses which appeared 
in the original To: and CC: headers (like the bboard address); it does not add 
the sender's address to that list.


\bold{Reply to All} is generally correct, but if you need more precision, you 
can turn on an Option to get \bold{Reply to Readers} and \bold{Reply to Both}.}


\italic{Search Menu Card}


See the  \italic{searching}  help document for more detailed information on 
searches.


\leftindent{\bold{Bodies Forward:}  Searches forward in the body of the 
message from the position of the text caret for the set of characters you 
specify.


\bold{Bodies Reverse:}  Searches backward in the body of the message from the 
text caret for the character string that you specify.}


\italic{This Message Menu Card

}
\leftindent{\bold{Forward To:}  Inserts the currently selected message into a 
SendMessage window.  If the messages was sent with SendMessage, then 
formatting information is preserved and the delivery headers are placed in a 
tiny font.  "Fwd:" is inserted into the Subject: header.  You enter the 
recipient(s) at the To: header.


\bold{Resend To:}  Prompts you for a recipient to whom Messages will resend 
the currently selected message, without bringing up a SendMessage window.  The 
message is sent with the addition of new Resend Date:, To:, and From: headers 
at the top of the delivery headers.  The default after the first message is 
the last address to which you resent a message.


\bold{Append to file:}  Stores an unformatted version of the currently 
selected message into the file you specify.  You can use the tilde ~ in 
filenames.  If the file you specify already exists, Messages appends the 
displayed message to it.  If the file does not exist, Messages creates it. 
  The initial default file is "~/SavedMessages".  After the first time you use 
this command, the default is whatever file to which you last appended.  You 
can append more than one message to a file, as long as the file is made up of 
other messages.  Appending a message to a file containing anything other than 
previously appended messages is not recommended. 


\bold{Descramble:} (this menu option does not appear unless you have turned it 
on using \bold{Set Options})  Reformats the current message according to the 
"rot13" netnews convention.  If you then print the message, it will be printed 
as it appears in the Messages window.


\bold{Fixed Width:} (this menu option does not appear unless you have turned 
it on using \bold{Set Options})  Reformats the current message into fixed 
width font.  This is useful when the sender assumed you would be seeing the 
message in fixed-width font and has set things up in columns.  If you then 
print the message, it will be printed as it appears in the Messages window.


\bold{Print:}  Prints the currently selected message. 

}
\bold{Folder Manipulation Menus

}
These menu options do not appear until you have turned on basic folder 
addition and manipulation options.  See the 
 \italic{\helptopic{messages-folders}}  help document for information on how 
to turn on and use the folder features.


\italic{This Message Menu Card}


\leftindent{\bold{Restore Draft:}  Inserts currently selected message, 
complete with headers and message body, into a SendMessage window.  }


\italic{File Into... Menu Card}\bold{  


}These menu options file messages into folders sorted by received date.


\leftindent{\bold{<folder names>:}  Copies the currently selected message into 
the folder whose name you choose and deletes the message from the current 
folder (if you have write access on that folder).  The names on the card are 
by default the names of your first eight folders (in alphabetical order) 
appear on this menu card.  You can specify the names of folders and the number 
of the folders on this menu card by using \bold{Set Options}.


\bold{By Name:}  Files the selected message into folder you specify.  If you 
supply the name of folder that does not exist, you are asked whether you want 
to create it.  The folder will be created if it doesn't exist.  The last 
folder you filed a message into is the default setting.


\bold{Expand/Shrink Menu: } "Expand" puts all of your personal folders on the 
\italic{File Into...}  menu card.  "Shrink" puts only your designated folders 
on the \italic{File Into ...} menu card.

}
\italic{Message Folders Menu Card}


\leftindent{\bold{Expose Personal:}  Exposes a list of your personal folders 
(the folders you have created and your mail folder).  


\bold{Create:}  Creates a new folder.  You are prompted for the name of the 
folder that you want to create.  If you give a one-word name, such as 
"foobar," you create a new folder parallel to the main mail folder, "mail." 
 You can create subfolders of your folders by giving two-word names with dots, 
such as "mail.friends."  See the help on  \italic{\helptopic{messages-folders}} 
 for more information on naming personal folders.


\bold{Delete:}  Deletes a folder.  You are prompted for the name of the folder 
that you want to delete.  If there are any messages in the folder you are 
trying to delete, you are told how many messages there are and asked whether 
or not you want to remove them all.  It does this \italic{before} checking to 
see if you actually have the right to delete the folder.  It will not delete a 
folder you do not have access to delete.


\bold{Rename:}  Renames a folder.  You are prompted for the name of the folder 
that you want to rename, then for the new name that you want to give it.  You 
may rename whole trees of folders, so that if your mail is (for some reason) 
being delivered to a folder called "misc," and you have sub-folders of "misc," 
you can rename your "misc" folder to be called "mail" and all the sub-folders 
will be renamed, also.}


\bold{Marked Message Menus

}
These menu options do not appear until you have turned on the marking messages 
options, using \bold{Set Options}.  These menu options allow you to find and 
manipulate many messages within a folder at the same time.


\italic{Search Menu Card}


\leftindent{\bold{Mark by Keyword:}  Searches among the message captions of 
the currently selected folder from the beginning to end, \italic{marking} all 
messages that contain the string for which you are searching.  It clears out 
all old marks before beginning the search.  


\bold{Mark Related Messages: } (This menu option only shows up when you have a 
message on display.)  Searches through all the captions in the currently 
selected folder, marking all the messages which are part of the same 
in-reply-to/references chain as the displayed message.


\bold{Restore Old Marks: } Restores the last set of marks that were removed.


\bold{Mark By Date: } Prompts you for a "beginning" date, and and "end" date, 
and marks all messages within the date range.  Many forms of dates are 
accepted (i.e. "July 4 1987," and "7/4/87" as well as other forms of dates 
will work).}


\italic{Marked Messages Menu Card} 


This menu only appears after you have marked at least one message.


}\leftindent{\leftindent{\bold{Next:}  Selects the next marked message in the 
current folder.


\bold{Previous:}  Selects the previous marked message in the current folder..


\bold{Delete All:}  Deletes all the currently-marked messages.


\bold{Undelete All:} Undeletes all the currently-marked messages which were 
deleted.


\bold{Print All:}  Sends all the currently-marked messages to the printer.


\bold{Clear Marks: } Removes the marks from all the currently-marked messages.


\bold{Count Marks:}  Tells you how many messages are currently marked.}


\italic{Send/File Marked Menu Card}


This menu card only appears when you have at least one message marked.


\leftindent{\bold{File All Into:}  Copies all the currently-marked messages in 
a folder you specify.  Deletes all the marked messages in the current folder 
once they are copied.


\bold{Append to File:  }Appends all marked messages to a file you specify.


\bold{Reply to Senders:}  Opens a SendMessage window, if one is not already 
open, and inserts the addresses of the senders of all the marked messages at 
the To: header.


\bold{Reply to All:}  Opens a SendMessage window, if one is not already open, 
and inserts the addresses of the senders of all the marked messages, and the 
bulletin board the messages are on, at the To: header.


\bold{Resend All: } Prompts you for an address in the message line of the 
window.  Type in the address to which you want all the marked messages resent 
and press Enter.


\bold{Excerpt All:}  Opens a SendMessage window, if one is not already open, 
and inserts the bodies of all the marked messages into the body area of the 
SendMessage window, formatted to make replying easier (indented and italic).}}


\leftindent{\bold{Other Menus}


These menu options do not appear until you have turned them on using \bold{Set 
Options}.


\italic{Front Menu Card}


\leftindent{\bold{Show More: } If you have more text in a message that you 
need to scroll to see, this option scrolls one screenful for you.  If you do 
not have more text, this functions like \bold{Show Next}.}


\leftindent{\bold{Show Next:}  When you have read the last message in a 
folder, this option will select the next folder with new messages and select 
the first unread message in that folder.  When you have not reached the last 
message in a folder, this options selects the next (non-duplicate) message.}


\italic{This Message Menu Card}


\leftindent{\bold{Mark as Unread:}  In a folder that you have write access to 
(your mail or personal folders), this changes the icon of the currently 
selected message from a check into a mail or bboard icon.  When you move to 
another folder, the "unread" mail or bboard icon becomes a check again.}


\italic{Marked Messages Menu Card}


\leftindent{\bold{Copy All Into: }Copies all the currently-marked messages in 
a folder you specify.  Does not delete the marked messages in the current 
folder once they are copied.


\bold{Append to Folder:} Appends all marked messages to a file you specify by 
placing them at the very end of the folder, instead of placing them in the 
folder by date.


\bold{Append to File: } Appends all marked messages to a file you specify. }


\italic{Other Menu Card}


\leftindent{\bold{Set Quit Here:}  Moves the underline icon above the 
currently selected message.


\bold{Punt:}  Moves the underline icon to the end of the captions and selects 
the next folder with new messages.  If you have reached the end of your 
folders, but still have unread folders left, Punt will loop back and selected 
them.}}


\section{Additional information on the Andrew message system}


\leftindent{For information on the structure of the Andrew message system 
programs, or about the SNAP and no-SNAP version of Messages, see the 
\italic{ \helptopic{ams}}  help document.  There are also documents about the 
message system in


/usr/andrew/doc/ams}


\section{Quick Reference}


\leftindent{Syntax: messages [-m] [-w] [-s] [-S] [-N]


-m  reads only mail, not bulletin boards.


-w   brings up folders, captions and body regions of the Messages window in 
separate windows.  See the  \italic{\helptopic{preferences}}  help file for 
specifying placement and size of the window.


-s  reads ~/.sendmessageinit on start up.}


\section{Program author}


\leftindent{Nathaniel Borenstein}


\section{Related Tools

}
Select (highlight) one of the italicized names, and choose "Show Help on 
Selected Word" from the pop-up menu to see the help document for:

\leftindent{
\italic{\helptopic{+}}\italic{

\helptopic{Andrew}              } (The Tour)

\italic{\helptopic{ams-subsorder}}

\italic{\helptopic{CUI}

\helptopic{flames}

\helptopic{bboards}

\helptopic{forward}

\helptopic{mail} 

\helptopic{messages-customization}

\helptopic{messages-folders}

\helptopic{messages-keys}

\helptopic{ms-aliases}

\helptopic{ms-mailinglists}

\helptopic{SendMessage}

\helptopic{VUI}

}
}

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