yahMAIL Guide - Changing VMS-Mail Profile

Example yahMAIL VMS-Mail dialog.
  1. User Profile: The VMS username the profile belongs to.
  2. Auto Purge: Determines whether Mail empties the WASTEBASKET automatically.
  3. CC Prompt: If set a courtesy copy mail is always prompted for (command-line VMS Mail only).
  4. Copy Fwd When forwarding a message is a courtesy copy automatically sent to yourself (yahMAIL provide a selected checkbox).
  5. Copy Reply: When replying to a message is a courtesy copy automatically sent to yourself (yahMAIL provide a selected checkbox).
  6. Copy Send: When sending to a message is a courtesy copy automatically sent to yourself (yahMAIL provide a selected checkbox).
  7. Editor: Set the editor to be invoked when composing a message (command-line VMS Mail only).
  8. Forwarding: Set a forwarding address for the mail. Messages will no longer stay in this account but be delivered to the specified address. This may be a local VMS username or an Internet mail address.
  9. Personal Name: Appends the specified string to the end of the "From:" field in message sent. This can comprise your name, telephone number, address, pithy quotation, any string desired. Keep it short, personal information can become untidy. More detailed information can be supplied using a signature file (see immediately below).
  10. Signature File: Specifies the name of a file containing text that is appended to the end of a mail message when sending, replying, etc. This may contain more extensive personal or contact information. Internet mail etequite requires signatures be no more than a few lines long.
  11. Print Queue: Specifies the default printer (command-line VMS Mail only).
  12. Print Form: Specifies the default printer form (command-line VMS Mail only).
  13. New Messages: Sets the number of new mail messages displayed. Allows the new-mail count to be resynchronized with the actual number of messages in the NEWMAIL folder, if necessary. Not for general use.
  14. Set Set the above characteristics in VMS Mail.
  15. Reset Restore original values.

Note that only some of these items apply to yahMAIL, the others are only available from command-line VMS Mail. The command-line items are provided here only as a convenience for those who use command-line mail as well.

For more detailed descriptions see the yahMAIL Usage Guide.

yahMAIL v1.8, February 2004