yahMAIL Guide - Setup

Example yahMAIL setup dialog.
  1. Direct Action UI: instead of 200 Success reports, return immediately to the current window.
  2. Hide SPAM (in NEWMAIL): enable or disable the SPAM filter.
  3. Window: the number of mail items displayed at the one time in a folder browse page.
  4. Check NEWMAIL: specifies to yahMAIL that when sitting in a NEWMAIL folder browse page it automatically check for new mail every this many minutes.
  5. Mail Folder Buttons: the "standard" set of folder buttons, NEWMAIL, MAIL, SENT, WASTEBASKET, EMPTY, DELETE should be located above or below the list of message items (or not shown at all).
  6. User Folder Buttons: display a button for each folder in the user's mail file, above or below the message list, or not at all. This is a particularly useful facility. Each button allows the corresponding folder directly to be opened, or for selected messages moves them into that folder.
  7. Folder OPEN/MOVE/COPY: locates the default folder action text field, selection list and action buttons to be located above or below the message list. This function cannot be removed with a none option.
  8. CREATE-SEND Button: locates this above or below the message list.
  9. Message Edit Window: allows the number of rows in the message composition area to be specified.
  10. Encoding: select the combination of header and body encoding for 8 bit characters (e.g. ä, ç; non-PMDF only)
  11. Pick Fields: allows message selection text entry fields to be positioned above or below the message list, or not shown at all.
  12. Wrap Long Lines: when checked wraps long lines at the first space after 72 characters during message read.
  13. Reply-To: reply address (if different to the sending address).
  14. HIDE Setup: button closes the setup dialog.
  15. LOAD setup: (re)loads the on-disk configuration.
  16. SAVE setup: stores the current setup to the on-disk configuration.
  17. EDIT setup: opens an edit window, allowing manual changes to the on-disk configuration file (this should not be necessary).
  18. CHANGE PROFILE: allows the VMS Mail user's profile to be modified.

For more detailed descriptions see the yahMAIL Usage Guide.

yahMAIL v1.8, February 2004