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The Mail Composition Window

The composition window's appearance depends on your configuration settings (1.7.2). Generally, it will at least show text entry fields to specify who to send the message to, for the subject and a large editing window below for the actual message itself. It also features an EXPAND button next to the address field, which allows you to lookup addresses in the currently loaded addressbooks. If you type in the beginning or a substring of a name, alias or email address and either press the expand button or the tabulator key, Mahogany will look up a list of matching addressbook entries and either expand it directly or prompt you with the matching choices. This works for the main address field (``To'') as well as for the carbon copy addresses (``CC'' and ``BCC''). If you specify an address in the ``CC'' or ``BCC'' fields, these people will receive a copy of the message. The difference between them is that the list of addresses in ``CC'' is included in the message, while the ``BCC'' (blind carbon copy) addresses will be suppressed in the message keeping them anonymous. If you enter an address like ``#myfolder'', Mahogany will interpret it as the name of a mailfolder and save a copy of the message to that folder (in this case ``myfolder'').


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Charlie & 2001-04-19