22 3: Getting started

Working with multiple file servers

Specifying a particular server If you routinely attach to several file servers on your network,
you will probably want to tell Pegasus Mail to choose a particular server when it starts up. To
do this, add a “-P” switch to the command line specified in the Program Manager icon you
have created to run Pegasus Mail. The -P switch specifies that you prefer a particular server;
it should be immediately followed on the command line by the name of the server you wish
to use. You must be logged in to the preferred server already, or the switch will not work.

Example: you want Pegasus Mail to use File Server FUBAR when you run it: highlight
the Pegasus Mail shortcut then press <Alt+Enter> to open its Properties dialog. In the
Target field on the Shortcut page, enter the following string:

WINPM-32.EXE -P FUBAR

Changing file server from within Pegasus Mail If you want to access mail on another file
server while Pegasus Mail is running, you can do so by selecting File Servers from the
Pegasus Mail File menu. Doing this will open a dialog listing all the servers available on your
network. File servers to which you are already attached are marked with a ‘*’ character and
can be selected simply by double-clicking them.

If you want to use a file server to which you are not currently attached (one which has no ‘*’
character after its name) then you must highlight that server’s name in the list, and type a
username and password in the two fields at the bottom of the dialog. When you click the OK
button, Pegasus Mail will attempt to log you into that server using the name and password
you supplied. If the login is successful, Pegasus Mail will then change to that server for you.
When you change file servers, Pegasus Mail closes all windows associated with the file serv-
er you were previously using and starts as if from scratch on the new server, reloading your
preferences and restoring your desktop (if you have this preferences option checked on the
new server).
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4: Sending Messages
On the File menu, you will find an item called New message , which contains the various
types of message you can send using Pegasus Mail. New message will always contain at least
two items, Standard message and Circulation message, and may contain other types of mes-
sage depending on the plug-ins that have been installed with your system – for example, you
will often see an option there for Telephone messages as well.

Standard Messages are the regular day-to-day mail message you will use most often: the re-
mainder of this section is mainly devoted to describing how to use standard messages.

Circulation Messages are a special type of message that is passed to each recipient in the
address list in order, one after the other. Each recipient can add comments to the message be-
fore it is automatically forwarded to the next recipient in the list. When the message leaves
the last person in the list, it is automatically returned to the original sender. Circulation mes-
sages have been made to look as much as possible like standard messages: the primary dif-
ferences are that they do not support CC: or BCC: addressing, and when you read a
circulation message, an extra button, labelled Add comment and forward to next recipient ap-
pears in the message reader. You may add attachments to circulation messages (in fact, you
will most often do so). Circulation messages are sent to the recipients in the order you enter
their addresses in the To: field: it is important to remember this if the order in which people
see the message is significant. Recipients of circulation messages can still reply normally to
you if they wish to make comments that are not circulated.

Creating a new message

To start a new mail message, choose the option you want from the New message submenu of
the File menu the message editor window will open, allowing you to compose your message.
In this window you will find either three or four text fields – To, into which you enter the
recipient’s address; Subject, into which you can enter a short précis of the message and (ex-
cept in circulation messages) Cc, where you can enter addresses for people who should re-
ceive copies of the message; if you have turned on Keyword support in the Messages and
replies options dialog, then there will also be a Keywords field into which you can type any
keywords you want to associate with the message. You can drag and drop addresses from
Pegasus Mail’s address books, user lists and distribution list windows into any of these fields,
and the small addressbook button to the right of the addressing fields allows you to to open
the Addressing Centre for that field (see below). Below these fields are several message con-
trol boxes that can be used by clicking on them, and the message editing box where you will
type your message. The set of tabs at the top of the editor window allow you to change your
view of the message at any time — each of these buttons allows you to work with a different
aspect of the current message, such as file attachments and less frequently-used (special) op-
tions such as BCC – clicking on any of these tabs will switch the message editing window to
the view appropriate to that tab.

Addressing your message

When the window opens, the cursor appears in the To: field. Just as you need to address an
envelope so the postal service knows where a letter is to go, so you need to provide an address
for an electronic mail message. E-mail addresses can take a variety of forms, depending on
the location of the recipient, and the mail system used there. Pegasus Mail can accept address-
es in many formats — for the most part you won’t need to be worried about the technical is-
sues of the type of addresses Pegasus Mail can accept, since it will almost certainly accept
anything you are likely to enter, but for your reference, a summary of these formats appears
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at the end of this chapter. In less technical terms, however, Pegasus Mail can accept any of
the following types of address in your messages:

• Local users — other users on your local network or on the same machine
• Internet addresses — an Internet address in any valid format (for example, sup-
[email protected])
• MHS addresses — if you have a Novell MHS-compatible mail system such as Connect2,
Pegasus Mail can accept addresses in any valid MHS format.
• User groups (if your network supports this concept) — system-defined collections of
users
• Distribution Lists — arbitrary collections of addresses in lists that you create and main-
tain yourself.

Distribution (Mailing) Lists

Pegasus Mail allows you to store groups of addresses to which you frequently send mail in a
file, and then to use the name of that file as an address. A distribution list must be plain ASCII
text, and must contain one address per line. Any address you could normally type into any
address field in Pegasus Mail can be entered into the file, including “addresses” for other dis-
tribution lists (up to a maximum of five levels deep). While you can create distribution lists
using any text editor, you will normally create them using the Distribution List manager,
which is opened by selecting Distribution lists from the Address menu, or by pressing <F6>.
To use a distribution list in an address field, type the special character ‘@’, followed imme-
diately by the distribution list’s filename. The Pegasus Mail addressbook window and ad-
dressing centre will do this for you automatically, but if you have created your own text file
containing addresses you can use this technique to type it into the address field manually. For
more information on Distribution Lists, please see chapter 7 in this manual..

Address books
Pegasus Mail incorporates an address book feature which can make entering and remember-
ing addresses much easier. You can create and manage your addressbooks at any time by
pressing <F3>, although you will usually use the Addressing Centre (see below) to use your
addressbook entries in your mail. From the main addressbook window, you can either drag
addresses from the address book to the address field in your message, or highlight them and
press the Applybutton in the address book dialog. You can also perform a “quick lookup”
from your address books by entering the Name field for the entry and pressing <Shift-
F3>: Pegasus Mail will find the entry with that name field and will insert the address from
the entry into the addressing field for you.

Aliases
You can use the “Name” field of any address book entry you or your system administrator
has created as an address, simply by typing it in the address field. This use of a name as an
address is known as aliasing. Make sure that what you type matches exactly the text in the
address field — “Tom Jones” is not the same as “Thomas Jones” to Pegasus Mail.

The Addressing Centre

Pegasus Mail provides a powerful integrated tool for managing the addresses in your messag-
es; this tool, called the Addressing Centre, can be used any time you see the small pale-blue
addressbook button at the right of an addressing field. The Addressing Centre gives you easy
access to the contents of your addressbooks and distribution lists, allows you to use any ad-
dress you have recently used in another message, and gives you an easy way of adding and
removing addresses from an address field. You can open the Addressing Centre from the
keyboard by pressing either <Ctrl+Shift+T> (for the “To” field) or <Ctrl+Shift+C> (for the
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“CC:” field). When the Addressing Centre opens, the current addresses in the relevant ad-
dressing field are displayed in the Current addresses list at the top of the Addressing Centre
window. You can select any of these addresses and click the Remove button to delete them
from the address field. In the lower section of the Addressing Centre window you will see a
tabbed control allowing you to select between your addressbooks, distribution lists and re-
cently-used addresses. Within each of the panes selected by the tabs, you can select an ad-
dress or addresses then click the Add button at the top-right of the window to add them to the
current addressing field. Alternatively, you can simply double-click any entry to add it to the
address list. When you click the OK button, the contents of the message editor’s addressing
field will be updated with the contents of the Current Addresses list.

The addressing centre can simplify addressing your messages significantly and is one of the
most powerful features of the program — we recommend that you spend some time familiar-
izing yourself with the way it works.

Address completion
Another powerful feature for addressing your messages is Address Completion: when this
feature is turned on (in the Messages and Replies page of the Options dialog), Pegasus Mail
will try to match what you type into an address field against either your addressbooks or your
list of recently-used addresses (or both); if it finds an address that matches what you have
typed so far, it will “complete” it for you — that is, it will fill in the remainder of the address
on the address field for you, with the text it is suggesting highlighted. If you type another
character, the suggested text will be removed, and Pegasus Mail will look for a closer match
based on the extra character you have typed. If the address Pegasus Mail suggests is the one
you actually want to use, simply press the <End> key to accept the text. If you want to add
another address at this point, type a comma to start typing a new address, at which point the
address completion feature will again start suggesting addresses for you. While a little diffi-
cult to describe, in normal use address completion is simplicity itself and, as with the address-
ing centre, can greatly speed and simplify the process of addressing your mail.

Message options
The message editor window contains a number of controls which affect the way your mes-
sage will be sent. It also has its own menu, the Message menu, which contains less frequently-
used options.

The To: field The To: field accepts the address of the primary recipients of your message —
the people to whom your message is principally addressed. You can enter multiple addresses
in this field, separated by commas. If you have previously used Outlook and are used to using
the semicolon character (“;”) to separate addresses, Pegasus Mail will accept that, but we rec-
ommend that you break the habit: the comma is the standard separator in all other Internet
mail packages and is the separator defined in the Internet Standards for electronic mail —
only Outlook deviates from this. The maximum length of address fields is 32000 characters.
You can access the Addressing Centre (see above) for the To: field by clicking the pale-blue
addressbook button to the right of the field, or by pressing <Ctrl+Shift+T>.

The Subject: field You should place a brief summary of your message in the subject field so
that the recipient can get some idea of what your message is about when he opens his new
mail folder. It is considered good electronic mail “etiquette” to provide a short, meaningful
subject line. When you are replying to a mail message it is customary to use the subject of the
original message introduced by the word “Re:”; Pegasus Mail automatically prepares your
subject this way when you start a reply to a message.
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The CC: field If you want people other than the primary addressees to receive a carbon copy
of your message, enter their addresses in the CC: field. Carbon copy addressees are people
you are allowing to “overhear” your conversation without it being directly aimed at them.
Carbon copy recipients are shown in a separate line in your mail message and are visible to
everyone who receives the message. You can use the Addressing Centre by clicking the pale-
blue addressbook button to the right of the field, or pressing <Ctrl+Shift+C>.

Confirm reading If you place a check in the Confirm reading control by clicking it, Pegasus
Mail will attempt to obtain confirmation from the recipients that your message has been read.
If the recipients also use Pegasus Mail there is usually no problem with getting such a confir-
mation; unfortunately, other mailers may not recognize Pegasus Mail’s request and hence
may not generate the confirmation for you. Individual local Pegasus Mail users may be grant-
ed the right to refuse confirmation of reading: if you send a message to a local user who has
done this, you will be told by Pegasus Mail at the moment you send your message that no
confirmation will be forthcoming. If the message is a circulation message and you check this
control, then you will receive notification when each recipient receives the message, and also
when each recipient forwards the message to the next person in the list. This can be useful if
you need to find out where a circulation message has “stalled”.

Confirm delivery Checking the Confirm Delivery control tells Pegasus Mail to attempt to ob-
tain proof that the message has been delivered. Delivery confirmation differs from confirma-
tion of reading in that it is sent to you by the remote delivery system and merely indicates that
the message has been successfully placed in the recipient’s mailbox; it gives no indication
that your message has actually been read. For local mail delivery is guaranteed if you see no
error, but for remote mail (for example, mail sent by an SMTP gateway) there is no guarantee
that the delivery system will recognize Pegasus Mail’s request (although many do).

Copy self If you want to keep a copy of your message in a folder, check the Copy self control.
Pegasus Mail will make a copy of your message in your “Copies to self” folder when the mes-
sage has been sent successfully. The copy self feature is generally equivalent to the Sent mail
feature found in other mail programs, but Pegasus Mail makes the process optional, and of-
fers a number of extra capabilities for your copies to self, including automatic filtering, and
preference options to allow you to select the folder where the copy should be placed when
the message is sent.

Urgent Check the Urgent control if you want to indicate that your message is extremely im-
portant. If the recipient is using a version of Pegasus Mail, urgent mail generates a different
notification message for the recipient, and always shows in red at the top of his or her new
mail folder. The effect of urgent mail for other mail systems varies from package to package
but most mailers will recognize the urgent flag. It is important to note that checking the Ur-
gent control does not make your mail travel any faster — it only changes the way the mail is
handled on receipt. Urgent mail can be quite intrusive and should be used sparingly.

Encrypt Enables password-protection for your message. See the next section for more details
on encryption.

Signature A signature is a small fragment of text that is added automatically to your message.
Your signature usually contains information on who you are and how to get in touch with you
– your phone number, fax number, e-mail address and so forth. Because much of the infor-
mation you place in your signature may depend on the means by which your message is sent,
Pegasus Mail supports signature sets, where you can define different signature text depend-
ing on whether the message is sent locally, via the Internet, or via NetWare MHS. Pegasus
Mail allows you to create up to nine different signature sets and has a setting to suppress the
addition of a signature altogether. To select a particular signature set for your message, click
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this control. You can choose any of your signature sets and can tell Pegasus Mail to use your
selection as the default signature in future. For information on creating and editing signatures,
see chapter 11 later in this manual.

Send Pressing the Send button tells Pegasus Mail to check the values you have entered and
attempt to mail the message. You can also press <Ctrl+Enter> to send the message.

Save Clicking the Save button will save the message you are working on as a draft; you can
resume editing your draft at any time by choosing Open saved message... from the File menu.
You can also save a message by pressing Ctrl+S, or by selecting Save message from the
Message menu (see below).

Cancel Press the Cancel button to discard your message.

Encryption
Pegasus Mail can encrypt, or scramble, messages either using a robust encryption mechanism
of its own, or else using encryption modules developed by other people. Encrypted messages
are transmitted in a coded format which keeps them safe from prying eyes. If you check this
control, a small window will open, and you will be prompted for details on the way your mes-
sage should be encrypted.

Encryption method: At the top of the dialog is the list encryption modules installed in your
system: Pegasus Mail has a built-in encryptor, and unless you have installed third-party en-
cryptors, it will be the only option in the list. Third-party encryptors will have varying avail-
ability, but if you have access to the Internet, a good place to start looking for them is on the
Official Pegasus Mail web site, http://www.pmail.com. Depending on the capabilities of the
encryptor you select, the three other controls in the dialog may be variously enabled or disa-
bled.

Password: the password is the key to the message, and may mean different things to different
encryptor modules. For Pegasus Mail’s built-in encryptor, the password is used to lock and
unlock the message – the recipient must know the password in order to be able to read the
message. If you intend to use the built-in encryptor, you and the recipient should agree on a
password or passwords in advance. Other encryptors may use the password for other purpos-
es, or may not need it at all. Consult the instructions supplied with the specific encryptor you
want to use for more information on what to enter here.

Encrypt message: encryption is the process of scrambling the message so nobody can read
it without the password. If you want to protect your message from prying eyes, use this op-
tion.

Add digital signature: a digital signature is a complex calculation applied to the message
which effectively proves conclusively that it was you who wrote the message, that you wrote
it at a particular time, and that it has not been altered. A digitally-signed message can also be
encrypted, but need not be. Some digital signature algorithms have been accepted as proof in
courts of law around the world. Not all encryption modules will support digital signing –
Pegasus Mail’s built-in encryptor does not, for instance.

The built-in encryptor: Pegasus Mail's encryption mechanism has been carefully designed to
be compatible with Internet Mail: you can freely send encrypted messages via the Internet,
although the recipient must also be using Pegasus Mail in order to be able to decode them.
When using the built-in encryptor, the key you enter should have from five to eight characters
— letters or digits only. You should choose a key which is not easy to guess: bad passwords
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include things like your first name, your car registration, or your spouse’s name, because they
are all very obvious: try using something which is not easily associated with you. The best
keys are nonsense words, or words that contain numbers: examples of good keys might be
“flurgle”, or “2good4u”. Make sure that you remember the key you use for a message!
Even Pegasus Mail’s author cannot help you if you forget it.

The Message menu

The Message menu is enabled when a message editing window is frontmost: it contains less
frequently-used options for your message.

Save message This option allows you to save your message in a draft format to which you
can return later. When you select Save message from the menu, or press <Ctrl+S>, a small
window will open with the title of the draft preset to the addressee and subject of your mes-
sage. You can alter the title for the draft if you wish — once you have done so, press the OK
button or press <Enter> to save the draft. You can reopen a draft message at any time using
the Open saved message... option on the File menu. Usually when the draft of a message is
finally sent the draft file is deleted, but you can create a draft which you can use as a template
for future messages by checking the Stationery button when you save it. Draft messages
which are saved as stationery are not deleted when they are sent, so you can use them repeat-
edly. The only way to delete a stationery draft is to choose Open saved message... from the
File menu, highlight the draft you want to delete, and click the Delete button.

Import text file The Import text file option allows you to read a plain text file into your mes-
sage: select it and a file selector window will open; choose the file and press Open, and the
contents will be read into your message. The file you import should usually be plain text —
note that most word processing packages do NOT create plain text files, so you usually can-
not import them. There is no effective limit on the size of the file you import into your mes-
sage. You can also press <Ctrl+M> to import text.

Import HTML file This option allows you to import a pre-formatted HTML document into
your message, preserving as much as possible of the formatting information. When you select
this option, the message’s Rich text indicator will become checked, indicating that Pegasus
Mail will send the message as HTML. Pegasus Mail can import most HTML formatting fea-
tures, but cannot import scripts, Java applets, ActiveX controls or other HTML extensions. It
is also considered very bad form to remote-link graphics in a mail message – you should use
the message editor’s Insert Picture button for this instead.

Save window size If you have resized your message editing window and wish to have
Pegasus Mail use that size for future messages, select Save window size from the message
menu.

Enlarge message editor Selecting this option, or pressing <Ctrl+F8> resizes the message
editing area of the message so that it occupies the entire vertical height of the window, or re-
stores it to normal size if selected again.

Find text, Find and replace, Find/replace again These commands on the Edit menu allow
you to locate text in your message, or to change occurrences of one piece of text to another.
Selecing Find or Find and replace will open the search dialog; enter the string you want to
find (and the string you want to replace it with if you selected Find and replace) and check
the Match whole words and Match case controls as required then click Find. If you are re-
placing text, you can also choose Replace all to tell Pegasus Mail to perform the substitution
automatically on every occurrence it can find of your match text.
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Delete current line and Delete word right perform the deletions they name in your message.
You will probably find it faster to use the accelerated keystrokes for these functions,
<Ctrl+Y> and <Ctrl+T> respectively.

Font If you want to change the font Pegasus Mail uses when editing your message, select
Font from the menu. The Font selector will open and you can choose a new font from those
installed on your system. Pegasus Mail will remember your font selection for all future mes-
sages and will immediately apply it to all open message windows. You can also change font
using the Font button on the program’s main toolbar.

Right-clicking in a message
When you right-click the mouse in the body of the message editor, you will be offered a menu
of options specific to the message body.

Undo, Redo Undo reverses the last editing change you made to the message, while Redo re-
verses the last undo operation. So, selecting Undo and immediately selecting Redo will leave
your message unchanged. Pegasus Mail’s editor supports multiple levels of undo and redo,
so you can undo many changes, not just the last one.

Copy selection to DList Allows you to select an e-mail address in your message and add it
directly to a distribution list, without having to copy, open the list, and paste.

Paste unwrapped Pastes the contents of the clipboard at the cursor position but preserves the
line breaks in the pasted data instead of reformatting it. This is useful when pasting tables or
other data that might be wider than your margins.

Paste as quote Pastes the contents of the clipboard at the cursor position, prefixing each line
with the standard Internet quoting string, “> “. This is useful if you want to include a section
from another message but show that it’s a quote.

Import text file Reads a plain text file into the message at the cursor position. Lines in the file
are reformatted to fit your margins if they are too long.

Import text file unwrapped Same as Import text file, except that lines are not reformatted,
and line breaks in the file are preserved in your message.

Import HTML file This option allows you to import a pre-formatted HTML document into
your message, preserving as much as possible of the formatting information. See above for
advice on using this option.

Export to text file Allows you to save the text of your message in a file on your hard disk.

Reset styles When you are replying to a message containing text quoted from the original
message, you may occasionally find that the text you are typing takes on the colour and for-
mat of the quoted text. This is a purely cosmetic effect, but if it bothers you, you can use the
Reset styles option to set the current line back to your normal font and colour. You can also
press <Ctrl+0> (zero) to achieve the same effect.

Set text colour Allows you to change the colour of the selected text to any of fifteen prede-
fined colours.
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Using styled text, pictures and formatting in messages

Pegasus Mail has full support for composing HTML mail: HTML is Internet jargon for the
special encoding of web pages that allows them to contain pictures, hyperlinks, styles and so
forth, and it has spread to e-mail in the last couple of years. In other e-mail packages, HTML
has become the vehicle of choice for transmitting malicious computer viruses and “trojan
horses”, but Pegasus Mail goes to elaborate lengths to protect you from that kind of thing.
Equally, when you compose HTML mail in Pegasus Mail, you can have every confidence
that nothing about your message can pose a threat to users of other packages, even vulnerable
ones.

It’s probably worth stating clearly at this point that HTML mail is not universally popular on
the Internet; aside from the well-documented security problems it has spawned, HTML is not
an especially good or consistent standard, and the way your message appears may vary from
system to system depending on how HTML is implemented there. Add to this the fact that
HTML tends to be larger than plain text, and that not all mailers can yet read HTML data,
and you have a recipe for a feature that may not win you many friends if you use it without
some consideration. Before you send a message containing pictures or formatting, consult the
recipient and make sure that he or she is both willing and able to handle HTML mail — sim-
ply assuming that a given recipient will be happy to receive HTML mail may get you into all
kinds of strife.

Pegasus Mail takes some pains to handle HTML mail responsibly; by default, it will only
generate HTML mail messages if you use an option that absolutely requires it — font chang-
es, bold/italic/underline, pictures, tables and colour changes will all tell Pegasus Mail that it
needs to generate HTML for the message. If you do not use any of these features, then
Pegasus Mail will send your message as normal plain-text mail, compatible with all systems.
You can always tell if you have used a feature that will cause Pegasus Mail to generate HTML
because the Rich Text control in the message editor will check itself; unchecking the control
will force the formatting to be discarded when the message is sent, resulting in a message con-
taining only plain text.

Basic formatting
All the things you do commonly in your word processor can also be done in Pegasus Mail’s
editor – coloured, bold, underlined or italic text, indented paragraphs, centred or right-aligned
lines – all these effects can be selected using the buttons on the message editor’s toolbar.
Some types of indenting can even be done automatically for you — please see the Automatic
Formatting page of the Pegasus Mail Options dialog (which you can find on the Tools menu)
for more information on this. Note that using indented paragraphs, centred or right-aligned
text will not force the message to be sent as HTML — Pegasus Mail simulates these effects
in plain text mail quite well. Using bullet paragraphs, however, will force the message to be
sent as HTML, because the bullet graphic characters cannot be properly-represented as text.

The Centre and Right align buttons adjust the alignment of the current paragraph. To revert
the paragraph to the regular left-aligned format, click the Aligh left button on the editor tool-
bar..

The three indent buttons can all be pressed multiple times to perform multiple indents. To
“outdent” text you have indented, hold down the Ctrl key as you click the button. So, if you
left indent one too many times, Ctrl-clicking the left indent button will take the text towards
the left margin one tab stop.
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Tables
One of the things HTML really does very well is tables: a table is simply a neatly-tabulated
grid containing data. Tables are extremely useful for presenting related information, because
they guarantee that everything will line up nicely when the message is read. To create a table
in your message, click the Create or edit table button and choose Insert new table. Type in
the initial width and height of the table (you can add more columns and rows later) and indi-
cate whether you want gridlines and a grey background. When you click OK, Pegasus Mail
will create the table in your message, ready to use. You can click in any cell in the table and
type text there, and you can also insert pictures into a cell (this is a particularly handy trick if
you want to create a signature that contains a graphic). To resize columns and rows, simply
move the mouse over the borderline between the two cells you want to resize: the mouse cur-
sor will change to a resizing icon, and you can then click and drag to resize the column.

You can add or remove rows and columns from your table by positioning the text cursor in-
side the table then clicking the Create or edit table button again. You can also set specific
background colours for the cells in your table using this button. You can also create tables
within other tables — this can be useful for producing tabulations of complex data where you
need to subdivide individual cells. Finally, using a table in your message will force the mes-
sage to be sent as HTML mail — Pegasus Mail cannot represent complex table layouts in
plain text messages.

Pictures
With the increasing availability of digital cameras, it is becoming more and more natural to
want to include pictures into your mail messages. Pegasus Mail supports all the most com-
monly-used graphic formats (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF) and allows you to adjust the
size of any graphic you include in a mail message. To insert a picture into your mail message,
click the Insert picture button and select the picture file you want to include. You can also
drag/drop or paste a picture into the message, but we don’t recommend this, because it may
result in conversions being done that will result in very large messages. Once the graphic is
visible in your message, you can resize it by clicking on it once, then dragging the “handles”
around the border of the picture to the size you require. To remove a picture from your mes-
sage, simply click it once to select it, then press the <Del> key. A picture is just like a single
character to Pegasus Mail – it can be indented using the indent buttons, and the centre- and
right-align buttons will adjust the horizontal position of the picture within the page. A very
handy trick to remember is that pictures can be placed in tables (see above) – remember this
when you want a picture to appear with text next to it in your message.

Background pictures (wallpaper): If you have a picture you would like to use as a back-
ground to your mail message, choose Add wallpaper from the menu when you click the Insert
Picture button. A wallpaper picture appears behind the text you type. When choosing wall-
paper images, try to choose pale or unobtrusive patterns that won’t interfere with the reada-
bility of your text.

Hyperlinks
When you are creating an HTML message, you can create hyperlinks – that is, a piece of
clickable text that will redirect the user to a web site when it is clicked (this is exactly the
same as the type of link you use all the time in your web browser). To add a hyperlink, posi-
tion the text cursor at the place where you would like the hyperlink to appear, then click the
Insert Hyperlink button; type in the text that Pegasus Mail should display to the user in the
top field, and the actual URL, or link target, in the bottom field. The Insert Hyperlink button
is only meaningful for HTML messages: in plain text messages, it is actually the recipient’s
mail program that works out what is and is not clickable in the message rather than the send-
er’s, and there is no way of directing the way that program will behave.
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Special message options

Clicking the Special tab at the top of the message editor window, selecting Special message
options from the Message menu, or pressing <F9>will all change the current view of the
message editor to one containing specialised or infrequently-used options for your message.

Advanced addressing, BCC A BCC, or Blind Carbon Copy is a specialized form of Carbon
Copy: a BCC recipient of a message receives a copy without the To: or CC: recipients of the
message being able to tell that he or she has been copied. Only the actual BCC copy of the
message contains any indication that a Blind Carbon Copy has been sent. BCC is very useful
in the practice of cutthroat office politics. A preference option on the Sending mail preferenc-
es page allows you to control the way Pegasus Mail generates BCC fields in your messages.

Send replies to If you want replies to your message to be sent to an address other than your
own, enter that address in this field. For example, a line manager may prefer replies to a mem-
orandum to go to the secretary rather than to him or her directly, and so would enter the sec-
retary’s address in this field. If you enter a reply address in this field, it will only apply to the
current message: to set a reply address permanently, examine the Sending mail page on the
Options dialog in the Tools menu.

Use MIME features in this message for Internet/local mail MIME (Multi-purpose Internet
Mail Extensions) is the dominant standard for Internet electronic mail, and makes it possible
to send messages with international character sets, attachments and multimedia information
in a portable way. MIME is currently the only reliable way of sending Internet e-mail con-
taining accented characters, and as time passes, it will become the dominant way of handling
electronic mail in the Internet world. If the person to whom you are mailing has a mail system
which has support for MIME, then you should check this box. When it is checked, Pegasus
Mail will use MIME encodings instead of uuencoding for attachments sent to the Internet
when you specify “Pegasus Mail decides” as the encoding mechanism. Pegasus Mail will also
encode international characters according to MIME rules when this box is checked, both for
local and Internet mail.

The setting of this control is local to the message — so, turning it off will not affect other
messages. You can control the default MIME setting using the Messages and replies page of
the Options dialog on the Tools menu. The only time you would uncheck this control would
be if you were sending mail to someone whom you suspected might not be using a MIME-
capable mail system.

Do not close the window after the message has been successfully sent If you check this con-
trol, then Pegasus Mail will not close the message editor window after you click the Send but-
ton, instead leaving it open so you can continue to work with it. This is handy if you want to
send several slightly different copies of a message to different addresses – you simply check
this control, then make the changes prior to clicking Send for each message. When this con-
trol is checked,you can close the message editor window when you are ready by clicking the
Cancel button in the main view.

Generate a message delivery transcript Mercury/32, Pegasus Mail's mail server companion
product, can generate what are known as "transcripts" - reports showing the time and details
of the delivery of a message you send to someone else that can be used as pretty reliable proof
of delivery. Check this control to enable requests for Mercury transcripts on a message-by-
message basis: you can also specify that the option should be on by default in the Messages
and replies preference page. The option has no effect and is harmless if you do not use Mer-
cury.
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Message is obsolete after If a message is only meaningful for a certain period of time, you
might want to set an expiry date in this field. Enter the date and time after which the message
is invalid in numeric format (for instance, “1993-8-23 11:10”). Expired messages show in
grey at the bottom of the Folder browser window, and can be deleted with a single command
on the Folder menu.

Editor settings
Edit settings, message width This option allows you to control the maximum number of char-
acters Pegasus Mail’s message editor will allow on a single line in your message. You cannot
set a width greater than the current width of the message editor, so if you need to do this you
must resize the window before selecting the option. The value entered here applies only to
the current message: to make a permanent change of margin, use the Message formatting
page of the Options dialog on the Tools menu.

Edit settings, average <Tab> width Microsoft Windows defines the <Tab> key as the key
used to move from field to field in a dialog and by default Pegasus Mail observes this con-
vention, which means that you cannot use the <Tab> key to tabulate your message. You can
override the default behaviour and allow the <Tab> key to tabulate in the editor by entering
a tab width here. The width you enter is not an absolute value but is calculated based on the
average width of characters in the typeface you are currently using. Altering the <Tab>
width will only have an effect on the current message if you had already previously enabled
Tabs in the editor using the Message formatting page ofthe Options dialog on the Tools menu.
The value entered in the Special view applies only to the current message: to make a perma-
nent change of tab width, use the Message formatting page ofthe Options dialog on the Tools
menu.

Custom headers for this message

This option allows you to add specific message headers directly into the mail message gen-
erated by Pegasus Mail. It is a very technical option and should only be used if you know ex-
actly what you are doing. Click the Add button and Pegasus Mail will open a window
prompting you to enter the header you want to add. Type it in exactly as it should appear in
the message, including the keyword and the colon character following it. You may not add
any header that Pegasus Mail itself will add to the message, so you cannot add fields like
From, To, Subject, CC, MIME-Version, Content-type and so on. The principal
use of this feature is for list managers who need to add approval headers when submitting
messages, and for internal use by Pegasus Mail itself – it uses it to attach special threading
headers to your replies.

Sticky settings and default settings

Pegasus Mail normally remembers the last setting you used for the following message editor
controls: Copy self, Confirm Reading and Confirm Delivery. This “sticky setting” behaviour
can be changed using the Messages and replies page of the Options dialog on the Tools menu
if you wish – you can instruct Pegasus Mail to use the same default settings for all messages
instead, in which case changes to the controls listed above only affect the current message.
See chapter 11 later in the manual for more details on this.

Checking your spelling

Pegasus Mail has a 65,000 word English dictionary and can check the spelling of your mes-
sages for you. To start the spelling checker, choose Check spelling from the Tools menu and
the checker window will open. Checking begins from the cursor position in the message, so
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if you want to check the entire message, make sure you move the cursor to the top of the mes-
sage before starting the check. Pegasus Mail scans the message looking for words it cannot
find in its dictionary. When it finds such a word, it shows it in the checker window and tries
to find a list of suggested alternative spellings for the word. At this point, you can take several
actions:

• If the correct spelling appears in the suggestion list, then you can double click on it and it
will replace the incorrect spelling in the message.

• You can edit the spelling of the word manually and place it in the message by pressing
the Change button.

• You can skip this occurrence of the word by pressing the Skip button. If you want to skip
all occurrences of the word in this message press the Skip all button.

• If the word is correctly-spelt, you can add it to your personal dictionary by clicking the
Add to dict button. Your personal dictionary can hold around 5,000 words and is stored
in your home mailbox directory.

Spell checking continues until you close the checker window (by clicking the End check but-
ton) or until there are no further words to check in which case Pegasus Mail will ask you if
you want to continue checking from the top of the message. While the spell checker window
is open, you can move it around on the screen so you can see mis-spelt words in their context
within your message.

Automatic spell checking You can instruct Pegasus Mail to run the spelling checker automat-
ically when you click the Send button in the message editor. This option is set on the Message
formatting page of the Options dialog on the Tools menu. When auto-checking a message, an
extra button is available that cancels sending the message. This allows you to change your
mind about sending the message if you find a sentence you’d sooner retype.

Skip quoted (“>”) lines You may not wish to correct the spelling in the text of the message
to which you are replying – if so, check this control and quoted lines will not be checked.
Quoted lines are presumed to be any that begin with the > character.

Start check automatically If this control is unchecked, Pegasus Mail will wait until you click
the Start check button before actually beginning to check spelling. This gives you an oppor-
tunity to select a different dictionary if you wish. If you would sooner that Pegasus Mail just
began checking at once using the default dictionary, check this control. This setting takes ef-
fect the next time you check your spelling.

The Glossary
Pegasus Mail’s message editor has a feature called a glossary, which allows you to take fre-
quently-typed text and store abbreviations for it which can be expanded using a single key-
stroke. This can be an extremely fast way of preparing form letters using “boilerplate” text
and can save a considerable amount of typing if you repeatedly send similar messages.

To create a glossary entry, type the text you want to abbreviate into your message then high-
light it using the mouse or keyboard and copy it to the clipboard by selecting Copy from the
Edit menu, or by pressing <Ctrl+C>. Now choose Create/Edit from the Glossary submenu
of the Tools menu(or press <Ctrl+;> and the glossary manager will open. The left-hand
window in the glossary manager shows the abbreviations you have defined, while the right-
hand window shows the text for the currently selected abbreviation. To create a new abbre-
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viation, click the Add button; a small window will open prompting you for an abbreviation.
The abbreviation is the key text you will type into the editor before pressing <Ctrl+E> to
expand it — it should be short and cannot contain spaces. Once you have created the abbre-
viation, you can click the mouse in the right-hand window to enable it, then click the Paste
button to paste the text from the clipboard into the glossary. You have now associated the text
you copied from your message with the abbreviation shown in the left-hand window of the
glossary manager.

To expand a glossary entry, type its abbreviation and press <Ctrl+E> (you can also use
<Ctrl+/>). Pegasus Mail will open the glossary, locate the entry and replace the abbrevia-
tion in the message with the full text you defined when you created it (note - glossary entries
are case-sensitive).

The buttons in the glossary manager perform the following functions:

Add Used to create a new abbreviation

Delete Used to delete the abbreviation selected in the left-hand window.
Copy Copies any highlighted text in the right-hand window to the clipboard
Paste Pastes any text in the clipboard to the right-hand window.
Save Saves the changes you have made to the glossary
Cancel Abandons any changes you have made to the glossary

Embedding a file in a glossary entry: You can tell Pegasus Mail to read the contents of a text
file into your message as it expands a glossary entry by embedding a special string of char-
acters in the glossary entry itself. The string must begin with ~? (a tilde followed immediately
by a question mark), followed without spaces by the name of the file. After the filename,
place a single ~ (tilde) character to mark the end of the string. The filename should include a
full path (eg, C:\TEXT\TEXT.TXT) and must be a plain text file.

Adding attachments
Pegasus Mail allows you to attach up to 64 files to any message you send. Attachments are
added by clicking the Attachments tab at the top of the message editor, which changes your
current view of your message to the attachment list. You can also press <F7> to switch views.

Adding an attachment to a message requires three separate pieces of information about the
file — the name of the file, what type of file it is, and how it should be encoded for transmis-
sion; of the three, the only one you must provide is the filename — the others have reasonable
default values which do not usually have to be changed.

The file name To choose a file to attach, click the Add attachment button; a standard Win-
dows File Open dialog will appear – navigate the way you normally would to find the file you
want to attach, then double-click it. The File Open dialog presented when you click Add at-
tachment has some extra buttons that may make your life a little easier:

• Recent directories presents a list of folders you have recently worked in and allows you
to go straight to them:
• Home mailbox changes the file list to the contents of your home mailbox directory,
which can be helpful from time to time if you need to find Pegasus Mail system files;
• Go to favourite directory takes you straight to whatever directory you have previously
selected as your “favourite” by clicking the Set this directory as favourite button.
• View text file allows you to preview the contents of any text file before you select it.
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Tip: because this is a standard Windows File Open dialog, you can right-click any file or di-
rectory to access special options associated with that file.

The file type Indicating the type of file is optional and is only used to provide information for
the recipient when he browses the attachments. You can select from the list of available file
types by clicking in the file type box. If you select Mailer decides for this option, Pegasus
Mail will examine the file and try to work out what it is: it can recognize a number of com-
mon file formats including Microsoft Word documents and ZIP file archives. It is very im-
portant to note that Pegasus Mail does not convert the file you send in any way, no matter
what file type you select — the file type is for informational purposes only. Pegasus Mail’s
message reader can use file type information to run a program allowing you to view attach-
ments from within the program, so if an applicable file type is available in the list, you should
use it.

Tip: Normally, if Pegasus Mail detects that a file is a text file, it will send it without any kind
of encoding, which may result in the message changing in transit (line endings may be ad-
justed, and some lines may be wrapped). Setting the file type to Binary before attaching it
will force Pegasus Mail to send the file as raw, unmodified data. This can be important with
certain types of file, such as INI or other configuration files, where the exact layout of the file
is very significant.

Encoding It is generally necessary to apply a special process called Encoding to an attach-

ment so that it passes through the mail system intact. Encoding is designed to preserve all the
information about the file in a meaningful way that will be understood by the recipient’s mail
program. There are several major encoding mechanisms in use and Pegasus Mail can work
with most of them: the exact choice depends on how and where the message is being sent.
The default encoding is Mailer decides; this is a very safe choice, since it allows Pegasus Mail
to choose the encoding most appropriate to the route the message will take. On occasions,
however, you may need to ensure that an attachment is encoded in a particular way based on
knowledge available only to you, such as the mail program the recipient uses, or the nature
of the attachment. In such cases, you will have to choose one of the encodings in the encoding
list.

No encoding If you choose no encoding, Pegasus Mail will not encode the message in any
way. This option is potentially quite unsafe and should generally only be used for local de-
liveries between Pegasus Mail users on the same server. It is not a recommended choice in
the majority of cases.

ASCII text Choosing this encoding tells Pegasus Mail that the attachment contains only valid
ASCII text with <CR/LF> line endings. ASCII text encoded attachments will be sent as nor-
mal mail messages by Pegasus Mail.

Important note! Word processor documents are seldom if ever ASCII text and should never
be sent using ASCII encoding; in general, it is only safe to send a file using this encoding if
you can edit it with the DOS Edit command, or with the Windows Notepad program.

UUencoding UUencoding is an old-fashioned encoding scheme still used quite widely on the
Internet, especially on Unixsystems. It is a very safe encoding in that the vast majority of mail
systems will be able to decode it successfully. Pegasus Mail uses uuencoding when it sends
an attachment to the Internet in a non-MIME message for which you have selected Mailer
decides as the encoding. UUencoding an attachment increases its size by around 30% in tran-
sit. If you encounter a site which cannot cope with uuencoded data, you can find a wide va-
riety of standalone uudecode programs on the Internet via the Internet’s FTP service – the
machine http://www.simtel.net is an excellent place to start looking.
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BinHex BinHex is a very robust encoding scheme widely used on Macintoshcomputers. It

includes a number of integrity checks on the attachment that can result in transmission errors
being detected, and incorporates a simple compression algorithm which can reduce the size
of the attachment. While it is probably the best of the encoding formats supported by Pegasus
Mail, it is unfortunately also the least commonly used; if, however, you know that the recip-
ient uses Pegasus Mail, or a mailer capable of handling the BinHex format, it is the best and
safest encoding choice.

MIME encoding MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions) is the current major stand-
ard for Internet mail encoding: it defines the way attachments and mail with special charac-
ters should be formatted for transmission. If you select MIME encoding for your attachment,
then Pegasus Mail will transmit your attachment formatted according to the MIME rules,
which should allow it to be read and manipulated by any MIME-compliant mailer. If the Use
MIME features control in the Special message options window is checked, Pegasus Mail will
default to MIME encoding when you select Mailer decides as an encoding.

Working with attachments

Use the Add attachment button to add a file to the list of attachments for the message using
the currently selected encoding and file type (see above). To remove an attachment from the
list, highlight it (by clicking on it in the list) and press the Remove attachment button. Remov-
ing an attachment from the list does not affect the original file in any way. To return to the
editing view of your message, click the Message tab, or press <F8>; you can re-edit your at-
tachment list at any time prior to sending the message. Clicking the Change selected button
lets you adjust the file type and encoding values for any current attachment – simply select
the file by clicking it, select the proper values for file type and encoding, then click Change
selected.

Recently-used files Clicking this button brings up a list of files you have recently attached to
this or previous messages (the last 50 are remembered). Using this control makes it easy to
add files you use frequently.

In general, you cannot send a file as an attachment if another application currently has it open.
Make sure you have closed the documents you are attaching before you attempt to send the
message to which they are attached, and that you do not move or delete the file prior to de-
livery being completed.

How Pegasus Mail decides on encoding

When you indicate that Pegasus Mail should decide how to encode an attachment, it uses the
following rules to choose the most appropriate scheme:

• If the file consists only of plain ASCII text in lines shorter than 136 characters,
WinPMail does not encode the attachment at all, but sends it as-is, unless the file type is
set to Binary, in which case the file is sent as if it were non-textual data.
• If the address to which the message is being sent is local or an Internet address and you
have checked Use MIME features in the Special view of the message editor, it will
choose MIME encoding.
• If the address to which the message is being sent is local, it chooses no encoding
• If the address to which the message is being sent is an Internet address, it chooses uuen-
coding
• If the address to which the message is being sent is a NetWare MHS address, it chooses
no encoding.
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Pegasus Mail never chooses the BinHex encoding method when asked to choose an encoding
mechanism – it will only be used if you select it explicitly.

Attaching other mail messages to a message

You can attach any mail message currently in one of your folders by dragging it from the fold-
er and dropping it onto the message editor window. When you drop the message, a small di-
alog will open with a number of options that control how the message you have dropped
should be handled. Check the control labelled Add as attachment instead of including, and
Pegasus Mail will attach the message, complete with all its header information and any en-
closures it contains, to the current message.

Extensions and Message Templates

As well as the standard Message editor, Pegasus Mail supports other methods by which you
can edit or send mail messages. The first is to use Extensions, (which are also known as plug-
ins in other applications). An extension is a specially-developed piece of software that ex-
tends the capabilities of Pegasus Mail in some way. Pegasus Mail includes a telephone mes-
sage pad and a mailmerge program as standard extensions — you can access these items on
the New Message submenu of the File menu, and they will usually also add their own icons
to the Pegasus Mail toolbar. For more information on extensions, please see Chapter 13 of
this manual.

Another way of creating or editing mail is to use a Message Template: Message Templates
are a kind of simple script you can use to create and send mail, or to reply to mail messages.
The scripting language gives comprehensive control over the way the message is created, the
settings it uses, and the format and content of the text it contains. To access any templates
that are available on your system, choose Templates... from the New Message submenu of the
File menu, or press <Shift+F7>. Note that Pegasus Mail only ships with a couple of tem-
plates installed - you will usually write them yourself, or find them on the Internet.

When you use a template, you will typically be presented with a small dialog asking you for
variables, or text that will be inserted into the mail message. At this point, you can choose to
send the mail message immediately, or to load it into a standard message editor window for
further manipulation. Templates are an extremely powerful way of designing your own cus-
tom forms, or for handling repetetive or complex message setup. They can be created using
any text editor (such as the Windows NOTEPAD program) and the script language is quite sim-
ple. For detailed information on designing your own templates, please see the file called TEM-
PLATE.TXT in the RESOURCE subdirectory of the directory where you installed Pegasus
Mail.

Supported address types

This is a more formal list of the type of addresses Pegasus Mail can process in your messages.
Most people will not need the majority of the information in this section, so if you are not
particularly interested in technical detail, please feel free to skip to the next chapter.

Local user addresses

Local addresses refer to users on the same system as you – for instance, if you are running
Pegasus Mail on a Novell NetWare system, you can use addresses in the standard NetWare
format — USERNAME, or SERVER/USERNAME; the latter case is used to send mail to a user
who resides on a different file server. If you are using Pegasus Mail on a single computer but
have configured it to support more than one user, then you can send mail to other users by
entering the usernames they have chosen as addresses. For other Local area network environ-
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ments and configurations, the exact format of a local address will depend on the details of
your installation.

Examples – Novell NetWare installation:

• To mail to user SJONES on the current server, simply enter SJONES
• To mail to user SJONES on file server SS1, enter SS1/SJONES

Examples – standalone installation:

• To mail to the person who has chosen the username “tommy”, simply enter TOMMY as the
address. The case of the characters you type is not significant.

User groups
If you are using a network environment that supports the idea of system-defined user groups
(such as Novell NetWare), Pegasus Mail allows you to send mail to all members of any user
group to which you have access. User groupsare normally created by the system administra-
tor, but are readable by everyone. To send to a user group, place the special character # (the
hash, or pound sign) in front of the group name. In the NetWare environment you can also
mail to groups on other servers. Groups are not currently supported in standalone installations
– you should use distribution lists instead. You should also consider using distribution lists if
you want to send mail only to some members of a group.

Examples:
• To mail to group EVERYONE on the current server, enter #EVERYONE
• Under NetWare ,to mail to group ADMIN on file server SS1, enter #SS1/ADMIN – note
the position of the ‘#’ character, at the start of the full address.

Note: the system administrator can limit the use of Group Mailing to selected users.

Internet addresses
If your site has a link to the Internet, then you can install a special connection which allows
direct Internet mailing. The most commonly-used Internet mail transport for Pegasus Mail is
called Mercury (also by the author of Pegasus Mail - visit the Pegasus Mail web site, http://
www.pmail.com, for more information) — your system manager will be able to tell you if
either is in use at your site. Pegasus Mail also has built-in support for Internet mail using any
standard Windows Sockets implementation.

Internet addresses have the following general form:

[email protected]

where:

• username is the login name of the user on the host system.

• host is the name of the machine on which the user is based
• domain is the name of the site, or location of the machine.

Any detailed discussion of Internet addressing is beyond the scope of this manual, but some
points should be noted:

Advanced formats: Pegasus Mail will accept any valid address according to the Internet mail
specification, RFC-2822. So, it is possible to enter addresses like any of the following:

“David Harris” <[email protected]>

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(David Harris) [email protected]

“David Harris” <@relay.cs.net:[email protected]>

Note in particular the source routing in the last example.

Delivery to other NetWare servers You can generally use the Internet gateway to deliver to
other NetWare file servers on your local network by specifying the address in the form user-
name@server.

NetWare MHS addresses

If Novell's Message Handling Service or a compatible system such as Infinite Technologies’
Connect is installed on your system, then Pegasus Mail will accept addresses in any valid
2

MHS format. MHS addresses have the form:

user @ workgroup

where:

• User is the MHS username for the recipient, which might be different from his or her
NetWare name.
• Workgroup is the name of the MHS Host on which the user is found. Remote hosts that
accept mail are called hubs in MHS terminology: you can mail to any hub for which
your system has access information.

MHS addresses normally have a space on either side of the @ sign; you should get into the
habit of entering these spaces, since they are one of the clues Pegasus Mail uses to identify
the type of address you have entered. MHS supports an extended address format as well,
which will allow you to use Fax gateways, and in due course will allow you to mail to systems
using totally different addressing schemes, such as X.400mailers. Pegasus Mail should ac-
cept all extended MHS address formats — some examples might be:

Fax @ faxgate {FAX:6434798577}

user @ smtp {“[email protected]”}
user @ x400gate <co:fi;org:hut;na:kaukinen;>

You can also include an application name in a user's address if you want to ensure that he
reads the message with a particular mailer. Specify the mailer by placing a period and its
name after the users name, for example:

david . pmail @ workgrp

User-defined gateways
Pegasus Mail is able to use mail transport systems written by other developers: such mail
transports are known as “user defined gateways” and are addressed using the NetWare SERV-
ER/USER syntax. As an example, if your system administrator has defined a gateway called
UUCP, and you want to send a message to PJONES via it, you should enter UUCP/PJONES
as the address. Your system administrator will know if he has set up any user-defined gate-
ways for your system.

Address overrides
Occasionally, you will need to mail to an address which Pegasus Mail cannot automatically
detect as being of a particular type. If this happens, you may have to use an override — a spe-
cial sequence of characters at the start of the address that forces Pegasus Mail to accept the