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Contents 1 File 1.1 New 1.1.1 Task 1.1.2 Event 1.1.3 Calendar 1.1.4 Address Book Card 1.1.5 Mailing List 1.1.6 Address Book 1.1.7 LDAP Directory 1.1.8 Mail Folder 1.1.9 Mail Virtual Folder 1.1.10 External Mail/News account 1.1.11 Mail 1.2 Attachments 1.2.1 Save All... 1.2.2 Detach All... 1.2.3 Delete All... 1.3 Import 1.4 Page Setup... 1.5 Print Preview 1.6 Print... 1.7 Get New Messages for 1.7.1 Get All New Messages 1.8 Send Unsent Messages 1.9 Subscribe 1.10 Compact Folders 1.11 Empty Trash 1.12 Offline 1.12.1 Download/Sync Now... 1.12.2 Offline Settings... 1.12.3 Get Starred Messages 1.12.4 Get Selected Messages 1.13 Work Offline 1.14 Close 1.15 Quit 2 Edit 2.1 Undo 2.2 Redo 2.3 Cut 2.4 Copy 2.5 Paste 2.6 Delete Message 2.7 Select All 2.8 Thread 2.9 Find 2.9.1 Find in This Message... 2.9.2 Find Again 2.9.3 Search Messages... 2.9.4 Search Addresses... 2.10 Account Settings... 2.11 Preferences... 3 View 3.1 Toolbars 3.1.1 Hide Toolbars 3.1.2 Show Icons Only 3.1.3 Show Text Only 3.1.4 Show Icons & Text 3.1.5 Customize 3.2 Status Bar 3.3 Side Bar 3.4 Folders 3.4.1 All 3.4.2 Unread 3.4.3 Favorite 3.4.4 Recent 3.5 Sort by 3.6 Messages 3.7 Threads 3.8 Headers 3.8.1 All 3.8.2 Normal 3.9 Message Body As 3.10 Display Attachments Inline 3.11 Text Size 3.11.1 Increase 3.11.2 Decrease 3.11.3 Normal 3.12 Character Encoding 3.13 Message Source 4 Go 4.1 Home 4.2 Tasks 4.3 Calendar 4.4 Contacts 4.5 Mail & Newsgroups 5 Message 5.1 New Message 5.2 Reply 5.3 Reply to Sender Only 5.4 Reply to Newsgroup 5.5 Reply to All 5.6 Forward 5.7 Forward As 5.7.1 Inline 5.7.2 Attachment 5.8 Edit Message As New 5.9 Open Message 5.10 Move 5.11 Copy 5.12 Move / Copy again 5.13 Tag 5.14 Mark 5.15 As Read 5.15.1 Thread As Read 5.15.2 As Read by Date... 5.15.3 All Read 5.15.4 Add Star 5.15.5 As Junk 5.15.6 As Not Junk 5.15.7 Run Junk Mail Controls 5.16 Create Filter From Message... 5.17 Ignore Thread 5.18 Watch Thread 6 Tools 6.1 Add-ons 6.2 Message Filters... 6.3 Run Filters on Folder 6.4 Run Junk Mail Controls on Folder 6.5 Delete Mail Marked as Junk in Folder 6.6 Developer Tools 6.6.1 XMPP Console 6.6.2 XMPP Service Directory 7 Help 7.1 Contents 7.2 Release Notes 7.3 Check for Updates... 7.4 About Spicebird Beta

File

New

Task

Opens a dialog window for adding a new task to a selected calender

Event

Helps user in creating a new event with reminder details

Calendar

Either creates a new calendar on your computer or subscribes to a remote calendar over the network

Address Book Card

Opens a dialog window for adding a new contact to an Address Book

Mailing List

Choosing this will help the user add a new mailing list to an Address Book.

Address Book

Creates a new address book to add contacts and mailing lists

LDAP Directory

Enables subscription to a ldap directory service to retrieve contacts information

Mail Folder

Adds a mail folder or sub-folder to the IMAP account or the Local Folders

Mail Virtual Folder

A virtual folder helps user to show mails satisfying a particular search criteria

External Mail/News account

This allows the user to either add an IMAP/POP3 email account, subscribe to a RSS Feed or join a newsgroup.

Mail

Opens the compose window for sending a mail

Attachments

Displays a submenu showing each of the attachments in the current selected message (if any exist). Each attachment has its own submenu with the open to either open it or save it

Save All...

Choosing this will save all files attached to a message, to a specific location on your computer

Detach All...

This item is only available for email messages. Choosing this will remove all files attached to a message, and save them to a specific location on your computer

Delete All...

This item is only available for email messages. Choosing this will remove all files attached to a message

Import

Opens the Import Wizard dialog, which allows you to import account information, emails, address books, from e-mail clients like Microsoft Outlook, Qualcomm Eudora, Netscape, or Mozilla.

Page Setup...

Opens the Page Setup dialog which allows the setting of printing properties.

Print Preview

Opens a window containing a preview of what the current message will look like when it is printed.

Print...

Displays the Print dialog, where you can specify the number of printed copies, etc. Click OK to print the page

Get New Messages for

This menu item has multiple sub-menus. The sub-menus allow you to specify which mail, or rss feed accounts, to check for new messages

Get All New Messages

Causes Spicebird to check all mail and RSS accounts for new messages

Send Unsent Messages

Send messages queued in the Unsent folder

Subscribe

Opens a dialog which allows you to subscribe or unsubscribe to IMAP folders or newsgroups

Compact Folders

When you delete a message, it doesn't really get deleted from the folder. It gets marked as deleted. Spicebird sees that marking, and knows not to display it. Compacting folders will command Spicebird to remove all messages marked as deleted, in each folder of the currently selected account. This process removes extra space within the mail file folders, and can recover large chunks of hard drive space

Empty Trash

Empties the trash folder of the currently selected account

Offline

Download/Sync Now...

Choosing this will bring up the Download and Sync Messages prompt, which will allow you to download messages for mail and newsgroups selected for offline use, as well as send any message in your Unsent folder.

Offline Settings...

Opens a dialog to allow setting the preferences for offline usage.

Get Starred Messages

Choosing this will download any messages for offline use, which you have marked with a Star

Get Selected Messages

Choosing this will download any messages for offline use, which you have selected

Work Offline

Switch Spicebird into offline mode. This allows you to read and compose mail when not connected to a network

Close

Closes the current window

Quit

Closes all opened windows in Spicebird and exits Spicebird completely

Edit

Undo

Undoes the last action in a text field. If you later decide you don't want to undo an action, use the Redo command.

Redo

Redoes the last Undo command

Cut

Cuts the selected text from a text field and stores it in the clipboard. Paste the text elsewhere by using the Paste command

Copy

Copies the selected text to the clipboard. Paste the text in a text field by using the Paste command

Paste

Pastes text stored in the clipboard into a text field

Delete Message

Deletes the current message or selected messages. This item only appears when a message is selected in the message list pane, for email and RSS accounts

Select All

In the message pane this command selects all messages in the current folder. If viewing or composing a message, it selects all the text of the message

Thread

Selects all messages in the currently selected thread

Find

Find in This Message...

Displays the find bar at the bottom of the message pane. Enter the text you wish to find in the textbox, and as you type Spicebird will automatically find and select the first occurrence of the entered text in the message. Click Next or Previous to find the text at other locations in the message, and click Highlight to highlight all occurrences of the text in the message

Find Again

Searches for the next occurrence of the text specified when using the Find in This Message... command

Search Messages...

Displays the Search Messages dialog box

Search Addresses...

Displays the Advanced Address Book Search dialog box

Account Settings...

Displays the Account Settings window, where you can change settings specific to each email, newsgroups, and RSS account. This menu item is only visible in Linux. In Windows and Mac, Tools > Account Settings... is used instead.

Preferences...

Displays the Preferences window, where you can change many preferences in Spicebird. This menu item is only visible in Linux. In Windows, Tools > Options... is used instead; and on Mac OS X, Spicebird > Preferences... is used.

View

Toolbars

Hide Toolbars

Show Icons Only

Show Text Only

Show Icons & Text

Customize

Status Bar

Toggles the visibility of the status bar, located at the bottom of the window. The status bar displays useful information about messages

Side Bar

Folders

Here, you can choose which folders are visable in the Folders pane

All

Choosing this will display all folders in the folder pane

Unread

Choosing this will only display folders in the folder pane, which have unread messages

Favorite

Choosing this will only display folders in the folder pane, which are marked as a favorite folder

Recent

Choosing this will only display folders in the folder pane, which have recently been viewed

Sort by

Allows the selection of properties by which messages will be sorted for display

Messages

Allows the selection of properties for which messages will be displayed. This menu only appears, if the Mail Views toolbar item has been added to a toolbar

Threads

Allows the selection of properties for which message threads will be displayed

Headers

All

Displays full headers for messages

Normal

Displays only the Subject, From, Date and To headers for messages

Message Body As

Messages sent in HTML format may be viewed in plain text format, or as a sanitized version called Simple HTML

Display Attachments Inline

When checked, attachments appear within the message body. When unchecked, attachments display in the Attachments pane only

Text Size

If the text of a message is too small or too large, you can change it to a more comfortable size

Increase

Displays the text of a message one size larger. You can also do this with the keyboard (see Keyboard Shortcuts for instructions)

Decrease

Displays the text of a message one size smaller. You can also do this with the keyboard (see Keyboard Shortcuts for instructions)

Normal

Displays the text of a message at its normal size

Character Encoding

Using this, allows you to view the current message with different character encoding

Message Source

Displays the the complete message as received. The headers, body, and attachments are shown in plain text

Go

The Go menu contains menus for navigating through your messages

Home

Tasks

Calendar

Contacts

Mail & Newsgroups

Message

New Message

Opens a window to create a new message

Reply

Reply to the currently selected messages

Reply to Sender Only

This appears in the Message menu, when a newsgroup message is selected. By default, when you click on Reply, when viewing a newsgroup message, the reply will be addressed to the newsgroup. Using Reply to Sender Only, allows you to reply directly to the sender, rather than the newsgroup

Reply to Newsgroup

This appears in the Message menu, when a newsgroup message is selected. Use this menu item to create a reply to the message, to be sent to the newsgroup

Reply to All

Reply to sender and CC'ed recipients of the currently selected messages

Forward

Forwards the currently selected message(s)

Forward As

Inline

Copies the text of the message to be forwarded into the body of the email

Attachment

Adds the message to be forwarded as an attachment to the email

Edit Message As New

Opens the current message in a message composition window, so you can edit it. Note that your address will be in the To field

Open Message

Open currently selected message in a new window

Move

Move currently selected messages to different folder. This is only available for email and RSS accounts

Copy

Copy currently selected messages to different folder

Move / Copy again

Move or Copy the currently selected message to the same location you last moved or copied a message to

Tag

Tag currently selected messages

Mark

As Read

This will mark the selected message(s) as read

Thread As Read

This will mark the entire thread the currently selected message is in, as read

As Read by Date...

Use this to mark all messages up to a certain date as read

All Read

This will mark all messages in the current folder or newsgroup as read

Add Star

Assigns a star to the currently selected message

As Junk

Only available for email messages; this marks the currently selected message(s) as junk mail

As Not Junk

Only available for email messages; this marks the currently selected message(s) as not junk

Run Junk Mail Controls

Only available for email messages; use this to run junk mail controls on the selected message(s)

Create Filter From Message...

This will open a window to create a new filter rule, with the sender's address being one of the criteria

Ignore Thread

Only available when reading newsgroups, this will mark all messages in the current thread as read. The next time you view the newsgroup, the ignored thread will not appear in the message list pane; and any new messages in that thread will be automatically marked as read. You can add ignored threads back to view, by enabling Ignored threads in the View > Threads menu

Watch Thread

Marking a thread as watched, will put a visual indicator in the message list pane beside the first post of the thread. This can then be used to only view unread message threads marked as watched, which is useful in e.g. newsgroups with many new message threads per day. The watched thread status can be utilized via the View > Threads menu

Tools

Add-ons

Opens the Add-ons manager, where you can view, install, configure, update, and uninstall your extensions and themes.

Message Filters...

Opens the Message Filters dialog box, where you can see the current user created message filters and if the are enabled for each mail/news account. You can choose to edit, delete, change the order of current filters, or run a filter on a mail folder. New filters may also be created

Run Filters on Folder

Run users mail filters on a selected folder in the Folders pane of the main Spicebird window

Run Junk Mail Controls on Folder

Junk Mail Controls are usually run on messages, while they are being received. This menu item allows you to run Junk Mail Controls on messages that are already received

Delete Mail Marked as Junk in Folder

Deletes messages marked as Junk, in the current folder

Developer Tools

XMPP Console

XMPP Service Directory

Help

Contents

Release Notes

Provides information about installing, uninstalling and configuring Spicebird, as well as other important information and late-breaking notices. Requires an active Internet connection

Check for Updates...

Displays a dialog which checks for updates to Spicebird and asks you whether you want to download updates if any are available. After an update has been downloaded, the dialog asks you to restart Spicebird so that the update can be installed. Note that the name of this menu item will change when an update is being downloaded or is ready to be installed

About Spicebird Beta

Displays the version number and current user-agent string used in Spicebird. Credits with names of various contributers to the Mozilla Spicebird project can be viewed by clicking on Credits button. This menu item is not visible in Mac OS X because Spicebird > About Mozilla Spicebird is used instead