Ben Kennedy expounded:
>On 08 8 2003 at 5:02 pm -0400, The Internet Deity HaTMooL wrote:
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>>1) How do you set the priority on a message?
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>No, because there is no such thing as priority in the mail RFC. Somebody
>else can expound on this however.
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I have no clue what you just said; RFC? PM doesn't recognize the
"Priority" header?
>>2) No matter how I set preferences or use the insertion point, signatures
>>appear at the END of the e-mail, even if I happen to be typing at the
>>top, before quoted text. Is there a way to change this?
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>So you want your signature to appear in the body of the message, with all
>quoted text trailing thereafter?
Yes, because sometimes, in mail lists, we have pretty fast exchanges that
involve quoting the text -- for reference purposes -- but with the real
action taking place at the top of the e-mail.
> I thought there was a pref for this,
>but maybe not.
Nope. I can tell PM I want to reply at the top of the message, but it
will still insert the signature at the end. :-/
> You may wish to check out the Text Clippings feature,
>which will let you throw arbitrary text wherever you want with a mere
>click of the mouse.
Sounds great, but what I really want to do is throw a random signature
quote wherever I whish with the mere click of a mouse. ;-)
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>>3) It appears I cannot view a message's full headers without opening it
>>first. Really scary if you want to check suspicious e-mail before opening
>>it. Even Netscape, Mozilla and *Gasp!* Outlook let me look at a message's
>>source without opening it.
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>Why is this scary? If by "opening it" you mean "displaying it in the
>window", well, I guess that's true, but who cares? The only way in which
>this poses a problem is that the build-in HTML renderer PM uses is so
>flaky that it sometimes tends to crash the application. Hopefully CTM is
>busily integrating WebKit into the next release as I type this.
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>Unlike Microsoft products, PM won't arbitrarily start executing
>attachments or javascript code or anything simply by displaying an e-mail
>message.
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Gnarly. Okay, then I guess I'm okay with this "limitation" of PM.
>-ben
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-- HaTMooL
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a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are beautiful.
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