| Mail Tool is a full-featured graphical
email management
program. The Mail Tool is an email client that is a standard component
of the Solaris CDE. With Mail Tool you can perform all normal
functions related to your email. You can read mail and attachments,
create new mail with attachments, delete, and manage your email with
mailboxes.
The Mail Icon
The mail icon appears on the Front Panel. Clicking on this icon
launches the Mail Tool program. This is where reading and working with
Email is done. The normal mail icon will change when new mail is
received.
The Mail Window
By default, the Mail window is divided into two areas.
The upper
portion displays a list of the email messages which have been
received. The lower portion displays the text content of the currently
highlighted message. This allows you to view each message's contents
by clicking once on an Email subject header line in the upper portion.
The size of the message viewing area can be changed by clicking on the
control button between the upper and lower portions of the screen
areas and dragging it down or up.
New Messages
The Mail icon on the Front Panel will change when new mail is
received.
A new message that has not yet been read is shown with the
letter "N" to the left of the sender's name in the top
portion of the Mail window. 
Attached Files
When an Email message has one or more files attached, a diamond
character will be displayed after the New Message indicator (the
letter N). To read an attachment, double-click on its icon at the
bottom of the window. 
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