Configuration Guide to CDE desktop mail program - dtmail

You can quickly configure CDE mail by taking a copy of this example .mailrc file and putting it in
/home/username/.mailrc
You should then carefully edit it to reflect your mail configuration (very few changes eg changing the sound file which is played when mail arrives to something else eg an audio file (xxx.au) in /usr/dt/appconfig/sounds/C )

Alternatively click on the mail-tray icon in the CDE tool bar and configure it using options All the recommended settings are provided for the 11 sections - but you need only do 3 to get started You can if you wish copy the and then fine tune it using CDE mail "Options" menu.

Of all the 11 sections you must customise these 3 menus

To make things more comfortable you will want to customise these 4 menus

You can just take the default for the following 4 menus

Here is a linked list to all 11 menus in the order in which they appear under "Options"

Here are all 11 menus in the order in which they appear under "Options"

Basic

Aliases

Compose Window

Message View

Move Menu Setup

Notification

Signature

Templates

Toolbar

Vacation Message

Advanced