Choices

The choices(see figure 7) box enables you to configure a small number of user definable options.

Figure 8

Lock Password

If you would like set a password for use with Tapir Mail that you can set that here.

To set a password for the first time, simply enter the desired password into the two 'New' box. The password must be entered exactly the same in both fields.

To change a password, type in your old password into the 'Current' box, followed by the new password into the two 'New' boxes.

Logging

You can set TapirMail to log it's actions. For this to work, you must have the Reporter(http://www.avisoft.force9.co.uk/Reporter.htm) logging application.

Appearance

The Date box enables you to set the date and time format that Tapir uses. The operators available are: -

Token Meaning

%0 ASCII zero value

%DY Date (08)

%ST st, th or nd by date

%MN Month as number (04)

%MO Month as long entry (April)

Token Meaning

%M3 Month as 3 letters (Apr)

%WK Week of year

%DN Day with in year (098)

%WN Week day as number (7 = Saturday)

%W3 Week day as 3 letters (Sat)

%WE Week day as long (Saturday)

%CE Century as 2 digits (19)

%YR Year as 2 digits (95)

%24 Hour as 24 hour (15)

%12 Hour as 12 hour (03)

%AM am or pm

%PM am or pm

%MI Minute as 2 digits (25)

%SE Second as 2 digits (50)

%CS Centisecond as 2 digits (87)

%TZ Time zone (BST/DST/+01:00, etc)

%% A % symbol

All numbers may be preceded by Z to suppress leading zeros.

Using he Local and Remote mail options, you can set their appearance

The Graphical Emoticons, otherwise know as "smileys" are now supported. When this is ticked text versions of the smileys are automatically converted into their graphical counter part.

Supported smileys are: -

;0 :0 :( :D :p :O ;-)
8D :(! }:) :o) :X :-) :-(

Account

If you are using more than one account, you can use the Acount configuration option to select which account will be default.

Editor

The Editor delete option is designed to allow the correct Delete, Backspace and Copy/End functionality depending on which version of RISC OS you are running. The recommended usage is to leave this option on 'Auto'. In this case the program will detect which version of RISC OS is running and adjust the functionality accordingly.

The table below summarises all of the available options.

Backspace Delete End/Copy
Auto (on RO 5) As Iyonix below
Auto (on pre-RO 5) As BBC below
Iyonix Delete to the left Delete to the right Move to end of the line
BBC Delete to the left Delete to the left Delete to the right

On RISC OS 4, there is also an operating system configuration option for 'PC delete' (this can be found by running !Boot configure, then going to the Input-Keyboard section). When selected, you get the following keyboard characteristics:

Backspace Delete End/Copy
Auto (on RO 5) As Iyonix below
Auto (on pre-RO 5) As BBC below
Iyonix Delete to the left Move to end of the line Move to end of the line
BBC Delete to the left Delete to the right Delete to the right

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