An identity is the set of characteristics that define a sender. Multiple identities can be declared, one of them being the default. Once an identity is defined in the preferences, it can be choosen in the mail composer in the menu. The default identity is pre-selected.
Only the email should be entered here, without any additional comment (example: john.doe@company.com). That field is required to be able to send mail messages with manitou-mail.
The full name of the user that goes along the email address. (example: John Doe)
Whether mail messages associated to this identity may be hidden to certain users, depending on the group permissions that apply to them (see Chapter III, User accounts).
The optional root of a tag hierarchy that this identity is associated to. The import process can use this for per-identity tagging, especially when tags are used to represent folders of an external IMAP system. Also, when the access to an identity is restricted, the hierarchy of tags associated to this identity is not accessible (hidden) to operators that fall under the restriction. In practice, this can be used to have multiple users on the same database not seeing each other's messages and tags, when used in conjunction with group permissions.
The identity to use by default when a new outgoing message is started with the composer (menu command: ).
A multi-line piece of text that will be appended to an outgoing message before editing takes place.
The text can contain references to certain fields that will be dynamically replaced by their current values at compose time. The fields refer to the sender's identity and the person currently using the interface to compose the message, or in the case of a message generated by a script, a pseudo-user that has a entry in the users table whose login matches the database login used to connect. Field names need to be enclosed inside angle brackets to be recognized as such.
The fields available in the signature are:
{operator_login}: the operator's database login of the person who composes the messages{operator_firstname}: the operator's first name{operator_fullname}: the operator's first name and name{operator_email}: the operator's email address{sender_email}: the sender's email address for the outgoing message, corresponding to the sender's identity{sender_name}: the name associated to the identity of the outgoing message{operator_custom_field1}: the value for the operator's custom_field1 database field.{operator_custom_field2}: the value for the operator's custom_field2 database field.{operator_custom_field3}: the value for the operator's custom_field3 database field.
An optional string consisting of ASCII characters that are supposed to represent the face of the user, encoded in a black and white 48x48 bitmap. Manitou-mail can decode this string and display it graphically along the headers; other mail programs such as XEmacs VM or Sylpheed do this as well. To encode a picture in X-Face format, you may want to check out http://www.dairiki.org/xface