Settings: Header
Every news message consists of the body holding the actual message text, and the headers,
holding information about the message. The Settings: Header dialog controls
which headers are display along with the message body in the article reader view.
- From
The name and address of the author of the message's.
- Subject
What this message is about.
- Newsgroups
The newsgroups to which this message been posted.
- Date
The time this message has been posted.
- Organization
Some text, supposedly giving information about the sender of the message
(e.g. the company the author speaks for, or the provider to which the message
was posted in first place).
- Newsreader
Some newsreaders add their name to the header.
BeInformed puts BeInformed V0.9.3 in this header.
- References
This is a list of the message IDs of the messages preceding the actual message
in a thread. The ids are ordered by appearance. You normally don't have to think
about this because BeInformed automatically uses this information to display a message
at its correct place in a thread.
- Reply-To
The address to which an email reply to the author of this message should be sent to.
If no Reply-To is found, the address given in From is used instead.
The Reply-To command of BeInformed takes proper care of this.
- Followup To
This header gives one newsgroup (or a list of groups) to which an followup to this
message should be posted. If no Followup-To is found (the usual case), the followup
will go into the newsgroup(s) mentioned in the Newsgroups header.
- Message ID
This is a world-wide unique name for this message to identify it.
- Message Number
This number is only unique within a single group and server.
Note:If you display a header that has no body text, the selections made in this dialog
here have no effect. Raw headers are always shown with From, Subject, Newsgroups,
Date, Bytes, Lines and, if present, References.
Close will close the dialog without saving the changes, while Save saves only the
changes you made in this tab view. If you select another tab and then close the dialog, changes
in other tabs will be lost unless you save them separately.
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