17. Reference

In this section you will find a few pieces of information that might be handy in making Sylpheed more clear for you in respect to the used shortcut keys, and a layout of the format of the address book.

17.1 Short-Cut Key List

One-key shortcuts:

• a: create a new message
• d: delete the selected message
• f: forward the selected message#
• g: go to a specific folder through a browsing dialog
• n: jump to the next message/next part of a multipart message
• p: jump to the previous message/previous part of a multipart message
• v: switch on/off the message view
• w: same as a
• y: Opens save as... dialog

Shortcuts to the File menu:

• Alt-F: open FILE menu
• Alt-P: print
• Alt-W: close
• Alt-Q: exit

Shortcuts to the Edit menu

• Alt-E: open EDIT menu
• Ctrl-C: copy
• Ctrl-A: select all
• Ctrl-S: search

Shortcuts to the View menu

• Alt-V: open VIEW menu

Shortcuts to the Message menu

• Alt-M: open MESSAGE menu
• Alt-I: check mail for current account
• Shift-Alt-I: Check mail for all accounts
• Alt-N: compose new message
• Alt-R: reply to message
• Ctrl-Alt-R: reply to sender (contrary to reply to e.g. mailing list)
• Shift-Alt-R: reply to all (includes all addresses in To: and Cc:)
• Ctrl-F: forward message
• Shift-Ctrl-F: forward message as attachment
• Alt-O: move message
• Alt-D: delete message
• Shift-Ctrl-N: open message in new window
• Ctrl-U: view message source
• Ctrl-H: show all message headers

Shortcuts to the Summary menu

• Alt-S: open SUMMARY menu

• Alt-X: execute (pending commands, only useful when commands are not executed immediately)
• Alt-U: update view
• Alt-G: go to other folder
• Ctrl-T: thread view
• Shift-Ctrl-T: unthread view

Shortcuts to the Tool menu

• Alt-T: open tool menu
• Alt-A: open addressbook
• Alt-L: open logfile

17.2 Data Format of Address Book

The addressbook is located in  /.sylpheed. It is named addressbook.xml. The general format of the addressbook is:

< addressbook ><p>
 < common_address ><p>
    < group name="Common addresses" ><p>
    < item ><p>
     < name > Paul < /name ><p>
     < address > paul@nlpagan.net < /address ><p>
     < remarks > Writes Sylph. manual < /remarks ><p>
        < /item ><p>
    < /group ><p>
 < /common_address ><p>
< /addressbook >