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message window, which contains the address fields and a row of controls underneath it (
Fig-
ure 4
). That's what we're concerned with here.
Figure 4:
The message header portion of the outgoing message window.
Yours may look different, because you can customize it!
What you may not realize is that you can change many things about this portion of the win-
dow to suit your needs. To do so, click the unlabeled pop-up menu and choose Custom-
ize. The window changes to look something like
Figure 5
.
Figure 5:
Customize the message header to include or omit other con-
trols.
In this view, you can select or deselect checkboxes to turn various interface features on or off:
•
CC, Bcc, and Reply To fields:
Enabling these here has the same effect as
choosing the corresponding commands from the View menu.
•
From pop-up menu:
This menu lets you choose which account the message is
sent from; and, for accounts with more than one address, the specific address.
•
Server pop-up menu:
This unlabeled menu, which appears to the right of the
From menu, lets you choose an alternative
SMTP
server for sending the current
message—assuming you have more than one such server configured, and that
you
don't
have Use Only This Server selected in Mail > Preferences > Accounts >
Account Name
> Account Information. (If only one server is available, the menu
doesn't appear regardless of whether its checkbox is selected.)
•
Signature pop-up menu:
Use this menu to choose from among any signa-
tures you've set up for the selected account.
