Identities

This dialog window lets you specify how you present yourself to the rest of the world through your email.

Your Name

This doesn't have to be your name, I guess. But it's the word prefixing your email address in mail you send.

E-Mail address

As you wish it to appear in your "From" header.

Reply-To address

The address that you wish people to reply to your email with (if you have a home and a work address, for instance).

Default domain

The domain that you wish to append to all e-mail entries where you did not specify the domain. Normally you would use your local domain. You need to enable Alias Expansion for this to work.

Use Signature File When

Sending Mail

Include the signature file when sending email.

Replying to Mail

Include the signature file when replying to mail.

Forwarding Mail

Include the signature file when forwarding mail.

Signature file

The text to append to all your messages. This text can come from one of three places:

  • From a regular file. List the path to any regular file, and the text from that file will be appended to your messages.

  • A named pipe or FIFO. In this case, to Balsa, the file looks normal, but in reality, it is a pipe to a program that is generating the content. List the path to the pipe.

  • An executable program. Balsa will execute the program and read its output, appending that text to the message. List the path to the program with a "|" prepended to it. For example:

    "|/home/user/dynsig.pl"

You also get to control when the signature is appended.

Reply Prefix

The character sequence to prefix quoted lines in a reply with.

Enable Signature Separator

When checked, this has Balsa insert the standard signature separator before your signature.