The Personas notebook is accessed from the Tools menu in the main mailer window or by using the toolbar button or the Tools menu option on the compose window. Each Polarbar Mailer account can have any number of different Personas. A Persona is a collection of information about a user and how he wants himself to be presented to the readers of his messages. The only information that is required in a Persona is the Persona name and the From E-Mail address. Each Persona has four pages and can contain any or all of the following information:
The Main Page
The Signature Page
The Compose Page
At the top of each reply, forwarded message, or newly composed message you create, the program can insert a line of text (or multiple lines) which says something like "** Reply to message from John Doe on Fri, 07 Feb 1999 21:30:41 EST". This page is where you tell the program what you want these "preface" lines to say. By default, each Persona does have such a preface for replies and forwards, but not for new messages. Remember, if you want to have a blank line between the preface and the rest of the message text, just leave a blank line at the end of the preface you create here.
If you include the string "{from}" (those are French curly brackets, not parentheses or square brackets) in a preface, it will be substituted with the From name of the author of the message to which you are replying or the message you are forwarding. The string "{date}" will be replaced by the Date: header of that message. The strings "{today}" and "{time}" will be converted to the date and time at which the compose window is opened, according to your computer's system clock. You may also specify Java system properties, such as "{java.version}", "{java.class.version}", "{os.name}", "{os.arch}", "{os.version}", "{user.language}", and "{user.region}" or any other Java system properties that are supported by the Java virtual machine that you are using to run the program. You may also specify message headers from the referenced message, such as "{message-id}", "{subject}", "{reply-to}", and "{x-mailer}" or any other header that might be present in a message.
The Send Options Page
Attaching a Persona to an Address Book Entry
After you create a Persona, you can easily attach it to one or more specific entries in your address book by entering the persona name in the address book field labeled Persona.