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Update pages to be consistent with how the app currently works. Mention undo for both archiving and sending/saving/dicarding composers. Update compser page to mention features added over the last few releases.
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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
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type="guide"
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id="write">
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<info>
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<link type="guide" xref="index#overview"/>
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</info>
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<title>Writing new email and replying</title>
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<section id="overview">
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<title>Composing and replying</title>
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<p>To start a new email conversation, click the <gui
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style="button">Compose</gui> button on the toolbar. Type the email
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address of the people to receive the message in the <gui
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style="input">To</gui> text field, and a subject line in the <gui
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style="input">Subject</gui> field. You can then type your message
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in the text area below these. Once the message is read to send,
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click <gui style="button">Send</gui> or type
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<keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Enter</key></keyseq> to send the
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message.</p>
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<note style="tip">
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<title>Undoing sending</title>
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<p>When sending an email, Geary will wait 5 seconds before
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delivering the message. During this time, you will be able to
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click <gui style="button">Undo</gui> on the pop-up notification
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that appears or type
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<keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Z</key></keyseq> to re-open the
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email, and make more changes to it.</p>
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</note>
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<p>When entering an email address in the <gui
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style="input">To</gui> and <gui style="input">Cc</gui> fields,
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Geary will provide suggestions from your desktop address book and
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from previously sent and received email messages. To choose one of
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these suggestions, simply click on it. In addition, <gui
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style="input">Bcc</gui> and <gui style="input">Reply-to</gui>
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fields can be shown by selecting <gui style="menu">Show extended
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fields</gui> from the formatting toolbar menu.</p>
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<p>To reply to the currently selected conversation, click one of
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the <gui style="button">Reply</gui>, <gui style="button">Reply
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All</gui> or <gui style="button">Forward</gui> toolbar
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buttons. This will open a new reply or forwarded email composer
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for the latest message in the conversation.</p>
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<p>When replying, the message being replied to will be quoted and
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copied into the footer of the new reply. This can be deleted
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before typing a reply by pressing
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<key>Backspace</key>. Alternatively, text can be selectively
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quoted by selecting the desired text in a message and clicking
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<gui style="button">Reply</gui> or <gui style="button">Reply
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All</gui>, only the selected text will be quoted.</p>
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<p>To reply to a specific email message, open the message menu in the
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top corner of the message and choose <gui>Reply</gui>, <gui>Reply
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All</gui> or <gui>Forward</gui>.</p>
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</section>
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<section id="features">
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<title>Text formatting, images and attachments</title>
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<p>Geary's email composer lets you use text styles such as
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<em>bold</em> and <em>italic</em>, indent text to quote it and
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links to web pages. Simply select the text and click the
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appropriate button on the formatting toolbar.</p>
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<p>Bulleted and numbered lists can be inserted or removed by
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clicking the <gui style="button">Bulleted list</gui> and <gui
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style="button">Numbered list</gui> buttons on the formatting
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toolbar. The level of indentation of list items can be adjusted
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using the <gui style="button">Indent</gui> and <gui
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style="button">Un-indent</gui> formatting toolbar buttons.</p>
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<p>Images can be inserted into rich text messages by clicking the
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<gui style="button">Insert Image</gui> button on the formatting
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toolbar and selecting the image to attach, by dragging an image
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from the <gui>Files</gui> application into the email body and then
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dropping it, or by pasting an image that has been copied to the
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clipboard from another application.</p>
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<p>Documents, music, videos, and other files can be attached to
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the email by clicking the <gui style="button">Attach File</gui>
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button at the top of the composer window and selecting the
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document to attach, or by dragging a file from the
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<gui>Files</gui> application to the composer window, and dropping
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it either on the text fields at the top of the window or on the
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toolbar at the bottom.</p>
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<p>A number of keyboard shortcuts are available in the composer;
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see <link xref="shortcuts"/> for details.</p>
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<p>You may specify a signature to be inserted into the footer of
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email in the composer via the <link xref="accounts"/> dialog.</p>
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</section>
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<section id="spellcheck">
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<title>Checking spelling</title>
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<p>Geary supports spell-checking your composed email in one or
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more languages, as you type. To enable spell-checking, first
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ensure your computer has spell-check dictionaries installed for
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the desired languages. Consult your computer's help to determine
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how to install dictionaries if not present.</p>
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<p>To select languages for spell-checking, click the <gui
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style="button">Spell check</gui> button on the formatting toolbar,
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and the language selection popover will appear. Click on a
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language in the list to toggle it on or off, and click the <gui
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style="button">-</gui> button to remove it from the list. If a
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language does not appear in the list, search for it by typing its
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name in the search box, then click the <gui style="button">+</gui>
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button to add it.</p>
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</section>
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<section id="drafts">
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<title>Saving drafts and restoring discarded messages</title>
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<p>For mail servers that support drafts, Geary will automatically
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save the message as you type on the server after a short
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delay.</p>
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<p>To edit an existing draft, select the <gui>Drafts</gui> folder
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in the folder list, select the message, and click "Edit Draft" in
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the conversation viewer.</p>
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<p>Geary will delete the draft when you send the message.</p>
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<note style="tip">
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<p>If you save or discard a composed email, you can re-open it
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by clicking <gui style="button">Undo</gui> on the pop-up
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notification that appears or by typing
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<keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Z</key></keyseq>. The ability to
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restore a saved or discarded composer will be remain for up to
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30 minutes. After that you will need to re-open the message via
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the <gui>Drafts</gui> folder, if present.</p>
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</note>
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</section>
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<section id="plain-text">
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<title>Plain text messages</title>
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<p>Geary can also send plain text messages. In the drop-down menu,
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check or uncheck <gui style="menu">Rich Text</gui> to toggle
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between plain text and rich text mode. Plain text mode is useful
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when sending email to mailing lists that prohibit rich text (HTML)
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messages, or when sending email to people that do no use modern
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clients like Geary.</p>
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<p>In plain text mode, text will be automatically wrapped using
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soft line breaks so that it is no longer than 74 characters wide,
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and indented text will be wrapped and quoted using a “>” character
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for each level of quoting.</p>
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</section>
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</page>
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