The application's
main window has a three-panel view:
- Mailfolder-view (left): Showing the folder-hierarchy of the
mailbox.es
- Mailref-view (top-right): Showing info about all mails of selected
mail-folder
- Mailview(bottom-right): Showing headers, attachments and contents
of selected mail.Mailfolder-view
Beam lets you categorize your mail in main folders and sub folders,
as for instance:

Mailref-view
Lists out the content of a Mailfolder.

Mailview
By choosing a listed mail in the Mailref window, the mailview-window
will show both the mail headers and content.

The mail's headers is by default shown in simple mode, only showing
information about Subject, From, Date, To, Cc and User-Agent. In
full mode all headers are shown:

There is a standard format for e-mail messages (RFC-2822). The
Request For Comments enables you to read old mails also in the future,
and secures that you can read the message with any kind of e-mail
client.
The fields the RFC defines (From:, To:, Cc: etc.) are all in English,
and can not be translated. Other wise a French e-mail client wouldn't
be able to show an e-mail written in a German e-mail client.
When you look at the header in full view, you will find the Received
filed. It contains time stamps of when the mail passed a specific
e-mail server on it's way to the finale destination. You will also
notice that most mails pass through many e-mail servers, and that
they are all shown in the Received field. This field should be read
backwards. The first server that handled the mail, will be in the
very end of the field, just as the last server handling will be
in the beginning of the field.
The job-status window which pops up whenever Beam is retrieving
mail, sending mail or moving a lot of mails around. Every job has
its own subview in here, which can be made to show/hide dynamically,
just as jobs come and go.
Preferences
The general preferences page, where you can edit general GUI options,
as well as control performance and timing.
General Options

Enabling Cache mailfolders (on disk) will make the application
respond faster.
As Beam's user interface cover most of your workspace, you can
set it to open on a specific workspace: Current or 1- 9.
You can also enable Beam's Deskbar replicant from the General Options.
Beam also gives you the option to choose another folder for your
mail than the default folder that Zeta sets up for you (/boot/home/mail),
and to set it as the preferred application for email, which is something
you can read more about in FileTypes.
Shortcuts
Beam comes with a long list of shortcuts, which makes your mailhandling
really fast.

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