• Use ',' between multiple addresses in To, Cc, and Bcc headers.


• Addresses may be given in the full '"name" ' form.


• Payloads and headers are decoded on fetches and encoded on sends.


• HTML mails show extracted plain text plus HTML in a web browser.


• To, Cc, and Bcc receive composed mail, but no Bcc header is sent.


• If enabled in mailconfig, Bcc is prefilled with sender address.


• Reply and Fwd automatically quote the original mail text.


• If enabled, replies prefill Cc with all original recipients.


• Attachments may be added for sends and are encoded as required.


• Attachments may be opened after View via Split or part buttons.


• Double-click a mail in the list index to view its raw text.


• Select multiple mails to process as a set: Ctrl|Shift + click, or All.


• Sent mails are saved to a file named in mailconfig: use Open to view.


• Save pops up a dialog for selecting a file to hold saved mails.


• Save always appends to the chosen save file, rather than erasing it.


• Split asks for a save directory; part buttons save in ./TempParts.


• Open and save dialogs always remember the prior directory.


• Use text editor's Save to save a draft of email text being composed.


• Passwords are requested if/when needed, and not stored by PyMailGUI.


• You may list your password in a file named in mailconfig.py.


• To print emails, "Save" to a text file and print with other tools.


• See the altconfigs directory for using with multiple email accounts.


• Emails are never deleted from the mail server automatically.


• Delete does not reload message headers, unless it fails.


• Delete checks your inbox to make sure it deletes the correct mail.


• Fetches detect inbox changes and may automatically reload the index.


• Any number of sends and disjoint fetches may overlap in time.


• Click this window's Source button to view PyMailGUI source-code files.


• Watch http://www.rmi.net/~lutz for updates and patches


• This is an Open Source system: change its code as you like.
  """

if name == 'main':
print(helptext) # to stdout if run alone
input('Press Enter key') # pause in DOS console pop ups

See the examples package for the HTML help file, the first few lines of which are shown
in Example 14-12; it’s a simple translation of the module’s help text string (adding a
bit more pizzazz to this page is left in the suggested exercise column).

Example 14-12. PP4E\Internet\PyMailGui\PyMailGuiHelp.html (partial)

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