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Open an Email's Source (Incl. Message Headers) in Postbox
Most are darkly brown to deeply gray round blobs of about a third of a meter (1.1 feet). The color depends on how deep (some 1 to 40 meters; 3.3 to 131 feet) beneath the sea's surface a specimen is found and can be a bright yellow, too, or black.
Not much hints at it, yet spongia officinalis—the blob—is the source of the marvelous sponge found in baths since antiquity.
Found sometimes in baths, too, and perhaps under sea are, of course, emails. Depending on the complexity—including various scripts, encodings and attachments —, an email's source may have not much to do at first glance with the email it produces; in Postbox, you can have that glance (or a detailed inspection, say of the email's headers) easily:
›› Find out what lies behind an email with its source code. That source includes all header lines and the code that makes up the message's body and included files. In Postbox, accessing the source for a message is easy.
| How MIME Works
A German chancellor invented a "universal gardening tool".
Before he would become head of state, Konrad Adenauer took a rake of the garden variety and added a not unusual — though, it seems, massive—hammerhead on top. The hammer would allow for annoying clumps of soil to be broken up while raking—without the need for another tool. In the literature, this concoction appears as the "universal gardening tool".
While we ponder the universality of such an implement, let us find out how MIME takes a plain text email of the garden variety and adds any format or file—at times, of course, massive—on top:
›› Find out how the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) work to let you send attachments with your email messages.
| How to View an Email's Source in Opera Mail
"Year 5," reads the label, and: "the Western River. By the chief vintner Khaa."
This wine label is now in a museum. Before, it lay for some 3,200 years, mostly undisturbed presumably, together with cake, berries, bread, cheese and more in King Tutankhamun's tomb.
Apparently, wine drinkers then, too, did want to know whence their drink came in place and time. If you want to know that about an email you received in Opera Mail (or investigate the origins of its parts), you can consult the label—on the metaphorical back:
›› Curious about an email's path? Interested why its text may not display correctly? Gain access to all email headers and the source to a message's text (as well as attachments) in Opera Mail.
| Bonne Nuit - IncrediMail Letter and E-Card (From the Archives)
The sun escaping,
Woman under a roof.
That's how you wish "good night" in Mandarin: the escaping sun (晚, wǎn) depicts the evening; a woman under a roof (安, ān) indicates tranquility and peace. Of course, a night can also be good and peaceful clinging to the moon:
›› It's bonne nuit for the cute bear in this letter, and good night for you. (IncrediMail)
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