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# Identities

This dialog window lets you specify how you present yourself to the rest of the world through your email.

`Your Name`

  This doesn't have to be your name, I guess. But it's the word prefixing your email address in mail you send.

`E-Mail address`

  As you wish it to appear in your "From" header.

`Reply-To address`

  The address that you wish people to reply to your email with (if you have a home and a work address, for instance).

`Default domain`

  The domain that you wish to append to all e-mail entries where you did not specify the domain. Normally you would use your local domain. You need to enable Alias Expansion for this to work.

`Use Signature File When`

  `Sending Mail`

    Include the signature file when sending email.

  `Replying to Mail`

    Include the signature file when replying to mail.

  `Forwarding Mail`

    Include the signature file when forwarding mail.

`Signature file`

  The text to append to all your messages. This text can come from one of three places:

  - From a regular file. List the path to any regular file, and the text from that file will be appended to your messages.

  - A named pipe or FIFO. In this case, to Balsa, the file looks normal, but in reality, it is a pipe to a program that is generating the content. List the path to the pipe.

  - An executable program. Balsa will execute the program and read its output, appending that text to the message. List the path to the program with a "|" prepended to it. For example:

    "|/home/user/dynsig.pl"

  You also get to control when the signature is appended.

`Reply Prefix`

  The character sequence to prefix quoted lines in a reply with.

`Enable Signature Separator`

  When checked, this has `Balsa` insert the standard signature separator before your signature.

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