Email Viewer

MailDex will display the HTML or Text version of an email message in the email viewing pane.  It will show the email header, body, and attachments of the message you select in the Mail List.

In the image below, the location of the email viewing pane is boxed in red.

The email viewer consists of two main parts - Message header viewer and Message body viewer.

Header viewer

The email header viewer displays common attributes from the email header (sender, recipient, CC, and BCC fields, sent and delivery times) and a list of file attachments.

Clicking on email header fields containing email addresses will cause MailDex to open a message in the Windows default email client with the recipient's selected email address.

Clicking on attachment items will cause MailDex to attempt to have Windows open the file in the Windows default application associated with the file type. Right-clicking on a file attachment allows it to be saved from the MailDex view to a location in your Windows file system.

Open attachment context menu item is used to open a selected attachment in a default application (same action as clicking on item).

Open with... attachment context menu item brings Open with system dialog that allows the user to specify which application will open this attachment (and optionally other files of this type).

Save attachment context menu item allows the user to save selected attachment item in the specified folder preserving the same file name this attachment item already has.

Save As... attachment context menu item allows user to save selected attachment item in the specified folder with a custom file name.

Save All attachment context menu item allows the user to save all attachment items in the specified folder preserving the same file names these attachment items already have.

Message body viewer

Message header and body can be viewed in a separate window if double-clicked in Mail List.

Message body viewer displays body of email message. It is displayed with all available formatting unless the "Use plain text" option is active.

The message body content can be selected and copied into a different application. If that application supports rich text editing (i.e., MS Office applications), the message body's source formatting will be preserved.)

Right-clicking on the message body, displays a context menu.

Select All message body context menu item selects all text in the message body.

Copy message body context menu item is used to copy selected text of the message body into the clipboard.

View source message body context menu item opens the file containing the source code of the selected message in Notepad.

Docking functionality can be used to change the default position for the Explorer tree.