Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide

Printing Mail Messages

You can print messages with the default options, or set different print options before starting the print job.

To Print a Copy of a Message with Default Options

  1. Select the message to be printed in the Message Header List.

    Shift+Click selects several messages in a row by moving the highlight up or down the Message Header List. Control+Click selects discontiguous messages from the list, one at a time.

  2. Choose Print One from the Message menu.

To Print a Message with Specific Options

  1. Select the message to be printed.

    Shift+Click selects several messages in a row by moving the highlight up or down the Message Header List. Control+Click selects discontiguous messages from the list, one at a time.

  2. Choose Print from the Message menu.

  3. Set the options you want to change:

    • Type a new printer name in the Printer field.

    • Indicate the number of copies in the Copies field.

    • Type a banner page title in the Banner Page Title field.

    • Select Print Page Numbers to print page numbers in your document.

    • Type print command options in the Print Command Options field.

  4. Click Print.

To Print a Message Using Drag and Drop

  1. Select the message to be printed.

  2. Drag the message onto the Printer control in the Front Panel.

    The Print dialog box is displayed.

  3. Set the print options as desired and click Print.

    For more information, see To Print a Message with Specific Options.


Note –

For information on how to change the print action, see the section “Configuring and Administering Printing from the Desktop” in Common Desktop Environment: Help System Author's and Programmer's Guide