dtmail is the Default Mail Application

By default, dtmail is the mail application that is launched from the Mailer subpanel on the Trusted Solaris Front Panel. Trusted Solaris software enables the System Administrator role to substitute an alternate mail application that provides full multilevel mail capabilities.

Without administrative intervention, any user can drag and drop an action for an alternate mail application into the Front Panel and then access the newly-installed mailer at the label of the current workspace. However, since mail monitoring at multiple labels does not occur when an action is installed this way, dragging and dropping by individual accounts of alternate mail actions into the Front Panel is only appropriate at a site using a single label.

Before an alternate mail action can be installed in the front panel, an application must first be defined for the mail application. The example in "To Create a Multilevel Action for the Alternate Mail Application " shows the substitution of the OpenWindows mailtool for Dtmail, even though it is unlikely that this substitution would be made. The example relies on a predefined OpenWindows mailtool action in the /usr/dt/appconfig/types/C/sunOW.dt file as shown below.

ACTION OWmailtool
{
        LABEL           OW Mail Tool
        ICON            OWmailtool
        TYPE            COMMAND
        WINDOW_TYPE     NO_STDIO
        EXEC_STRING     /usr/openwin/bin/mailtool
}

See "To Create a Multilevel Action for the Alternate Mail Application " for creating an alternate Front Panel mail application, and "To Substitute an Alternate Mail Application for All Users " and "To Install an Alternate Mailer in the Front Panel" for different distribution methods.