Writing

A new mail

⌘N opens a new mail. To reply, press ⌘R, to reply all ⇧⌘R, to forward ⇧⌘F. warfta opens the compose view inside the main window, in place of the mail being shown. With Open in Separate Window you can pop it out at any time. If you always want a separate window, turn on Open new messages in a separate window in the settings under General.

• From: if you have several accounts, you choose the sender here. The signature changes with it.
• To: warfta suggests addresses from your mails and — if you allow it — from your Mac’s contacts. Invalid addresses are marked in red. Cc / Bcc shows the additional fields.
• Format: Format: Rich Text allows ⌘B bold, ⌘I italic, ⌘K links and lists. Format: Plain Text sends plain text. You change quote levels with ⌘' and ⌥⌘'.
• Send: with the button at the top right or ⇧⌘D. Without a subject, warfta asks (“Send without a subject?”).

Attachments

Click the paper clip or press ⇧⌘A (File → Attach Files…). You can also simply drag files into the compose window. If a mail gets too large for your account, warfta tells you beforehand — attachments grow by about a third when sent.

Signatures

You create signatures in the settings under Reading & Writing → Signatures, as many per account as you like, with images, links and font sizes. Under Insert Automatically you set which signature goes into new mails and which into replies and forwards.

In the compose window there’s a menu to the right of the signature: there you switch the signature, choose No Signature or jump to Manage Signatures ….

What replies look like

Under Reading & Writing → Reply Quote you decide whether you write Above the Quote or Below the Quote, where the signature goes and how detailed the quote header is (Compact, Detailed or No Header). Keep Original Formatting keeps the bold, italic, links and paragraphs of the original mail. A preview shows right away what the reply looks like.

Drafts

warfta saves while you write. At the bottom of the compose window it says where the draft is: “Draft saved · on this Mac” or “Draft saved · synced with account” — then it is also in your account’s drafts folder, and you’ll find it again in other mail programs. The other way round, warfta opens drafts you started elsewhere so you can keep writing. Bcc recipients stay only on your Mac.

You discard a draft with File → Delete Draft …. If you quit warfta with compose windows open, it asks first.

Outbox and “Unsent”

Sent mails go to the Outbox first. If there’s no connection, warfta waits and tries again (“Waiting for connection · next attempt …”). If the server rejects a mail, it ends up in Unsent. From there you send it again with Send Again, edit it first or delete it.

Signing and encrypting (S/MIME)

If you have an S/MIME certificate in your Mac’s keychain, you select it in the settings under Accounts, for the account, under Zertifikat (“Certificate”). With Neue Mails signieren (“Sign new mails”) warfta signs every new mail. In the compose window you toggle Signieren (“Sign”) and Verschlüsseln (“Encrypt”) for the individual mail. Encrypting works if warfta knows a certificate for every recipient — for example from a signed mail they sent you.

Reply suggestions from Apple Intelligence are described in the chapter Apple Intelligence.