Chapter 1. Introduction

Table of Contents

Typographical conventions
Additional Help Sources
License

Columba is an email-client written in Java, featuring a user-friendly graphical interface with time-saving wizards and internationalization support.

This guide will help you to get started quickly with Columba.

Typographical conventions

In this book, we'll mark some words with special typography:

Commands you type at the command line

Labels for buttons and other portions of the graphical interface

Menu selections look like this: Menu->Submenu->Menu Item

Anything you type in

Text output from a computer

We'll provide assorted bits of additional information in tips set off from the rest of the book, as well.

Tip

Tips and bits of extra information will look like this.