pymailgui' list windowssuch as the one in figure - display mail header details in fixed-width columnsup to maximum size mails with attachments are prefixed with "*in mail index list windowsand fonts and colors in pymailgui windows like this one can be customized by the user in the mailconfig configuration file you can' tell in this black-and-white bookbut most of the mail index lists we'll see are configured to be indian redview windows are light bluepop-up pyedit windows are beige instead of pyedit' normal light cyanand help is steel blue you can change most of these as you likeand pyedit pop-up window appearance can be altered in the gui itself (see example - for help with color definition stringsand watch for alternative configuration examples aheadlist windows allow multiple messages to be selected at once--the action selected at the bottom of the window is applied to all selected mails for instanceto view many mailsselect them all and press vieweach will be fetched (if neededand displayed in its own view window use the all check button in the bottom right corner to select or deselect every mail in the listand ctrl-click and shift-click combinations to select more than one (the standard windows multiple selection operations apply--try itbefore we go any furtherthoughlet' press the help bar at the top of the list window in figure - to see what sort of help is availablefigure - shows the text-based help window pop up that appears--one of two help flavors available the main part of this window is simply block of text in scrolled-text widgetalong with two buttons at the bottom the entire help text is coded as single triple-quoted string in the python program as we'll see in momenta fancier option which opens pymailgui demo