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to help you do it.
</para>
- <sect1 id="usage-mail-organize-columns">
+ <sect1 id="importing-mail-and-settings">
+ <title>Importing Your Old Email and Settings</title>
+ <para>
+ <application>Evolution</application> allows you to import old email and data so that you don't need to worry about losing your old information.
+ </para>
+ <sect2 id="importing-mail">
+ <title>Importing Email</title>
+ <para>
+ <application>Ximian Evolution</application> can import the following types of
+ files:
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>VCard (.vcf, gcrd):</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The addressbook format used by the GNOME, KDE, and
+ many other contact management applications. You
+ should be able to export to VCard format from any
+ address book application.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>iCalendar (.ics):</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ A format for storing calendar files. iCalendar is used by
+ PalmOS based handhelds, Ximian <application>Evolution</application>, and Microsoft <application>Outlook</application>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Microsoft Outlook Express 4 (.mbx):</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Email file format used by Microsoft Outlook Express
+ 4. For other versions of Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, see
+ the workaround described in the note below.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>MBox (mbox):</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The email box format used by Mozilla, Netscape,
+ Ximian Evolution, Eudora, and many other email clients.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To import your old email:
+ <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Import</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click <guibutton>Next</guibutton> after reading the Welcome screen.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Select <guibutton>Import a single file</guibutton>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Find the file that you wish to import into <application>Evolution</application>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click <guibutton>Import</guibutton>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2 id="importing-preferences">
+ <title>Importing Preferences</title>
+ <para>
+ <application>Evolution</application> can import all your old mail, contacts, and other information from other applications, making your transition to <application>Evolution</application> even easier.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To import your old information:
+ <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Import</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click <guibutton>Next</guibutton> after reading the Welcome screen.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Select <guibutton>Import data and settings from older programs</guibutton>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The left-most column shows the application which your information will be imported from. You then select checkboxes on each component to import different properties of each application.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click <guibutton>Next</guibutton>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click <guibutton>Import</guibutton>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </para>
+
+<para>
+ <note>
+ <title>Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express Users</title>
+ <para>
+ Microsoft Outlook, and versions of Outlook Express after
+ version 4, use proprietary formats that <application>Ximian
+ Evolution</application> cannot read or import. For contacts,
+ you may have to email them to yourself and import them that
+ way. For email, there is a simpler workaround:
+ <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ While using Windows, import the files into Mozilla Mail (or
+ another mailer, such as Netscape or Eudora, that uses the
+ standard mbox format).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Copy the files to the system or partition you use for
+ <application>Ximian Evolution</application>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Use the <application>Ximian Evolution</application> import
+ tool to import the files. There's more information about
+ why this works, and how, at the Ximian support website.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </para>
+ </note>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Netscape Users</title>
+ <para>
+ Before importing mail from Netscape, make sure you select
+ <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Compact All
+ Folders</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. If you don't,
+ <application>Ximian Evolution</application> will import and undelete
+ the messages in your Trash folders.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+
+ </para>
+
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1 id="usage-mail-organize-columns">
<title>Sorting Mail with Column Headers</title>
<para>
By default, the message list has columns with the following
@@ -45,21 +224,21 @@
options:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term><guimenuitem>Sort Ascending</guimenuitem></term>
+ <term><guimenuitem>Sort Ascending</guimenuitem>:</term>
<listitem><para>
Sorts the messages top to bottom.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><guimenuitem>Sort Descending</guimenuitem></term>
+ <term><guimenuitem>Sort Descending</guimenuitem>:</term>
<listitem><para>
Sorts the messages bottom to top.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><guimenuitem>Group By this Field</guimenuitem></term>
+ <term><guimenuitem>Group By this Field</guimenuitem>:</term>
<listitem><para>
Groups messages instead of sorting them. This makes each contact
with identical properties in the specified field to be placed in
@@ -69,7 +248,7 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><guimenuitem>Remove this
- Column</guimenuitem></term> <listitem><para> Remove
+ Column</guimenuitem>:</term> <listitem><para> Remove
this column from the display. You can also remove
columns by dragging the header off the list and
letting it drop. </para></listitem>
@@ -77,7 +256,7 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><guimenuitem>Field
- Chooser</guimenuitem></term> <listitem><para>
+ Chooser</guimenuitem>:</term> <listitem><para>
When you choose this item, a list
of column headers will appear; just drag and drop them into
place between two existing headers. A red arrow will
@@ -131,7 +310,7 @@
right below the toolbar, and choose a search type:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Body or subject contains</guilabel></term>
+ <term><guilabel>Body or subject contains</guilabel>:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
This will search message subjects and the messages
@@ -141,7 +320,7 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term> <guilabel>Body contains</guilabel> </term>
+ <term> <guilabel>Body contains</guilabel>:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
This will search only in message text, not the subject
@@ -150,7 +329,7 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Subject contains</guilabel></term>
+ <term><guilabel>Subject contains:</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This will show you messages where the search text is
@@ -160,7 +339,7 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Body does not contain</guilabel></term>
+ <term><guilabel>Body does not contain:</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This finds every email message that does not have the
@@ -171,7 +350,7 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Subject does not contain</guilabel></term>
+ <term><guilabel>Subject does not contain:</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This finds every mail whose subject does not contain
@@ -342,13 +521,25 @@
<para>
Mailing List - Filter based on the mailing list it came from.
</para>
+ <note>
+ <title>How Does Filtering on Mailing Lists Work?</title>
+ <para>
+ Filtering on mailing list actually looks for a
+ specific mailing-list header called the
+ <computeroutput>X-BeenThere</computeroutput>
+ header, used to identify mailing lists or other
+ redistributors of mail.
+ </para>
+ </note>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Regex Match - If you know your way around a <glossterm
- linkend="regular-expression">regex</glossterm>, or
- regular expression, put your knowledge to use here.
+ Regex Match - If you know your way around a
+ <glossterm
+ linkend="regular-expression">regex</glossterm>, or
+ regular expression, put your knowledge to use
+ here.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -436,16 +627,27 @@
<example id="filter-example">
<title>Using a Filter to Avoid Spam</title>
<para>
- The majority of bulk mail is tagged with the
+ A good deal of bulk mail is eventually tagged with the
<computeroutput>Precedence: Bulk</computeroutput> header at
- one point or another. Some of these messages, of course,
- could be in mailing lists you've subscribed to, but many of
- them are unsolicited commercial email.
+ one point or another. Not all of it is, of course, and
+ there are "good" messages (mailing lists you subscribe to,
+ for example) that are also considered "Bulk" mail.
+ However, if you filter out all the mail with that header,
+ you'll catch a lot of the mail you don't want to get.
</para>
<para>
- To catch them and put them all in one place, create a
- new filter for incoming mail. Then:
+ To catch them and automatically mark them for deletion, do
+ the following:
<orderedlist>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Select <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guimenuitem>Filters</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Click <guibutton>New</guibutton>.
+ </para></listitem>
+
<listitem><para>
Set the first part of your search critera to look in a <guilabel>Specific header</guilabel>.
</para></listitem>
@@ -469,17 +671,15 @@
folder where you'd like to place bulk mail.
</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>
- If you like, add an action and choose <guilabel>Stop
- Processing</guilabel> if you'd like this message to be
- ignored by all other filters.
- </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para> If you like, add another action and
+ choose <guilabel>Delete</guilabel>.
+ </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Click OK. You're done.
- </para></listitem>
+ </para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
- </para>
+ </para>
</example>
</sect2>
@@ -495,7 +695,7 @@
Select
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
- <guimenu>Filters</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Filters</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -608,12 +808,14 @@
<note id="unmatched-vfolder">
- <title>The Unmatched vFolder</title>
+ <title>The "Unmatched" vFolder</title>
<para>
Obviously, not all messages will fit into all your Virtual
- Folders. That's why <application>Ximian Evolution</application>
- includes an UNMATCHED vFolder. The UNMATCHED
- vFolder displays messages that are not matched by other rules.
+ Folders. That's why <application>Ximian
+ Evolution</application> includes an Unmatched vFolder. The
+ Unmatched vFolder displays messages that are not matched by
+ other rules. If you have no vFolders, the Unmatched folder
+ will contain all of your mail.
</para>
</note>
@@ -792,17 +994,17 @@
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If you want multiple criteria for this filter, press <guibutton>Add
- criterion</guibutton> and repeat the previous step.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
-
+
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+</para>
+<para>
+Remote folders are considered active if you are connected to the
+server; you must be connected to your mail server for the vFolder to
+include any messages from that source.
+</para>
+<para>
<figure id="usage-mail-vfolder-fig-createrule">
<title>Selecting a vFolder Rule</title>
<screenshot>
@@ -816,29 +1018,4 @@
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
- <!--
- <sect1 id="usage-mail-subscriptions">
- <title>Subscription Management</title>
- <para>
- <application>Ximian Evolution</application> lets you handle your
- IMAP and newsgroup subscriptions with the same tool: the
- subscriptions manager. To start using it, choose
- <menuchoice> <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Manage
- Subscriptions</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>.
- </para>
- <para>
- If you have configured any IMAP (mail) or NNTP (news)
- servers, you will see them listed in the left half of the
- subscription management window. Click on a server to select
- it, and you will see the folders or newsgroups available to
- you. You can then select individual folders and subscribe to
- them, or remove yourself from the subscription list.
- </para>
- <para>
- Once you have subscribed to a folder or newsgroup, your system
- will check for new messages whenever you press the
- <guibutton>Get Mail</guibutton> button.
- </para>
- </sect1>
--->
</chapter>