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-<!--
-<!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN">
--->
-<chapter id="config-prefs">
-
- <title>Advanced Configuration</title>
- <para>
- Perhaps your mail server has changed names. Perhaps you've
- grown tired of a certain layout for your appointments.
- Whatever the reason, you want to change your
- <application>Evolution</application> settings. This chapter
- will tell you how to do just that.
- </para>
-
- <sect1 id="config-prefs-mail">
- <title>Mail Settings</title>
- <para>
- To change your mail settings, select <menuchoice>
- <guimenu>Tools</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Mail
- Settings</guimenuitem></menuchoice> in the Inbox. This
- will open the <interface>mail preferences window</interface>,
- illustrated in <xref linkend="config-prefs-mail-fig">. Mail
- preferences are separated into several categories:
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Accounts</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- This allows you to create and alter one or more identities for your
- email.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Display</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Allows you to edit how email appears.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Composer</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Customizes the behavior of the email message composer.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Other</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Configures miscellanious aspects of
- <application>Evolution</application> such as character
- set and encryption tools.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- </para>
-
- <!-- ==============Figure===================== -->
- <figure id="config-prefs-mail-fig">
- <title>Mail Preferences Dialog</title>
- <screenshot>
- <screeninfo>Setting mail preferences</screeninfo>
- <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="figures/config-mail" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
- </imageobject></mediaobject>
- </screenshot>
- </figure>
- <!-- ==============End of Figure================-->
-
-
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-identity">
- <title>Working with the Accounts Tab</title>
- <para>
- <application>Ximian Evolution</application> allows you to
- maintain multiple accounts, or identities. This is useful
- want to keep personal and professional email separate, or if
- you wear several hats at work. When you are writing an email
- message, you can which account to use by selecting from the
- drop-down list next to the <guilabel>From</guilabel> entry in
- the message composer.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Clicking <guibutton>Get Mail</guibutton> will refresh any
- IMAP, <filename>mh</filename>, or
- <filename>mbox</filename> listings
- and check and download mail from all POP servers. In other
- words, <guibutton>Get Mail</guibutton> gets your mail, no
- matter how many sources you have, or what types they are. If
- you don't want to check mail for a given account, select it
- in the <guilabel>Accounts</guilabel> tab and click the
- <guibutton>Disable</guibutton> button.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To add a new account, simply click <guibutton>Add</guibutton>
- to open the mail configuration assistant. To alter an
- existing identity, select it in the
- <interface>Preferences</interface> window, and then click
- <guibutton>Edit</guibutton> to open the account editor
- dialog.
- </para>
- <para>
- The account editor dialog has six sections:
- <variablelist>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Identity:</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Here, enter the name,
- email address, and other identifying information for the
- account.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Receiving Mail</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Here, select the way you will be getting mail: you may
- download mail from a server (<glossterm
- linkend="pop">POP</glossterm> or <glossterm
- linkend="imap">IMAP</glossterm>) or access it from files
- on your local system. If you use a server, it may permit
- or require you to use a Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
- connection. To turn SSL connections on, just click the
- <guibutton>Use Secure Connection (SSL)</guibutton>
- button.
-
-<note id="config-arbitrary-port">
-<title>Specifying Port Numbers</title>
-<para>
-Your system administrator may ask you to connect to a specific port on
-a mail server. To specify which port you use, just type a colon and
-the port number after the server name. For example, to connect to port
-143 on the server smtp.omniport.com, you would enter
-as
-<userinput>
-smtp.omniport.com:143
-</userinput> as the server name.
-</para>
-</note>
-
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Receiving Options</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Here, decide whether you'd like to check for mail
- automatically, and set other options related to the
- behavior of your server. If you use POP mail, you can
- decide whether to leave mail on the server, and if you
- use IMAP, you can set folder subscription options here.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Sending Mail</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- In this section, you will choose and configure a method
- for sending mail. You may choose <glossterm
- linkend="smtp">SMTP</glossterm> or <glossterm
- linkend="sendmail">sendmail</glossterm>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Special Folders</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Here, you can decide where this account will store the
- messages that it has sent, and the messages that you
- save as drafts.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Security</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- In this section, you will set the security options for
- this account. Enter your PGP Key ID and decide how
- frequently to encrypt and sign your messages.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-display">
- <title>Mail Display Options</title>
- <para>
- In this tab you can decide how you would like
- <application>Ximian Evolution</application> to display your
- mail: how to display citations, how long to wait before
- marking a message as read, and so forth.
- </para>
- <para>
- This is also where you can decide how you would like
- <application>Ximian Evolution</application> to handle inline
- images in HTML mail that you get. There is a detailed
- discussion of the issues surrounding these options in <xref
- linkend="usage-mail-getnsend-get-attach-html">.
- </para>
- <para>
- To hange the font which <application>Ximian
- Evolution</application> uses to display mail, do the
- following:
- <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Open the Control Center by selecting <menuchoice>
- <guimenu>System</guimenu>
- <guimenuitem>Settings</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> from
- the menu panel.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Select the HTML Viewer settings tool.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Choose the font and font size you would like to use.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
-
- Alternately, open a terminal and run the
- <command>gtkhtml-properties-capplet</command> command. This
- will open the GNOME HTML Display Properties tool, and you can
- select a font and other attributes of your HTML display,
- including that in <application>Ximian Evolution</application>.
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-composer">
- <title>Message Composer Preferences</title>
-
- <para>
- Mercifully, there are only four preferences you can prefer in
- the message composer preferences dialog:
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Send mail in HTML format by default </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If you would like all email messages that you compose
- to begin in HTML format, leave this box checked. You
- can convert messages between HTML and plain text by
- selecting the <menuchoice> <guimenu>Format</guimenu>
- <guimenuitem>HTML</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> toggle
- in the message composer.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Default Forward style</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Select from:
- <simplelist>
- <member><guilabel>Attachment:</guilabel> the
- message you forward appended to the message you send
- as a seperate file.</member>
-
- <member> <guilabel>Inline:</guilabel> The message
- you forward is included at the end of the message
- you send.</member>
-
- <member>
- <guilabel>Quoted:</guilabel> The message
- you forward is included at the end of the message
- you send, and a greater-than symbol (&gt;) is
- inserted at the beginning of each line to
- indicate that it is quoted.
- </member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Prompt when sending messages with an empty subject</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The composer will warn you if you try to send a
- message without a subject.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Prompt when sending messages with only Bcc recipients defined</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The composer will warn you if you try to send a
- message that has only <guilabel>Bcc</guilabel>
- recipients. This is important because some mail
- servers will fail to honor blind carbon copy if you
- do not have at least one recipient that is visible to
- all readers.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-other">
- <title>Other Mail Preferences</title>
- <para>
- Not everything fits neatly into categories. This tab
- contains some miscellaneous configuration options that
- didn't fit anywhere else.
- <variablelist>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <guilabel>PGP binary path</guilabel>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The complete path to your external encryption tool On
- most Linux systems, this will be
- <filename>/usr/bin/gpg</filename>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <guilabel>Remember PGP Passphrase until Exit</guilabel>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para> Check this box if you want <application>Ximian
- Evolution</application> to remember your PGP
- passphrase for as long as it is running. You will
- still have to enter your passphrase again each time
- you start <application>Ximian Evolution</application>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <guilabel>Default Character Encoding</guilabel>
- </term>
- <listitem> <para> Choose a default character encoding for
- your messages.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <guilabel>Empty Trash Folders on Exit</guilabel>
- </term>
- <listitem> <para> If you would like to expunge all deleted
- mail when you quit <application>Ximian
- Evolution</application>, check this box.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <guilabel>Log filter actions to:</guilabel>
- </term>
- <listitem> <para> If you like, you can have
- <application>Ximian Evolution</application> write all
- its message filter actions to a log file. Select a log
- file here.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
-
-
-<!-- NOT FOR 1.0, see usage-mail.sgml
- <sect1 id="config-prefs-news">
- <title>News Servers</title>
- <para>
- Newsgroups are so much like mailing lists that there's no
- reason not to keep them right next to your mail. When you
- first select the <guilabel>News Servers</guilabel> tab,
- you will see a blank box with the three familiar buttons
- on the right: <guibutton>Add</guibutton>,
- <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>, and
- <guibutton>Delete</guibutton>.
- </para>
- <para>
- Click <guibutton>Add</guibutton> to add a news server; you
- will be prompted for its name. Enter the name, click
- <guibutton>OK</guibutton>, and you're done. You can have
- as many news servers as you like, of course. News servers
- will appear next to your IMAP servers in the
- <interface>folder bar</interface>.
- </para>
- </sect2>
--->
-
-
- <sect1 id="config-prefs-cal">
- <title>Configuring the Calendar</title>
- <para>
- To set your calendar preferences, select
- <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
- <guimenuitem>Calendar
- Settings</guimenuitem></menuchoice> from the Calendar
- view. This will open up the
- <interface>Preferences</interface> window. It contains four
- tabs: <guilabel>General</guilabel>, <guilabel>Display</guilabel>, <guilabel>Task List</guilabel>, and <guilabel>Other</guilabel>. The <interface>calendar
- preferences window</interface> is illustrated in <xref
- linkend="config-prefs-cal-fig">.
-
- <!-- ==============Figure===================== -->
- <figure id="config-prefs-cal-fig">
- <title>Calendar Preferences Dialog</title>
- <screenshot>
- <screeninfo>If this worked on my job as well as my calendar...</screeninfo>
- <mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="figures/config-cal" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
- </imageobject></mediaobject>
- </screenshot>
- </figure>
- <!-- ==============End of Figure================-->
- </para>
-
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-general">
- <title>Calendar's General Settings</title>
- <para>
- The <guilabel>Time display</guilabel> tab lets you set the
- following:
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Time zone</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The city you're located in, to judge your time zone.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Time format</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>You may choose between twelve-hour (AM/PM) and
- twenty-four hour time formats here by clicking the
- appropriate radio button.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Work Week</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- When does your work day start, and when does it end?
- In the day and week views,
- <application>Evolution</application> displays all the
- hours in the range you select here, even if there are
- no appointments for those times. Of course, you can
- still schedule an appointment outside of these hours,
- and if you do, the display will be extended to show
- it.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>First day of the week</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>You can set weeks to start on Sunday or on Monday.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Start of day</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Says what time of the day your weekday starts. This will show all times till the end of the day, regardless of there is an appointment during the time period.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>End of day</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Sets the time the day ends at.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-display">
- <title>Display</title>
- <para>
- The <interface>Display</interface> section lets you configure some visual properties of the calendar.
- </para>
- <para>The display properties you can set are:
-
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Time divisions</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Sets the increments shown on the daily view in the calendar. You can set this to be:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 5 minutes
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 10 minutes
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 15 minutes
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 30 minutes
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 60 minutes
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Show appointment end times in week and month views</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If there is space, <application>Evolution</application> will show the end times in the week and month views for each appointment.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Compress weekends in month view</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If checked, your weekends will be shown in one box, instead of one for each day in the month view.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Show week numbers in date navigator</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- This will show the week numbers next to the respective weeks in the calendar.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-tasklist">
- <title>Task List Settings</title>
- <para>
- You can choose what information the To Do list displays and the
- way it is displayed.
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Tasks due today</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Configures what color to set your tasks that are due today to.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Overdue tasks</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Configures what color to set your overdue items to.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-other">
- <title>Other Calendar Settings</title>
- <para>
- This configures miscellaneous items for the calendar and todo list's functionality.
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Ask for confirmation when deleting items</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- When you delete an item in either the Task List or the Calendar, you will be prompted to confirm that you want to delete the item.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Create new appointments with a default reminder</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- All your appointments will be created using a default reminder enabled. You can still change what way you are reminded though. If enabled, you can then set the time before your appointment to be reminded.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
-
- <sect1 id="config-prefs-contact">
- <title>Managing the Addressbook</title>
- <para>
- The addressbook does not have a large list of configuration
- settings, but those that are there can be found in the
- <guimenu>Tools</guimenu> menu.
- </para>
-
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-contact-ldap-add">
- <title>Adding Directory Servers</title>
- <para>
- To add a new LDAP server to your available contact
- folders:
- <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Select
- <menuchoice>
- <guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
- <guimenuitem>Addressbook Sources</guimenuitem>
- </menuchoice>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Click <guibutton>Add</guibutton>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Enter the server information.
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Account name</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The name that you see on the screen. This could be anything you wish.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Server name</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Address of the server where the addressbook is located.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>My server requires authentication</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Select this if the server needs a password to access the addressbook.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Port</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The internet port to connect to in order to access the database. This is normally 389.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Search base</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The base node to use for all your searches. Contact your administrator for information about setting this up.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Search scope</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
-How broad the search is in the directory.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Click <guibutton>OK</guibutton> to permanenty make changes or <guibutton>Apply</guibutton> to temporarily set the changes.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
-
-
-<!--
- <sect1 id="config-prefs-general">
- <title>General Preferences</title>
- <para>
- Additional configuration options will be covered here, as
- they become available.
- </para>
- </sect1>
--->
-</chapter>
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