From a91323fbd417f76853bb3ec6b7e0d71110e34a1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aaron Weber Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:40:22 +0000 Subject: spamfiltering charsets and input methods. assign copyright to Novell, add 2004-01-27 Aaron Weber * C/usage-mail-org.xml: spamfiltering * C/usage-mail.xml: charsets and input methods. * C/evolution-1.5.xml: assign copyright to Novell, add 2004. * C/legal.xml: Novell/XImian switcheroo svn path=/trunk/; revision=24480 --- help/C/evolution-1.5.xml | 8 +++--- help/C/legal.xml | 2 +- help/C/usage-mail-org.xml | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- help/C/usage-mail.xml | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 133 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'help/C') diff --git a/help/C/evolution-1.5.xml b/help/C/evolution-1.5.xml index f2eb2bc621..af43ca88da 100644 --- a/help/C/evolution-1.5.xml +++ b/help/C/evolution-1.5.xml @@ -38,11 +38,11 @@ entity names correspond. APX is for appendix. --> - + - A User's Guide to Ximian Evolution 1.4 + A User's Guide to Evolution 1.5 AaronWeber KevinBreit @@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ entity names correspond. APX is for appendix. --> DuncanMak - 2000-2003 - Ximian, Inc. + 2000-2004 + Novell, Inc. diff --git a/help/C/legal.xml b/help/C/legal.xml index e3591f6fb5..3bb42ad3a8 100644 --- a/help/C/legal.xml +++ b/help/C/legal.xml @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ software. The Ximian Connector for Microsoft Exchange 2000 is proprietary software and is subject to a different license. Copyright for all three pieces of software and their documentation belongs to - Ximian, Inc. + Novell, Inc. diff --git a/help/C/usage-mail-org.xml b/help/C/usage-mail-org.xml index 0667ad08c3..f700e69103 100644 --- a/help/C/usage-mail-org.xml +++ b/help/C/usage-mail-org.xml @@ -485,8 +485,9 @@ The junk mail filter can "learn" which kinds of mail are - legitimate and which are not if you train it. When you first start using - junk mail blocking, check the Junk folder + legitimate and which are not if you train it. When you first + start using junk mail blocking, check the + Junk folder to be sure that legitimate mail doesn't get flagged as junk mail. If good mail, also known as "ham," is mis-flagged, remove it from the Junk folder by right-clicking @@ -500,9 +501,72 @@ To change your junk mail filtering preferences, select Tools Settings and click the Mail Preferences button. In the mail preferences tool, select the - Junk tab. + Junk tab. Here, you have several options: + + + + + Check Incoming Mail + + + This option turns automatic junk mail filtering on or off. - + + + + + Do Not Check Incoming Mail for IMAP Accounts + + + Evolution must download mail to determine whether it is junk + mail, so junk mail filtering can slow IMAP performance as it + downloads every message in its entirity. To turn filtering off + for IMAP mail, but leave it on for other mail accounts, select + this box. + + + + + + Local Tests Only + + + This option skips tests that require a network connection, + such as checking to see if a message is in a list of known + junk messages, or if the sender or gateway are blacklisted by + anti-spam organizations. Selecting this option will increase + the speed of operation, but may decrease accuracy. + + + + + + Use Daemon + + + If you select this option, Evolution will try to use the mail + filtering daemon spamd if it is available. + Using the daemon can improve filtering speed, but the daemon + must already be running. Starting a daemon normally requires + root privileges, but you may be able to use it as non-root, + depending on your OS and configuration. + + + You can can start spamd with the command + /etc/init.d/spamd start, or if you prefer, + have it started automatically by editing your system services + (for SUSE systems, this is the "Runlevel Editor" in + YAST). More traditional UNIX users, of course, know how + to put links to the initialization script in the + /etc/rc5.d/ or /etc/rc3.d + directory. + + + + + + + diff --git a/help/C/usage-mail.xml b/help/C/usage-mail.xml index c90bffba79..21de0b77a1 100644 --- a/help/C/usage-mail.xml +++ b/help/C/usage-mail.xml @@ -511,6 +511,66 @@ load images off the net. Send. + + Unicode, ASCII, and Non-Latin Alphabets + + + If you want to write in a non-Latin alphabet while using a + Latin keyboard, try selecting a different an input method in + the message composer. Right-click on the message composition + area and select from the Input Methods + menu, then begin typing. The actual keys vary by language and + input style. For example, the Cyrillic input method uses + transliterated Latin keyboard combinations to get the Cyrillic + alphabet, combining letters where necessary. "Zh" and "ya" + produce the appropriate single Cyrillic letters, and the + single-quote ' produces a soft-sign character. + + + + For greater language display capabilities, check your + character settings. In both the mail composer and mail reader + settings dialogs, you can select from dozens of character + sets. If you aren't sure which one to choose, go ahead and + choose UTF-8, which offers the greatest range of character + displays for the greatest range of languages. + + + + To delve a little deeper into the issue, a character set is a + computer's version of an alphabet. One of the most popular + early character sets was called ASCII. It consisted of 128 + numbers, letters, and assorted symbols used by computers for + almost everything. It was convenient, and didn't take up much + space, but it didn't handle Cyrillic, Kanjii, or other + non-Latin alphabets. Programmers developed a + variety of mostly incompatible ways to work around their + language display problems, and today, many human languages + have their own specific character sets, and items written in + other character sets will display incorrectly. Eventually, + standards organizations developed the Unicode character sets + (UTF-7 and UTF-8) to provide a single compatible set of codes + for everyone. + + + + Most email messages state in advance which character set they + use, so Evolution usually knows what to display for a given + binary number. However, if you find that messages are + displayed as rows of incomprehensible characters, try + selecting a different character set in the mail settings + screen. If your recipients can't read your messages, try + selecting a different character set in the composer options + dialog. For some languages, such as Turkish or Korean, it may + work best for you to select the language-specific character + set. However, the best choice for most users is UTF-8, which + offers the widest range of characters for the widest range of + languages. + + + + + Sending Composed Messages Later -- cgit