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 Evolution settings. This chapter will tell you how to do just that. Evolution 1.2 brings with it a redesigned comprehensive settings window that you can open by choosing Tools Settings, no matter where you are in Evolution. On the left half of the settings window is a column, similar to the Evolution shortcut bar, which lets you choose which portion of Evolution to customize. The right half of the window is where you'll make your actual changes.

Changing Mail Settings

There are eight items you can customize. From top to bottom, they are: Mail Accounts Here, add or change information about your email accounts: the servers to which you connect, the way you download mail, your password authentication mode, and so forth. This is the most complex item in the list, and is covered in . Folder Settings Here, you can choose the default folders for various components of Evolution, the folders that will be cached locally when you go to offline mode, and the folders that Evolution will use when it is searching for autocompletion information as you address a mail. Mail Preferences These are overall mail reading preferences: display settings, notification options, security, and so forth. Settings that vary per-account are in the Mail Accounts tool, described in , but most of the mail settings are here. Composer Preferences Settings for the way that you use the mail composer: shortcuts, signatures, spelling, and so forth. One fun feature here is the ability to substitute graphical smiley-faces for "emoticons" such as :) that many people use in email. This tool is covered in . Calendar and Tasks Here, you can set the way the calendar behaves, including your time zone and the length of your work-week. Exchange Delegation This item will only appear if you have Ximian Connector for Microsoft Exchange installed. It will allow you to choose who has access to your Exchange account. This feature is covered in . Directory Servers This item allows you to enter account information for connecting to remote directory (LDAP) servers. Summary Preferences Set the mail folders, news feeds, schedule summary length, and weather locations to be displayed here. For news feeds, enter the web address of any RDF file. Summary customization is covered in rather than in this chapter. Out of Office This item will only appear if you have Ximian Connector for Microsoft Exchange installed. It allows you to create and remove automatic "vacation" messages. For information about how to use this feature, read . Ximian Evolution 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 From entry in the message composer. Clicking Get Mail will refresh any IMAP, mh, or mbox listings and check and download mail from all POP servers. In other words, Get Mail 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 Accounts tab and click the Disable button. To add a new account, simply click Add to open the mail configuration assistant. To alter an existing identity, select it in the Preferences window, and then click Edit to open the account editor dialog. The account editor dialog has six sections: Identity: Here, enter the name, email address, and other identifying information for the account. You may also choose a default signature to insert into messages sent from this account. Receiving Mail Here, select the way you will be getting mail: you may download mail from a server (POP), read and keep it on the server (Microsoft Exchange or IMAP), or read it from files that already exist on your desktop computer. 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 Use Secure Connection (SSL) button. 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 smtp.omniport.com:143 as the server name. Receiving Options Here, decide whether you'd like to check for mail automatically and how often, as well as other message retrieval options. If you chose POP: Checking for new mail: If you would like Evolution to check for new mail automatically, check the box and select a frequency in minutes. Message Storage: If you'd like to store copies of your mail on the server, check this option. Store Store status headers in Elm/Pine/Mutt format: If you would like to use the X-Status header format used by the mail clients Elm, Pine, and Mutt, select this option. This option is useful if you plan to check your mail with those clients from time to time. If you chose Microsoft Exchange: Checking for new mail: If you would like Evolution to check for new mail automatically, check the box and select a frequency in minutes. Global Catalog server name: enter the name of your Global Catalog server to create a folder for your organization's Global Address List. Limit number of Responses: Select a maximum number of results for an address search. Lowering the maximum number the load on your system and on your network. Most servers will not send more than 1000 results, regardless of the value you select here. Mailbox Name: Enter your mailbox name. OWA Path: Enter the path used with Outlook Web Access on your server. Public Folder Server: Enter the name of your public folder server, if it differs from your Exchange server. Apply Filters to new messages in Inbox on this server: check this box if you wish to apply filters to this account. If you chose IMAP: Checking for new mail: If you would like Evolution to check for new mail automatically, check the box and select a frequency in minutes. If you want Evolution to check for new messages in all your IMAP folders, make sure the Check for new messages in all folders box is selected. Show only subscribed folders: Check this box if you have more folders in your IMAP view than you want to read. Override server-supplied namespace: If you like, enter a specific directory where your server stores mail for you. Typical values are "mail" and "Mail." For more information about how to use IMAP mail, see . Apply filters to new messages in INBOX on this server: If you'd like your filters to work on this account, check this box. Store Store status headers in Elm/Pine/Mutt format: If you would like to use the X-Status header format used by the mail clients Elm, Pine, and Mutt, select this option. This option is useful if you plan to check your mail with those clients from time to time. Sending Mail In this section, you will choose and configure a method for sending mail. You may choose SMTP, Microsoft Exchange (if you have purchased the Ximian Connector for Microsoft Exchange) or sendmail. If you choose Exchange or Sendmail, you're done with this tab. SMTP offers you a choice of hostname, connection security level, and authentication type, which you will recognize as similar to those for IMAP and POP servers in the Receiving Mail tab. Defaults Here, you can decide where this account will store the messages that it has sent, and the messages that you save as drafts. If you wish to revert to the "factory" settings, click the Restore Defaults button. If you wish to send someone a copy of every message from this account, check the box labeled Always carbon-copy (Cc) to: or Always blind carbon-copy (Bcc) to:, and enter one or more addresses. Security In this section, you will set the security options for this account. If you use encryption, enter your PGP key id (see for more information) and select among the four options below to determine key and signature handling. There are three sets of folder options. In the first, Defaults, select which folders will be your usual mail, contact, calendar, and task folders. These are the folders opened when you click items in the shortcut bar, and when you want to save a calendar attachment or address card. The Offline Folders are the ones which will be cached when you activate the Go Offline feature. Select one or more folders of contacts for your Autocompletion Folders. When you type a few letters into the message composer address fields, Evolution will look for matches in the folders you choose here. The Mail Options tool lets you choose how to display citations, how long to wait before marking a message as read, and other mail display settings. There are three categories of settings: General, HTML Mail, and Colors. For information on individual email account settings, see . In the General tab, your options are: Message Fonts Normally, Evolution will use the same fonts as other GNOME applications. To choose different fonts, uncheck the box Use the same fonts as other applications and select one font for standard typefaces and a second for monospace, or terminal, display. Message Display These three settings handle the way messages appear to you. Mark Messages as Read Normally, Evolution will mark a message as read as soon as it is displayed. If you prefer, you may set this to happen only after a delay, or disable it entirely and mark messages as read only when you choose to do so. Default Character Encoding This setting allows you to select character interpretation sets so that Evolution can display different alphabets. If you are not sure, pick Unicode (UTF-8), which will work for a large number of languages and character sets. Quotation Highlight Color Choose a color to highlight quotations from other messages. Deleting Mail Here, choose whether to delete messages automatically when quitting Evolution, and whether you wish to explicitly confirm the final deletion of messages. New Mail Notification Evolution can alert you to the arrival of new mail with a beep or by playing a sound file. Choose your alert noise, or select none, as you wish. The options in the HTML Mail section are: Loading Images You can embed a message in an email and have it load only when the message arrives. However, spammers can use image loading patterns to confirm "live" addresses and invade your privacy. You may elect never to load images automatically, to load images only if the sender is in your addressbook, or always load images. If you have chosen not to load images automatically, you can choose to see the images in one message at a time by selecting ViewMessage Display Load Images. Show animated images Turn animation on or off here. Automatically detect links Check this box to have Evolution look for web addresses in your mail and make them clickable automatically. Prompt when sending HTML messages to contacts that don't want them Some people do not like HTML mail, and you can set Evolution to warn you. This warning will appear only when you send HTML mail to people in your address book who are listed as disliking HTML. The Colors tab lets you select different color labels for individual messages. You can return to the default settings by clicking the Restore Defaults button. There are three tabs of settings you can change for the message composer. The General tab covers shortcuts and assorted behavior, and the other two control signatures and spell checking. In the General tab, you can set: Shortcuts Type Choose a keyboard shortcut scheme: do you prefer keyboard shortcuts similar to those of Microsoft Windows, XEmacs, or Emacs? Default Behavior Choose how you will normally forward and reply messages, what character set they will use, whether they will be in HTML, and whether that HTML can contain smiley face images. #define EAFNOSUPPORT 47 /* Address family not supported by protocol family */ #define EADDRINUSE 48 /* Address already in use */ #define EADDRNOTAVAIL 49 /* Can't assign requested address */ /* ipc/network software -- operational errors */ #define ENETDOWN 50 /* Network is down */ #define ENETUNREACH 51 /* Network is unreachable */ #define ENETRESET 52 /* Network dropped connection on reset */ #define ECONNABORTED 53 /* Software caused connection abort */ #define ECONNRESET 54 /* Connection reset by peer */ #define ENOBUFS 55 /* No buffer space available */ #define EISCONN 56 /* Socket is already connected */ #define ENOTCONN 57 /* Socket is not connected */ #define ESHUTDOWN 58 /* Can't send after socket shutdown */ #define ETOOMANYREFS 59 /* Too many references: can't splice */ #define ETIMEDOUT 60 /* Connection timed out */ #define ECONNREFUSED 61 /* Connection refused */ #define ELOOP 62 /* Too many levels of symbolic links */ #endif /* _POSIX_SOURCE */ #define ENAMETOOLONG 63 /* File name too long */ /* should be rearranged */ #ifndef _POSIX_SOURCE #define EHOSTDOWN 64 /* Host is down */ #define EHOSTUNREACH 65 /* No route to host */ #endif /* _POSIX_SOURCE */ #define ENOTEMPTY 66 /* Directory not empty */ /* quotas & mush */ #ifndef _POSIX_SOURCE #define EPROCLIM 67 /* Too many processes */ #define EUSERS 68 /* Too many users */ #define EDQUOT 69 /* Disc quota exceeded */ /* Network File System */ #define ESTALE 70 /* Stale NFS file handle */ #define EREMOTE 71 /* Too many levels of remote in path */ #define EBADRPC 72 /* RPC struct is bad */ #define ERPCMISMATCH 73 /* RPC version wrong */ #define EPROGUNAVAIL 74 /* RPC prog. not avail */ #define EPROGMISMATCH 75 /* Program version wrong */ #define EPROCUNAVAIL 76 /* Bad procedure for program */ #endif /* _POSIX_SOURCE */ #define ENOLCK 77 /* No locks available */ #ifndef ENOSYS #define ENOSYS 78 /* Function not implemented */ #endif #define EFTYPE 79 /* Inappropriate file type or format */ #ifdef KERNEL /* pseudo-errors returned inside kernel to modify return to process */ #define ERESTART -1 /* restart syscall */ #define EJUSTRETURN -2 /* don't modify regs, just return */ #endif ress weekends in month view If checked, your weekends will be shown in one box, instead of one for each day in the month view. Show week numbers in date navigator This will show the week numbers next to the respective weeks in the calendar. Tasks due today Configures what color to set your tasks that are due today to. Overdue tasks Choose the color for overdue tasks. Addressbook settings are limited to the usage and configuration of directory servers (LDAP and Exchange). To learn how to set autocompletion options, see . Other addressbook controls are available in the addressbook window itself. To add a new LDAP server to your available contact folders: Select Tools Settings and click the Directory Servers shortcut button. Click the Add button on the right side to open a Directory Server addition assistant. Enter the server information as requested by the assistant: Server name Address of the server where the addressbook is located. Login Method Specify whether your login is anonymous, using an email address, or a "distinguished name." If the login is not anonymous, enter the login name required by the server. Port The internet port Evolution connects to in order to access the LDAP database. This is normally 389. Use SSL/TLS SSL and TLS are security mechanisms. If you select Always, Evolution will not connect unless secure connections are available. The default value is Whenever Possible, which uses secure connections if they are available, but does not cause failure if they are not. Search base The base entry to use for all your searches. Contact your administrator for information about the correct settings. Search scope How broad the search is in the directory. The following options are available: One Searches the Search Base and one entry below it. Sub Searches the Search Base and all entries below it. Timeout Limit This is the maximum time Evolution will attempt to download data from the server before giving up. Download Limit Set the maximum number of results for a given search. Most servers refuse to send more than 500, but you can set the number lower if you want to shorten downloads for very broad searches. Display name The name that you see on the screen. This could be anything you wish. Click OK. Click OK to permanently make changes or Apply to temporarily set the changes. Editing a directory server account means changing that same information, although it is displayed in a slightly different order.