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      <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, first go to your
        <interface>Inbox</interface>.  Then select <guimenuitem>Mail
        Settings</guimenuitem> from the <guimenu>Tools</guimenu> menu.
        This will open the <interface>mail preferences
        window</interface>, illustrated in <xref
        linkend="config-prefs-mail-fig">.  Mail Preferences are
        seperated into several categories:
        <itemizedlist>
          <listitem>
        <para>
               <guilabel>Identity</guilabel>, which allows you to set
               your name, email address, and other information.  The
               default values are the ones found on your system account.
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Sources</guilabel>, which allows you to specify
              your mail receiving server and protocols.
            </para>
          </listitem>

        <listitem>
         <para>
           <guilabel>Transports</guilabel>, which allows you to
           specify how you will send mail.
           </para>
         </listitem>
         </itemizedlist>

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    </para>

      <!-- ==============Figure===================== -->
      <figure id="config-prefs-mail-fig">
    <title>Preferences Dialog</title>
    <screenshot>
      <screeninfo>Setting mail preferences</screeninfo>
      <graphic fileref="fig/config-mail" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
        </graphic>
    </screenshot>
      </figure>
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      <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-identity">
      <title>Identity Settings</title> 
      <para>
         If you have only one email address, or use automatic
         forwarding to funnel multiple addresses to one account, then
         you will only need to configure one identity. You may,
         however, want more that one.  To alter an identity, click on
         it in the <guilabel>Identity</guilabel> tab of the
         <interface>Preferences</interface> window, and then click
         <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>. To add a new identity, simply
         click <guibutton>Add</guibutton>.
      </para>

      <para>
         In either case, you'll be presented with a dialog box with
         four fields:
          <itemizedlist>
           <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Full Name:</guilabel> by default, this is the
              same name as the full name described in your user
              account on your computer.
            </para>
      </listitem>
           <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Email address:</guilabel> Enter your email
              address in this space.
            </para>
      </listitem>
           <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Organization:</guilabel> If you send email as
              a representative of a company or other organization,
              enter its name here.
            </para>
      </listitem>
           <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Signature file:</guilabel> You may choose a
              small text file to be appended to every message that you
              send.  Typically, signature files include address or
              other contact information, or a favorite quotation.
              They should not be more than three lines long.
            </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

      </para>
    </sect2>

    <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-network">
      <title>Network Settings</title> 
      <para>
        In order to do much of anything with
        <application>Evolution</application>, you need to connect to
        your network.  To do that, you'll need to know your user name
        and password, what sort of mail sending and receiving
        protocols your network uses, and the names of the servers
        you'll be using.  If you're switching from another groupware
        or email progam, you can almost certainly use the same
        settings as you did with that program.  Select the
        <guibutton>Sources</guibutton> tab in the
        <interface>Preferences</interface> window to tell
        <application>Evolution</application> where you want to get
        your mail, and click <guibutton>Transports</guibutton> to
        determine how you want to send your mail.
      </para>
 
    <sect3 id="config-prefs-network-sources">
      <title>Mail Sources</title>
      <para>
            The <interface>Mail Sources</interface> tab allows you to
            edit, add, or delete methods of retreiving mail from
            servers.  Clicking on <guibutton>Add</guibutton> or
            <guibutton>Edit</guibutton> will bring up a dialog box to
            offer you the following options:
         <itemizedlist>

           <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Mail source type:</guilabel>At this point, you
              can only select from POP or Unix-style mbox files, but
              additional types will be supported in the future.
            </para>
      </listitem>

           <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Server:</guilabel>Enter the name of your mail
              server in this field, eg: mail.mycompany.com
            </para>
      </listitem>
           <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Username:</guilabel>Enter your user name here.
              Eva Lucy Ann Tester's user name is eltester.
            </para>
      </listitem>
           <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Authentication:</guilabel> Your system
              administrator will know which type of authentication
              your system requires.
              <application>Evolution</application> can also detect
              what sorts of authentication are available once it knows
              where to find the server.
            </para>
      </listitem>
           <listitem>
        <para>
              <guilabel>Test these values before continuing</guilabel>
              If this box is checked,
              <application>Evolution</application> will attempt to
              make sure that all the other entries in the dialog box
              are correct.
            </para>
        </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
          </para>
      </sect3>
          <sect3 id="config-prefs-mail-network-transports">
          <title>Transports</title>
          <para>
            The <interface>Transports</interface> tab lets you set how
            you will send mail.  As of this writing, you have two
            choices: <guilabel>SMTP</guilabel>, which uses a remote
            mail server, and <guilabel>sendmail</guilabel>,
            which uses the <application>sendmail</application> program
            on your local system.
         </para>
         <para>
            If you choose <guilabel>SMTP</guilabel>, you will need
            to know the name of your mail server.  Your system
            administrator or ISP has probably included that
            information on the piece of paper you lost about five
            minutes ago.  <application>Evolution</application> can
            attempt to determine if you have entered the right
            server name.  To have it do so,
            check the box labelled <guilabel>Test these values before
            continuing</guilabel> before you click
            <guibutton>OK</guibutton>.
         </para>
    </sect3>
      </sect2>
      <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-other">
    <title>Other Mail Preferences</title>
    <para>
          Currently, there is only one option that falls into this
          category: <guilabel>Send messages in HTML format</guilabel>.
          If you check this box, you will send messages as HTML.  If
          you leave it unchecked, your messages will be sent without
          HTML formatting.  See <xref
          linkend="usage-mail-getnsend-send-html"> for more
          information about HTML mail.
        </para>
      </sect2>
    </sect1>

    <sect1 id="config-prefs-contact">
      <title>Managing the Contact Manager</title>
    <para>
          To set the behavior of your Contact Manager, click on the
          <guibutton>Contact Manager</guibutton> tab in the
          <interface>Preferences</interface> window.
        </para>
    <para>
          You can set the following options: <!--insert variable list
          here-->
        </para>
      </sect1>
    
      <sect1 id="config-prefs-cal">
    <title>Configuring the Calendar</title>
    <para>
          This section discusses calendar-specific preferences.  While
          looking at your calendar, select
          <guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem> from the
          <guimenu>Edit</guimenu> menu.  This will open up the
          <interface>Preferences</interface> window.  It contains four
          tabs: (each tab to be a sect1 by tuesday june 6)

          <itemizedlist>
           <listitem>
              <para>
          <guilabel>Time display</guilabel>
             </para>
            </listitem>
           <listitem>
              <para> 
        <guilabel>Colors</guilabel>
               </para>
            </listitem>
           <listitem>
              <para> 
        <guilabel>To Do List</guilabel>
               </para>
            </listitem>  
         <listitem>
              <para>         
              <guilabel>Alarms</guilabel>
               </para>
            </listitem>
          </itemizedlist>
        </para>
        <para>
          You can set the following options: <!--insert variable list
          here-->
        </para>
      </sect1>


      <sect1 id="config-prefs-general">
    <title>General Preferences</title> 
    <para>
          Overall Evolution prefs-- whatever else doesn't fit.
        </para>
      </sect1>
    </chapter>