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- <chapter id="config-setupassist">
- <title>Easy Setup with the Setup Assistant</title>
- <para>
- The first time you try to use email, the mail setup assistant
- will ask you for some basic information, so
- <application>Evolution</application> can let you use email. If
- you prefer more detailed configuration, or if you want to make
- changes to an existing email setup, see <xref
- linkend="config-prefs">.
- </para>
-
- <sect1 id="config-setupassist-mail">
- <title>Mail Setup</title>
- <para>
- The first time you try to send or receive mail with
- <application>Evolution</application>, the <interface>mail
- setup assistant</interface> will pop up to help you with your
- email preferences. If you don't plan to use email, or if
- you'd rather deal with your email preferences later, click
- <guibutton>Cancel</guibutton>.
- </para>
-
-<!--
-
- Before you get it, though, you should decide where you want to
- keep it. Your options will vary a little depending on your
- network setup, but they come down to storing the mail on your
- hard disk (using <glossterm linkend="pop">POP</glossterm>), or
- storing it on the network (using <glossterm
- linkend="imap">IMAP</glossterm>). If you store your mail on
- your local hard disk, you can read it whether you're online or
- not, but you can only read it from one computer. If you store
- it on the network, you can only read it when you're online,
- but you can access it from almost any computer with a network
- connection, even if it doesn't have
- <application>Evolution</application>.
-
-
- If you choose POP, you'll be putting mail in the
- <guilabel>Inbox</guilabel> in the <guilabel>Local</guilabel>
- folder. If you choose IMAP, it's the
- <guilabel>Inbox</guilabel> of a folder with the same name as
- your mail server. That's so you can maintain several distinct
- IMAP servers if you want. See <xref
- linkend="config-prefs-mail"> for more information about mail
- servers.
--->
-
- <para>
- The setup assistant (sometimes called a
- <glossterm>Druid</glossterm>, by analogy with the "Wizards"
- that some other programs use) will guide you through the
- network configuration process. It will ask you for some
- basic information; your system administrator or ISP should
- have the answers you'll need. The mail setup assistant is
- pictured in <xref linkend="usage-setup-fig">.
-
-<!-- ==============Figure=================================== -->
-<!-- druid-pic should eventually become assistant-pic -->
-
- <figure id="usage-setup-fig">
- <title>Mail Setup Assistant</title>
- <screenshot>
- <screeninfo>Evolution Main Window</screeninfo>
- <graphic fileref="fig/mail-druid-pic" format="png" srccredit="Kevin Breit">
- </graphic>
- </screenshot>
- </figure>
-<!-- ==============End of Figure=================================== -->
-
-
-
- The assistant will ask you for the following information:
- <variablelist>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term> <guilabel>Name:</guilabel> </term> <listitem>
- <para>Your full name. </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Email address:</guilabel></term>
- <listitem><para>
- Your complete email address.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term> <guilabel>Organization:</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Any organization you represent, or the company where you
- work. Leave this blank if you wish, or type "My own bad
- self" so people know your opinions are yours alone.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Signature File:</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- A text file appended to any email you send. A signature
- file typically consists of your name and email address,
- or a quotation you like. It's good form to keep your
- "sig" on the short side: four lines is plenty. Remember,
- this is attached to every email you send.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term> <guilabel>Mail source type:</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <application>Evolution</application> supports several
- mail sources: <glossterm linkend="pop">POP</glossterm> and
- <glossterm linkend="imap">IMAP</glossterm> servers, and UNIX-style
- <systemitem><filename>mbox</filename></systemitem> and
- <systemitem><filename>mh</filename></systemitem> files.
- POP servers retrieve your mail and store it on your
- local system so you can refer to it even when not
- connected to a network; <glossterm>IMAP</glossterm>
- servers store the mail on the server so you can access
- it from multiple locations;
- <systemitem><filename>mbox</filename>></systemitem>
- files are used by your computer for internal mail, and
- may be useful if you want to switch from another email
- client such as <application>Spruce</application> or
- <application>Netscape Communicator</application>. Ask
- your system administrator which you should use, or keep
- guessing until one works. You may use multiple sources
- if you wish; see <xref
- linkend="config-prefs-mail-network"> for more
- information.
- </para>
- <para>
- If you decide not to have
- <application>Evolution</application> use any servers,
- the remaining items are not relevant; you only need to
- point to the location of the files you wish to access.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term> <guilabel>Server:</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- This should be the name of the server where you get
- incoming mail. It may (or may not) be the same as the
- server where you send your outgoing mail.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Username:</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Enter the username for your mail server account, if you
- have one. In almost all cases, this is the part of your email
- address before the @ character, and
- <application>Evolution</application> has selected that
- value as the default. If you have a different username,
- you can enter it here.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Authentication:</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Select the type of authentication you will use. You can
- click <guibutton>Detect supported types</guibutton> to
- find out which authentication protocols your network
- allows.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Mail Transport:</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- This is the mail sending protocol you will want to use.
- <application>Evolution</application> supports both
- <glossterm linkend="smtp">SMTP</glossterm> and
- <application>sendmail</application>; SMTP is by far the
- more common.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- <para>
- To learn how to configure <application>Evolution</application>
- in greater detail, or to change preferences once you have set
- them, see <xref linkend="config-prefs">.
- </para>
- </sect1>
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