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-<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.0//EN">
-
-<book>
-<bookinfo>
- <title>Evolution Users Guide</title>
- <author><firstname>Aaron</firstname><surname>Weber</surname></author>
- <copyright><year>2000</year><holder>Aaron Weber and Helix Code, inc.</holder></copyright>
-
- <legalnotice>
-PUT THE RIGHT LEGALNOTICE IN HERE
-
- <para> Windows, Exchange, and Outlook are trademarks of Microsoft Corp.</para>
- <para> Lotus and Lotus Notes are trademarks of The Louts Corporation.</para>
- <para> Macintosh and Apple are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.</para>
- <para> All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.</para>
- </legalnotice>
-
- <releaseinfo>
- This is version 0.0 of Evolution manual.
- </releaseinfo> <!-- this is version of manual, not application -->
-
-</bookinfo>
-
-<preface>
-<!-- =============Introduction ============================= -->
- <title>Introduction</title>
-
- <section> <title> What is Evolution?</title>
- <para>
- <application>Evolution</application> is a suite of groupware applications
- for mail, contact management, and calendaring. It is
- included in the package <filename>Evolution</filename>, which is a
- part of the GNOME desktop environment. This document describes
- version &version; of <application>Evolution</application>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- What that means is that Evolution is your personal secretary. It can keep track of
- memos, emails,
- and appointments for you and for everyone in your office.
- </para>
-
- <para><application>Evolution</application> can be started by
- selecting <guimenuitem>Evolution</guimenuitem> from
- <guisubmenu>SUBMENU</guisubmenu> submenu of the <guimenu>Main
- Menu</guimenu>, or by running the command
- <command>evolution</command> on the commandline.
- </para>
-
-
-</preface>
-
-<part id="usage">
-<title>Using Evolution</title>
-
- <partintro>
- <para>
- As was said before, <application>Evolution</application> can be
- used to send and recieve email, manage address and other contact information,
- and maintain This section describes basic usage of
- <application>Evolution</application> in each of those functions. As with most of Linux,
- there's more than one way to do things, and you should pick whichever one strikes you as most
- appropriate.
- </para>
- </partintro>
-
-
- <chapter id="basics">
- <title>Basic usage</title>
- <para>
- When you first start <application>Evolution</application>, you see
- the <interface>Main window</interface>, as shown in
- <xref linkend="mainshot">the following figure.
- From there, you should select which features you wish to
- use by clicking on their icons in the left-hand navigational column.
- The Mail features can be accessed by clicking on the <guibutton>Mail</guibutton>,
- and likewise for other features.
-<!-- ==============Figure=================================== -->
- <figure id="mainshot">
- <title>Evolution Main Window</title>
- <screenshot>
- <screeninfo>Evolution Main Window</screeninfo>
- <graphic fileref="SCREENSHOT" format="png"
- srccredit="Aaron Weber">
- </graphic>
- </screenshot>
- </figure>
-<!-- ==============End of Figure=================================== -->
- </para>
-
- </chapter>
-
- <chapter id="mailer">
- <title>The Evolution Mailer</title>
- <abstract>
- <para>
- This chapter covers the use of the Evolution Mailer.
- Configuration of the mail client is discussed in <xref linkend="customization">.
- If you are already accustomed to other email programs,
- you can probably skip the mail sending and checking sections.
- The more complex functions, such as filtering, organizing, and searching mail,
- have some features that are not found in other email programs, and
- even power users may wish to review these sections of the guide.
- <!--those function descr's should be xrefs to sections of the chapter-->
- </para>
- </abstract>
-
- <sect1 id="mailsending">
- <title>Sending and Recieving Mail</title>
- <para>
- You can start writing a new email message by selecting <guimenuitem>New Mail</guimenuitem> from
- the <guimenu>FilMenu</guimenu>, or by pressing <KeyCombo>NEW-MESSAGE-COMBO</KeyCombo>.
- When you do so, the <interface>New Message</interface> window will open, as shown in
- <xref linkend="evolution-newmsg">.
-
-
-<!-- ==============Figure=================================== -->
- <figure id="evolution-newmsg">
- <title>New Message Window</title>
- <screenshot>
- <screeninfo>Evolution Main Window</screeninfo>
- <graphic fileref="evolution_newmsg" format="png"
- srccredit="Aaron Weber">
- </graphic>
- </screenshot>
- </figure>
-<!-- ==============End of Figure=================================== -->
-
- </para>
-
- <para>
- You can pick recipients in several ways:
- The <guilabel>TO:</guilabel> field is for the primary recipients of the message your are going to send.
- It is considered bad form to have more than a few email addresses in this form.
- </para>
- <para>
- If you want to send a copy of the message to someone, you may also use the <guilabel>Cc:</guilabel> field.
- "Cc" stands for "Carbon Copy"-- Those people will recieve a copy of the message. They will see
- the rest of the message list, and are noted as secondary recipients of the message.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If you have a large number of recipients, or if you want to send mail to several people without
- telling them that it's gone to multiple people, you should use <guilabel>BCC.</guilabel> BCC stands
- for "Blind Carbon Copy". Addresses entered into this field will recieve the message
- but the message headers will not see the rest of the recipient list.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Enter a subject into the <guilabel>Subject:</guilabel> field.
-
- Enter the text of your message into the <guilabel>Message:</guilabel> text area.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If you want to attach a document to your email message, you can do so by
- <!--describe process here-->. If the people you are sending a message to
- can read HTML mail, you can embed an image into the mail. Otherwise,
- it's best to attach images, just like other documents. Be aware that a large
- attachment will take a long time to download.
- </para>
-
-
- <para>
- Click <guibutton>Send</guibutton> or press <KeyCombo>SENDCOMBO</KeyCombo> to send the mail.
- </para>
- <tip>
- <title>Send Now, Send Later</title>
- <para>
- Evolution will send mail immediately unless you set it to do so otherwise. It also checks for
- new mail every time you send mail. If you
- want, however, you can queue your messages to be sent at a later time, and also set your
- preferences to check mail on a regular basis, and alert you whenever it finds new messages.
- I like to use "Send Later" because it gives me a chance change my mind about a message
- before it goes out, and I have Evolution set to check my mail every ten minutes, and beep
- when I get mail that it thinks isn't spam.
- Use the <interface>Mail Preferences</interface> to specify message queue and filter behavior.
- Preferences are discussed in <xref linkend="customization">.
- </para>
- </tip>
- </sect1>
-
- <sect1 id="mail-sorting">
- <title>Organizing Your Mail</title>
-
- <para>
- If you only get a few messages a day, you probably don't need to to sort or organize them. When you get several hundred each day,
- and when you want to refer to a message you've recieved six weeks ago, you want a real
- organizing system. This section will cover the mail sorting and organization: folders, searches, vFolders, and filters.
- <!--those last items should be links-->
-
- <sect2 id="mail_folders">
- <para>
- You can create new folders by selecting <guimenuitem>ITEM</guimenuitem> from the <guimenu>MENU</guimenu>, or by
- pressing <KeyCombo>SENDCOMBO</KeyCombo>. Move mail to them by selecting <guimenuitem>ITEM</guimenuitem> from the
- <guimenu>MENU</guimenu>, or by pressing <KeyCombo>SENDCOMBO</KeyCombo>. An email message can be in only one folder at a time,
- just like real mail in real folders. If you forget where an email is, you can search for it. If you find that you want
- an email to be in several places at once, you should consider creating a vFolder, or virtual folder.
- <para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="mail_searching">
- <para>
- Because Evolution automatically creates an index of every email you recieve, it can search through your old
- messages and present you with the results in short order.
- <!--describe the way one creates a search and so forth.-->
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If you find yourself performing a search frequently, you can save it as vFolder.
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="mail_vFolders">
- <para>
- Virtual Folders, or vFolders, are one of the more advanced features of <application>Evolution</application>. If they confuse you,
- you don't have to use them. However, if you get a lot of mail, and find yourself referring to messages, looking for old email,
- or just living in your email client, you'll probably want to use them.
- Basically, a vFolder is a saved search, which you can access the same way you would a normmal folder.
- There are several important differences between the two, however, which come from the fact that a conventional
- folder actually contains a message, but a virtual folder is really a different view of all your email. This means that
- while a message can be in several vFolders, it can be in only one conventional folder. Also,
- you cannot add or delete a message from a vFolder, and when you delete a message from a conventional folder,
- it will disappear from all your vFolders--a search can't find a deleted message.
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <example><title>Using vFolders</title>
- <para>
- I have a vFolder set up for all the mail about a project I'm
- working on, and another one for all the mail from my friend Bernie.
- If Bernie sends me mail about the project, I can see that message both in the "Bernie" folder and in the "Project" folder.
- That's because when I open up the "Bernie" folder, I'm really performing a search for all the mail from Bernie, and when you open the
- "Project" folder you're really performing a search for all the mail about the project. That particular message
- actually resides in some other folder,
- maybe just in my Inbox. I can't delete it from the vFolder, because the vFolder is really a different view of my messages.
- When I delete it from
- the Inbox, I have also removed it from all my vFolders, because no search can find a deleted message.
- <!--this could use a cool picture of the Inbox and 2 vFolders with the message in all 3-->
- </para>
- </example>
-
-
- <sect2 id="mail_filters">
- <para>
- Filters sort your email for you, automatically. You can access the Filter functions of
- the email client by <!--BLAH BLAH BLAH-->.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Email starts in your Inbox. As it arrives, it is indexed and filtered from ther. Any email
- that does not meet filter action criteria remains in the Inbox. To create a filter,
- <!--open the menu somehow-->f you have filters enabled,
- </para>
- </sect2>
- </chapter>
-
- <chapter id="calendar">
- <title>Using the Calendar</title>
- <para>To begin using the calendar, select <guibutton>Calendar</guibutton>
- from the main navigational frame. This will cause the calendar component of
- <application>Evolution</application> to become active. This is illustrated in
- the figure below:
-<!-- ==============Figure=================================== -->
- <figure id="contact_picture">
- <title>Evolution Contact Manager Window</title>
- <screenshot>
- <screeninfo>Evolution Contact Manager Window</screeninfo>
- <graphic fileref="SCREENSHOT" format="png"
- srccredit="ME">
- </graphic>
- </screenshot>
- </figure>
-<!-- ==============End of Figure=================================== -->
-</para>
-
-
-
- </chapter>
- <chapter id="addressbook">
-
-</chapter>
-
-<chapter>
-<title>Administration and Large-scale setup</title>
-</chapter>
-
-</part><!--end of part two, Administration and Large-Scale Setup-->
-
-
- <appendix> ... </appendix>
- <appendix> ... </appendix>
-<index> ... </index>
-</book>
-
-
-</chapter>
-
-<chapter>
-<title>Administration and Large-scale setup</title>
-</chapter>
-
-</part><!--end of part two, Administration and Large-Scale Setup-->
-
-
- <appendix> ... </appendix>
- <appendix> ... </appendix>
-<index> ... </index>
-</book>
-
-
-
- </chapter>
-
-
-</part> <!--end of part one-->
-
-<part id="configuration">
-<title>Configuring Evolution</title>
-
-<chapter>
-<title>The Preferences Dialog</title>
-
- <para>
- To change default settings, select
- <guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem> command in
- <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu. This launches the
- <interface>Preferences dialog</interface>, shown in <xref
- linkend="shot2">.
- </para>
-<!-- ==============Figure=================================== -->
- <figure id="shot2">
- <title>Preferences Dialog</title>
- <screenshot>
- <screeninfo>Preferences dialog</screeninfo>
- <graphic fileref="SCREENSHOT" format="png"
- srccredit="ME">
- </graphic>
- </screenshot>
- </figure>
-<!-- ==============End of Figure=================================== -->
-
-<!--obviously there should be more description here.-->
-
-</chapter>
-
-<chapter>
-<title>Administration and Large-scale setup</title>
-</chapter>
-
-</part><!--end of part two, Administration and Large-Scale Setup-->
-
-
-
-<!-- =============APPENDICES============================= -->
- <appendix id="bugs">
-
- <title>Known bugs and limitations</title>
- <abstract>
- <para>
- This appendix describes known bugs and limitations of
- <application>Evolution</application>. Please
- contact the appropriate people if you find one we have not listed,
- or if you have a patch to fix one.
- <para>
- </abstract>
-
- <para>
- The program currently does not work. At all.
- </para>
- </appendix>
-
-
-
-<!-- =============Another Appendix============================= -->
-
- <appendix id="authors">
- <title>Authors</title>
- <para>
- <application>Evolution</application> was written by:
-
- Seth Alves: <email>alves@helixcode.com</email>
- Anders Carlsson<email>andersca@helixcode.com</email>
- Damon Chaplin:<email>damon@helixcode.com</email>
- Clifford R. Conover <email>rusty@zootweb.com</email>
- Miguel De Icaza: <email>miguel@helixcode.com</email>
- Arturo Espinoza <email>arturo@nucleu.unam.mx</email>
- Larry Ewing: <email>lewing@helixcode.com</email>
- Bertrand Guiheneuf: <email>bertrand@helixcode.com</email>
- Tuomas Kuosmanen: <email>tigert@gimp.org</email>
- Christopher J. Lahey: <email>clahey@helixcode.com</email>
- Matthew Loper: <email>matt@helixcode.com</email>
- Dave Mason <email>dcm@redhat.com</email>
- Federico Mena: <email>federico@helixcode.com</email>
- Eskil Heyn Olsen<email>deity@eski.dk</email>
- Nat Friedman: <email>nat@helixcode.com</email>
- Ettore Perazzoli:<email>ettore@helixcode.com</email>
- Russell Steinthal: <email>rms39@columbia.edu</email>
- Peter Teichman: <email>peter@helixcode.com</email>
- Chris Toshok: <email>toshok@helixcode.com</email>
- Radek Doulik: <email>rodo@helixcode.com</email>
- Dan Winship: <email>winship@helixcode.com</email>
- Michael Zucchi: <email>notzed@helixcode.com</email>
-
-and other dedicated GNOME programmers.
-</para>
- <para>
- The<application>Evolution</application> code owes a great debt to
- <application>GNOME-pim</application>, <application>KHTMLW</application>
- and the developers of <application>Evolution</application> acknowledge the efforts and contributions of its members.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- For more information please visit <application>Evolution</application> <ulink
- url="http://www.helixcode.com/apps/evolution.php3" type="http">Web page</ulink>.
- Please send all comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the
- <ulink url="http://bugs.gnome.org" type="http">GNOME bug
- tracking database</ulink>. Instructions for submitting bug reports
- can be found on-line at <ulink
- url="http://bugs.gnome.org/Reporting.html" type="http">
- http://bugs.gnome.org/Reporting.html</ulink>. If you are using GNOME
- 1.1 or later, you can also use command
- <command>bug-buddy</command> for submitting bug reports.
- </para>
- <para>
- This manual was written by Aaron Weber
- (<email>aaron@helixcode.com</email>) with the help of the application programmers.
- Please send all comments
- and suggestions regarding the manual to the GNOME Documentation
- Project at <email>docs@gnome.org</email>. You can also add your
- comments online by using <ulink type="http"
- url="http://www.gnome.org/gdp/doctable/">GNOME Documentation
- Status Table</ulink>.
- </para>
- <!-- For translations: uncomment this:
- <para> Latin translation was done by ME
- (<email>MYNAME@MYADDRESS</email>). Please send all comments
- and suggestions regarding this translation to SOMEWHERE.
- </para>
- -->
- </appendix>
-
-
- <appendix> ... </appendix>
- <appendix> ... </appendix>
-<index> ... </index>
-</book>
-
-