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-<!-- <!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN"> -->
-<chapter id="config-prefs">
-
- <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, select <menuchoice>
- <guimenu>Tools</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Mail
- Settings</guimenuitem></menuchoice> in the Inbox. This
- will open the <interface>mail preferences window</interface>,
- illustrated in <xref linkend="config-prefs-mail-fig">. Mail
- preferences are separated into several categories:
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Accounts</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- This allows you to create and alter one or more identities for your
- email.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Display</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Allows you to edit how email is handled and displayed.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Composer</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Customizes the composer's behavior.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Other</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Configures miscellanious aspects of <application>Evolution</application>
- such as character sets.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- </para>
-
- <!-- ==============Figure===================== -->
- <figure id="config-prefs-mail-fig">
- <title>Mail Preferences Dialog</title>
- <screenshot>
- <screeninfo>Setting mail preferences</screeninfo>
- <graphic fileref="fig/config-mail" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
- </graphic>
- </screenshot>
- </figure>
- <!-- ==============End of Figure================-->
-
-
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-identity">
- <title>Identity Settings</title>
- <para>
- If you have only one email account, or send email from only
- one address, you will only need to configure one identity. If
- you want, however, you can have multiple identities. This
- can be useful if you want to keep personal and professional
- email separate, or if you wear several hats at work.
-
- </para>
- <para>
- To add a new identity, simply click
- <guibutton>Add</guibutton>. To alter an existing identity,
- click on it in the <guilabel>Identity</guilabel> tab of the
- <interface>Preferences</interface> window, and then click
- <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <application>Evolution</application> will then present you
- with a dialog box containing 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. You can select another if you
- wish.
- </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.
- It's good form to keep it to four lines at the maximum.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-network">
- <title>Network Settings</title>
- <para>
- In order to send mail 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 program, you can almost certainly use the same
- settings as you did with that program. Network-related
- settings are in the <guilabel>Mail Sources</guilabel> and
- <guilabel>Mail Transport</guilabel> tabs.
- </para>
-
- <sect3 id="config-prefs-network-sources">
- <title>Mail Sources</title>
- <para>
- The <interface>Mail Sources</interface> tab allows you to
- add, edit, or delete methods of retrieving mail from
- servers. Clicking on <guibutton>Add</guibutton> or
- <guibutton>Edit</guibutton> will bring up a dialog box to
- offer you the following options:
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Mail source type:</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Select from <glossterm
- linkend="imap">IMAP</glossterm> or <glossterm
- linkend="pop">POP</glossterm> servers, or Unix-style
- <systemitem><filename>mbox</filename></systemitem>
- or <systemitem><filename>mh</filename></systemitem>
- files.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term> <guilabel>Server:</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Enter the name of the mail source server in this
- field. Your POP server may or may not be the same as your
- <glossterm linkend="smtp">SMTP</glossterm> server.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Username:</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Enter the user name for the account you have on the
- server - this should the part of your email address
- before the @. If you use
- <systemitem><filename>mbox</filename></systemitem>
- or <systemitem><filename>mh</filename></systemitem>
- files as your mail source, you do not need to enter
- a username.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Authentication:</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Tell <application>Evolution</application> how to
- verify your identity with the server. Your options
- vary depending upon the type of server you are
- using, and the ways it is configured. Given the
- name of a server,
- <application>Evolution</application> can detect what
- sorts of authentication it offers.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Test Settings</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Click this button to have
- <application>Evolution</application> check to see if
- mail sources are configured correctly.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- <para>
- If you have several mail sources, clicking <guibutton>Get
- Mail</guibutton> will refresh any IMAP,
- <systemitem><filename>mh</filename></systemitem>, or
- <systemitem><filename>mbox</filename></systemitem>
- listings and check and download mail from all POP servers.
- In other words, <guibutton>Get Mail</guibutton> gets your
- mail, no matter how many sources you have, or what types
- they are. You can disable checking mail on accounts in their
- properties.
- </para>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="config-prefs-mail-network-transports">
- <title>Mail Transports</title>
- <para>
- The <interface>Mail Transports</interface> tab lets you choose
- how you will send mail. <application>Evolution</application> currently supports two
- mail transport options: <glossterm linkend="smtp">SMTP</glossterm>, which
- uses a remote mail server, and
- <glossterm linkend="sendmail">sendmail</glossterm>, which uses the
- <application>sendmail</application> program on your local
- system. <application>Sendmail</application> is more
- difficult to configure, but offers more flexibility than
- <glossterm>SMTP</glossterm>.
- </para>
- <para>
- To use <guilabel>SMTP</guilabel>, you'll need to enter the
- name of your SMTP server. It may have the same name as
- your mail source server.
- </para>
- <para>
- <application>Evolution</application> can attempt to
- determine if you have entered a valid server name. To
- have it do so, click the <guilabel>Test
- Settings</guilabel> button.
- </para>
- </sect3>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-network-news">
- <title>News Servers</title>
- <para>
- Newsgroups are so much like mailing lists that there's no
- reason not to keep them right next to your mail. When you
- first select the <guilabel>News Servers</guilabel> tab,
- you will see a blank box with the three familiar buttons
- on the right: <guibutton>Add</guibutton>,
- <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>, and
- <guibutton>Delete</guibutton>.
- </para>
- <para>
- Click <guibutton>Add</guibutton> to add a news server; you
- will be prompted for its name. Enter the name, click
- <guibutton>OK</guibutton>, and you're done. You can have
- as many news servers as you like, of course. News servers
- will appear next to your IMAP servers in the
- <interface>folder bar</interface>.
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-other">
- <title>Other Mail Preferences</title>
- <para>
- Not everything fits neatly into categories. This tab
- contains some miscellaneous configurations that don't have
- too much to do with each other.
- <variablelist>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <guilabel>Send messages in HTML format</guilabel>
- </term>
- <listitem><para>
- If you check this box, you will send
- messages as HTML by default. If you leave it unchecked, your
- messages will be sent without HTML formatting unless you select
- <menuchoice> <guimenu>Format</guimenu> <guimenuitem>HTML</guimenuitem>
- </menuchoice> in the message composer.
- See <xref linkend="usage-mail-getnsend-send-html">
- for more information about HTML mail.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <guilabel>Mark Messages as Read After</guilabel>
- </term>
- <listitem><para>
- When you click on a message,
- <application>Evolution</application> will wait a
- moment before marking it as read. You can set the
- delay, in milliseconds, here.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <guilabel>Folder Format</guilabel>
- </term>
- <listitem> <para> By default,
- <application>Evolution</application> saves its mail
- in the
- <systemitem><filename>mbox</filename></systemitem>
- format. You can switch to the
- <systemitem><filename>mh</filename></systemitem>
- format if you like. Note that this is an advanced
- feature and may cause you to lose some messages, so
- you should probably make a backup of your
- <systemitem><filename>evolution</filename></systemitem>
- directory first. In addition, it will take quite
- some time if you have a large mailbox.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
-
- <sect1 id="config-prefs-cal">
- <title>Configuring the Calendar</title>
- <para>
- To set your calendar preferences, select
- <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
- <guimenuitem>Calendar
- Configuration</guimenuitem></menuchoice> from the Calendar
- view. This will open up the
- <interface>Preferences</interface> window. It contains three
- tabs: <guilabel>Calendar</guilabel>, <guilabel>TaskPad</guilabel>, <guilabel>Reminders</guilabel>. The <interface>calendar
- preferences window</interface> is illustrated in <xref
- linkend="config-prefs-cal-fig">.
-
- <!-- ==============Figure===================== -->
- <figure id="config-prefs-cal-fig">
- <title>Calendar Preferences Dialog</title>
- <screenshot>
- <screeninfo>If this worked on my job as well as my calendar...</screeninfo>
- <graphic fileref="fig/config-cal" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
- </graphic>
- </screenshot>
- </figure>
- <!-- ==============End of Figure================-->
- </para>
-
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-time">
- <title>Time Display Settings</title>
- <para>
- The <guilabel>Time display</guilabel> tab lets you set the
- following:
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Time format</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>You may choose between twelve-hour (AM/PM) and
- twenty-four hour time formats here by clicking the
- appropriate radio button.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Weeks start on</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>You can set weeks to start on Sunday or on Monday.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Day range</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- When does your work day start, and when does it end?
- In the day and week views,
- <application>Evolution</application> displays all the
- hours in the range you select here, even if there are
- no appointments for those times. Of course, you can
- still schedule an appointment outside of these hours,
- and if you do, the display will be extended to show
- it.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-color">
- <title>Calendar Colors</title>
- <para>
- The <interface>colors tab</interface> allows you to decide
- what color your calendar will be. The tab consists of a
- sample calendar on the right and a list of ten items that can
- be colored in different ways. If you click on the color
- button to the right of each item, you will bring up a
- color-selector window where you can alter that
- color. By clicking <guibutton>OK</guibutton> in the color
- selection dialog, you can see the results of the color on the
- sample calendar.
- </para>
- <para>The display elements colors you can set are:
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <guilabel>Outline:</guilabel> The lines between days
- and at the top of the display.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para> <guilabel>Headings:</guilabel> Text color for day
- and month names and other headings.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para> <guilabel>Empty days:</guilabel> This is the
- background color for any time slots in which you have no appointments.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <guilabel>Appointments:</guilabel> This is the
- background color for any time slots in which you have appointments.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para> <guilabel>Highlighted day:</guilabel> The
- background color for a selected time slot.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <guilabel>Day numbers:</guilabel> Text color for date numbers.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <guilabel>Current day's number:</guilabel> Text color for today's date.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para> <guilabel>To-Do item that is not yet
- due:</guilabel> Text color for To-Do list items that are
- not yet due.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
-
- <listitem>
- <para> <guilabel>To-Do item that is due today:</guilabel>
- Text color for today's tasks.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para> <guilabel>To-Do item that is overdue:</guilabel>
- Text color for overdue tasks.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-todo">
- <title>To Do List Settings</title>
- <para>
- You can choose what information the To Do list displays and the
- way it is displayed. The two areas of the <interface>To Do
- List</interface> tab offer several options each:
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Show on To Do List</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- This box contains three items. If you select the
- check boxes next to them, that information will appear
- in the To Do list for each task it contains:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Due Date</guilabel></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Time Until Due</guilabel></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Priority</guilabel></para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Style Options</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Select among the following checkboxes to determine
- how your To Do list will look:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Highlight overdue items</guilabel></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Highlight items due today</guilabel></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Highlight not yet due items</guilabel></para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-alarms">
- <title>Alarms Settings</title>
- <para>
- The <interface>alarms tab</interface> enables you to select from three boxes:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Beep on display alarms</guilabel>: select
- this box to have <application>Evolution</application> beep
- at you for any alarms you have set. These beeps
- are distinct from full-fledged audio alarms. If you leave this box
- unchecked, <application>Evolution</application> will only
- alert you to events by opening a dialog box.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Audio alarms timeout after: </guilabel>
- Select this button to have your audio alarms stop
- automatically after a certain number of seconds. </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Enable snoozing for:</guilabel> If you
- would like to have the option to tell
- <application>Evolution</application> to repeat an alarm in
- a few minutes, select this button and decide how long
- you'd like it to wait.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </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>
-
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-contact-ldap-add">
- <title>Adding Directory Servers</title>
- <para>
- To add a new LDAP server to your available contact
- folders, select <menuchoice> <guimenu>Actions</guimenu>
- <guimenuitem>New Directory Server</guimenuitem>
- </menuchoice>. This brings up a small dialog box which
- will let you enter the following options:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>
- <guilabel>Name</guilabel> &mdash; any name you choose for the server.
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- <guilabel>Description</guilabel> &mdash; a longer description of the server.
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- <guilabel>LDAP Server</guilabel> &mdash; the network address of the server.
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- <guilabel>Port Number</guilabel> &mdash; by default, the port number is 389.
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- <guilabel>Root DN</guilabel> &mdash; enter the root DN here.
- </para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
-
-
-
- <sect1 id="config-prefs-general">
- <title>General Preferences</title>
- <para>
- Additional configuration options will be covered here, as
- they become available.
- </para>
- </sect1>
-</chapter>
-
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