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- <chapter id="config-setupassist">
- <title>Easy Setup with the Setup Assistant</title>
- <para>
- The setup assistant can gather most of the information
- necessary for <application>Evolution</application>'s daily
- operation. If you prefer more detailed or advanced
- configuration, 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>
- <para>
- The setup assistant (sometimes called a
- <glossterm>Druid</glossterm>) 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=================================== -->
-
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-
- The assistant will ask you for the following information:
- <variablelist>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term> <guilabel>Name:</guilabel> </term>
- <listitem> <para>Your
- full name: eg. Eva Lucianne Tester </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Email address:</guilabel></term>
- <listitem><para>
- Your email address: eg. eltester@helixcode.com
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term> <guilabel>Organization:</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <guilabel>Organization:</guilabel> Any organization you
- represent. Leave this blank if you wish.
- </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 should be fewer than four
- lines of text.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term> <guilabel>Mail source type:</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <application>Evolution</application> supports three mail
- sources: POP servers, the most common email server type;
- IMAP, which stores mail remotely and allows access from
- multiple locations, and UNIX-style
- <filename>mbox</filename> files. Ask your system
- administrator which one you use.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term> <guilabel>Server:</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- This should be the name of your mail server: it should
- look something like:
- <userinput>mailserver.organization.org</userinput>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Username:</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Normally, 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 SMTP
- and <application>sendmail</application>.
- </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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