# Advanced Configuration

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 Evolution settings. This chapter will tell you how to do just that.

## Mail Settings

To change your mail settings, select Tools Mail Settings in the Inbox. This will open the mail preferences window, illustrated in . Mail preferences are separated into several categories:

Accounts

  This allows you to create and alter one or more identities for your email.

Display

  Allows you to edit how email appears.

Composer

  Customizes the behavior of the email message composer.

Other

  Configures miscellanious aspects of Evolution such as character set and encryption tools.

### Mail Preferences Dialog

Setting mail preferences

### Working with the Accounts Tab

Ximian Evolution allows you to maintain multiple accounts, or identities. This is useful want to keep personal and professional email separate, or if you wear several hats at work. When you are writing an email message, you can which account to use by selecting from the drop-down list next to the From entry in the message composer.

Clicking Get Mail will refresh any IMAP, `mh`, or `mbox` listings and check and download mail from all POP servers. In other words, Get Mail gets your mail, no matter how many sources you have, or what types they are. If you don't want to check mail for a given account, select it in the Accounts tab and click the Disable button.

To add a new account, simply click Add to open the mail configuration assistant. To alter an existing identity, select it in the Preferences window, and then click Edit to open the account editor dialog.

The account editor dialog has six sections:

Identity:

  Here, enter the name, email address, and other identifying information for the account.

Receiving Mail

  Here, select the way you will be getting mail: you may download mail from a server (POP or IMAP) or access it from files on your local system. If you use a server, it may permit or require you to use a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connection. To turn SSL connections on, just click the Use Secure Connection (SSL) button.

  #### Specifying Port Numbers

  Your system administrator may ask you to connect to a specific port on a mail server. To specify which port you use, just type a colon and the port number after the server name. For example, to connect to port 143 on the server smtp.omniport.com, you would enter as `smtp.omniport.com:143` as the server name.

Receiving Options

  Here, decide whether you'd like to check for mail automatically, and set other options related to the behavior of your server. If you use POP mail, you can decide whether to leave mail on the server, and if you use IMAP, you can set folder subscription options here.

Sending Mail

  In this section, you will choose and configure a method for sending mail. You may choose SMTP or sendmail.

Special Folders

  Here, you can decide where this account will store the messages that it has sent, and the messages that you save as drafts.

Security

  In this section, you will set the security options for this account. Enter your PGP Key ID and decide how frequently to encrypt and sign your messages.

### Mail Display Options

In this tab you can decide how you would like Ximian Evolution to display your mail: how to display citations, how long to wait before marking a message as read, and so forth.

This is also where you can decide how you would like Ximian Evolution to handle inline images in HTML mail that you get. There is a detailed discussion of the issues surrounding these options in .

To hange the font which Ximian Evolution uses to display mail, do the following:

1. Open the Control Center by selecting System Settings from the menu panel.

2. Select the HTML Viewer settings tool.

3. Choose the font and font size you would like to use.

Alternately, open a terminal and run the `gtkhtml-properties-capplet` command. This will open the GNOME HTML Display Properties tool, and you can select a font and other attributes of your HTML display, including that in Ximian Evolution.

### Message Composer Preferences

Mercifully, there are only four preferences you can prefer in the message composer preferences dialog:

Send mail in HTML format by default

  If you would like all email messages that you compose to begin in HTML format, leave this box checked. You can convert messages between HTML and plain text by selecting the Format HTML toggle in the message composer.

Default Forward style

  Select from:

  - Attachment: the message you forward appended to the message you send as a seperate file.
  - Inline: The message you forward is included at the end of the message you send.
  - Quoted: The message you forward is included at the end of the message you send, and a greater-than symbol (>) is inserted at the beginning of each line to indicate that it is quoted.
Prompt when sending messages with an empty subject

  The composer will warn you if you try to send a message without a subject.

Prompt when sending messages with only Bcc recipients defined

  The composer will warn you if you try to send a message that has only Bcc recipients. This is important because some mail servers will fail to honor blind carbon copy if you do not have at least one recipient that is visible to all readers.

### Other Mail Preferences

Not everything fits neatly into categories. This tab contains some miscellaneous configuration options that didn't fit anywhere else.

PGP binary path

  The complete path to your external encryption tool On most Linux systems, this will be `/usr/bin/gpg`.

Remember PGP Passphrase until Exit

  Check this box if you want Ximian Evolution to remember your PGP passphrase for as long as it is running. You will still have to enter your passphrase again each time you start Ximian Evolution.

Default Character Encoding

  Choose a default character encoding for your messages.

Empty Trash Folders on Exit

  If you would like to expunge all deleted mail when you quit Ximian Evolution, check this box.

Log filter actions to:

  If you like, you can have Ximian Evolution write all its message filter actions to a log file. Select a log file here.

## Configuring the Calendar

To set your calendar preferences, select Settings Calendar Configuration from the Calendar view. This will open up the Preferences window. It contains three tabs: Calendar, TaskPad, Reminders. The calendar preferences window is illustrated in .

### Calendar Preferences Dialog

If this worked on my job as well as my calendar...

### Time Display Settings

The Time display tab lets you set the following:

Time format

  You may choose between twelve-hour (AM/PM) and twenty-four hour time formats here by clicking the appropriate radio button.

Weeks start on

  You can set weeks to start on Sunday or on Monday.

Day range

  When does your work day start, and when does it end? In the day and week views, Evolution 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.

### Calendar Colors

The colors tab 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 OK in the color selection dialog, you can see the results of the color on the sample calendar.

The display elements colors you can set are:

- Outline: The lines between days and at the top of the display.

- Headings: Text color for day and month names and other headings.

- Empty days: This is the background color for any time slots in which you have no appointments.

- Appointments: This is the background color for any time slots in which you have appointments.

- Highlighted day: The background color for a selected time slot.

- Day numbers: Text color for date numbers.

- Current day's number: Text color for today's date.

- To-Do item that is not yet due: Text color for To-Do list items that are not yet due.

- To-Do item that is due today: Text color for today's tasks.

- To-Do item that is overdue: Text color for overdue tasks.

### To Do List Settings

You can choose what information the To Do list displays and the way it is displayed. The two areas of the To Do List tab offer several options each:

Show on To Do List

  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:

  - Due Date

  - Time Until Due

  - Priority

Style Options

  Select among the following checkboxes to determine how your To Do list will look:

  - Highlight overdue items

  - Highlight items due today

  - Highlight not yet due items

### Alarms Settings

The alarms tab enables you to select from three boxes:

- Beep on display alarms: select this box to have Evolution beep at you for any alarms you have set. These beeps are distinct from full-fledged audio alarms. If you leave this box unchecked, Evolution will only alert you to events by opening a dialog box.

- Audio alarms timeout after: Select this button to have your audio alarms stop automatically after a certain number of seconds.

- Enable snoozing for: If you would like to have the option to tell Evolution to repeat an alarm in a few minutes, select this button and decide how long you'd like it to wait.

## Managing the Contact Manager

To set the behavior of your Contact Manager, click on the Contact Manager tab in the Preferences window.

You can set the following options:

### Adding Directory Servers

To add a new LDAP server to your available contact folders:

1. Select Tools Addressbook Sources

2. Click Add.

3. Enter the server information.

   Account name

     The name that you see on the screen. This could be anything you wish.

   Server name

     Address of the server where the addressbook is located.

   My server requires authentication

     Select this if the server needs a password to access the addressbook.

   Port

     The internet port to connect to in order to access the database. This is normally 389.

   Search base

     The base node to use for all your searches. Contact your administrator for information about setting this up.

   Search scope

     The scope of the search

4. Click OK.

5. Click OK to permanenty make changes or Apply to temporarily set the changes.

## General Preferences

Additional configuration options will be covered here, as they become available.