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<chapter id="config-prefs">
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<!--this chapter needs a LOT of work. structurally it needs for the
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mail and other sections to be similar. it needs content in the
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Calendar section and the Contact section. Calendar prefs functions
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documentation-ready, although subject to substantial change. Contact
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functions are not yet available for doc'ing. . aaron, june 5. 7 am.
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-->
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<title>Advanced Configuration</title>
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<para>
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Perhaps your mail server has changed names. Perhaps you've
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grown tired of a certain layout for your appointments.
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Whatever the reason, you want to change your
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<application>Evolution</application> settings. This chapter
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will tell you how to do just that.
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</para>
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<sect1 id="config-prefs-mail">
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<title>Mail Settings</title>
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<para>
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To change your mail settings, first go to your
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<interface>Inbox</interface>. Then select <guimenuitem>Mail
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Settings</guimenuitem> from the <guimenu>Tools</guimenu> menu.
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This will open the <interface>mail preferences
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window</interface>, illustrated in <xref
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linkend="config-prefs-mail-fig">. Mail Preferences are
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seperated into several categories:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<guilabel>Identity</guilabel>, which allows you to set
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your name, email address, and other information. The
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default values are the ones found on your system account.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<guilabel>Sources</guilabel>, which allows you to specify
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your mail receiving server and protocols.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<guilabel>Transports</guilabel>, which allows you to
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specify how you will send mail.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<!-- THE FOLLOWING MAY BE REINSTATED:
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as well as attachment
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and HTML handling, forwarding behavior, filters, and
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other <application>Evolution</application> behaviors
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specific to email. The default behaviors are those
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approved by Jamie Zawinski.
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-->
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</para>
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<!-- ==============Figure===================== -->
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<figure id="config-prefs-mail-fig">
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<title>Preferences Dialog</title>
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<screenshot>
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<screeninfo>Setting mail preferences</screeninfo>
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<graphic fileref="fig/config-mail" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
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</graphic>
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</screenshot>
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</figure>
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<!-- ==============End of Figure================-->
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<sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-identity">
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<title>Identity Settings</title>
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<para>
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If you have only one email address, or use automatic
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forwarding to funnel multiple addresses to one account, then
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you will only need to configure one identity. You may,
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however, want more that one. To alter an identity, click on
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it in the <guilabel>Identity</guilabel> tab of the
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<interface>Preferences</interface> window, and then click
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<guibutton>Edit</guibutton>. To add a new identity, simply
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click <guibutton>Add</guibutton>.
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</para>
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<para>
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In either case, you'll be presented with a dialog box with
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four fields:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<guilabel>Full Name:</guilabel> by default, this is the
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same name as the full name described in your user
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account on your computer.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<guilabel>Email address:</guilabel> Enter your email
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address in this space.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<guilabel>Organization:</guilabel> If you send email as
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a representative of a company or other organization,
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enter its name here.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<guilabel>Signature file:</guilabel> You may choose a
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small text file to be appended to every message that you
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send. Typically, signature files include address or
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other contact information, or a favorite quotation.
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They should not be more than three lines long.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-network">
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<title>Network Settings</title>
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<para>
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In order to do much of anything with
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<application>Evolution</application>, you need to connect to
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your network. To do that, you'll need to know your user name
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and password, what sort of mail sending and receiving
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protocols your network uses, and the names of the servers
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you'll be using. If you're switching from another groupware
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or email progam, you can almost certainly use the same
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settings as you did with that program. Select the
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<guibutton>Sources</guibutton> tab in the
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<interface>Preferences</interface> window to tell
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<application>Evolution</application> where you want to get
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your mail, and click <guibutton>Transports</guibutton> to
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determine how you want to send your mail.
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</para>
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<sect3 id="config-prefs-network-sources">
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<title>Mail Sources</title>
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<para>
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The <interface>Mail Sources</interface> tab allows you to
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edit, add, or delete methods of retreiving mail from
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servers. Clicking on <guibutton>Add</guibutton> or
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<guibutton>Edit</guibutton> will bring up a dialog box to
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offer you the following options:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<guilabel>Mail source type:</guilabel>At this point, you
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can only select from POP or Unix-style mbox files, but
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additional types will be supported in the future.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<guilabel>Server:</guilabel>Enter the name of your mail
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server in this field, eg: mail.mycompany.com
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<guilabel>Username:</guilabel>Enter your user name here.
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Eva Lucy Ann Tester's user name is eltester.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<guilabel>Authentication:</guilabel> Your system
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administrator will know which type of authentication
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your system requires.
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<application>Evolution</application> can also detect
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what sorts of authentication are available once it knows
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where to find the server.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<guilabel>Test these values before continuing</guilabel>
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If this box is checked,
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<application>Evolution</application> will attempt to
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make sure that all the other entries in the dialog box
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are correct.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="config-prefs-mail-network-transports">
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<title>Transports</title>
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<para>
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The <interface>Transports</interface> tab lets you set how
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you will send mail. As of this writing, you have two
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choices: <guilabel>SMTP</guilabel>, which uses a remote
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mail server, and <guilabel>sendmail</guilabel>,
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which uses the <application>sendmail</application> program
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on your local system.
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</para>
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<para>
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If you choose <guilabel>SMTP</guilabel>, you will need
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to know the name of your mail server. Your system
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administrator or ISP has probably included that
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information on the piece of paper you lost about five
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minutes ago. <application>Evolution</application> can
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attempt to determine if you have entered the right
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server name. To have it do so,
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check the box labelled <guilabel>Test these values before
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continuing</guilabel> before you click
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<guibutton>OK</guibutton>.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-other">
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<title>Other Mail Preferences</title>
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<para>
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Currently, there is only one option that falls into this
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category: <guilabel>Send messages in HTML format</guilabel>.
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If you check this box, you will send messages as HTML. If
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you leave it unchecked, your messages will be sent without
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HTML formatting. See <xref
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linkend="usage-mail-getnsend-send-html"> for more
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information about HTML mail.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="config-prefs-contact">
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<title>Managing the Contact Manager</title>
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<para>
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To set the behavior of your Contact Manager, click on the
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<guibutton>Contact Manager</guibutton> tab in the
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<interface>Preferences</interface> window.
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</para>
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<para>
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You can set the following options: <!--insert variable list
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here-->
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</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="config-prefs-cal">
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<title>Configuring the Calendar</title>
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<para>
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This section discusses calendar-specific preferences. While
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looking at your calendar, select
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<guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem> from the
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<guimenu>Edit</guimenu> menu. This will open up the
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<interface>Preferences</interface> window. It contains four
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tabs: <guilabel>Time display</guilabel>,
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<guilabel>Colors</guilabel>, <guilabel>To Do List</guilabel>
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and <guilabel>Alarms</guilabel>. The <interface>calendar
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preferences window</interface> is illustrated in <xref
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linkend="config-prefs-cal-fig">.
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<!-- ==============Figure===================== -->
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<figure id="config-prefs-cal-fig">
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<title>Calendar Preferences Dialog</title>
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<screenshot>
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<screeninfo>If this worked on my job as well as my calendar...</screeninfo>
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<graphic fileref="fig/config-cal" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
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</graphic>
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</screenshot>
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</figure>
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</para>
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<sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-time">
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<title>Time Display Settings</title>
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<para>
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The first tab, <interface>Time display tab</interface>, lets
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you set the following:
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Time format</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>You may choose between twelve-hour (AM/PM) and
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twenty-four hour time formats here by clicking the
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appropriate radio button.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Weeks start on</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>You can set weeks to start on Sunday or on Monday.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Day range</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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When does your work day start, and when does it end?
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In the day and week views,
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<application>Evolution</application> displays all the
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hours in the range you select here, even if there are
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no appointments for those times. Of course, if you
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set your days to end before they begin, you may be in
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for a little confusion.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-color">
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<title>Calendar Colors</title>
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<para>
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The <interface>colors tab</interface> allows you to decide
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what color your calendar will be. The tab consists of a
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sample calendar on the right and a list of ten items that can
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be colored in different ways. If you click on the color
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button to the right of each item, you will bring up a
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color-selector window where you can choose to alter that
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color. By clicking <guibutton>OK</guibutton> in the color
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selection dialog, you can see the results of the color on the
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sample calendar.
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</para>
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<para>The display elements whose color you can set are:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<guilabel>Outline:</guilabel> The lines between days
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and at the top of the display.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para> <guilabel>Headings:</guilabel> Text color for day
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and month names and other headings.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para> <guilabel>Empty days:</guilabel> This is the
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background color for any time slots in which you have no appointments.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<guilabel>Appointments:</guilabel> This is the
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background color for any time slots in which you have appointments.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para> <guilabel>Highlighted day:</guilabel> The
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background color for a selected time slot.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<guilabel>Day numbers:</guilabel> Text color for date numbers.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<guilabel>Current day's number:</guilabel> Text color for today's date.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para> <guilabel>To-Do item that is not yet
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due:</guilabel> Text color for To-Do list items that are
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not yet due. (Or maybe background color? find out!)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para> <guilabel>To-Do item that is due today:</guilabel>
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Text color for today's tasks.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para> <guilabel>To-Do item that is overdue:</guilabel>
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Text color for overdue tasks.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-todo">
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<title>To Do list settings</title>
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<para>
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You can choose what information the To Do list displays and the
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way it is displayed. The two areas of the <interface>To Do
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List</interface> tab offer several options each:
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Show on To Do List</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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This box contains three items. If you select the
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check boxes next to them, that information will appear
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in the To Do list for each task it contains:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para><guilabel>Due Date</guilabel></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><guilabel>Time Until Due</guilabel></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><guilabel>Priority</guilabel></para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Style Options</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Select among the following checkboxes to determine
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how your To Do list will look:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para><guilabel>Highlight overdue items</guilabel></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><guilabel>Highlight items due today</guilabel></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><guilabel>Highlight not yet due items</guilabel></para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-alarms">
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<title>Alarms settings</title>
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<para>
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The <interface>alarms tab</interface> enables you to select from three boxes:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para><guilabel>Beep on display alarms</guilabel>: select
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this box to have <application>Evolution</application> beep
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at you for any alarms you have set. If you leave this box
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unchecked, <application>Evolution</application> will only
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alert you to events by opening a dialog box.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><guilabel>Audio alarms timeout after: </guilabel>
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Select this button to have the beeping stop automatically
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after a certain number of seconds. </para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><guilabel>Enable snoozing for:</guilabel> If you
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would like to have the option to tell
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<application>Evolution</application> to repeat an alarm in
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a few minutes, select this button and decide how long
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you'd like it to wait.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="config-prefs-general">
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<title>General Preferences</title>
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<para>
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Overall Evolution prefs-- whatever else doesn't fit.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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