
2001-09-20 Aaron Weber <aaron@ximian.com> * C/usage-mainwindow.sgml: move to DocBook 4.1 * C/usage-mail-org.sgml: move to DocBook 4.1 * C/usage-mail.sgml: move to DocBook 4.1 * C/config-sync.sgml: move to DocBook 4.1 * C/apx-gloss.sgml: move to DocBook 4.1 * C/evolution.sgml: move to DocBook 4.1 svn path=/trunk/; revision=13034
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<chapter id="config-prefs">
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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, select <menuchoice>
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<guimenu>Tools</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Mail
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Settings</guimenuitem></menuchoice> in the Inbox. This
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will open the <interface>mail preferences window</interface>,
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illustrated in <xref linkend="config-prefs-mail-fig">. Mail
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preferences are separated into several categories:
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>Accounts</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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This allows you to create and alter one or more identities for your
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email.
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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><guilabel>Display</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Allows you to edit how email appears.
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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><guilabel>Composer</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Customizes the behavior of the email message composer.
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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><guilabel>Other</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Configures miscellanious aspects of
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<application>Evolution</application> such as character
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set and encryption tools.
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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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<figure id="config-prefs-mail-fig">
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<title>Mail Preferences Dialog</title>
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<screenshot>
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<screeninfo>Setting mail preferences</screeninfo>
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<mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="figures/config-mail" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
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</imageobject></mediaobject>
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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>Working with the Accounts Tab</title>
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<para>
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<application>Ximian Evolution</application> allows you to
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maintain multiple accounts, or identities. This is useful
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want to keep personal and professional email separate, or if
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you wear several hats at work. When you are writing an email
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message, you can which account to use by selecting from the
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drop-down list next to the <guilabel>From</guilabel> entry in
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the message composer.
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</para>
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<para>
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Clicking <guibutton>Get Mail</guibutton> will refresh any
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IMAP, <filename>mh</filename>, or
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<filename>mbox</filename> listings
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and check and download mail from all POP servers. In other
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words, <guibutton>Get Mail</guibutton> gets your mail, no
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matter how many sources you have, or what types they are. If
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you don't want to check mail for a given account, select it
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in the <guilabel>Accounts</guilabel> tab and click the
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<guibutton>Disable</guibutton> button.
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</para>
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<para>
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To add a new account, simply click <guibutton>Add</guibutton>
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to open the mail configuration assistant. To alter an
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existing identity, select it in the
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<interface>Preferences</interface> window, and then click
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<guibutton>Edit</guibutton> to open the account editor
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dialog.
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</para>
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<para>
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The account editor dialog has six sections:
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Identity:</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Here, enter the name,
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email address, and other identifying information for the
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account.
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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>Receiving Mail</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Here, select the way you will be getting mail: you may
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download mail from a server (<glossterm
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linkend="pop">POP</glossterm> or <glossterm
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linkend="imap">IMAP</glossterm>) or access it from files
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on your local system. If you use a server, it may permit
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or require you to use a Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
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connection. To turn SSL connections on, just click the
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<guibutton>Use Secure Connection (SSL)</guibutton>
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button.
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<note id="config-arbitrary-port">
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<title>Specifying Port Numbers</title>
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<para>
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Your system administrator may ask you to connect to a specific port on
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a mail server. To specify which port you use, just type a colon and
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the port number after the server name. For example, to connect to port
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143 on the server smtp.omniport.com, you would enter
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as
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<userinput>
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smtp.omniport.com:143
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</userinput> as the server name.
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</para>
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</note>
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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>Receiving Options</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Here, decide whether you'd like to check for mail
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automatically, and set other options related to the
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behavior of your server. If you use POP mail, you can
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decide whether to leave mail on the server, and if you
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use IMAP, you can set folder subscription options here.
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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>Sending Mail</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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In this section, you will choose and configure a method
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for sending mail. You may choose <glossterm
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linkend="smtp">SMTP</glossterm> or <glossterm
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linkend="sendmail">sendmail</glossterm>.
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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>Special Folders</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Here, you can decide where this account will store the
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messages that it has sent, and the messages that you
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save as drafts.
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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>Security</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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In this section, you will set the security options for
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this account. Enter your PGP Key ID and decide how
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frequently to encrypt and sign your messages.
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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-mail-display">
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<title>Mail Display Options</title>
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<para>
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In this tab you can decide how you would like
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<application>Ximian Evolution</application> to display your
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mail: how to display citations, how long to wait before
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marking a message as read, and so forth.
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</para>
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<para>
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This is also where you can decide how you would like
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<application>Ximian Evolution</application> to handle inline
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images in HTML mail that you get. There is a detailed
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discussion of the issues surrounding these options in <xref
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linkend="usage-mail-getnsend-get-attach-html">.
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</para>
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<para>
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To hange the font which <application>Ximian
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Evolution</application> uses to display mail, do the
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following:
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<orderedlist numeration="arabic">
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Open the Control Center by selecting <menuchoice>
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<guimenu>System</guimenu>
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<guimenuitem>Settings</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> from
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the menu panel.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Select the HTML Viewer settings tool.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Choose the font and font size you would like to use.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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Alternately, open a terminal and run the
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<command>gtkhtml-properties-capplet</command> command. This
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will open the GNOME HTML Display Properties tool, and you can
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select a font and other attributes of your HTML display,
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including that in <application>Ximian Evolution</application>.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-composer">
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<title>Message Composer Preferences</title>
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<para>
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Mercifully, there are only four preferences you can prefer in
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the message composer preferences dialog:
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Send mail in HTML format by default </term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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If you would like all email messages that you compose
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to begin in HTML format, leave this box checked. You
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can convert messages between HTML and plain text by
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selecting the <menuchoice> <guimenu>Format</guimenu>
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<guimenuitem>HTML</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> toggle
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in the message composer.
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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>Default Forward style</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Select from:
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<simplelist>
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<member><guilabel>Attachment:</guilabel> the
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message you forward appended to the message you send
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as a seperate file.</member>
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<member> <guilabel>Inline:</guilabel> The message
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you forward is included at the end of the message
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you send.</member>
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<member>
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<guilabel>Quoted:</guilabel> The message
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you forward is included at the end of the message
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you send, and a greater-than symbol (>) is
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inserted at the beginning of each line to
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indicate that it is quoted.
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</member>
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</simplelist>
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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>Prompt when sending messages with an empty subject</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The composer will warn you if you try to send a
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message without a subject.
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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>Prompt when sending messages with only Bcc recipients defined</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The composer will warn you if you try to send a
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message that has only <guilabel>Bcc</guilabel>
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recipients. This is important because some mail
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servers will fail to honor blind carbon copy if you
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do not have at least one recipient that is visible to
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all readers.
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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-mail-other">
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<title>Other Mail Preferences</title>
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<para>
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Not everything fits neatly into categories. This tab
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contains some miscellaneous configuration options that
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didn't fit anywhere else.
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>
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<guilabel>PGP binary path</guilabel>
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</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The complete path to your external encryption tool On
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most Linux systems, this will be
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<filename>/usr/bin/gpg</filename>.
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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>
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<guilabel>Remember PGP Passphrase until Exit</guilabel>
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</term>
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<listitem>
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<para> Check this box if you want <application>Ximian
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Evolution</application> to remember your PGP
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passphrase for as long as it is running. You will
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still have to enter your passphrase again each time
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you start <application>Ximian Evolution</application>.
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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>
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<guilabel>Default Character Encoding</guilabel>
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</term>
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<listitem> <para> Choose a default character encoding for
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your messages.
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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>
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<guilabel>Empty Trash Folders on Exit</guilabel>
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</term>
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<listitem> <para> If you would like to expunge all deleted
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mail when you quit <application>Ximian
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Evolution</application>, check this box.
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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>
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<guilabel>Log filter actions to:</guilabel>
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</term>
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<listitem> <para> If you like, you can have
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<application>Ximian Evolution</application> write all
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its message filter actions to a log file. Select a log
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file here.
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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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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="config-prefs-news">
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<title>News Servers</title>
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<para>
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Newsgroups are so much like mailing lists that there's no
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reason not to keep them right next to your mail. When you
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first select the <guilabel>News Servers</guilabel> tab,
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you will see a blank box with the three familiar buttons
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on the right: <guibutton>Add</guibutton>,
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<guibutton>Edit</guibutton>, and
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<guibutton>Delete</guibutton>.
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</para>
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<para>
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Click <guibutton>Add</guibutton> to add a news server; you
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will be prompted for its name. Enter the name, click
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<guibutton>OK</guibutton>, and you're done. You can have
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as many news servers as you like, of course. News servers
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will appear next to your IMAP servers in the
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<interface>folder bar</interface>.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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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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To set your calendar preferences, select
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<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
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<guimenuitem>Calendar
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Configuration</guimenuitem></menuchoice> from the Calendar
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view. This will open up the
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<interface>Preferences</interface> window. It contains three
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tabs: <guilabel>Calendar</guilabel>, <guilabel>TaskPad</guilabel>, <guilabel>Reminders</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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<mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="figures/config-cal" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
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</imageobject></mediaobject>
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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 <guilabel>Time display</guilabel> tab lets you set the
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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, you can
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still schedule an appointment outside of these hours,
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and if you do, the display will be extended to show
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it.
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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 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 colors 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.
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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. These beeps
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|
are distinct from full-fledged audio alarms. 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>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para><guilabel>Audio alarms timeout after: </guilabel>
|
|
Select this button to have your audio alarms stop
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|
automatically after a certain number of seconds. </para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<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
|
|
a few minutes, select this button and decide how long
|
|
you'd like it to wait.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
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|
|
</sect1>
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|
|
<sect1 id="config-prefs-contact">
|
|
<title>Managing the Contact Manager</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
To set the behavior of your Contact Manager, click on the
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|
<guibutton>Contact Manager</guibutton> tab in the
|
|
<interface>Preferences</interface> window.
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|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
You can set the following options: <!--insert variable list
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|
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:
|
|
<orderedlist numeration="arabic">
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Select
|
|
<menuchoice>
|
|
<guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
|
|
<guimenuitem>Addressbook Sources</guimenuitem>
|
|
</menuchoice>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Click <guibutton>Add</guibutton>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Enter the server information.
|
|
<variablelist>
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>Account name</term>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The name that you see on the screen. This could be anything you wish.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>Server name</term>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Address of the server where the addressbook is located.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>My server requires authentication</term>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Select this if the server needs a password to access the addressbook.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>Port</term>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The internet port to connect to in order to access the database. This is normally 389.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>Search base</term>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The base node to use for all your searches. Contact your administrator for information about setting this up.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>Search scope</term>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The scope of the search <!-- FIXME: THIS DEFINITION SUCKS -->
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
</variablelist>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Click <guibutton>OK</guibutton> to permanenty make changes or <guibutton>Apply</guibutton> to temporarily set the changes.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</orderedlist>
|
|
</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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