<chapter id="config-prefs">
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<title>Advanced Configuration</title>
<para>
Perhaps your mail server has changed names. Perhaps you've
grown tired of a certain layout for your appointments.
Whatever the reason, you want to change your
<application>Evolution</application> settings. This chapter
will tell you how to do just that.
</para>
<sect1 id="config-prefs-mail">
<title>Mail Settings</title>
<para>
To change your mail settings, first go to your
<interface>Inbox</interface>. Then select <guimenuitem>Mail
Settings</guimenuitem> from the <guimenu>Tools</guimenu> menu.
This will open the <interface>mail preferences
window</interface>, illustrated in <xref
linkend="config-prefs-mail-fig">. Mail Preferences are
seperated into several categories:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Identity</guilabel>, which allows you to set
your name, email address, and other information. The
default values are the ones found on your system account.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Sources</guilabel>, which allows you to specify
your mail receiving server and protocols.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Transports</guilabel>, which allows you to
specify how you will send mail.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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as well as attachment
and HTML handling, forwarding behavior, filters, and
other <application>Evolution</application> behaviors
specific to email. The default behaviors are those
approved by Jamie Zawinski.
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</para>
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<figure id="config-prefs-mail-fig">
<title>Preferences Dialog</title>
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Setting mail preferences</screeninfo>
<graphic fileref="fig/config-mail" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
</graphic>
</screenshot>
</figure>
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<sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-identity">
<title>Identity Settings</title>
<para>
If you have only one email address, or use automatic
forwarding to funnel multiple addresses to one account, then
you will only need to configure one identity. You may,
however, want more that one. To alter an identity, click on
it in the <guilabel>Identity</guilabel> tab of the
<interface>Preferences</interface> window, and then click
<guibutton>Edit</guibutton>. To add a new identity, simply
click <guibutton>Add</guibutton>.
</para>
<para>
In either case, you'll be presented with a dialog box with
four fields:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Full Name:</guilabel> by default, this is the
same name as the full name described in your user
account on your computer.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Email address:</guilabel> Enter your email
address in this space.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Organization:</guilabel> If you send email as
a representative of a company or other organization,
enter its name here.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Signature file:</guilabel> You may choose a
small text file to be appended to every message that you
send. Typically, signature files include address or
other contact information, or a favorite quotation.
They should not be more than three lines long.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-network">
<title>Network Settings</title>
<para>
In order to do much of anything with
<application>Evolution</application>, you need to connect to
your network. To do that, you'll need to know your user name
and password, what sort of mail sending and receiving
protocols your network uses, and the names of the servers
you'll be using. If you're switching from another groupware
or email progam, you can almost certainly use the same
settings as you did with that program. Select the
<guibutton>Sources</guibutton> tab in the
<interface>Preferences</interface> window to tell
<application>Evolution</application> where you want to get
your mail, and click <guibutton>Transports</guibutton> to
determine how you want to send your mail.
</para>
<sect3 id="config-prefs-network-sources">
<title>Mail Sources</title>
<para>
The <interface>Mail Sources</interface> tab allows you to
edit, add, or delete methods of retreiving mail from
servers. Clicking on <guibutton>Add</guibutton> or
<guibutton>Edit</guibutton> will bring up a dialog box to
offer you the following options:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Mail source type:</guilabel>At this point, you
can only select from POP or Unix-style mbox files, but
additional types will be supported in the future.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Server:</guilabel>Enter the name of your mail
server in this field, eg: mail.mycompany.com
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Username:</guilabel>Enter your user name here.
Eva Lucy Ann Tester's user name is eltester.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Authentication:</guilabel> Your system
administrator will know which type of authentication
your system requires.
<application>Evolution</application> can also detect
what sorts of authentication are available once it knows
where to find the server.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Test these values before continuing</guilabel>
If this box is checked,
<application>Evolution</application> will attempt to
make sure that all the other entries in the dialog box
are correct.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="config-prefs-mail-network-transports">
<title>Transports</title>
<para>
The <interface>Transports</interface> tab lets you set how
you will send mail. As of this writing, you have two
choices: <guilabel>SMTP</guilabel>, which uses a remote
mail server, and <guilabel>sendmail</guilabel>,
which uses the <application>sendmail</application> program
on your local system.
</para>
<para>
If you choose <guilabel>SMTP</guilabel>, you will need
to know the name of your mail server. Your system
administrator or ISP has probably included that
information on the piece of paper you lost about five
minutes ago. <application>Evolution</application> can
attempt to determine if you have entered the right
server name. To have it do so,
check the box labelled <guilabel>Test these values before
continuing</guilabel> before you click
<guibutton>OK</guibutton>.
</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-other">
<title>Other Mail Preferences</title>
<para>
Currently, there is only one option that falls into this
category: <guilabel>Send messages in HTML format</guilabel>.
If you check this box, you will send messages as HTML. If
you leave it unchecked, your messages will be sent without
HTML formatting. See <xref
linkend="usage-mail-getnsend-send-html"> for more
information about HTML mail.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="config-prefs-contact">
<title>Managing the Contact Manager</title>
<para>
To set the behavior of your Contact Manager, click on the
<guibutton>Contact Manager</guibutton> tab in the
<interface>Preferences</interface> window.
</para>
<para>
You can set the following options: <!--insert variable list
here-->
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="config-prefs-cal">
<title>Configuring the Calendar</title>
<para>
This section discusses calendar-specific preferences. While
looking at your calendar, select
<guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem> from the
<guimenu>Edit</guimenu> menu. This will open up the
<interface>Preferences</interface> window. It contains four
tabs: (each tab to be a sect1 by tuesday june 6)
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Time display</guilabel>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Colors</guilabel>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>To Do List</guilabel>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Alarms</guilabel>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>
You can set the following options: <!--insert variable list
here-->
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="config-prefs-general">
<title>General Preferences</title>
<para>
Overall Evolution prefs-- whatever else doesn't fit.
</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>
