<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: <guilabel>Time display</guilabel>,
<guilabel>Colors</guilabel>, <guilabel>To Do List</guilabel>
and <guilabel>Alarms</guilabel>. The <interface>calendar
preferences window</interface> is illustrated in <xref
linkend="config-prefs-cal-fig">.
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<figure id="config-prefs-cal-fig">
<title>Calendar Preferences Dialog</title>
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>If this worked on my job as well as my calendar...</screeninfo>
<graphic fileref="fig/config-cal" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
</graphic>
</screenshot>
</figure>
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</para>
<sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-time">
<title>Time Display Settings</title>
<para>
The first tab, <interface>Time display tab</interface>, lets
you set the following:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Time format</term>
<listitem>
<para>You may choose between twelve-hour (AM/PM) and
twenty-four hour time formats here by clicking the
appropriate radio button.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Weeks start on</term>
<listitem>
<para>You can set weeks to start on Sunday or on Monday.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Day range</term>
<listitem>
<para>
When does your work day start, and when does it end?
In the day and week views,
<application>Evolution</application> displays all the
hours in the range you select here, even if there are
no appointments for those times. Of course, if you
set your days to end before they begin, you may be in
for a little confusion.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-color">
<title>Calendar Colors</title>
<para>
The <interface>colors tab</interface> allows you to decide
what color your calendar will be. The tab consists of a
sample calendar on the right and a list of ten items that can
be colored in different ways. If you click on the color
button to the right of each item, you will bring up a
color-selector window where you can choose to alter that
color. By clicking <guibutton>OK</guibutton> in the color
selection dialog, you can see the results of the color on the
sample calendar.
</para>
<para>The display elements whose color you can set are:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Outline:</guilabel> The lines between days
and at the top of the display.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para> <guilabel>Headings:</guilabel> Text color for day
and month names and other headings.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para> <guilabel>Empty days:</guilabel> This is the
background color for any time slots in which you have no appointments.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Appointments:</guilabel> This is the
background color for any time slots in which you have appointments.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para> <guilabel>Highlighted day:</guilabel> The
background color for a selected time slot.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Day numbers:</guilabel> Text color for date numbers.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Current day's number:</guilabel> Text color for today's date.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para> <guilabel>To-Do item that is not yet
due:</guilabel> Text color for To-Do list items that are
not yet due. (Or maybe background color? find out!)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para> <guilabel>To-Do item that is due today:</guilabel>
Text color for today's tasks.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para> <guilabel>To-Do item that is overdue:</guilabel>
Text color for overdue tasks.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-todo">
<title>To Do list settings</title>
<para>
You can choose what information the To Do list displays and the
way it is displayed. The two areas of the <interface>To Do
List</interface> tab offer several options each:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Show on To Do List</term>
<listitem>
<para>
This box contains three items. If you select the
check boxes next to them, that information will appear
in the To Do list for each task it contains:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Due Date</guilabel></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Time Until Due</guilabel></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Priority</guilabel></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Style Options</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Select among the following checkboxes to determine
how your To Do list will look:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Highlight overdue items</guilabel></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Highlight items due today</guilabel></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Highlight not yet due items</guilabel></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-alarms">
<title>Alarms settings</title>
<para>
The <interface>alarms tab</interface> enables you to select from three boxes:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Beep on display alarms</guilabel>: select
this box to have <application>Evolution</application> beep
at you for any alarms you have set. If you leave this box
unchecked, <application>Evolution</application> will only
alert you to events by opening a dialog box.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Audio alarms timeout after: </guilabel>
Select this button to have the beeping stop automatically
after a certain number of seconds. </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Enable snoozing for:</guilabel> If you
would like to have the option to tell
<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>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="config-prefs-general">
<title>General Preferences</title>
<para>
Overall Evolution prefs-- whatever else doesn't fit.
</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>
