<chapter id="config-prefs">
<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
Evolution settings. This chapter
will tell you how to do just that.
</para>
<para>
You can reach the Evolution settings window
by choosing <menuchoice>
<guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Settings</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, no matter
where you are in Evolution. On the left half of the settings
window is a column, similar to the Evolution shortcut bar,
which lets you choose which portion of Evolution to
customize. The right half of the window is where you'll make
your actual changes.
</para>
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<figure id="config-prefs-mail-fig">
<title>Changing Mail Settings</title>
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Changing Mail Settings</screeninfo>
<mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="figures/config-mail" format="PNG" srccredit="Aaron Weber"/>
</imageobject></mediaobject>
</screenshot>
</figure>
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<para>
There are six items you can customize. From top to bottom, they
are:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guiicon>Mail Accounts</guiicon></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Add or change information about your email
accounts: the servers to which you connect, the way you
download mail, your password authentication mode, and so
forth. This is the most complex item in the list, and is
covered in <xref linkend="config-prefs-mail-identity"/>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guiicon>Autocompletion</guiicon></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Set the contact groups to be used when completing email
addresses in the message composer.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guiicon>Mail Preferences</guiicon></term>
<listitem>
<para>
These are overall mail reading preferences: display
settings, notification options, security, and so
forth. Settings that vary per-account are in the Mail
Accounts tool, described in <xref
linkend="config-prefs-mail-identity"/>, but most of the
mail settings are here.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guiicon>Composer Preferences</guiicon></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Settings for the way that you use the mail composer:
shortcuts, signatures, spelling, and so forth. One fun
feature here is the ability to substitute graphical
smiley-faces for "emoticons" such as :) that many people
use in email. This tool is covered in <xref
linkend="config-prefs-mail-composer"/>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guiicon>Calendar and Tasks</guiicon></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Here, you can set the way the calendar behaves, including
your time zone and the length of your work-week.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guiicon>Certificates</guiicon></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Certificate handling for S/MIME security systems.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
<para>
Previous versions of Evolution included directory servers, folder
settings, and Exchange delegation in the settings tool. Directory
servers can now be set up as contacts groups in the
<guilabel>Contacts</guilabel> tool, you can change folder settings
in the folder right-click menu, and Exchange delegation is
available in the <guimenu>Actions</guimenu> menu of the
<guilabel>Exchange</guilabel> tool.
</para>
<sect1 id="config-prefs-mail-identity">
<title>Working with Mail Accounts</title>
<para>
Evolution allows you to maintain multiple accounts, or
identities. When you are writing an email
message, you can which account to use by selecting from the
drop-down list next to the <guilabel>From</guilabel> entry in
the message composer.
</para>
<para>
Clicking <guilabel>Send/Receive</guilabel> will check all
mail sources that are not disabled. If you don't want to check
mail for a given account, select it
in the <guilabel>Mail Accounts</guilabel> tab and click the
<guilabel>Disable</guilabel> button.
</para>
<para>
To add a new account, click <guilabel>Add</guilabel>
to open the mail configuration assistant. To alter an
existing identity, select it in the
<interface>Preferences</interface> window, and then click
<guilabel>Edit</guilabel> to open the account editor
dialog.
</para>
<para>
The account editor dialog has six sections:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Identity</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Here, enter the name and email address for this
account. You may also choose a default signature to
insert into messages sent from this account.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Receiving Mail</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Select the way you will be getting mail: you may
download mail from a server (<link
linkend="pop">POP</link>), read and keep it on the
server (Microsoft Exchange, Novell GroupWise, or <link
linkend="imap">IMAP</link>), or read it from files
that already exist on your desktop computer. Your server
require you to use a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connection.
You may select <guilabel>Always</guilabel>,
<guilabel>Whenever Possible</guilabel>, or
<guilabel>Never</guilabel> as your SSL choice. If one
doesn't work, try another.
<note id="config-arbitrary-port">
<title>Specifying Port Numbers</title>
<para>
Your system administrator may ask you to connect to a specific port on
a mail server. To specify which port you use, just type a colon and
the port number after the server name. For example, to connect to port
143 on the server smtp.omniport.com, you would enter
as
<userinput>
smtp.omniport.com:143
</userinput> as the server name.
</para>
</note>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Receiving Options</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Here, decide whether you'd like to check for mail
automatically and how often, as well as other message
retrieval options.
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>If you chose POP:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Checking for new mail:</guilabel> If you would
like Evolution
to check for new mail automatically,
check the box and select a frequency in
minutes.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Leave messages on server:</guilabel> If you'd like to store
copies of your mail on the server, check
this option.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Disable support for all
POP3 extensions:</guilabel> Some email
servers refuse to work with the extended
POP3 command set; select this item to
have Evolution use a more limited set of
interactions with the server. If your
server periodically drops your
connection, this option may help.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>If you chose Microsoft Exchange:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
<itemizedlist> <listitem>
<para><guilabel>Checking for new mail</guilabel>: If you would like
Evolution to check for new mail automatically, check
the box and select a frequency in minutes.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Global Catalog server name</guilabel>: enter the name of your
Global Catalog server to create a folder for your
organization's Global Address List.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Limit number of Responses</guilabel>: Select a maximum number
of results for an address search. Lowering the maximum
number the load on your system and on your
network. Most servers will not send more than 1000
results, regardless of the value you select here.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Mailbox Name</guilabel>: Enter your mailbox name.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>OWA Path</guilabel>: Enter the path used with Outlook Web Access on your server.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Public Folder Server</guilabel>: Enter the name of your public
folder server, if it differs from your Exchange server.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Apply Filters to new messages in Inbox on this
server</guilabel>: check this box if you wish to apply filters
to this account.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>If you chose IMAP:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Checking for new mail</guilabel>: If you would like
Evolution to check for new mail
automatically, check the box and select a frequency in
minutes.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>If you want Evolution
to check for new messages in <emphasis>all</emphasis> your
IMAP folders, make sure the <guilabel>Check for new
messages in all folders</guilabel> box is selected.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Show only subscribed folders</guilabel>: Check this box if you
have more folders in your IMAP view than you want to
read.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Override server-supplied namespace</guilabel>: If you like, enter a
specific directory where your server stores mail for
you. Typical values are "mail" and "Mail." For more
information about how to use IMAP mail, see <xref
linkend="usage-mail-subscriptions"/>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Apply filters to new messages in INBOX on this
server</guilabel>: If you'd like your filters to work on this
account, check this box.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>If you chose GroupWise:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Checking for new mail</guilabel>: If you would like
Evolution to check for new mail
automatically, check the box and select a frequency in
minutes.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>If you want Evolution
to check for new messages in all your GroupWise folders,
make sure the <guilabel>Check for new messages in all
folders</guilabel> box is selected.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Apply filters to new messages in INBOX on this
server</guilabel>: If you'd like your filters to work on this
account, check this box.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Automatically synchronize remote mail
locally</guilabel>: Download all mail immediately, instead of waiting
until you try to open the message to check it. This
setting will make Evolution slower at first, but faster
after the download. Leaving it unchecked means that
Evolution will take longer to display each additional
message, but will not waste time trying to download every
single message if you can tell from the subjects that you
do not need to read them all.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Address Book and Calendar: Post Office
Agent SOAP Port</guilabel>: If your post office agent uses
a SOAP port other than the default, enter it here. The
SOAP port is what allows Evolution to access the GroupWise
address book and calendar. Your system administrator will
know the port. If there are not many Linux users in your
organization, you may also need to request that the SOAP
service be enabled.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Sending Mail</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
In this section, you will choose and configure a method
for sending mail. You may choose <link
linkend="smtp">SMTP</link>, Microsoft Exchange (if
you have installed the Evolution Connector for Microsoft
Exchange) or <link
linkend="sendmail">sendmail</link>.
</para>
<para>
If you choose Exchange or Sendmail, you're done with
this tab. SMTP offers you a choice of hostname,
connection security level, and authentication type,
which you will recognize as similar to those for
IMAP and POP servers in the <guilabel>Receiving
Mail</guilabel> tab.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Defaults</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Here, you can decide where this account will store the
messages that it has sent, and the messages that you
save as drafts. If you wish to revert to the "factory"
settings, click the <guilabel>Restore
Defaults</guilabel> button.
</para>
<para>
If you wish to send someone a copy of every message from
this account, check the box labeled <guilabel>Always
carbon-copy (Cc) to:</guilabel> or <guilabel>Always
blind carbon-copy (Bcc) to:</guilabel>, and enter one or
more addresses.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Security</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
In this section, you will set the security options for
this account. If you use encryption, enter your PGP
key id (see <xref linkend="encryption"/> for more
information) and select among the four options below to
determine key and signature handling.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="config-prefs-mail">
<title>Mail Preferences</title>
<para>
The <guilabel>Mail Preferences</guilabel> tool lets you choose how
to display citations, how long to wait before marking a
message as read, and other mail display settings. There are
three categories of settings: General, HTML Mail, and
Colors.
</para>
<para>
For information on individual email account settings, see <xref
linkend="config-prefs-mail-identity" />.
</para>
<sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-general">
<title>General Mail Settings</title>
<para>
In the <guilabel>General</guilabel> tab, your options are:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Message Fonts</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Normally, Evolution will use the same fonts as other
GNOME applications. To choose different fonts, uncheck
the box <guilabel>Use the same fonts as other
applications</guilabel> and select one font for standard typefaces and
a second for monospace, or terminal, display.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Message Display</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
These three settings handle the way messages appear to
you.
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Mark Messages as Read...</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Normally, Evolution will mark a message as read as soon
as it is displayed. If you prefer, you may set this to
happen only after a delay, or disable it entirely and
mark messages as read only when you choose to do so.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Default Character Encoding</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This setting allows you to select character
interpretation sets so that Evolution can display
different alphabets. If you are not sure, pick
Unicode (UTF-8), which will work for a large
number of languages and character sets.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Highlight Quotations</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Choose a color to highlight quotations from other
messages.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Deleting Mail</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Here, choose whether to delete messages automatically
when quitting Evolution, and whether you wish to
explicitly confirm the final deletion of messages.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>New Mail Notification</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Evolution can alert you to the arrival of new mail with
a beep or by playing a sound file. Choose your alert
noise, or select none, as you wish.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="mail-prefs-html">
<title>HTML Mail Preferences</title>
<para>
The options in the <guilabel>HTML Mail</guilabel> tab are:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Show animated images</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Turn animation on or off here.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Prompt when sending HTML messages to contacts that don't want them</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Some people do not like HTML mail, and you can set
Evolution to warn you. This warning will appear only
when you send HTML mail to people in your contacts
who are listed as disliking HTML.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Loading Image</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
You can embed a image in an email and have it load only
when the message arrives. However, spammers can use image loading
patterns to confirm "live" addresses and invade your
privacy. You may elect never to load images
automatically, to load images only if the sender is in
your contacts, or always load images.
</para>
<para>
If you have chosen not to load images automatically, you
can choose to see the images in one message at a time by selecting <menuchoice>
<guimenu>View</guimenu><guisubmenu>Message Display</guisubmenu>
<guimenuitem>Load Images</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
<para>
The <guilabel>Colors</guilabel> tab lets you select different
color labels for individual messages. You can return to the default
settings by clicking the <guilabel>Restore Defaults</guilabel>
button.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="mail-prefs-colors">
<title>Mail Color Preferences</title>
<para>
The Mail Color preferences tool lets you select color labels for
different kinds of messages. Click a color to change the color, or
change the label associated with that color.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="mail-prefs-headers">
<title>Mail Header Preferences</title>
<para>
The headers on an incoming message are the information about the
message that isn't the content of the message itself: the sender,
the time it was sent, and so forth. Check the boxes here to show
or hide different amounts of information about the messages you read.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="mail-prefs-junk">
<title>Junk Mail Preferences</title>
<para>
There are only two items here: <guilabel>Check Incoming Mail for
Junk</guilabel> and <guilabel>Include Remote Tests.</guilabel>
Checking for junk mail uses the SpamAssassin tool with trainable
bayesian filters. It also includes online tests, like checking for
blacklisted message senders and ISPs. Online tests can make
filtering slower, but more accurate. Check the boxes here to choose
your mail filtering method.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="config-prefs-mail-composer">
<title>Composer Preferences</title>
<para>
There are three tabs of settings you can change for the
message composer. The <guilabel>General</guilabel> tab covers shortcuts and
assorted behavior, and the other two control signatures and
spell checking. In the <guilabel>General</guilabel> tab, you can set:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Default Behavior</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Choose how you will normally forward and reply
messages, what character set they will use, whether
they will be in HTML, and whether that HTML can
contain smiley face images.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Alerts</term>
<listitem>
<para>
There are two optional alerts here:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Prompt when sending messages with an empty subject line</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The composer will warn you if you try to send a
message without a subject.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Prompt when sending messages with only Bcc recipients defined</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The composer will warn you if you try to send a
message that has only <guilabel>Bcc</guilabel>
recipients. This is important because some mail
servers will fail to honor blind carbon copy if you
do not have at least one recipient that is visible to
all readers.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
<para>
The signature editor allows you to create several different
signatures in plain text or in HTML, and to specify which of
them will be added to emails you create in the message
composer. If you prefer to use an alternate signature or
none at all, you can select it from the mail composer itself.
</para>
<para>
To choose a spell-checking language, select it here. Note that
you must install the gnome-spell package, available through Red
Carpet, for spell-checking to be available in
Evolution. Alternate dictionaries are also available through
Red Carpet and are detected automatically if you have installed
them.
To have the composer automatically check your spelling while you
type, check the box labeled <guilabel>Check spelling while I type.</guilabel>
</para>
<para>
You can check the spelling of messages by selecting
<menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Spell Check
Document</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="config-prefs-cal">
<title>Calendar and Tasks Settings</title>
<para>
The calendar configuration tool has two tabs
<guilabel>General</guilabel> and
<guilabel>Display</guilabel>, and is illustrated in <xref
linkend="config-prefs-cal-fig"/>.
<!-- ==============Figure===================== -->
<figure id="config-prefs-cal-fig">
<title>Calendar Preferences Dialog</title>
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Calendar Configuration</screeninfo>
<mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="figures/config-cal" format="PNG" srccredit="Aaron Weber"/>
</imageobject></mediaobject>
</screenshot>
</figure>
<!-- ==============End of Figure================-->
</para>
<para>
The General tab lets you set the
following:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Time zone</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The city you're located in, to judge your time zone.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Time format</guilabel></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><guilabel>Week Starts</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Select the day you wish to be displayed as the first in each week.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Day Begins</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
For Evolution, a normal work day begins at 9 AM and
ends at 5PM. You can select your preferred hours to
make sure that all your events are displayed properly.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Day Ends</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Set the end of a normal workday.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Alerts</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
If you'd like to be warned before you delete any
appointment, or to have a reminder automatically
appear for each event, select the check boxes here.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
<para>
The Display tab lets you choose how
your appointments and tasks will appear in your calendar.
</para>
<para>The display properties you can set are:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Time divisions</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Sets the time increments shown as fine lines on the
daily view in the calendar.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Show appointment end times in week and month views</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
If there is space, Evolution will show the end
times in the week and month views for each
appointment.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Compress weekends in month view</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
If checked, your weekends will be shown in one box,
instead of one for each day in the month view.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Show week numbers in date navigator</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This will show the week numbers next to the respective
weeks in the calendar.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Tasks due today</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Select the color for tasks due today.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Overdue tasks</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Choose the color for overdue tasks.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Hide Completed Tasks</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Check this box to have completed tasks hidden after a
period of time measured in days, hours,
or minutes. If you leave the box unchecked,
completed tasks will remain in your task list, marked
as complete.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="config-prefs-contact">
<title>Directory Servers</title>
<para>
Autocompletion is available in the main settings tool.
The other major contact configuration task is creating new
directory servers or remote contacts groups.
</para>
<para>
To add a new group of contacts, either local or remote, do the following:
</para>
<orderedlist numeration="arabic">
<listitem>
<para>
Go to the contacts tool by clicking the
<guilabel>Contacts</guilabel> button.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Select <menuchoice><guimenu>New</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Contacts Group</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Select a name and location for the contact group. The name
is for display only. </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Click <guilabel>Forward</guilabel>. If the contact
group is stored locally, then you don't have to
provide any more information. Click
<guilabel>OK</guilabel> and you are done.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
If you are creating an <link
linkend="ldap">LDAP</link> server, enter the server information
as requested by the assistant:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Server name</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Internet address of the contact server you'll be using.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Login Method</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Specify whether your login is anonymous, using
an email address, or a "distinguished name." If
the login is not anonymous, enter the email
address or distinguished name (DN) required by
the server.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Port</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The internet port
Evolution connects to
in order to access the LDAP database. This is
normally 389.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Use SSL/TLS</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
SSL and TLS are security mechanisms. If you
select <guilabel>Always</guilabel>, Evolution
will not connect unless
secure connections are available. The default value is
<guilabel>Whenever Possible</guilabel>, which uses
secure connections if they are available,
but does not cause failure if they are not.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Search base</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The <link linkend="search-base">search
base</link> is the starting point for a directory search.
Contact your network administrator for information about
the correct settings.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Search scope</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The <link linkend="search-scope">search
scope</link> is the breadth of a given search.
The following options are available:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>One</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Searches the Search Base and one entry
below it.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Sub</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Searches the Search Base and all entries
below it.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Timeout (minutes)</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This is the maximum time Evolution will attempt to
download data from the server before giving up.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Download Limit</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Set the maximum number of results for a given
search. Most servers refuse to send more than
500, but you can set the number lower if you
want to shorten downloads for very broad
searches.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Display name</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This is the name you will use to label this
folder, and may be any name you choose.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Click <guilabel>Apply</guilabel>.
</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>
Editing a directory server account means changing that same
information, although it is displayed in a slightly different order.
</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>