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      type="guide" id="mail-account-manage-imap">

  <info>
    <desc>Add and edit an IMAP mail account in Evolution.</desc>

    <link type="guide" xref="mail-account-management#mail-common-account-types"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.4" version="0.4" date="2012-02-19" status="candidate"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Andre Klapper</name>
      <email>ak-47@gmx.net</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>

  </info>

  <title>IMAP mail account settings</title>

<section id="account-editor">
<title>Account Editor</title>
<p>Mail accounts can be added by choosing <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>New</gui><gui>Mail Account</gui></guiseq> or via <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Preferences</gui><gui>Mail Accounts</gui><gui style="button">Add</gui></guiseq>. The steps are mostly the same as for the <link xref="intro-first-run">First-Run Assistant</link>, except for not getting asked whether to import data from other applications or to restore from a backup file.</p>
<p>Mail accounts can be edited via <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Preferences</gui><gui>Mail Accounts</gui><gui style="button">Edit</gui></guiseq> or by right-clicking on the respective top-level node in the folder list and choosing <gui>Properties</gui>.</p>
<p>The following settings are available when editing an existing account:</p>

<section id="identity">
<title>Identity</title>
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<p>Here you define your name and your email address.</p>
<p>Optionally you can make this account your default account (e.g. when writing emails), set a Reply-To email address (if you want replies to messages sent to a different address), and set an organization (the company where you work, or the organization you represent when you send email from this account).</p>
</section>

<section id="receiving-email">
<title>Receiving Email and Receiving options</title>
</section>

<section id="sending-email">
<title>Sending Email</title>
</section>

<section id="defaults">
<title>Defaults</title>
</section>

<section id="security">
<title>Security</title>
</section>

<section id="imap-headers">
<title>IMAP Headers</title>
</section>

</section> <!-- end "account editor" section, now list any account settings stuff related to this account type outside of it -->

<section id="other-settings">
<title>Other settings</title>
<p>Other account related settings that are not located in the <gui>Account Editor</gui>:</p>
</section>

</page>