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-<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>
-
-
- <!-- ==============Figure===================== -->
- <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>
- <!-- ==============End of Figure================-->
-
- <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>
-
-
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