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authorAaron Weber <aaron@src.gnome.org>2004-07-23 00:18:49 +0800
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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
following types of files:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term>VCard (.vcf, gcrd):</term>
+ <term>VCard (.vcf, .gcrd):</term>
<listitem>
<para>
The address book format used by the GNOME, KDE, and
@@ -39,8 +39,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
A format for storing calendar files. iCalendar is used by
- PalmOS based handhelds, Novell
- Evolution, and
+ PalmOS based handhelds, Evolution, and
<application>Microsoft Outlook</application>.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -58,7 +57,7 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF):</term>
+ <term>LDAP Data Interchange Format (.LDIF):</term>
<listitem>
<para>
A standard data format for contact cards.
@@ -67,7 +66,7 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>MBox (mbox):</term>
+ <term>MBox (.mbox or null extension):</term>
<listitem>
<para>
The email box format used by Mozilla, Netscape,
@@ -103,7 +102,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Click <guilabel>Import</guilabel>
+ Click <guilabel>Import</guilabel>.
</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
@@ -150,9 +149,12 @@
<para>
Microsoft Outlook, and versions of Outlook Express after
version 4, use proprietary formats that Novell
- Evolution cannot read or import. For contacts,
- you may have to email them to yourself and import them that
- way. For email, there is a simpler workaround:
+ Evolution cannot read or import. One migration method that
+ works well is to use the
+ <application>Outport</application> application (see <ulink
+ url="http://outport.sourceforge.net">outport.sourceforge.net</ulink>
+ for information) under Winodws. YOu can also import data
+ into another Windows mail client such as Mozilla:
<orderedlist numeration="arabic">
<listitem>
@@ -172,9 +174,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Use the Novell Evolution import
- tool to import the files. There's more information about
- why this works, and how, at the Novell support website.
+ Use the Evolution import tool to import the files.
</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
@@ -186,10 +186,10 @@
<para>
Mozilla and Netscape users will need to choose
<menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Compact All
- Folders</guimenuitem></menuchoice> from within
- Netscape or Mozilla. Otherwise,
+ Folders</guimenuitem></menuchoice> from within the
+ Netscape or Mozilla mail tool. Otherwise,
Novell Evolution will import and undelete
- the messages in Trash folders.
+ the messages in your Trash folders.
</para>
</note>
@@ -212,27 +212,14 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><guimenuitem>Sort Ascending</guimenuitem>:</term>
<listitem><para>
- Sorts the messages top to bottom.
+ Sorts the messages top to bottom. Similarly,
+ <guimenuitem>Sort Descending</guimenuitem> reverses the
+ order, and <guilabel>Unsort</guilabel> removes sorting from
+ this column, reverting to the order of messages as they were
+ added to the folder.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guimenuitem>Sort Descending</guimenuitem>:</term>
- <listitem><para>
- Sorts the messages bottom to top.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guimenuitem>Unsort</guimenuitem>:</term>
- <listitem><para>
- Removes sorting from the message list. <!-- displaying
- messages in the order they exist on disk. This is
- typically the order in which the messages
- were added to the mailbox file, and is therefore similar
- to, but not exactly the same as, sorting by date. -->
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guimenuitem>Remove this
Column</guimenuitem>:</term>
@@ -272,7 +259,7 @@
View</guimenuitem>:</term> <listitem><para> Choose this
item to pick a more complex sort order for messages, or
to choose which columns of information about your
- messages you wish to display
+ messages you wish to display.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -293,8 +280,8 @@
want to remind yourself about. Several are provided for you, such as
<guilabel>Call</guilabel>, <guilabel>Forward</guilabel>, and
<guilabel>Reply</guilabel>, but you can enter your own note or
- action if you wish. You may set a deadline date for the flag
- as well, if you wish.
+ action if you wish. You may set a deadline for the flag
+ as well.
</para>
<para>
Once you have added a flag, you can mark it as complete or
@@ -305,8 +292,9 @@
<para>
When you read a flagged message, its flag status will be
- displayed right at the top, before the message headers. An
- overdue message might tell you <guilabel>Overdue: Call by April 07, 2003, 5:00 PM</guilabel>
+ displayed at the top, before the message headers. An
+ overdue message might tell you <guilabel>Overdue: Call by
+ April 07, 2003, 5:00 PM</guilabel>
</para>
<para>
@@ -321,7 +309,7 @@
<para>
If you prefer a simpler way to remind yourself about messages, you can
mark them as "Important" by right-clicking on them and selecting
- <guilabel>Mark Important</guilabel>
+ <guilabel>Mark Important</guilabel>.
</para>
</sect2>
@@ -337,9 +325,7 @@
<guilabel>Outbox</guilabel>, and <guilabel>Drafts</guilabel>,
but you can create as many as you like. Create new folders by
right clicking on the folder list and selecting
- <guimenuitem>New Folder</guimenuitem>. Evolution will
- ask you for the name and the type of the folder, and will
- provide you with a folder tree so you can pick where it goes.
+ <guimenuitem>New Folder</guimenuitem>.
</para>
<para>
When you click <guilabel>OK</guilabel>, your new folder will
@@ -403,8 +389,7 @@
<term><guilabel>Sender contains:</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Finds messages that do not contain the search text in
- the subject.
+ Finds messages whose From: header contains a match for your search text.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -518,7 +503,7 @@
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term>Check Incoming Mail</term>
+ <term>Check incoming mail for junk</term>
<listitem>
<para>
This option turns automatic junk mail filtering on or off.
@@ -527,31 +512,19 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>Do Not Check Incoming Mail for IMAP Accounts</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Evolution must download mail to determine whether it is junk
- mail, so junk mail filtering can slow IMAP performance as it
- downloads every message in its entirity. To turn filtering off
- for IMAP mail, but leave it on for other mail accounts, select
- this box.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Local Tests Only</term>
+ <term>Include remote tests</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- This option skips tests that require a network connection,
+ This option uses tests that require a network connection,
such as checking to see if a message is in a list of known
junk messages, or if the sender or gateway are blacklisted by
- anti-spam organizations. Selecting this option will increase
- the speed of operation, but may decrease accuracy.
+ anti-spam organizations. Remote tests add to the amount of
+ time it takes to check for junk mail, but increase accuracy.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
+
+<!-- This is apparently gone _____________________________
<varlistentry>
<term>Use Daemon</term>
<listitem>
@@ -575,7 +548,9 @@
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
+__________________________ -->
+
+
</variablelist>
</sect1>
@@ -603,22 +578,24 @@
creation. Right-click on the message in the message
list, and select one of the items under the
<guimenuitem>Create Rule from Message</guimenuitem>
- submenu.
+ submenu. Creating a rule based on a message opens the filter
+ creation tool with some of the information about the
+ message already filled in for your convenience.
</para>
</tip>
<sect2 id="usage-mail-org-filters-new">
- <title>Making New Filters</title>
+ <title>Creating New Filter Rules</title>
<para>
- To create a new filter:
+ To create a new filter rule:
<orderedlist numeration="arabic">
<listitem>
<para>
Select
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
- <guimenuitem>Filters</guimenuitem>
- </menuchoice>
+ <guimenuitem>Filters...</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -711,14 +688,6 @@
with the dates you specify.
</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>
- Score - Set the message score to any whole number greater than
- 0. To use filters with scoring, use one filter to score a
- message, and then apply other filters only to messages with
- the scores you seek.
- </para></listitem>
-
-
<listitem>
<para>
Label - Messages may have labels of
@@ -730,6 +699,17 @@
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Score - Set the message score to any whole number greater than
+ 0. You can have one filter set or change a message
+ score, and then set up another filter to move the
+ messages you have scored. A message score is not based
+ on anything in particular: it is simply a number you
+ can assign to messages so other filters can process them.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+
+
<listitem>
<para>
Size (kB) - Sorts based on the size of the message in kilobytes.
@@ -749,36 +729,35 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Flagged - Check whether the message is flagged for follow-up or not.
+ Flagged - Check whether the message is flagged for follow-up.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Attachments - Create a filter based on whether or not you
+ Attachments - Create a filter based on whether you
have an attachment in the email.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Mailing List - Filter based on the mailing list it came from.
- </para>
- <note>
- <title>How Does Filtering on Mailing Lists Work?</title>
- <para>
- Filtering on mailing list actually looks for a
- specific mailing-list header called the
- <computeroutput>X-BeenThere</computeroutput>
+ Mailing List - Filter based on the mailing list
+ the message came from. This filter may miss
+ messages from some list servers, because Filtering
+ it checks for the
+ <computeroutput>X-BeenThere</computeroutput>
header, used to identify mailing lists or other
- redistributors of mail.
+ redistributors of mail. Mail from list servers
+ which do not set
+ <computeroutput>X-BeenThere</computeroutput>
+ properly will not be caught by these filters.
</para>
- </note>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Regex Match - If you know your way around a
+ Regex Match: If you know your way around a
<link
linkend="regular-expression">regex</link>, or
regular expression, put your knowledge to use
@@ -836,23 +815,21 @@
section. You can select any of the following options.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
- Move to Folder - If you select this item, Novell Evolution
- will put the messages into a folder you specify. Click the
+ Move to Folder - Move the message into a folder you specify. Click the
<guilabel>&lt;click here to select a folder&gt;</guilabel> button
- to select a folder.
+ to select the destination folder.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- Copy to Folder - If you select this item, Novell Evolution
- will put the messages into a folder you specify. Click the
+ Copy to Folder - Put a copy of the message into a folder you specify. Click the
<guilabel>&lt;click here to select a folder&gt;</guilabel> button
- to select a folder.
+ to select the destination folder.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- Delete - Marks the message for deletion. You can still get the message
- back, at least until you <guimenuitem>Expunge</guimenuitem> your
- mail yourself.
+ Delete - Marks the message for deletion. The
+ message can be undeleted until you manually
+ <guimenuitem>Expunge</guimenuitem> or <guimenuitem>Empty Trash</guimenuitem>.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
@@ -862,8 +839,7 @@
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- Assign Color - Select this item, and Novell Evolution
- will mark the message with whatever color you please.
+ Assign Color - Mark the message with a color of your choice.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
@@ -874,7 +850,6 @@
Adjust Score - Change the numeric score by the amount you set here.
</para></listitem>
-
<listitem><para>
Set Status - Set the status of the message. Status may be <guilabel>Replied
To</guilabel>, <guilabel>Draft</guilabel>,
@@ -885,8 +860,8 @@
<listitem><para>
Unset Status - If the message has a status value,
- set it to the opposite. If that status value is not
- set, do nothing.
+ unset it. If a status value is not set, do
+ nothing.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
@@ -898,6 +873,10 @@
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
+ Run Program - Evolution will run an application.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
Pipe to Program - Send the message to a program of your choice. No return value
is expected. This feature can be used to create automatic web postings
from email messages or to perform additional message
@@ -909,19 +888,19 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Set Status - If you want to add multiple actions for this filter, press
+ Add Action - If you want to add multiple actions for this filter, press
<guilabel>Add action</guilabel> and repeat the previous step.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Click <guilabel>OK</guilabel> in the filter editor dialog.
+ Click <guilabel>OK</guilabel> in the <guilabel>Add a Rule</guilabel> dialog.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Click <guilabel>OK</guilabel> in the filter manager
+ Click <guilabel>OK</guilabel> in the <guilabel>Filters</guilabel>
window.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -964,7 +943,7 @@
<para>
If you have several filters that match a single message,
- they will all be applied to the message, in order, unless
+ they will all be applied to the message in order, unless
one of the filters has the action <guilabel>Stop
Processing</guilabel>. If you use that action in a
filter, the messages that it affects will not be touched
@@ -1004,16 +983,19 @@
Change the desired settings.
</para>
</listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
- Press <guilabel>OK</guilabel> in the filter editor window.
+ Click <guilabel>OK</guilabel> in the <guilabel>Add a Rule</guilabel> dialog.
</para>
</listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
- Press <guilabel>OK</guilabel> in the filter manager window.
+ Click <guilabel>OK</guilabel> in the <guilabel>Filters</guilabel>
+ window.
</para>
- </listitem>
+ </listitem>
</orderedlist>
</para>
</sect2>
@@ -1113,7 +1095,7 @@
<title>The "Unmatched" vFolder</title>
<para>
The Unmatched vFolder is the opposite of the others: it
- displays whatever messages are not matched by other vFolders.
+ displays whatever messages do not appear in other vFolders.
</para>
<para>
If you use remote email storage like IMAP or Microsoft
@@ -1131,7 +1113,7 @@
<para>
To organize his mailbox, Jim sets up a virtual folder for emails from
his friend and co-worker Anna. He has another one for messages that
- have ximian.com in the address and Novell Evolution in the subject line, so he
+ have novell.com in the address and Novell Evolution in the subject line, so he
can keep a record of what people from work send him about
Evolution. If Anna sends him a message about
anything other than Novell Evolution, it only shows up in the "Anna" folder.
@@ -1172,7 +1154,8 @@
<para>
Select your search criteria. For each criterion, you
must first select which of the following parts of the
- message you want the search to examine:
+ message you want the search to examine. The criteria are
+ similar to those for filters:
<figure id="usage-mail-vfolder-fig-createrule">
<title>Selecting a vFolder Rule</title>
@@ -1210,8 +1193,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
Expression - For programmers only: match a message according to an
- expression you write in the Scheme language, used to
- define vFolders in Novell Evolution.
+ expression you write in Scheme.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1310,6 +1292,12 @@
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click <guilabel>OK</guilabel> in the vFolder editing tool and in the vFolder list dialog boxes.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
</orderedlist>
</para>
</sect2>