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<title>Writing and Sending Mail</title>
<para>
You can start writing a new email message by selecting
- <guimenuitem>New Mail</guimenuitem> from the <guimenu>File
- Menu</guimenu>, or by pressing the
+ <menuchoice> <guimenu>File</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> <guimenuitem>
+ Mail</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, or by pressing the
<guibutton>Compose</guibutton> button in the Inbox toolbar.
When you do so, the <interface>New Message</interface> window
will open, as shown in <xref
@@ -192,7 +193,7 @@
<title>New Message Window</title>
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Evolution Main Window</screeninfo>
- <graphic fileref="fig/newmsg-pic" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
+ <graphic fileref="fig/newmsg-pic" format="png" srccredit="Kevin Breit">
</graphic>
</screenshot>
</figure>
@@ -456,7 +457,7 @@ with quoted materials and the relevant replies interspersed-->
<term>Alignment</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Located next to the text style buttons,
+ Located next to the text style buttons,
these three paragraph icons should be familiar to
users of most word processing software. The
leftmost button will make your text left-justified,
@@ -479,12 +480,14 @@ with quoted materials and the relevant replies interspersed-->
</variablelist>
</para>
<para>
- There are two tools that you can find only in the
+ There are three tools that you can find only in the
<guimenu>Insert</guimenu> menu.
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <guimenuitem>Insert Link</guimenuitem>: Use this tool to
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guimenuitem>Insert Link</guimenuitem>:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Use this tool to
put hyperlinks in your HTML messages. When you
select it, <application>Evolution</application> will
prompt you for the <guilabel>Text</guilabel> that
@@ -492,6 +495,9 @@ with quoted materials and the relevant replies interspersed-->
you should enter the actual web address (URL).
</para>
</listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term> <guimenuitem>Insert Image</guimenuitem>:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
<guimenuitem>Insert Image</guimenuitem>: Select this item to
@@ -500,7 +506,19 @@ with quoted materials and the relevant replies interspersed-->
cursor.
</para>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guimenuitem>Insert Rule</guimenuitem>:</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ This will insert a horizontal line, or rule, into your document.
+ You'll be presented with a dialog box which gives you
+ the choice of size, percentage of screen, shading, and
+ alignment; if you leave everything at the default
+ values you'll get a thin black rule all the way across
+ the screen.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
</para>
<note>
<title>A Technical note on HTML Tags</title>
@@ -676,16 +694,7 @@ possibly never will be due to security evil. -->
<application>Evolution</application> will as 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.
- <note>
- <title>Folders have Limits</title>
- <para>
- You can always place a folder inside other folders,
- regardless of folder type. However, calendars,
- contacts, and mail can't go into the same
- folder. Calendars have to go in calendar folders, mail
- in mail folders, and contacts in contact folders.
- </para>
- </note>
+
</para>
<para>
When you click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>, your new folder will
@@ -770,16 +779,20 @@ possibly never will be due to security evil. -->
<sect2 id="usage-mail-organize-filters">
<title>Staying organized: Mail Filters in Evolution</title>
<para>
- Filters sort your email for you. People who subscribe to
- multiple mailing lists, or who often need to refer to messages
- they have sent, find filters especially helpful to separate
- personal from list-related mail, but they're good for anybody
- who gets more than a few messages a day. To create a filter,
- select <guimenuitem>Filter Assistant</guimenuitem> from the
- <guimenu>Tools</guimenu> menu. This will bring up a window
- which will guide you through filter creation. The
- <interface>filter assistant</interface> is shown in <xref
- linkend="usage-mail-filters-fig-new">
+ Filters sort your email for you as it arrives. Most often,
+ you'll want to have <application>Evolution</application> put
+ mail into different folders, but you can have it do anything
+ you like. People who subscribe to multiple mailing lists, or
+ who often need to refer to messages they have sent, find
+ filters especially helpful to separate personal from
+ list-related mail, but they're good for anybody who gets more
+ than a few messages a day. To create a filter, select
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Tools</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Filter
+ Assistant</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>. This will bring up a
+ window which will guide you through filter creation. The
+ <interface>filter assistant</interface> is shown in <xref
+ linkend="usage-mail-filters-fig-new">
<figure id="usage-mail-filters-fig-new">
<title>Creating a new Filter</title>
@@ -914,23 +927,21 @@ possibly never will be due to security evil. -->
<example id="usage-mail-organize-vFolders-ex">
<title>Using Folders, Searches, and vFolders</title>
<para>
- To organize my mail box, I can set up a vFolder
- for emails from my friend Vince, by doing (INSERT
- PROCESS HERE). Then, whenever I want to see the
- messages Vince has sent me, I open the vFolder, and
- every message he's sent me shows up, no matter where
- I've actually filed it. If I want, I can also create a
- vFolder containing any message from my list of
- co-workers which also has the name of the project in
- it. That way, when Vince sends me mail about the
- project, I can see that message both in the "Vince"
- vFolder and in the "Project" vFolder. That's because
- when I open up the "Vince" folder, I'm really
- performing a search for all the mail from Vince, and
- when I open the "Project" folder I'm really performing
+ To organize my mail box, I can set up a vFolder for emails
+ from my friend Vince. Then, whenever I want to see the
+ messages Vince has sent me, I open the vFolder, and every
+ message he's sent me shows up, no matter where I've
+ actually filed it. If I want, I can also create a vFolder
+ containing any message from my list of co-workers which
+ also has the name of the project in it. That way, when
+ Vince sends me mail about the project, I can see that
+ message both in the "Vince" vFolder and in the "Project"
+ vFolder. That's because when I open up the "Vince" folder,
+ I'm really performing a search for all the mail from Vince,
+ and when I open the "Project" folder I'm really performing
a search for all the mail about the project.
- (INSERT SCREENSHOT HERE)
+ <!-- (INSERT SCREENSHOT HERE) -->
</para>
</example>
@@ -949,9 +960,9 @@ possibly never will be due to security evil. -->
click <guibutton>Add</guibutton> to add a new vFolder.
</para>
<para>
- You'll be prompted to create a filtering rule. To do so,
- select one of the base rules, and click
- <guibutton>Next</guibutton> to customize it. Your options are:
+ You'll be prompted to create a filtering rule. You can build
+ your own from the ground up, or select one of several base
+ rules to customize. Your options are:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>For matching messages:</guilabel></term>
@@ -967,8 +978,8 @@ possibly never will be due to security evil. -->
<term><guilabel>Messages from a certain person:</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Enter an email address, and the vFolder will contain
- any messages from that address.
+ The vFolder will contain messages from an address
+ you enter.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -992,7 +1003,7 @@ possibly never will be due to security evil. -->
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
- as is shown in <xref
+ The selection window is shown in <xref
linkend="usage-mail-vfolder-fig-createrule">
<figure id="usage-mail-vfolder-fig-createrule">