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@@ -14,21 +14,20 @@
<sect1 id="config-prefs-mail">
<title>Mail Settings</title>
<para>
- To change your mail settings, first go to your
- <interface>Inbox</interface>. Then select <guimenuitem>Mail
- Settings</guimenuitem> from the <guimenu>Tools</guimenu> menu.
- This will open the <interface>mail preferences
- window</interface>, illustrated in <xref
- linkend="config-prefs-mail-fig">. Mail Preferences are
- separated into several categories:
+ To change your mail settings, select <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Mail
+ configuration</guimenuitem></menuchoice> in the Inbox. This
+ will open the <interface>mail preferences window</interface>,
+ illustrated in <xref linkend="config-prefs-mail-fig">. Mail
+ preferences are separated into several categories:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Identity</guilabel></term>
+ <term><guilabel>Identies</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- This allows you to set
- your name, email address, and other information. The
- default values are the ones found on your system account.
+ This allows you to create and alter one or more
+ identities for your email: your name, address, and so
+ forth.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -36,16 +35,19 @@
<term><guilabel>Sources</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Set your mail-checking protocols and servers here.
+ This tab lets you tell
+ <application>Evolution</application> where to get the
+ mail sent to you, and how to get it.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Sources</guilabel></term>
+
+ <term><guilabel>Mail Transport</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Set your mail-checking protocols and servers here.
+ This tab lets you tell
+ <application>Evolution</application> how to send mail.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -54,21 +56,28 @@
<term><guilabel>News Servers</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Specify your News Server preferences here.
+ If you would like to use
+ <application>Evolution</application> to read newsgroups,
+ you can secify your news server preferences here.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-<!-- THE FOLLOWING MAY BE REINSTATED:
- as well as attachment
- and HTML handling, forwarding behavior, filters, and
- other <application>Evolution</application> behaviors
- specific to email. The default behaviors are those
- approved by Jamie Zawinski.
--->
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Other</guilabel></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Miscellaneous mail and news settings, such as HTML
+ handling preferences, and how long
+ <application>Evolution</application> should wait before
+ marking message read.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
</para>
<!-- ==============Figure===================== -->
@@ -86,19 +95,23 @@
<sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-identity">
<title>Identity Settings</title>
<para>
- If you have only one email address, or use automatic
- forwarding to funnel multiple addresses to one account, then
- you will only need to configure one identity. You may,
- however, want more that one. To alter an identity, click on
- it in the <guilabel>Identity</guilabel> tab of the
+ If you have only one email account, or send email from only
+ one address, you will only need to configure one identity. If
+ you want, however, you can have multiple identities. This
+ can be useful if you want to keep personal and professional
+ email seperate.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To add a new identity, simply click
+ <guibutton>Add</guibutton>. To alter an existing identity,
+ click on it in the <guilabel>Identity</guilabel> tab of the
<interface>Preferences</interface> window, and then click
- <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>. To add a new identity, simply
- click <guibutton>Add</guibutton>.
+ <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>.
</para>
<para>
- In either case, you'll be presented with a dialog box with
- four fields:
+ <application>Evolution</application> will then present you
+ with a dialog box containing four fields:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
@@ -131,7 +144,6 @@
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-
</para>
</sect2>
@@ -145,12 +157,9 @@
protocols your network uses, and the names of the servers
you'll be using. If you're switching from another groupware
or email program, you can almost certainly use the same
- settings as you did with that program. Select the
- <guibutton>Sources</guibutton> tab in the
- <interface>Preferences</interface> window to tell
- <application>Evolution</application> where you want to get
- your mail, and click <guibutton>Transports</guibutton> to
- determine how you want to send your mail.
+ settings as you did with that program. Network-related
+ settings are in the <guilabel>Mail Sources</guilabel> and
+ <guilabel>Mail Transport</guilabel> tabs.
</para>
<sect3 id="config-prefs-network-sources">
@@ -185,8 +194,10 @@
<term><guilabel>Username:</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Enter your user name here. Eva Lucianne Tester's
- user name is <userinput>eltester</userinput>.
+ Enter your user name here. This is often related to
+ your real name, but not always. Examples include
+ <guilabel>eltester</guilabel> and
+ <guilabel>rupert</guilabel>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -194,48 +205,50 @@
<term><guilabel>Authentication:</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Your system administrator will know which type of
- authentication your system requires.
- <application>Evolution</application> can also detect
- what sorts of authentication are available once it
- knows where to find the server.
+ Tell <application>Evolution</application> how to
+ verify your identity with the server. Your options
+ vary depending upon the type of server you are
+ using, and the ways it is configured. Given the
+ name of a server,
+ <application>Evolution</application> can detect what
+ sorts of authentication it offers.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Test values before continuing</guilabel></term>
+ <term><guilabel>Test Settings</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- If this box is checked,
- <application>Evolution</application> will attempt to
- make sure that all the other entries in the dialog
- window are correct.
+ Click this button to have
+ <application>Evolution</application> check to see if
+ mail sources are configured correctly.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
<para>
- If you choose several mail sources, clicking
- <guibutton>Get Mail</guibutton> will refresh any IMAP or
+ If you have several mail sources, clicking <guibutton>Get
+ Mail</guibutton> will refresh any IMAP or
<filename>mbox</filename> listings and check and download
all POP servers. In other words, <guibutton>Get
Mail</guibutton> gets your mail, no matter how many
sources you have, or what types they are.
</para>
-
</sect3>
+
<sect3 id="config-prefs-mail-network-transports">
- <title>Transports</title>
+ <title>Mail Transports</title>
<para>
- The <interface>Transports</interface> tab lets you set how
- you will send mail. Evolution currently supports two mail
- transport options: <guilabel>SMTP</guilabel>, which uses a
- remote mail server, and <guilabel>sendmail</guilabel>,
- which uses the <application>sendmail</application> program
- on your local system. <application>Sendmail</application>
- is more difficult to configure, but offers more flexibility
- than <systemitem>SMTP</systemitem>.
+ The <interface>Mail Transports</interface> tab lets you set
+ how you will send mail. Evolution currently supports two
+ mail transport options: <guilabel>SMTP</guilabel>, which
+ uses a remote mail server, and
+ <guilabel>sendmail</guilabel>, which uses the
+ <application>sendmail</application> program on your local
+ system. <application>Sendmail</application> is more
+ difficult to configure, but offers more flexibility than
+ <systemitem>SMTP</systemitem>.
</para>
<para>
To use <guilabel>SMTP</guilabel>, you'll need to enter the
@@ -245,9 +258,8 @@
<para>
<application>Evolution</application> can attempt to
determine if you have entered a valid server name. To
- have it do so, check the box labelled <guilabel>Test these
- values before continuing</guilabel> before you click
- <guibutton>OK</guibutton>.
+ have it do so, click the <guilabel>Test
+ Settings</guilabel> button.
</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
@@ -255,18 +267,20 @@
<title>News Servers</title>
<para>
Newsgroups are so much like mailing lists that there's no
- reason not to have access to them right next to your mail.
- When you first select the <guilabel>News
- Servers</guilabel> tab, you will see a blank box with
- three familiar buttons on the right:
- <guibutton>Add</guibutton>, <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>,
- and <guibutton>Delete</guibutton>. </para>
+ reason not to keep them right next to your mail. When you
+ first select the <guilabel>News Servers</guilabel> tab,
+ you will see a blank box with the three familiar buttons
+ on the right: <guibutton>Add</guibutton>,
+ <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>, and
+ <guibutton>Delete</guibutton>.
+ </para>
<para>
Click <guibutton>Add</guibutton> to add a news server; you
will be prompted for its name. Enter the name, click
<guibutton>OK</guibutton>, and you're done. You can have
as many mail servers as you like, of course. News servers
- will appear next to your IMAP servers.
+ will appear next to your IMAP servers in the
+ <interface>folder bar</interface>.
</para>
</sect2>
@@ -277,6 +291,7 @@
contains some miscellaneous configurations that don't have
too much to do with each other.
<variablelist>
+
<varlistentry>
<term>
<guilabel>Send messages in HTML format</guilabel>
@@ -291,6 +306,17 @@
for more information about HTML mail.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <guilabel>Mark Messages as Seen After</guilabel>
+ </term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ When you click on a message,
+ <application>Evolution</application> will wait a
+ moment before marking it as seen. You can set the
+ delay, in milliseconds, here.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<guilabel>Folder Format</guilabel>
@@ -314,28 +340,14 @@
</sect2>
</sect1>
- <sect1 id="config-prefs-contact">
- <title>Managing the Contact Manager</title>
- <para>
- To set the behavior of your Contact Manager, click on the
- <guibutton>Contact Manager</guibutton> tab in the
- <interface>Preferences</interface> window.
- </para>
- <para>
- You can set the following options: <!--insert variable list
- here-->
- </para>
- </sect1>
-
- <sect1 id="config-prefs-cal">
- <title>Configuring the Calendar</title>
- <para>
- This section discusses calendar-specific preferences. While
- looking at your calendar, select
- <guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem> from the
- <guimenu>Edit</guimenu> menu. This will open up the
- <interface>Preferences</interface> window. It contains four
- tabs: <guilabel>Time display</guilabel>,
+ <sect1 id="config-prefs-cal">
+ <title>Configuring the Calendar</title>
+ <para>
+ To set your calendar preferences, select
+ <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Calendar Configuration</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. This
+ will open up the <interface>Preferences</interface> window.
+ It contains four tabs: <guilabel>Time display</guilabel>,
<guilabel>Colors</guilabel>, <guilabel>To Do List</guilabel>
and <guilabel>Alarms</guilabel>. The <interface>calendar
preferences window</interface> is illustrated in <xref
@@ -540,13 +552,14 @@
this box to have <application>Evolution</application> beep
at you for any alarms you have set. If you leave this box
unchecked, <application>Evolution</application> will only
- alert you to events by opening a dialog box.
+ alert you to events by opening a dialog box. These beeps
+ are distict from full-fledged audio alarms.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Audio alarms timeout after: </guilabel>
- Select this button to have the beeping stop automatically
- after a certain number of seconds. </para>
+ Select this button to have your audio alarms stop
+ automatically after a certain number of seconds. </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Enable snoozing for:</guilabel> If you
@@ -563,6 +576,22 @@
</sect1>
+
+ <sect1 id="config-prefs-contact">
+ <title>Managing the Contact Manager</title>
+ <para>
+ To set the behavior of your Contact Manager, click on the
+ <guibutton>Contact Manager</guibutton> tab in the
+ <interface>Preferences</interface> window.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ You can set the following options: <!--insert variable list
+ here-->
+ </para>
+ </sect1>
+
+
+
<sect1 id="config-prefs-general">
<title>General Preferences</title>
<para>