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<note id="badmailsettings">
<title>Can't Check Mail?</title>
<para>
- If you get an error message instead of mail, you probably need to check
- your network settings. To learn how to do that,
- have a look at <xref linkend="config-prefs-mail-network">, or
- ask your system administrator.
+ If you get an error message instead of mail, you probably need
+ to check your network settings. To learn how to do that, have
+ a look at <xref linkend="config-prefs-mail">, or ask your
+ system administrator.
</para>
</note>
+
+
+ <tip>
+ <title>Sharing Mailboxes with Other Mail Programs</title>
+ <para>
+ If you want to use <application>Evolution</application>
+ and another email client, such as
+ <application>Mutt</application>, at the same time,
+ here's how:
+ <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Download your mail in the other application as
+ you would normally.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ In <application>Evolution</application>
+ <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guimenuitem>Mail
+ Settings</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, and pick the account
+ you'd like to use to share mail. You may want to
+ create a new account just for this source of
+ mail.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Under the <guilabel>Receiving Mail</guilabel>
+ tab, select the type of mail file that your
+ other mail application uses, and then enter the
+ full path to that file.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click the <guibutton>OK</guibutton> button.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </para>
+ </tip>
+
+
<!-- NOT FOR 1.0
<sect2 id="usage-mail-getnsend-get-news">
<title>Using Evolution for News</title>
@@ -323,7 +367,7 @@
</sect3>
<sect3 id="usage-mail-getnsend-get-attach-html">
- <title>Images in HTML Mail</title>
+ <title>Inline Images in HTML Mail</title>
<para>
When someone sends you HTML mail that includes an image in
the body of the message&mdash; like the welcome message in