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diff --git a/help/C/usage-mail.xml b/help/C/usage-mail.xml index aa55b1b5d2..a1a3bcb018 100644 --- a/help/C/usage-mail.xml +++ b/help/C/usage-mail.xml @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ </keycombo>. </para> + <tip id="spaceandbs"> <title>Reading Mail with the Keyboard</title> <para> @@ -39,6 +40,16 @@ an email, and press backspace to page up in an email. This may help to make reading your email faster. </para> + + <para> + You can navigate the message list by pressing the arrow keys up + and down. To jump to the next unread message, press the + <keycap>.</keycap> (period) + or <keycap>]</keycap> (close bracket) key. You can go to the + previous unread message with + <keycap>,</keycap> (comma) or <keycap>[</keycap> (open + bracket). + </para> </tip> <sect2 id="usage-mail-listorder"> @@ -64,7 +75,7 @@ <title>Email Headers</title> <para> To look at the complete headers for email messages, select - <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guisubmenu>Message + <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guisubmenu>Message Display</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Show Full Headers</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. To see absolutely every bit, choose @@ -520,51 +531,54 @@ </para> </sect2> - <sect2 id="usage-mail-getnsend-offline"> - <title>Working Offline</title> - <para> - Offline mode is a tool designed for use with a dialup - connection or for laptop users who do not have a network - connection at all times. It allows you to cache messages - for reference while you are not connected to the - network, and to compose messages and leave them in your - Outbox to be sent the next time you connect to the network. - </para> - <para> - Select - <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Work - Offline</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to have - <application>Ximian Evolution</application> disconnect - from the Internet while you work. When you want to - reconnect, choose - <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Work - Online</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. Alternatively, you - can click the connection button at the bottom left side - of the window. - </para> - <para> - If you use POP mail, all your messages will be - available to you, because they are stored locally. If - you use IMAP or Exchange mail, messages are stored - remotely, so availability is a little different. - </para> - <para> - Messages that you have read are cached and stored - locally; all read messages will be available to you - even if you are offline. Unread messages will be - downloaded and saved for offline use if they are in a - folder that you have marked as an Offline Folder. To - mark a folder for offline use, select - <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu> - <guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem></menuchoice> and - then click the <guilabel>Folders</guilabel> icon. In - the <guilabel>Offline Folders</guilabel> tab, click the - check-box next to the folders that you would like to - use while you are offline. Then, when you select - <guimenuitem>Go Offline</guimenuitem>, Evolution will - fetch their contents and store them for later - reference. - </para> + <sect2 id="usage-mail-getnsend-offline"> + <title>Working Offline</title> + + <para> + Offline mode is a tool designed for use with IMAP or Exchange + mail accounts in situations where you will not be connected to + the network at all times. It will keep a local copy of one or + more folders, and allow you to compose messages, storing them + in your Outbox to be sent the next time you connect. + </para> + + <para> + While POP mail downloads all messages to your local system, + IMAP and Exchange connections usually download just the + headers, and fetch the rest only when you want to read the + message. Before you go offline, Evolution will download + the unread messages from the folders you have chosen to + store. + </para> + + <para> + To mark a folder for offline use, select <menuchoice> + <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> + <guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> and then + click the <guilabel>Folders</guilabel> icon. In the + <guilabel>Offline Folders</guilabel> tab, click the check-box + next to the folders that you would like to use while you are + offline. + </para> + + <para> + Your connection status is shown by the small icon in the lower + left border of the Evolution main window. When you are online, + it will display two connected cables. When you go offline, the + cables will separate. + </para> + + <para> + To cache your selected folders and disconnect from the + network, select <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Work + Offline</guimenuitem></menuchoice> or click the + connection status icon in the lower left of the screen. When you + want to reconnect, choose + <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Work + Online</guimenuitem></menuchoice> or click the connection + status icon again. + </para> + </sect2> <sect2 id="usage-mail-getnsend-send-compose"> <title>More About Mail Composition</title> |