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-rw-r--r--help/C/config-prefs.sgml15
-rw-r--r--help/C/menuref.sgml15
-rw-r--r--help/C/usage-calendar.sgml36
-rw-r--r--help/C/usage-exec-summary.sgml94
-rw-r--r--help/C/usage-mail-org.sgml8
-rw-r--r--help/C/usage-mail.sgml78
-rw-r--r--help/C/usage-mainwindow.sgml21
7 files changed, 219 insertions, 48 deletions
diff --git a/help/C/config-prefs.sgml b/help/C/config-prefs.sgml
index 48da53b775..001add09c6 100644
--- a/help/C/config-prefs.sgml
+++ b/help/C/config-prefs.sgml
@@ -132,6 +132,21 @@
connection. To turn SSL connections on, just click the
<guibutton>Use Secure Connection (SSL)</guibutton>
button.
+
+<note id="config-arbitrary-port">
+<title>Specifying Port Numbers</title>
+<para>
+Your system administrator may ask you to connect to a specific port on
+a mail server. To specify which port you use, just type a colon and
+the port number after the server name. For example, to connect to port
+143 on the server smtp.omniport.com, you would enter
+as
+<userinput>
+smtp.omniport.com:143
+</userinput> as the server name.
+</para>
+</note>
+
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
diff --git a/help/C/menuref.sgml b/help/C/menuref.sgml
index fca576d52c..bc5008f68d 100644
--- a/help/C/menuref.sgml
+++ b/help/C/menuref.sgml
@@ -150,7 +150,20 @@
mouse:
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Send and Receive Mail</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Press <keycap>F9</keycap>, click the
+ <guibutton>Send/Receive</guibutton> button in the
+ toolbar, or choose
+ <menuchoice><guimenu>Actions</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Send/Receive</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
<term>Navigating the Message List with the Keyboard</term>
<listitem>
<para>
diff --git a/help/C/usage-calendar.sgml b/help/C/usage-calendar.sgml
index 631ea41d84..710b637bfd 100644
--- a/help/C/usage-calendar.sgml
+++ b/help/C/usage-calendar.sgml
@@ -219,25 +219,15 @@
<sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-group">
<title>Appointments for Groups</title>
<para>
- If you have your calendar set up to work with other
- calendars over a network, you can see when others are
- available to meet with you.
- </para>
- <note>
- <title>Unimplemented Feature</title>
- <para>This feature is not yet implemented.</para>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- In addition, you can use <application>Evolution</application>
- to mark a meeting request on another person's calendar. To do
- it, click <guibutton>New</guibutton> in the calendar toolbar,
- or select <menuchoice> <guimenu>File</guimenu>
+ You can use <application>Evolution</application> to mark a
+ meeting request on another person's calendar. To do it, click
+ <guibutton>New</guibutton> in the calendar toolbar, or select
+ <menuchoice> <guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu>
<guimenuitem>Appointment</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> to bring
- up the <interface>new appointment</interface> window. Then describe
- the appointment as you would any other. Before you click
- <guibutton>OK</guibutton>, (INSERT DESCRIPTION HERE...).
+ up the <interface>new appointment</interface> window. Then
+ describe the appointment as you would any other. When you are
+ ready to send the invitation <guibutton>OK</guibutton>
<application>Evolution</application> will automatically send
email to each person on the request list, notifying of the
time and date of the meeting you have requested with them. In
@@ -253,6 +243,18 @@
window, click the "tentative" button to De-select the
appointment.
</para>
+ <para>
+ When your meeting attendees get the email inviting them to the
+ meeting, they'll be able to enter the information into their
+ calendars and let you know if they'll be able to attend; if
+ they use <application>Ximian Evolution</application> or
+ another iCal compliant mail client, they can do this with just
+ one click. When you get a response from them, it will include
+ an iCal attachment. Opening and accepting this attachment will
+ change the meeting data in your calendar to indicate that they
+ have responded to your invitation, and whether they will be in
+ attendance.
+ </para>
</sect2>
diff --git a/help/C/usage-exec-summary.sgml b/help/C/usage-exec-summary.sgml
index fc2963cc0a..be59cb389d 100644
--- a/help/C/usage-exec-summary.sgml
+++ b/help/C/usage-exec-summary.sgml
@@ -52,6 +52,100 @@
to suit your needs. For example, you can choose which mail
boxes are summarized, and which news services appear.
</para>
+
+
+ <note id="summary-http-proxy">
+ <title>Using the Summary through an HTTP Proxy</title>
+ <para>
+ If you use an HTTP proxy, <application>Ximian
+ Evolution</application> must be able to find it through the
+ <systemitem>gnome-vfs</systemitem> subsystem before it can
+ access news and weather from the Internet. This is also
+ the case if you wish to load remote images into HTML mail
+ message. You can tell the GNOME Virtual File System about
+ your HTTP proxy in one of two ways:
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Configure it with Nautilus</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Open a Nautilus window
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Select <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Preferences</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Edit Preferences</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Go to the <guilabel>Navigation</guilabel> tab.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click the <guilabel>Use HTTP Proxy</guilabel>
+ checkbox and enter the location of your HTTP
+ proxy in the <guilabel>Location</guilabel> field.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Configure it with the gconftool command</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Open a terminal.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Enter the command
+ <command>
+ gconftool --type=bool --set /system/gnome-vfs/use-http-proxy "TRUE"
+ </command>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Enter the command
+ <command>
+ gconftool --type=string --set /system/gnome-vfs/http-proxy-host "your-proxy-url"
+ </command>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Enter the command
+ <command>
+ gconftool --type=int --set /system/gnome-vfs/http-proxy-port "8080"
+ </command>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For more information about the gconftool command,
+ read the gconftool man page.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </para>
+ </note>
+
+
<sect2 id="customizing-summary-weather">
<title>Customizing the Weather Summary</title>
<para>
diff --git a/help/C/usage-mail-org.sgml b/help/C/usage-mail-org.sgml
index a40dae6367..7a5fe92d53 100644
--- a/help/C/usage-mail-org.sgml
+++ b/help/C/usage-mail-org.sgml
@@ -702,14 +702,6 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Regex Match - If you know your way around a <glossterm
- linkend="regular-expression">regex</glossterm>, or
- regular expression, put your knowledge to use here.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
Source Account - Search messages according the server you got them from.
You can enter a URL or choose one from the drop-down
list. This ability is only relevant if you use more
diff --git a/help/C/usage-mail.sgml b/help/C/usage-mail.sgml
index e9e693c57e..ab80bc8a13 100644
--- a/help/C/usage-mail.sgml
+++ b/help/C/usage-mail.sgml
@@ -422,8 +422,10 @@
If you use an HTTP proxy,
<application>Evolution</application> must be able to find
it through the <systemitem>gnome-vfs</systemitem> subsystem
- before it can load images from the Internet. You can set
- this in one of two ways:
+ before it can load images from the Internet. This is also
+ the case if you wish to access weather and news information
+ through the Summary tool. You can tell the GNOME Virtual
+ File System about your HTTP proxy in one of two ways:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Configure it with Nautilus</term>
@@ -753,9 +755,6 @@
with the quoted material as shown in <xref
linkend="usage-mail-getnsend-reply-fig">.
-<!-- note that this figure should have a reply message ready to send,
-with quoted materials and the relevant replies interspersed-->
-<!-- I want to wait for the formatting bugs to be fixed first -->
<!-- ==============Figure=================================== -->
<figure id="usage-mail-getnsend-reply-fig">
<title>Reply Message Window</title>
@@ -1536,17 +1535,68 @@ with quoted materials and the relevant replies interspersed-->
<sect1 id="rsvp-stuff">
<title>RSVPs in Mail</title>
<para>
- If an event is created in the calendar component, an attendee list can be used to invite users to the event. The invite card is sent as an attachment in iCal format.
+ If you create an event in the calendar component, you can then
+ send invitations to the attendee list through the
+ <application>Ximian Evolution</application> email tool. The
+ invitation card is sent as an attachment in iCal format.
</para>
<para>
- If you click on the attachment button and click the <guibutton>View Inline</guibutton>, the card will show up in your email. It gives information about:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Meeting hours
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ If you click on the attachment button and click the
+ <guibutton>View Inline</guibutton>, <application>Ximian
+ Evolution</application> will show you information about the
+ meeting, and let you respond to the meeting in several ways.
+ Select the response that you would like, and then click the
+ <guibutton>OK</guibutton> button.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Your options are:
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Accept</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Select this entry if you will attend the meeting. When you
+ click the <guibutton>OK</guibutton> button, the meeting will
+ be entered into your calendar.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>>Accept</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Select this entry if you will probably attend the meeting.
+ When you click the <guibutton>OK</guibutton> button, the
+ meeting will be entered into your calendar, but marked as
+ tentative.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Decline</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Select this item if you will be unable to attend the
+ meeting. The meeting will not be entered into your calendar
+ when you click the <guibutton>OK</guibutton>, although your
+ response will be sent to the meeting host if you have
+ checked the <guilabel>RSVP</guilabel> box.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>RSVP</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Check this box if you would like your response sent to
+ the meeting organizers.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
</para>
</sect1>
diff --git a/help/C/usage-mainwindow.sgml b/help/C/usage-mainwindow.sgml
index 6e349e3ef6..5bd5b78711 100644
--- a/help/C/usage-mainwindow.sgml
+++ b/help/C/usage-mainwindow.sgml
@@ -138,8 +138,9 @@
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Server Type &mdash; There are numerous types of servers which
- <application>Ximian Evolution</application> can download your email from:
+ Server Type &mdash; There are numerous types of servers
+ from which <application>Ximian Evolution</application>
+ can fetch your mail:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
@@ -159,14 +160,16 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Unix mbox spool-format file &mdash; Bad description, we're
- getting a better definition shortly.
+ Unix mail spool file &mdash; If you run a mail
+ server on your desktop computer, choose this optino.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Standard Unix mailbox file &mdash; Bad description, we're
- getting a better definition shortly.
+ Standard Unix .mbox file &mdash; If you want
+ <application>Ximian Evolution</application> to
+ read mail from a specific file, or if you download
+ mail with another application, choose this option.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -1019,8 +1022,10 @@
<para>
The <guilabel>Task List</guilabel> compliments the
<guilabel>Appointment List </guilabel> as it keeps track of
- tasks which don't have any time associated with them. These
- may include "" or "Call Repairman". </para>
+ tasks which don't have a time associated with them. Tasks can
+ have complex notes associated with them, and you can also note
+ their completeness on a percentage scale.
+ </para>
<para>
<inlinegraphic fileref="figures/full-3" format="png"></inlinegraphic>