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diff --git a/help/C/usage-mail.sgml b/help/C/usage-mail.sgml
index b5c6ae61d4..e32cdc912d 100644
--- a/help/C/usage-mail.sgml
+++ b/help/C/usage-mail.sgml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-<!--
<!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN">
--->
+
<chapter id="usage-mail">
<title>Using Evolution for Email</title>
<abstract>
@@ -65,6 +64,15 @@
message from Ximian welcoming you to the application.
</para>
+ <tip id="spaceandbs">
+ <title>Reading Mail with the Keyboard</title>
+ <para>
+ You can click the spacebar to page down while you're reading
+ an email, and press backspace to page up in an email. This
+ may help to make reading your email faster.
+ </para>
+ </tip>
+
<para>
Your <application>Evolution</application>
<guilabel>Inbox</guilabel> will look something like the one in
@@ -331,16 +339,9 @@
a file attached to an email,
<application>Evolution</application> will display the file
at the bottom of the message to which it's attached. Text,
- including HTML formatting, will appear as part of the
- message. To minimize download time, and to foil spammers
- who use server information to track their messages, images
- linked from an HTML message <emphasis>not</emphasis>
- display unless you select the
- <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guisubmenu>Message
- Display</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Load Images
- </guimenuitem></menuchoice> option. For other files,
- <application>Evolution</application> will show an icon at
- the end of the message.
+ including HTML formatting and embedded images, will appear
+ as part of the message, rather than at the end of the
+ message as an attachment.
</para>
<para>
To Save an Attachment to Disk:
@@ -373,15 +374,124 @@
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</para>
+ <para>
+ When someone sends you HTML mail, and includes an image in
+ the actual mail (that is, they use the <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Insert</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Image</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice> tool, not the <guibutton>Attach</guibutton>
+ tool), <application>Evolution</application> will display the
+ image inside the message.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If an HTML mail with images does not include an image, but
+ asks <application>Evolution</application> to go download the
+ image from a website, <application>Evolution</application>
+ won't display the image unless you ask it to. This is because
+ remotely hosted images can slow down your system, and can be
+ used by spammers to track reads their email. So having them
+ not load automatically helps protect your privacy.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If you want the images to load, select
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>View</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Message Display</guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Load Images</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>.
+ You can also set image loading behavior in the
+ <guilabel>Display</guilabel> tab of the
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Mail Settings</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice> dialog.
+ </para>
+ <note id="http-proxy">
+ <title>Loading Images from the Net through an HTTP Proxy</title>
+ <para>
+ 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 iamges from the net.
+ <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>
+ --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>
+ </para>
+ </note>
- <tip id="spaceandbs">
- <title>Reading email with keyboard</title>
- <para>
- You can click the spacebar to page down while you're reading an email,
- and press backspace to page up in an email. This may help to make
- reading your email faster.
- </para>
- </tip>
<para>
To Open an Attachment in a Program:
<orderedlist numeration="arabic">
@@ -404,14 +514,6 @@
</orderedlist>
</para>
- <para>
- <application>Evolution</application> can also display
- HTML-formatted mail, complete with graphics. Graphics
- don't load automatically by default, because they can be
- large and take a long time to download. They can also be
- used by spammers to help track who reads their email. So
- having them not load automatically helps protect your
- privacy.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@@ -543,14 +645,7 @@
will go with it. Be aware that big attachments can take a
long time to download.
</para>
- <para>
- When receiving a message that has an attached image,
- <application>Evolution</application> gives you the choice
- whether to view it or not. You can choose to have it
- always shown, load images only if the sender is in your
- addressbook, or never load images.
- </para>
- </sect3>
+ </sect3>
<sect3 id="usage-mail-getnsend-send-to-types">
<title>Types of Recipients</title>
diff --git a/help/ChangeLog b/help/ChangeLog
index 7a915a75f5..ccf9b08789 100644
--- a/help/ChangeLog
+++ b/help/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2001-08-16 Aaron Weber <aaron@ximian.com>
+
+ * C/usage-mail.sgml: minor edits. Added <tip> about bug 7428.
+
2001-08-16 Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas@gnome.org>
* C/evolution-C.omf: Place it under <category="GNOME|Applications"/>