To change your configuration settings, select Configure Camel Providers from the Tools menu. This will open the preferences window, illustrated in . Preferences are seperated into several categories: Identity, which allows you to set your name, email address, and other information. The default values are the ones found on your system account. Sources, which allows you to specify your mail receiving server and protocols. Transports, which allows you to specify how you will send mail.

Preferences dialog

If you have only one email address, or use automatic forwarding to funnel multiple addresses into one, then you will only need to configure one identity. You may, however, want more thatn one. To alter an identity, click on it in the Identity tab of the Preferences window, and then click Edit. To add a new identity, simply click Add. In either case, you'll be presented with a dialog box with four fields: Full Name: by default, this is the same name as the full name described in your user account on your computer. Email address: Enter your email address in this space. Organization: If you send email as a representative of a company or other organization, enter its name here. Signature file: You may choose a small text file to be appended to every message that you send. Typically, signature files include address or other contact information, or a favorite quotation. They should not be more than three lines long. In order to do much of anything with Evolution, you need to connect to your network. To do that, you'll need to know your user name and password, what sort of mail sending and receiving protocols your network uses, and the names of the servers you'll be using. If you're switching from another groupware or email progam, you can almost certainly use the same settings as you did with that program. Select the Sources tab in the Preferences window to tell Evolution where you want to get your mail, and click Transports to determine how you want to send your mail. The Mail Sources tab allows you to edit, add, or delete methods of retreiving mail from servers. Clicking on Add or Edit will bring up a dialog box to offer you the following options: Mail source type:At this point, you can only select from POP or Unix-style mbox files, but additional types will be supported in the future. Server:Enter the name of your mail server in this field, eg: mail.mycompany.com Username:Enter your user name here. Eva Lucy Ann Tester's user name is eltester. Authentication: Your system administrator will know which type of authentication your system requires. Evolution can also detect what sorts of authentication are available once it knows where to find the server. Test these values before continuing If this box is checked, Evolution will attempt to make sure that all the other entries in the dialog box are correct. People with who use multiple ISP's or networks, or who have multiple email accounts, will need to do a little more work, but not much. Nate's laptop goes everywhere with him, and he needs to be able to use Evolution from anywhere&mdash a hotel room, an airplane, a client's office, his office, anywhere at all. (INSERT HOW EVOLUTION HELPS HIM DO THIS). (INSERT DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THESE THINGS ARE AND HOW TO USE THEM) (I'M THINKING IN TERMS OF THE APPLE LOCATION MANAGER) (Kill this section if Evolution doesn't support this for 1.0). I can't think of any at the moment but i'm sure they're out there. They belong here. This section discusses mail-specific preferences. Click on the Mail tab in the Preferences window to access these settings. You can set the following options: To set the behavior of your Contact Manager, click on the Contact Manager tab in the Preferences window. You can set the following options: This section discusses calendar-specific preferences. Click on the Calendar tab in the Preferences window to access these settings. You can set the following options: Overall Evolution prefs-- whatever else doesn't fit.