To change your configuration settings, select Preferences from the Settings 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. Mail, which allows you to specify your email server and protocols, as well as attachment and HTML handling, forwarding behavior, filters, and other Evolution behaviors specific to email. The default behaviors are those approved by Jamie Zawinski. Contacts, which allows you to control addressbook sharing as well as other funcctions specific to your contact manager. Calendar, which allows you to set up calendar networking, as well as the way that your calendar will behave and appear. The default view is by week and the default calendar is Western. Time and date are determined by the system clock and localization, and cannot be set here. General, which covers everything else, including the Evolution startup screen.

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. To create a single user with a single identity, enter the following information: (INSERT detailed DESCRIPTION HERE) If you have one email accout for your personal life, and one for work, you'll want to create multiple identities. You can do this by: (INSERT DESCRIPTION HERE) If you use multiple network connections—if, for example, you dial up an ISP for your personal mail, and use a LAN for your work-related tasks— you will also have to set seperate network settings for each identity. 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 Network tab in the Preferences window to get started. INSERT a little introduction paragraph here. 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.