<!-- <!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN"> --> <chapter id="config-prefs"> <title>Advanced Configuration</title> <para> Perhaps your mail server has changed names. Perhaps you've grown tired of a certain layout for your appointments. Whatever the reason, you want to change your <application>Evolution</application> settings. This chapter will tell you how to do just that. </para> <sect1 id="config-prefs-mail"> <title>Mail Settings</title> <para> To change your mail settings, select <menuchoice> <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Mail configuration</guimenuitem></menuchoice> in the Inbox. This will open the <interface>mail preferences window</interface>, illustrated in <xref linkend="config-prefs-mail-fig">. Mail preferences are separated into several categories: <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Identities</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> This allows you to create and alter one or more identities for your email. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Sources</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> This tab lets you tell <application>Evolution</application> where to get the mail sent to you, and how to get it. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Mail Transport</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> This tab lets you tell <application>Evolution</application> how to send mail. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>News Servers</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> If you would like to use <application>Evolution</application> to read newsgroups, you can specify your news server preferences here. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Other</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> Miscellaneous mail and news settings, such as HTML handling preferences, and how long <application>Evolution</application> should wait before marking a message read. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </para> <!-- ==============Figure===================== --> <figure id="config-prefs-mail-fig"> <title>Mail Preferences Dialog</title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>Setting mail preferences</screeninfo> <graphic fileref="fig/config-mail" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber"> </graphic> </screenshot> </figure> <!-- ==============End of Figure================--> <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-identity"> <title>Identity Settings</title> <para> If you have only one email account, or send email from only one address, you will only need to configure one identity. If you want, however, you can have multiple identities. This can be useful if you want to keep personal and professional email separate, or if you wear several hats at work. </para> <para> To add a new identity, simply click <guibutton>Add</guibutton>. To alter an existing identity, click on it in the <guilabel>Identity</guilabel> tab of the <interface>Preferences</interface> window, and then click <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>. </para> <para> <application>Evolution</application> will then present you with a dialog box containing four fields: <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para> <guilabel>Full Name:</guilabel> by default, this is the same name as the full name described in your user account on your computer. You can select another if you wish. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para> <guilabel>Email address:</guilabel> Enter your email address in this space. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para> <guilabel>Organization:</guilabel> If you send email as a representative of a company or other organization, enter its name here. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para> <guilabel>Signature file:</guilabel> 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. It's good form to keep it to four lines at the maximum. </para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> </sect2> <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-network"> <title>Network Settings</title> <para> In order to send mail with <application>Evolution</application>, 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 program, you can almost certainly use the same settings as you did with that program. Network-related settings are in the <guilabel>Mail Sources</guilabel> and <guilabel>Mail Transport</guilabel> tabs. </para> <sect3 id="config-prefs-network-sources"> <title>Mail Sources</title> <para> The <interface>Mail Sources</interface> tab allows you to edit, add, or delete methods of retrieving mail from servers. Clicking on <guibutton>Add</guibutton> or <guibutton>Edit</guibutton> will bring up a dialog box to offer you the following options: <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Mail source type:</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> Select from <glossterm linkend="imap">IMAP</glossterm> or <glossterm linkend="pop">POP</glossterm> servers, or Unix-style <systemitem><filename>mbox</filename></systemitem> or <systemitem><filename>mh</filename></systemitem> files. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term> <guilabel>Server:</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> Enter the name of the mail source server in this field. If you use an may or may not be the same as your <glossterm linkend="smtp">SMTP</glossterm> server. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Username:</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> Enter the user name for the account you have on the server-- this should the part of your email address before the @. If you use <systemitem><filename>mbox</filename></systemitem> or <systemitem><filename>mh</filename></systemitem> files as your mail source, you do not need to enter a username. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Authentication:</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> Tell <application>Evolution</application> how to verify your identity with the server. Your options vary depending upon the type of server you are using, and the ways it is configured. Given the name of a server, <application>Evolution</application> can detect what sorts of authentication it offers. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Test Settings</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> Click this button to have <application>Evolution</application> check to see if mail sources are configured correctly. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </para> <para> If you have several mail sources, clicking <guibutton>Get Mail</guibutton> will refresh any IMAP, <systemitem><filename>mh</filename></systemitem>, or <systemitem><filename>mbox</filename></systemitem> listings and check and download mail from all POP servers. In other words, <guibutton>Get Mail</guibutton> gets your mail, no matter how many sources you have, or what types they are. </para> </sect3> <sect3 id="config-prefs-mail-network-transports"> <title>Mail Transports</title> <para> The <interface>Mail Transports</interface> tab lets you set how you will send mail. Evolution currently supports two mail transport options: <glossterm linkend="smtp">SMTP</glossterm>, which uses a remote mail server, and <glossterm linkend="sendmail">sendmail</glossterm>, which uses the <application>sendmail</application> program on your local system. <application>Sendmail</application> is more difficult to configure, but offers more flexibility than <glossterm>SMTP</glossterm>. </para> <para> To use <guilabel>SMTP</guilabel>, you'll need to enter the name of your SMTP server. It may have the same name as your mail source server. </para> <para> <application>Evolution</application> can attempt to determine if you have entered a valid server name. To have it do so, click the <guilabel>Test Settings</guilabel> button. </para> </sect3> </sect2> <sect2 id="config-prefs-network-news"> <title>News Servers</title> <para> Newsgroups are so much like mailing lists that there's no reason not to keep them right next to your mail. When you first select the <guilabel>News Servers</guilabel> tab, you will see a blank box with the three familiar buttons on the right: <guibutton>Add</guibutton>, <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>, and <guibutton>Delete</guibutton>. </para> <para> Click <guibutton>Add</guibutton> to add a news server; you will be prompted for its name. Enter the name, click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>, and you're done. You can have as many mail servers as you like, of course. News servers will appear next to your IMAP servers in the <interface>folder bar</interface>. </para> </sect2> <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-other"> <title>Other Mail Preferences</title> <para> Not everything fits neatly into categories. This tab contains some miscellaneous configurations that don't have too much to do with each other. <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term> <guilabel>Send messages in HTML format</guilabel> </term> <listitem><para> If you check this box, you will send messages as HTML by default. If you leave it unchecked, your messages will be sent without HTML formatting unless you select <menuchoice> <guimenu>Format</guimenu> <guimenuitem>HTML</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> in the message composer. See <xref linkend="usage-mail-getnsend-send-html"> for more information about HTML mail. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term> <guilabel>Mark Messages as Seen After</guilabel> </term> <listitem><para> When you click on a message, <application>Evolution</application> will wait a moment before marking it as seen. You can set the delay, in milliseconds, here. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term> <guilabel>Folder Format</guilabel> </term> <listitem> <para> By default, <application>Evolution</application> saves its mail in the <systemitem><filename>mbox</filename></systemitem> format. You can switch to the <systemitem><filename>mh</filename></systemitem> format if you like. Note that this is an advanced feature and may cause you to lose some messages, so you should probably make a backup of your <systemitem><filename>evolution</filename></systemitem> directory first. In addition, it will take quite some time if you have a large mailbox. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </para> </sect2> </sect1> <sect1 id="config-prefs-cal"> <title>Configuring the Calendar</title> <para> To set your calendar preferences, select <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Calendar Configuration</guimenuitem></menuchoice> from the Calendar view. This will open up the <interface>Preferences</interface> window. It contains four tabs: <guilabel>Time display</guilabel>, <guilabel>Colors</guilabel>, <guilabel>To Do List</guilabel> and <guilabel>Alarms</guilabel>. The <interface>calendar preferences window</interface> is illustrated in <xref linkend="config-prefs-cal-fig">. <!-- ==============Figure===================== --> <figure id="config-prefs-cal-fig"> <title>Calendar Preferences Dialog</title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>If this worked on my job as well as my calendar...</screeninfo> <graphic fileref="fig/config-cal" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber"> </graphic> </screenshot> </figure> <!-- ==============End of Figure================--> </para> <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-time"> <title>Time Display Settings</title> <para> The <guilabel>Time display</guilabel> tab lets you set the following: <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term>Time format</term> <listitem> <para>You may choose between twelve-hour (AM/PM) and twenty-four hour time formats here by clicking the appropriate radio button. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>Weeks start on</term> <listitem> <para>You can set weeks to start on Sunday or on Monday.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>Day range</term> <listitem> <para> When does your work day start, and when does it end? In the day and week views, <application>Evolution</application> displays all the hours in the range you select here, even if there are no appointments for those times. Of course, you can still schedule an appointment outside of these hours, and if you do, the display will be extended to show it. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </para> </sect2> <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-color"> <title>Calendar Colors</title> <para> The <interface>colors tab</interface> allows you to decide what color your calendar will be. The tab consists of a sample calendar on the right and a list of ten items that can be colored in different ways. If you click on the color button to the right of each item, you will bring up a color-selector window where you can choose to alter that color. By clicking <guibutton>OK</guibutton> in the color selection dialog, you can see the results of the color on the sample calendar. </para> <para>The display elements whose color you can set are: <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para> <guilabel>Outline:</guilabel> The lines between days and at the top of the display. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para> <guilabel>Headings:</guilabel> Text color for day and month names and other headings. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para> <guilabel>Empty days:</guilabel> This is the background color for any time slots in which you have no appointments. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para> <guilabel>Appointments:</guilabel> This is the background color for any time slots in which you have appointments. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para> <guilabel>Highlighted day:</guilabel> The background color for a selected time slot. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para> <guilabel>Day numbers:</guilabel> Text color for date numbers. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para> <guilabel>Current day's number:</guilabel> Text color for today's date. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para> <guilabel>To-Do item that is not yet due:</guilabel> Text color for To-Do list items that are not yet due. (Or maybe background color? find out!) </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para> <guilabel>To-Do item that is due today:</guilabel> Text color for today's tasks. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para> <guilabel>To-Do item that is overdue:</guilabel> Text color for overdue tasks. </para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> </sect2> <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-todo"> <title>To Do List Settings</title> <para> You can choose what information the To Do list displays and the way it is displayed. The two areas of the <interface>To Do List</interface> tab offer several options each: <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term>Show on To Do List</term> <listitem> <para> This box contains three items. If you select the check boxes next to them, that information will appear in the To Do list for each task it contains: <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para><guilabel>Due Date</guilabel></para> </listitem> <listitem> <para><guilabel>Time Until Due</guilabel></para> </listitem> <listitem> <para><guilabel>Priority</guilabel></para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>Style Options</term> <listitem> <para> Select among the following checkboxes to determine how your To Do list will look: <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para><guilabel>Highlight overdue items</guilabel></para> </listitem> <listitem> <para><guilabel>Highlight items due today</guilabel></para> </listitem> <listitem> <para><guilabel>Highlight not yet due items</guilabel></para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </para> </sect2> <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-alarms"> <title>Alarms Settings</title> <para> The <interface>alarms tab</interface> enables you to select from three boxes: <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para><guilabel>Beep on display alarms</guilabel>: select this box to have <application>Evolution</application> beep at you for any alarms you have set. If you leave this box unchecked, <application>Evolution</application> will only alert you to events by opening a dialog box. These beeps are distinct from full-fledged audio alarms. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para><guilabel>Audio alarms timeout after: </guilabel> Select this button to have your audio alarms stop automatically after a certain number of seconds. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para><guilabel>Enable snoozing for:</guilabel> If you would like to have the option to tell <application>Evolution</application> to repeat an alarm in a few minutes, select this button and decide how long you'd like it to wait. </para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> </sect2> </sect1> <sect1 id="config-prefs-contact"> <title>Managing the Contact Manager</title> <para> To set the behavior of your Contact Manager, click on the <guibutton>Contact Manager</guibutton> tab in the <interface>Preferences</interface> window. </para> <para> You can set the following options: <!--insert variable list here--> </para> <sect2 id="config-prefs-contact-ldap-add"> <title>Adding Directory Servers</title> <para> To add a new LDAP server to your available contact folders, select <menuchoice> <guimenu>Actions</guimenu> <guimenuitem>New Directory Server</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>. This brings up a small dialog box which will let you enter the following options: <itemizedlist> <listitem><para> <guilabel>Name</guilabel> — any name you choose for the server. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <guilabel>Description</guilabel> — a longer description of the server. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <guilabel>LDAP Server</guilabel> — the network address of the server. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <guilabel>Port Number</guilabel> — by default, the port number is 389. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <guilabel>Root DN</guilabel> — enter the root DN here. </para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> </sect2> </sect1> <sect1 id="config-prefs-general"> <title>General Preferences</title> <para> Additional configuration options will be covered here, as they become available. </para> </sect1> </chapter>