# Advanced Configuration

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 Evolution settings. This chapter will tell you how to do just that.

## Mail Settings

To change your mail settings, select Tools Mail Settings in the Inbox. This will open the mail preferences window, illustrated in config-prefs-mail-fig. Mail preferences are separated into several categories:

Accounts

- This allows you to create and alter one or more identities for your email.

Display

- Allows you to edit how email appears.

Composer

- Customizes the behavior of the email message composer.

Other

- Configures miscellanious aspects of Evolution such as character set and encryption tools.

### Mail Preferences Dialog

Setting mail preferences

### Working with the Accounts Tab

Ximian Evolution allows you to maintain multiple accounts, or identities. This is useful want to keep personal and professional email separate, or if you wear several hats at work. When you are writing an email message, you can which account to use by selecting from the drop-down list next to the From entry in the message composer.

Clicking Get Mail will refresh any IMAP, `mh`, or `mbox` listings and check and download mail from all POP servers. In other words, Get Mail gets your mail, no matter how many sources you have, or what types they are. If you don't want to check mail for a given account, select it in the Accounts tab and click the Disable button.

To add a new account, simply click Add to open the mail configuration assistant. To alter an existing identity, select it in the Preferences window, and then click Edit to open the account editor dialog.

The account editor dialog has six sections:

Identity:

- Here, enter the name, email address, and other identifying information for the account.

Receiving Mail

- Here, select the way you will be getting mail: you may download mail from a server (POP or IMAP) or access it from files on your local system. If you use a server, it may permit or require you to use a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connection. To turn SSL connections on, just click the Use Secure Connection (SSL) button.

  #### Specifying Port Numbers

  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 `smtp.omniport.com:143` as the server name.

Receiving Options

- Here, decide whether you'd like to check for mail automatically, and set other options related to the behavior of your server. If you use POP mail, you can decide whether to leave mail on the server, and if you use IMAP, you can set folder subscription options here.

Sending Mail

- In this section, you will choose and configure a method for sending mail. You may choose SMTP or sendmail.

Special Folders

- Here, you can decide where this account will store the messages that it has sent, and the messages that you save as drafts.

Security

- In this section, you will set the security options for this account. Enter your PGP Key ID and decide how frequently to encrypt and sign your messages.

### Mail Display Options

In this tab you can decide how you would like Ximian Evolution to display your mail: how to display citations, how long to wait before marking a message as read, and so forth.

This is also where you can decide how you would like Ximian Evolution to handle inline images in HTML mail that you get. There is a detailed discussion of the issues surrounding these options in usage-mail-getnsend-get-attach-html.

To hange the font which Ximian Evolution uses to display mail, do the following:

1. Open the Control Center by selecting System Settings from the menu panel.

2. Select the HTML Viewer settings tool.

3. Choose the font and font size you would like to use.

Alternately, open a terminal and run the `gtkhtml-properties-capplet` command. This will open the GNOME HTML Display Properties tool, and you can select a font and other attributes of your HTML display, including that in Ximian Evolution.

### Message Composer Preferences

Mercifully, there are only four preferences you can prefer in the message composer preferences dialog:

Send mail in HTML format by default

- If you would like all email messages that you compose to begin in HTML format, leave this box checked. You can convert messages between HTML and plain text by selecting the Format HTML toggle in the message composer.

Default Forward style

- Select from:

  - Attachment: the message you forward appended to the message you send as a seperate file.
  - Inline: The message you forward is included at the end of the message you send.
  - Quoted: The message you forward is included at the end of the message you send, and a greater-than symbol (>) is inserted at the beginning of each line to indicate that it is quoted.

Prompt when sending messages with an empty subject

- The composer will warn you if you try to send a message without a subject.

Prompt when sending messages with only Bcc recipients defined

- The composer will warn you if you try to send a message that has only Bcc recipients. This is important because some mail servers will fail to honor blind carbon copy if you do not have at least one recipient that is visible to all readers.

### Other Mail Preferences

Not everything fits neatly into categories. This tab contains some miscellaneous configuration options that didn't fit anywhere else.

PGP binary path

- The complete path to your external encryption tool On most Linux systems, this will be `/usr/bin/gpg`.

Remember PGP Passphrase until Exit

- Check this box if you want Ximian Evolution to remember your PGP passphrase for as long as it is running. You will still have to enter your passphrase again each time you start Ximian Evolution.

Default Character Encoding

- Choose a default character encoding for your messages.

Empty Trash Folders on Exit

- If you would like to expunge all deleted mail when you quit Ximian Evolution, check this box.

Log filter actions to:

- If you like, you can have Ximian Evolution write all its message filter actions to a log file. Select a log file here.

## Configuring the Calendar

To set your calendar preferences, select Settings Calendar Settings from the Calendar view. This will open up the Preferences window. It contains four tabs: General, Display, Task List, and Other. The calendar preferences window is illustrated in config-prefs-cal-fig.

### Calendar Preferences Dialog

If this worked on my job as well as my calendar...

### Calendar's General Settings

The Time display tab lets you set the following:

Time zone

- The city you're located in, to judge your time zone.

Time format

- You may choose between twelve-hour (AM/PM) and twenty-four hour time formats here by clicking the appropriate radio button.

Work Week

- When does your work day start, and when does it end? In the day and week views, Evolution 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.

First day of the week

- You can set weeks to start on Sunday or on Monday.

Start of day

- Says what time of the day your weekday starts. This will show all times till the end of the day, regardless of there is an appointment during the time period.

End of day

- Sets the time the day ends at.

### Display

The Display section lets you configure some visual properties of the calendar.

The display properties you can set are:

Time divisions

- Sets the increments shown on the daily view in the calendar. You can set this to be:

  - 5 minutes

  - 10 minutes

  - 15 minutes

  - 30 minutes

  - 60 minutes

Show appointment end times in week and month views

- If there is space, Evolution will show the end times in the week and month views for each appointment.

Compress weekends in month view

- If checked, your weekends will be shown in one box, instead of one for each day in the month view.

Show week numbers in date navigator

- This will show the week numbers next to the respective weeks in the calendar.

### Task List Settings

You can choose what information the To Do list displays and the way it is displayed.

Tasks due today

- Configures what color to set your tasks that are due today to.

Overdue tasks

- Configures what color to set your overdue items to.

### Other Calendar Settings

This configures miscellaneous items for the calendar and todo list's functionality.

Ask for confirmation when deleting items

- When you delete an item in either the Task List or the Calendar, you will be prompted to confirm that you want to delete the item.

Create new appointments with a default reminder

- All your appointments will be created using a default reminder enabled. You can still change what way you are reminded though. If enabled, you can then set the time before your appointment to be reminded.

## Managing the Addressbook

The addressbook does not have a large list of configuration settings, but those that are there can be found in the Tools menu.

### Adding Directory Servers

To add a new LDAP server to your available contact folders:

1. Select Tools Addressbook Sources

2. Click Add.

3. Enter the server information.

   Account name

4. The name that you see on the screen. This could be anything you wish.

Server name

- Address of the server where the addressbook is located.

My server requires authentication

- Select this if the server needs a password to access the addressbook.

Port

- The internet port to connect to in order to access the database. This is normally 389.

Search base

- The base node to use for all your searches. Contact your administrator for information about setting this up.

Search scope

- How broad the search is in the directory.

- Click OK.

- Click OK to permanenty make changes or Apply to temporarily set the changes.