| 1 | <chapter> |
| 2 | <title> |
| 3 | Options |
| 4 | </title> |
| 5 | <summary> |
| 6 | You can customize the way that SquirrelMail looks and responds to you |
| 7 | by setting different options in this section. |
| 8 | </summary> |
| 9 | <description> |
| 10 | <p> |
| 11 | One of the great things about SquirrelMail is the degree to which it may be customized. |
| 12 | Depending on the configuration, you may have several choices of themes, languages, |
| 13 | folders, and other preferences. All of these may be changed without affecting any other |
| 14 | users on the system. There are four main parts to the Options: Personal, Display, |
| 15 | Message Highlighting, and Folders. |
| 16 | </p> |
| 17 | </description> |
| 18 | </chapter> |
| 19 | |
| 20 | <section> |
| 21 | <title> |
| 22 | Personal Information |
| 23 | </title> |
| 24 | <description> |
| 25 | <b>Full Name</b><br> |
| 26 | You should put your entire name here. For example, "John Doe". This is what is |
| 27 | shown to people that you send the message to. They will see that it is from |
| 28 | "John Doe". If you don't fill this in, they will see it is from your email address, |
| 29 | "jdoe@mydomain.org". |
| 30 | <br><br> |
| 31 | |
| 32 | <b>E-Mail Address</b><br> |
| 33 | <i>Optional</i> - If your email address is different than what is automatically |
| 34 | assigned, you can change it here. |
| 35 | <br><br> |
| 36 | |
| 37 | <b>Reply To</b><br> |
| 38 | <i>Optional</i> - This is the email address that people will reply to when they |
| 39 | reply to your message. If this is different than the email address you are sending |
| 40 | from, you can enter it here. This is useful if you want people to reply to your |
| 41 | Yahoo account rather than your office address. |
| 42 | <br><br> |
| 43 | |
| 44 | <b>Signature</b><br> |
| 45 | <i>Optional</i> - Signatures are attached at the bottom of all messages you send |
| 46 | out. If you want a signature, you must make sure that the checkbox beside |
| 47 | "use a signature" is checked, and then fill in what you want your signature to be |
| 48 | in the box below it. |
| 49 | <br><br> |
| 50 | </description> |
| 51 | </section> |
| 52 | |
| 53 | <section> |
| 54 | <title> |
| 55 | Display Preferences |
| 56 | </title> |
| 57 | <description> |
| 58 | <b>Theme</b><br> |
| 59 | SquirrelMail offers different color themes for your viewing pleasure. You can |
| 60 | choose between the many listed there if you so desire. |
| 61 | <br><br> |
| 62 | |
| 63 | <b>Language</b><br> |
| 64 | If English isn't your native tongue, you can easily change the language that |
| 65 | most things display in. If your desired language is in the list, you can choose |
| 66 | it and all future SquirrelMail related messages will be in that language. Note |
| 67 | that this doesn't translate incoming email messages or folder names. |
| 68 | <br><br> |
| 69 | |
| 70 | <b>Use Javascript address book?</b><br> |
| 71 | One of our main goals in creating SquirrelMail was to have no Javascript in |
| 72 | any of our pages. However, some of our developers made a very good address |
| 73 | book searching utility that uses Javascript. Rather than remove it, we now |
| 74 | give you the option of using the HTML address book or the Javascript one. If |
| 75 | you don't know what this means, you are safest to choose the HTML address book, |
| 76 | but most likely Javascript will work for you. |
| 77 | <br><br> |
| 78 | |
| 79 | <b>Number of Messages to Index</b><br> |
| 80 | This is the number of messages to show at a time in a folder. If there are |
| 81 | more than this number in the folder, you will see a "Previous" and "Next" link |
| 82 | above and below the listing which will take you to the previous or next |
| 83 | messages. |
| 84 | <br><br> |
| 85 | |
| 86 | <b>Wrap incoming text at</b><br> |
| 87 | How many characters should we allow before wrapping the text. This prevents |
| 88 | messages from scrolling way off the screen. 86 is usually a safe thing to |
| 89 | put in here, but you are free to change it to whatever you desire. |
| 90 | <br><br> |
| 91 | |
| 92 | <b>Size of editor window</b><br> |
| 93 | How wide do you want your "Compose" box to be? This is the number of characters |
| 94 | per line that you will be able to type before wrapping in the Compose section. |
| 95 | <br><br> |
| 96 | |
| 97 | <b>Width of left folder list</b><br> |
| 98 | On the left side of your browser window, you will see the list of folders. With |
| 99 | this option, you can select how wide that will be. If you have very long folder |
| 100 | names or large fonts, it is good to set this pretty high. Otherwise, you should |
| 101 | set it low so you don't waste screen space. |
| 102 | <br><br> |
| 103 | |
| 104 | <b>Auto refresh folder list</b><br> |
| 105 | SquirrelMail has the functionality to automatically refresh the folder listing |
| 106 | on the left side of your browser window. This will also update the number of |
| 107 | unseen messages that are in each folder. This is a good way to check for unseen |
| 108 | messages in the INBOX without having to click on it every time. |
| 109 | <br><br> |
| 110 | </description> |
| 111 | </section> |
| 112 | |
| 113 | <section> |
| 114 | <title> |
| 115 | Message Highlighting |
| 116 | </title> |
| 117 | <description> |
| 118 | The idea for this came because if you are subscribed to many mailing lists, |
| 119 | it is very hard to distinguish which messages came from where while reading |
| 120 | through the list of messages. With Message Highlighting, you can have the |
| 121 | background color of all messages from one mailing list different than the |
| 122 | color of another list.<br><br> |
| 123 | |
| 124 | Just click on [New] to create a new one, or [Edit] to edit an existing one |
| 125 | and the options will appear below.<br><br> |
| 126 | |
| 127 | <b>Identifying Name</b><br> |
| 128 | This is simply the name that you see which describes what it is. For |
| 129 | example, if you are highlighting messages from your mother, you might |
| 130 | set this to "From Mom". |
| 131 | <br><br> |
| 132 | |
| 133 | <b>Color</b><br> |
| 134 | This is the actual color that the background will be. You can choose between |
| 135 | a number of pre-defined colors that we have selected for you, or you can enter |
| 136 | the HEX code for the color that you desire (i.e. a6b492). If you choose to |
| 137 | enter your own color, you must also select the radio button in front so that it is |
| 138 | checked. |
| 139 | <br><br> |
| 140 | |
| 141 | <b>Match</b><br> |
| 142 | Here you can choose the matching phrase. From the drop-down box, you can |
| 143 | choose which header field to match against (to, from, subject...) and in the |
| 144 | text box, you can enter the phrase to match (mom@yahoo.com). |
| 145 | <br><br> |
| 146 | </description> |
| 147 | </section> |
| 148 | |
| 149 | <section> |
| 150 | <title> |
| 151 | Folder Preferences |
| 152 | </title> |
| 153 | <description> |
| 154 | <b>Folder Path</b><br> |
| 155 | On some system this will not be displayed. If you don't see this option, just |
| 156 | ignore this. On other systems, this is quite a necessary feature. Usually the |
| 157 | option that is in there is what should be there. This is the folder in your |
| 158 | home directory that holds all your email folders. If you don't understand this, |
| 159 | just leave it what it is. |
| 160 | <br><br> |
| 161 | |
| 162 | <b>Trash Folder</b><br> |
| 163 | You can choose which folder messages will be sent to when you delete them. If |
| 164 | you don't want deleted messages to go to the trash, set this to "Don't use Trash". |
| 165 | <br><br> |
| 166 | |
| 167 | <b>Sent Folder</b><br> |
| 168 | You can choose which folder your sent messages will go to. If you don't want |
| 169 | these, just set it to "Don't use Sent". |
| 170 | <br><br> |
| 171 | |
| 172 | <b>Unseen message notification</b><br> |
| 173 | This option specifies how to display unseen messages in the folder listing on the |
| 174 | right side of your browser window. If you set this to No Notification, you will |
| 175 | not be notified of unseen messages. If you set it to INBOX, when you have new |
| 176 | messages, the INBOX will become bold and a number will appear to the right of it |
| 177 | to say how many new messages are in it. If you set it to All Folders, this |
| 178 | behavior will happen on all folders. If you notice that loading the folder list |
| 179 | is really slow, you can set this to INBOX or None and that should speed it up. |
| 180 | <br><br> |
| 181 | |
| 182 | <b>Unseen message notification type</b><br> |
| 183 | When new messages are in a folder, this option tells how to notify you of that. |
| 184 | <br><br> |
| 185 | </description> |
| 186 | </section> |