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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> |