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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 |
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14 | users on the system. There are at least five main parts to the Options: |
15 | Personal, Display, Message Highlighting, Folders and Index Order. |
16 | More parts may be available depending on your SquirrelMail installation. |
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17 | </p> |
18 | </description> |
19 | </chapter> |
20 | |
21 | <section> |
22 | <title> |
23 | Personal Information |
24 | </title> |
25 | <description> |
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26 | <b>Full Name</b><br /> |
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27 | You should put your entire name here. For example, "John Doe". This is what is |
28 | shown to people that you send the message to. They will see that it is from |
29 | "John Doe". If you don't fill this in, they will see it is from your email address, |
30 | "jdoe@mydomain.org". |
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31 | <br /><br /> |
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32 | |
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33 | <b>E-Mail Address</b><br /> |
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34 | <i>Optional</i> - If your email address is different than what is automatically |
35 | assigned, you can change it here. |
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36 | <br /><br /> |
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37 | |
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38 | <b>Reply To</b><br /> |
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39 | <i>Optional</i> - This is the email address that people will reply to when they |
40 | reply to your message. If this is different than the email address you are sending |
41 | from, you can enter it here. This is useful if you want people to reply to your |
42 | Yahoo account rather than your office address. |
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43 | <br /><br /> |
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44 | |
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45 | <b>Multiple Identities</b><br /> |
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46 | Click this link to edit multiple identities. This is useful if you want to |
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47 | choose between different From-lines for different messages (for example |
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48 | containing your work or your home emailaddress. On the page that appears, |
49 | you can add as many identities as you like. You will be offered a choice |
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50 | of these when composing a message.<br /><br /> |
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51 | |
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52 | <b>Reply Citation</b><br /> |
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53 | If you press Reply on a message, you will be presented with the Compose |
54 | form with the original message quoted. Before this quoted message, a text |
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55 | like <tt>John Doe wrote:</tt> might be prepended (if the message you're replying |
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56 | to originated from John Doe). This is called the citation line. Here you |
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57 | can choose how this line looks.<br /> |
58 | <ul> |
59 | <li><b>No Citation</b><br /> |
60 | Prepends no citation line whatsoever.<br /><br /> |
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61 | <li><b>Author Wrote</b><br /> |
62 | This produces the line: <tt>John Doe Wrote:</tt> where John Doe will be replaced |
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63 | by whoever the message you're replying to was from.<br /><br /> |
64 | <li><b>Quote Who XML</b><br /> |
65 | This produces the line: <tt><quote who="John Doe"></tt>.<br /><br /> |
66 | <li><b>User-Defined</b><br /> |
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67 | Enables you to define your own citation line. In the two text boxes below, you |
68 | can type in the citation start and end. Between these the author name will be |
69 | inserted. |
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70 | </ul><br /><br /> |
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71 | |
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72 | <b>Signature</b><br /> |
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73 | <i>Optional</i> - Signatures are attached at the bottom of all messages you send |
74 | out. If you want a signature, you must make sure that the checkbox beside |
75 | "use a signature" is checked, and then fill in what you want your signature to be |
76 | in the box below it. |
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77 | <br /><br /> |
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78 | </description> |
79 | </section> |
80 | |
81 | <section> |
82 | <title> |
83 | Display Preferences |
84 | </title> |
85 | <description> |
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86 | <b>Theme</b><br /> |
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87 | SquirrelMail offers different color themes for your viewing pleasure. You can |
88 | choose between the many listed there if you so desire. |
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89 | <br /><br /> |
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90 | |
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91 | <b>Custom Stylesheet</b><br /> |
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92 | Changing a theme only changes the colors, a stylesheet may change more, for |
93 | example the font size used by SquirrelMail. |
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94 | <br /><br /> |
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95 | |
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96 | <b>Language</b><br /> |
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97 | If English isn't your native tongue, you can easily change the language that |
98 | most things display in. If your desired language is in the list, you can choose |
99 | it and all future SquirrelMail related messages will be in that language. Note |
100 | that this doesn't translate incoming email messages or folder names. |
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101 | <br /><br /> |
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102 | |
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103 | <b>Use Javascript</b><br /> |
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104 | One of our main goals in creating SquirrelMail was to have no Javascript in |
105 | any of our pages. However, some of our developers made a very good address |
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106 | book searching utility that uses Javascript. Some other Javascript functions |
107 | were added aswell. Rather than remove it, we now |
108 | give you the option of using |
109 | pure HTML or allow Javascript aswell. If |
110 | you don't know what this means, you are safest to choose Autodetect. |
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111 | <br /><br /> |
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112 | |
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113 | <b>Number of Messages to Index</b><br /> |
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114 | This is the number of messages to show at a time in a folder. If there are |
115 | more than this number in the folder, you will see a "Previous" and "Next" link |
116 | above and below the listing which will take you to the previous or next |
117 | messages. |
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118 | <br /><br /> |
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119 | |
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120 | <b>Enable Page Selector</b><br /> |
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121 | Setting this to Yes shows page numbers above and below the message list to |
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122 | quickly jump to a specific page of messages. The number <b>Maximum pages to show</b> |
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123 | can limit how many page numbers will be displayed above and below the |
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124 | message list.<br /><br /> |
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125 | |
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126 | <b>Wrap incoming text at</b><br /> |
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127 | How many characters should we allow before wrapping the text. This prevents |
128 | messages from scrolling way off the screen. 86 is usually a safe thing to |
129 | put in here, but you are free to change it to whatever you desire. |
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130 | <br /><br /> |
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131 | |
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132 | <b>Size of editor window</b><br /> |
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133 | How wide do you want your "Compose" box to be? This is the number of characters |
134 | per line that you will be able to type before wrapping in the Compose section. |
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135 | <br /><br /> |
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136 | |
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137 | <b>Location of Buttons when Composing</b><br /> |
138 | Where are the buttons Addresses, Save Draft and Send located?<br /><br /> |
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139 | |
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140 | <b>Addressbook Display Format</b><br /> |
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141 | Choose how you want the addressbook to be displayed. If you want maximum |
142 | compatibility with all browsers, use HTML. Select Javascript if you |
143 | know your browser supports it, it will display a nicer addressbook. |
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144 | <br /><br /> |
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145 | |
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146 | <b>Show HTML Version by Default</b><br /> |
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147 | If a message you receive is in both text and HTML format, you can choose |
148 | if you want to see the HTML version (Yes) or the text version (No) by |
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149 | default.<br /><br /> |
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150 | |
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151 | <b>Include Me in CC when I Reply All</b><br /> |
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152 | Reply All sends your reply to all recepients of the original message, |
153 | including yourself. To leave your own email address out, set this to No. |
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154 | <br /><br /> |
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155 | |
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156 | <b>Enable Mailer Display</b><br /> |
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157 | When viewing a message, this displays which email program the sender used. |
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158 | <br /><br /> |
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159 | |
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160 | <b>Display Attached Images with Message</b><br /> |
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161 | If someone sends you a message with one or more images attached and you've |
162 | set this to Yes, the images will be displayed right away when you view |
163 | the message. |
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164 | <br /><br /> |
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165 | |
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166 | <b>Other Options</b><br /> |
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167 | Depending on the configuration of your SquirrelMail installation, some more |
168 | options might be displayed here. They hopefully should be self-explanatory. |
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169 | <br /><br /> |
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170 | |
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171 | </description> |
172 | </section> |
173 | |
174 | <section> |
175 | <title> |
176 | Message Highlighting |
177 | </title> |
178 | <description> |
179 | The idea for this came because if you are subscribed to many mailing lists, |
180 | it is very hard to distinguish which messages came from where while reading |
181 | through the list of messages. With Message Highlighting, you can have the |
182 | background color of all messages from one mailing list different than the |
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183 | color of another list.<br /><br /> |
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184 | |
185 | Just click on [New] to create a new one, or [Edit] to edit an existing one |
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186 | and the options will appear below.<br /><br /> |
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187 | |
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188 | <b>Identifying Name</b><br /> |
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189 | This is simply the name that you see which describes what it is. For |
190 | example, if you are highlighting messages from your mother, you might |
191 | set this to "From Mom". |
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192 | <br /><br /> |
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193 | |
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194 | <b>Color</b><br /> |
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195 | This is the actual color that the background will be. You can choose between |
196 | a number of pre-defined colors that we have selected for you, or you can enter |
197 | the HEX code for the color that you desire (i.e. a6b492). If you choose to |
198 | enter your own color, you must also select the radio button in front so that it is |
199 | checked. |
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200 | <br /><br /> |
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201 | |
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202 | <b>Match</b><br /> |
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203 | Here you can choose the matching phrase. From the drop-down box, you can |
204 | choose which header field to match against (to, from, subject...) and in the |
205 | text box, you can enter the phrase to match (mom@yahoo.com). |
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206 | <br /><br /> |
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207 | </description> |
208 | </section> |
209 | |
210 | <section> |
211 | <title> |
212 | Folder Preferences |
213 | </title> |
214 | <description> |
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215 | <b>Folder Path</b><br /> |
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216 | On some systems this will not be displayed. If you don't see this option, just |
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217 | ignore this. On other systems, this is quite a necessary feature. Usually the |
218 | option that is in there is what should be there. This is the folder in your |
219 | home directory that holds all your email folders. If you don't understand this, |
220 | just leave it what it is. |
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221 | <br /><br /> |
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222 | |
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223 | <b>Trash Folder</b><br /> |
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224 | You can choose which folder messages will be sent to when you delete them. If |
225 | you don't want deleted messages to go to the trash, set this to "Don't use Trash". |
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226 | <br /><br /> |
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227 | |
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228 | <b>Sent Folder</b><br /> |
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229 | You can choose which folder your sent messages will go to. If you don't want |
230 | these, just set it to "Don't use Sent". |
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231 | <br /><br /> |
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232 | |
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233 | <b>Draft Folder</b><br /> |
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234 | You can choose which folder the messages you save as draft will go to. |
235 | If you don't want to use this, just set it to "Don't use Drafts". |
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236 | <br /><br /> |
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237 | |
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238 | <b>Location of folder list</b><br /> |
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239 | Determines wether you want the list of folders on the left or right of your |
240 | window. |
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241 | <br /><br /> |
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242 | |
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243 | <b>Width of folder list</b><br /> |
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244 | With this option, you can select how wide the list of folders will be. |
245 | If you have very long folder names or large fonts, it is good to set this |
246 | pretty high. Otherwise, you should set it low so you don't waste screen space. |
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247 | <br /><br /> |
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248 | |
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249 | <b>Auto refresh folder list</b><br /> |
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250 | SquirrelMail has the functionality to automatically refresh the folder listing |
251 | on the left side of your browser window. This will also update the number of |
252 | unseen messages that are in each folder. This is a good way to check for unseen |
253 | messages in the INBOX without having to click on it every time. |
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254 | <br /><br /> |
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255 | |
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256 | <b>Enable Unread Message Notification</b><br /> |
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257 | This option specifies how to display unseen messages in the folder listing on the |
258 | right side of your browser window. If you set this to No Notification, you will |
259 | not be notified of unseen messages. If you set it to INBOX, when you have new |
260 | messages, the INBOX will become bold and a number will appear to the right of it |
261 | to say how many new messages are in it. If you set it to All Folders, this |
262 | behavior will happen on all folders. If you notice that loading the folder list |
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263 | is really slow, you can set this to INBOX and that should speed it up. |
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264 | <br /><br /> |
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265 | |
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266 | <b>Unseen message notification type</b><br /> |
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267 | When new messages are in a folder, this option tells |
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268 | either to only display the number of new messages or also display the |
269 | total number of messages in that folder. |
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270 | <br /><br /> |
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271 | |
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272 | <b>Enable Collapsable Folders</b><br /> |
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273 | Collapsable Folders allow you to 'fold' or collapse a folder which contains |
274 | subfolders so the subfolders will not be displayed. You can collapse a |
275 | folder by clicking the "-" next to it and expand it again with the "+" sign. |
276 | Setting this to No disables collapsing. |
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277 | <br /><br /> |
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278 | |
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279 | <b>Show Clock on Folders Panel</b><br /> |
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280 | Choose if you want a clock to be displayed above the folder list and how |
281 | it should look (Y=year, D=day, H=hour, M=minute, S=second). The option |
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282 | <b>Hour Format</b> below gives you the choice of a 12- or 24-hour clock. |
283 | <br /><br /> |
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284 | |
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285 | <b>Memory Search</b><br /> |
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286 | If you search a mailbox, the search will be saved for quick access later. |
287 | This defines how many mailbox searches will be saved. |
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290 | </description> |
291 | </section> |
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292 | |
293 | <section> |
294 | <title> |
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295 | Index Order |
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296 | </title> |
297 | <description> |
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298 | This section gives you control over the message list. You can choose how |
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299 | much information you want in the message list and in what order it should |
300 | be displayed. |
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301 | <br /><br /> |
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302 | Use the Up and Down links to move columns around, Del to remove a column |
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303 | from the display and Add to add one. |
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304 | </description> |
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305 | </section> |