| 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 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. |
| 17 | </p> |
| 18 | </description> |
| 19 | </chapter> |
| 20 | |
| 21 | <section> |
| 22 | <title> |
| 23 | Personal Information |
| 24 | </title> |
| 25 | <description> |
| 26 | <b>Full Name</b><br> |
| 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". |
| 31 | <br><br> |
| 32 | |
| 33 | <b>E-Mail Address</b><br> |
| 34 | <i>Optional</i> - If your email address is different than what is automatically |
| 35 | assigned, you can change it here. |
| 36 | <br><br> |
| 37 | |
| 38 | <b>Reply To</b><br> |
| 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. |
| 43 | <br><br> |
| 44 | |
| 45 | <b>Multiple Identities</b><BR> |
| 46 | Click this link to edit multiple identities. This is useful if you want to |
| 47 | choose between different From-lines for different messages (for example |
| 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 |
| 50 | of these when composing a message.<br><br> |
| 51 | |
| 52 | <b>Reply Citation</b><BR> |
| 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 |
| 55 | like <TT>John Doe wrote:</TT> might be prepended (if the message you're replying |
| 56 | to originated from John Doe). This is called the citation line. Here you |
| 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> |
| 61 | <LI><B>Author Said</B><br> |
| 62 | This produces the line: <TT>John Doe Said:</TT> where John Doe will be replaced |
| 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> |
| 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. |
| 70 | </UL><br><br> |
| 71 | |
| 72 | <b>Signature</b><br> |
| 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. |
| 77 | <br><br> |
| 78 | </description> |
| 79 | </section> |
| 80 | |
| 81 | <section> |
| 82 | <title> |
| 83 | Display Preferences |
| 84 | </title> |
| 85 | <description> |
| 86 | <b>Theme</b><br> |
| 87 | SquirrelMail offers different color themes for your viewing pleasure. You can |
| 88 | choose between the many listed there if you so desire. |
| 89 | <br><br> |
| 90 | |
| 91 | <b>Custom Stylesheet</b><br> |
| 92 | Changing a theme only changes the colors, a stylesheet may change more, for |
| 93 | example the font size used by SquirrelMail. |
| 94 | <br><br> |
| 95 | |
| 96 | <b>Language</b><br> |
| 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. |
| 101 | <br><br> |
| 102 | |
| 103 | <b>Use Javascript</b><br> |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 111 | <br><br> |
| 112 | |
| 113 | <b>Number of Messages to Index</b><br> |
| 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. |
| 118 | <br><br> |
| 119 | |
| 120 | <b>Enable Page Selector</b><br> |
| 121 | Setting this to Yes shows page numbers above and below the message list to |
| 122 | quickly jump to a specific page of messages. The number <B>Maximum pages to show</B> |
| 123 | can limit how many page numbers will be displayed above and below the |
| 124 | message list.<br><br> |
| 125 | |
| 126 | <b>Wrap incoming text at</b><br> |
| 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. |
| 130 | <br><br> |
| 131 | |
| 132 | <b>Size of editor window</b><br> |
| 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. |
| 135 | <br><br> |
| 136 | |
| 137 | <b>Location of Buttons when Composing</b><br> |
| 138 | Where are the buttons Addresses, Save Draft and Send located?<br><br> |
| 139 | |
| 140 | <b>Addressbook Display Format</B><br> |
| 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. |
| 144 | <br><br> |
| 145 | |
| 146 | <b>Show HTML Version by Default</b><br> |
| 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 |
| 149 | default.<br><br> |
| 150 | |
| 151 | <b>Include Me in CC when I Reply All</b><br> |
| 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. |
| 154 | <br><br> |
| 155 | |
| 156 | <b>Enable Mailer Display</b><BR> |
| 157 | When viewing a message, this displays which email program the sender used. |
| 158 | <br><br> |
| 159 | |
| 160 | <b>Display Attached Images with Message</b><br> |
| 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. |
| 164 | <br><br> |
| 165 | |
| 166 | <b>Enable Subtle Printer Friendly Link</b><br> |
| 167 | This determines the way the Printable Version-link will be displayed. |
| 168 | <br><br> |
| 169 | |
| 170 | <b>Enable Printer Friendly Clean Display</b><br> |
| 171 | This will clean out the message so the print looks nicer. |
| 172 | <br><br> |
| 173 | |
| 174 | <b>Other Options</b><br> |
| 175 | Depending on the configuration of your SquirrelMail installation, some more |
| 176 | options might be displayed here. They hopefully should be self-explanatory. |
| 177 | <br><br> |
| 178 | |
| 179 | </description> |
| 180 | </section> |
| 181 | |
| 182 | <section> |
| 183 | <title> |
| 184 | Message Highlighting |
| 185 | </title> |
| 186 | <description> |
| 187 | The idea for this came because if you are subscribed to many mailing lists, |
| 188 | it is very hard to distinguish which messages came from where while reading |
| 189 | through the list of messages. With Message Highlighting, you can have the |
| 190 | background color of all messages from one mailing list different than the |
| 191 | color of another list.<br><br> |
| 192 | |
| 193 | Just click on [New] to create a new one, or [Edit] to edit an existing one |
| 194 | and the options will appear below.<br><br> |
| 195 | |
| 196 | <b>Identifying Name</b><br> |
| 197 | This is simply the name that you see which describes what it is. For |
| 198 | example, if you are highlighting messages from your mother, you might |
| 199 | set this to "From Mom". |
| 200 | <br><br> |
| 201 | |
| 202 | <b>Color</b><br> |
| 203 | This is the actual color that the background will be. You can choose between |
| 204 | a number of pre-defined colors that we have selected for you, or you can enter |
| 205 | the HEX code for the color that you desire (i.e. a6b492). If you choose to |
| 206 | enter your own color, you must also select the radio button in front so that it is |
| 207 | checked. |
| 208 | <br><br> |
| 209 | |
| 210 | <b>Match</b><br> |
| 211 | Here you can choose the matching phrase. From the drop-down box, you can |
| 212 | choose which header field to match against (to, from, subject...) and in the |
| 213 | text box, you can enter the phrase to match (mom@yahoo.com). |
| 214 | <br><br> |
| 215 | </description> |
| 216 | </section> |
| 217 | |
| 218 | <section> |
| 219 | <title> |
| 220 | Folder Preferences |
| 221 | </title> |
| 222 | <description> |
| 223 | <b>Folder Path</b><br> |
| 224 | On some systems this will not be displayed. If you don't see this option, just |
| 225 | ignore this. On other systems, this is quite a necessary feature. Usually the |
| 226 | option that is in there is what should be there. This is the folder in your |
| 227 | home directory that holds all your email folders. If you don't understand this, |
| 228 | just leave it what it is. |
| 229 | <br><br> |
| 230 | |
| 231 | <b>Trash Folder</b><br> |
| 232 | You can choose which folder messages will be sent to when you delete them. If |
| 233 | you don't want deleted messages to go to the trash, set this to "Don't use Trash". |
| 234 | <br><br> |
| 235 | |
| 236 | <b>Sent Folder</b><br> |
| 237 | You can choose which folder your sent messages will go to. If you don't want |
| 238 | these, just set it to "Don't use Sent". |
| 239 | <br><br> |
| 240 | |
| 241 | <b>Draft Folder</b><br> |
| 242 | You can choose which folder the messages you save as draft will go to. |
| 243 | If you don't want to use this, just set it to "Don't use Drafts". |
| 244 | <br><br> |
| 245 | |
| 246 | <b>Location of folder list</b><br> |
| 247 | Determines wether you want the list of folders on the left or right of your |
| 248 | window. |
| 249 | <br><br> |
| 250 | |
| 251 | <b>Width of folder list</b><br> |
| 252 | With this option, you can select how wide the list of folders will be. |
| 253 | If you have very long folder names or large fonts, it is good to set this |
| 254 | pretty high. Otherwise, you should set it low so you don't waste screen space. |
| 255 | <br><br> |
| 256 | |
| 257 | <b>Auto refresh folder list</b><br> |
| 258 | SquirrelMail has the functionality to automatically refresh the folder listing |
| 259 | on the left side of your browser window. This will also update the number of |
| 260 | unseen messages that are in each folder. This is a good way to check for unseen |
| 261 | messages in the INBOX without having to click on it every time. |
| 262 | <br><br> |
| 263 | |
| 264 | <b>Enable Unread Message Notification</b><br> |
| 265 | This option specifies how to display unseen messages in the folder listing on the |
| 266 | right side of your browser window. If you set this to No Notification, you will |
| 267 | not be notified of unseen messages. If you set it to INBOX, when you have new |
| 268 | messages, the INBOX will become bold and a number will appear to the right of it |
| 269 | to say how many new messages are in it. If you set it to All Folders, this |
| 270 | behavior will happen on all folders. If you notice that loading the folder list |
| 271 | is really slow, you can set this to INBOX or None and that should speed it up. |
| 272 | <br><br> |
| 273 | |
| 274 | <b>Unseen message notification type</b><br> |
| 275 | When new messages are in a folder, this option tells |
| 276 | either to only display the number of new messages or also display the |
| 277 | total number of messages in that folder. |
| 278 | <br><br> |
| 279 | |
| 280 | <b>Enable Collapsable Folders</b><br> |
| 281 | Collapsable Folders allow you to 'fold' or collapse a folder which contains |
| 282 | subfolders so the subfolders will not be displayed. You can collapse a |
| 283 | folder by clicking the "-" next to it and expand it again with the "+" sign. |
| 284 | Setting this to No disables collapsing. |
| 285 | <br><br> |
| 286 | |
| 287 | <b>Show Clock on Folders Panel</b><br> |
| 288 | Choose if you want a clock to be displayed above the folder list and how |
| 289 | it should look (Y=year, D=day, H=hour, M=minute, S=second). The option |
| 290 | <B>Hour Format</B> below gives you the choice of a 12- or 24-hour clock. |
| 291 | <br><br> |
| 292 | |
| 293 | <b>Memory Search</b><br> |
| 294 | If you search a mailbox, the search will be saved for quick access later. |
| 295 | This defines how many mailbox searches will be saved. |
| 296 | <br><br> |
| 297 | |
| 298 | </description> |
| 299 | </section> |
| 300 | |
| 301 | <section> |
| 302 | <title> |
| 303 | Index Order |
| 304 | </title> |
| 305 | <description> |
| 306 | This section gives you control over the message list. You can choose how |
| 307 | much information you want in the message list and in what order it should |
| 308 | be displayed. |
| 309 | <br><br> |
| 310 | Use the Up and Down links to move columns around, Del to remove a column |
| 311 | from the display and Add to add one. |
| 312 | </description> |
| 313 | </section> |