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-<h2><a name="s8">8.</a> <a href="sylpheed.html#toc8">Sylpheed-Claws
-configuration</a></h2>
-<p>All the configuration settings of Sylpheed-Claws are accessible from
-the <i>Configuration</i> menu and consist of common settings <i>(Preferences</i>,
-<i>Filtering</i>, <i>Template</i>s, <span style="font-style: italic;">Actions,
-</span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">Plugins</span>) and
-account specific
-settings.</p>
-<p>With Sylpheed-Claws, there is no limit to the number of accounts
-you can create. You can create new accounts for each of your
-mail accounts, but also to change the default behaviour of Sylpheed. As
-folders can be attached to accounts, the account
-specific part of the configuration automatically change based
-on the current folder (you can have a different signature when
-replying to messages from different folders, for example).</p>
-<h2><a name="ss8.1">8.1</a> <a href="sylpheed.html#toc8.1">Preferences</a>
-</h2>
-<p>The Common Preferences, found in the Configuration menu, controls
-the window layout and the different options of the graphical
-interface of Sylpheed. Depending on some compile time switches
-(and on the availability of some extra libraries), some tabs
-may be included (or not) in your version of Sylpheed. These tabs
-are not listed here but are described (or will be described) in
-the sections covering the optional features they control (like the
-<i>Privacy</i> tab for the GnuPG interface).</p>
-<h3>Receive tab</h3>
-<p>In here you can set up how to receive messages.</p>
-<p>
-</p>
-<ul>
- <li>You can define a special program to pick up messages from the
-default unix mailbox. Usually this is not used.</li>
- <li><i>Autocheck new mail</i>. When you check this option, Sylpheed
-will check if there is new mail on the set interval.</li>
- <li><i>Check new mail on startup</i> means that Sylpheed-Claws will
-immediately look for new mail on all the selected accounts when it
-loads.</li>
- <li><i>Update all local folders after incorporation</i> is used to
-force scanning of all folders after getting new mail. Used when you
-have external programs putting new mails in folders.</li>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Show receive dialog</span>
-allows you to remove the window displayed when retrieving mails, which
-can get in your way if retrieval happens where you're composing a mail,
-for example.</li>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Don't popup error dialog </span>is
-used to specify when to show errors. The advantage of not showing
-errors on automatic retrieval, for example, is that it doesn't block
-until you click Ok afterwards.</li>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Close receive dialog when
-finished</span> does what it says :)</li>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Run command when new mail
-arrives</span> allows you to specify some command to run after
-incorporation. You can </li>
-</ul>
-<h3>Send tab</h3>
-<p>In here you can set up how to send messages.</p>
-<p>
-</p>
-<ul>
- <li>The sent messages can be saved in the outbox (<i>Sent</i>
-folder), the name of the outbox folder can be specified
-for each account (see the account setting section).</li>
- <li>If you want to be asked for confirmation when you click Send, you
-can check <span style="font-style: italic;">Confirm before sending
-queued messages.</span> This avoids sending by mistake.</li>
- <li>For the same reasons as the receive dialog, you can choose to
-hide the <span style="font-style: italic;">send dialog.</span></li>
- <li>The outgoing codeset selection can be changed to force
-the definition of the character set used in sent mails.
-The default and recommended value is <i>automatic</i>,
-so Sylpheed-Claws determines the codeset when sending each
-message. This can be overriden in each message.</li>
- <li>You can also force the transfer encoding, in case you use an SMTP
-server known for breaking plain text emails...</li>
-</ul>
-<p></p>
-<h3>Compose tab</h3>
-<p>Controls the composition window's behaviour..</p>
-<p>
-</p>
-<ul>
- <li>In the <span style="font-style: italic;">Writing </span>sub-tab,
-you can choose various defaults when replying, and whether you want to
-automatically save composed mails from time to time. If <i>Automatically
-select account(...)</i> is set,
-the account used when replying to a message is automatically
-selected based on the folder the original message is in (as you
-were already told, accounts can be attached to folders).
- </li>
- <li>In the <span style="font-style: italic;">Quoting<span
- style="text-decoration: underline;"><span
- style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span></span>
-sub-tab, you can choose what the predefined contents of the reply
-window will look like.</li>
- <li>In the <span style="font-style: italic;">Wrapping</span>
-sub-tab, you can choose how you prefer the editor to behave. <span
- style="font-style: italic;">Wrap on input</span> automatically puts
-line breaks after the wrap width has been reached, <span
- style="font-style: italic;">wrap before sending</span> does it once
-before sending; <span style="font-style: italic;">Wrap quotation</span>
-reworks the included quotations so that they're not too wide, but don't
-look broken either. <span style="font-style: italic;">Wrap pasted text</span>
-lets you specify if you want what you paste from elsewhere to be
-wrapped or not.</li>
-</ul>
-<br>
-<p></p>
-<h3>Message view tab</h3>
-<p>In here you can control the message display options of Sylpheed.</p>
-<p>
-</p>
-<ul>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Text options:</span></li>
- <ul>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Display header pane </span>adds
-a static header to the message with the most important informations
-like <span style="font-style: italic;">From, To, Subject</span>.</li>
- </ul>
- <ul>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Display short headers</span>
-adds that directly in the body, where it can be selected and quoted.
-You can also <span style="font-style: italic;">Edit</span> the headers
-you want included.</li>
- </ul>
- <ul>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Render HTML messages as text</span>
-strips the HTML messages some people send to their bare contents, <br>
- </li>
- <li>making them readable.</li>
- </ul>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Colors </span>lets you define
-the colors you prefer for various colored parts of the interface.</li>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Image viewer </span>sets the
-defaults for viewing images (display them or not, scaled or not).</li>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">External programs </span>lets
-you specify what should be used to open links, texts, images, etc.</li>
-</ul>
-<h3>Display tab</h3>
-<p>In here you can the general appearance of Sylpheed.</p>
-<p>
-</p>
-<ul>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Summaries:</span></li>
- <ul>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;"><span
- style="font-style: italic;">Translate header names</span></span>
-localizes headers like From, To, ...</li>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Display unread number next to
-folder </span>puts the number of unread mails in the folder name,
-allowing you to see them even without the dedicated columns.</li>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Display sender using address
-book</span> uses the name stored in your address book rather than the
-one specified in the email, matching on the email address. <span
- style="font-style: italic;">Warning</span>, this feature slows down
-opening of big folders, especially with a big addressbook.</li>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Thread using subject</span>
-tries to put messages with a similar subject in the corresponding
-thread, even if the References headers are not present. Useful when
-dealing with broken MUAs.</li>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Set displayed columns</span>
-is the same as the <span style="font-style: italic;">View/Set
-displayed columns </span>items.</li>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Always open message when
-selected</span> displays messages unconditionnaly (without having to
-click it or hit space).</li>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Only mark message as read
-when opened in new window</span> allows you to sneak through unread
-mails while leaving them unread, in order to handle them later.</li>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Go to inbox after receiving
-new mail</span> puts Sylpheed-Claws back in Inbox after you got mail, leaving
-the current folder.</li>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Execute immediately</span>
-allows you to perform moves and copies immediately, or later when you
-choose to Execute.</li>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">When entering a folder</span>
-specifies what to do: nothing (selects the last mail), first new or
-unread (selects the first new, or unread if there's no new, message),
-first unread or new (the contrary).</li>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Show no unread or new message
-dialog</span> allows you to get more control on what sylpheed does when
-you reach the last unread mail in the folder.</li>
- </ul>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Fonts: </span>You can change
-the font used to display the messages. Pressing
-the button next to the font name field will open the font selection
-window, then you can select among all the available fonts.<span
- style="font-style: italic;"></span></li>
- <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Themes: </span>Lets you change
-the theming of Sylpheed-Claws, that is, the set of icons. You can also
-download and install new themes from there.</li>
-</ul>
-<p></p>
-<h3>Customize Toolbars tab</h3>
-<p>This tab lets you choose what to display in your toolbars (the main
-window, the message window and the compose window have toolbars. From
-the upper part of the page, you can choose an icon, associate a text to
-it, and choose which event to perform when clicked. In the lower part
-of the page, you see the buttons displayed in the current toolbar, you
-can add and delete them, and change their order.<br>
-</p>
-<ul>
-</ul>
-<p></p>
-<h3>Plugins tab</h3>
-<p>The plugins tab controls the various plugins preferences. For
-example, the pgpcore plugin which brings the crypto operations to
-Sylpheed-Claws can be configured to automatically check signatures,
-store passphrase or not, and more.</p>
-<p></p>
-<h3>Other tab</h3>
-<p>The other tab contains the settings that does not fit the
-previous categories.</p>
-<p>
-</p>
-<ul>
- <li><i>Add address to destination (...)</i> when selected,
-double clicking an e-mail address (in the address book,
-when the composition window is opened) can be used to add this address
-to the <i>To:</i> field.</li>
- <li>Confirming if you want to exit Sylpheed-Claws (or just exit quietly).</li>
- <li>Cleaning the trash when exiting Sylpheed.</li>
- <li>Have Sylpheed-Claws ask you to clean the trash before it is done.</li>
- <li>Warn you when exiting Sylpheed-Claws when there are still messages
-queued to be sent.</li>
-</ul>
-<p></p>
-<h2><a name="ss8.2">8.2</a> <a href="sylpheed.html#toc8.2">Setting up
-an account/changing an account</a>
-</h2>
-<p>In order to set up an account in Sylpheed-Claws, in the <i>Configuration</i>
-menu you select <i>Create new account</i>. If you want to change the
-settings of an existing account and this account is the current
-one, in the <i>Configuration</i> menu select <i>Preferences for
-current account</i>, otherwise select <i>Edit accounts...</i>.
-There you select the account you want to change. After that you press <i>edit</i>.
-Then a dialog appears in which you can enter or update the following
-areas:</p>
-<h3><a name="Basic"></a> Basic tab</h3>
-<p>In the "Basic" tab you name the account. This is to make identifying
-the account easier. The name is then used in the <i>Change current
-account</i>
-part of the <i>Configuration</i> menu, or in menu found in the lower
-right corner of the main window (used to quickly switch to another
-account).</p>
-<p>Choose a name that tells something about the account, like the name
-of the ISP, mailbox or news-server you are setting up. You can select
-this account to be the default account ("Set as default").
-The default account can also be defined from the <i>Edit accounts</i>
-window (toggle the <i>D</i> column next to the account name).</p>
-<p>Enter your name and e-mail address, and if you have one, the
-organization that you use Sylpheed-Claws for.
-In the Protocol box you select the type of service that this account
-will be using. The flavors you can choose are: <i>POP3</i><i></i>, <i>IMAP4</i>,
-<span style="font-style: italic;">News (NNTP)</span><i></i> , <span
- style="font-style: italic;">Local mbox file, </span>or<i>None (SMTP
-only)</i>.</p>
-<p>For POP3 and IMAP services you can then specify the server where
-your mail is stored. Details about this name, and also the name that
-goes into the field for <i>SMTP server (send)</i> should be given to
-you by your ISP.</p>
-<p>For a local unix mailbox, the <i>Server for receiving</i> is
-disabled, since the mail will be received for you.</p>
-<p>The fields for <i>User ID</i> and <i>Password</i> will also be
-disabled for accounts that do no deal with POP3, IMAP or News services.
-Otherwise you can enter the login name and password for the
-server with your ISP here. Usually these are the same as your login
-name and password to access the dial-in service, but this is not
-standard. If in doubt, contact the helpdesk of your ISP.</p>
-<h3>Passwords:</h3>
-<p>The password is not printed in the entry field (replaced by stars)
-and
-is stored with a little obfuscation in the Sylpheed-Claws configuration
-files. The
-Sylpheed
-configuration directory ( /.sylpheed) is only readable by 'owner',
-and
-not by 'group' and 'other', do not change these access rights. Do not
-consider the password safe if you aren't the administrator of the
-machine either - this goes for every software by the way.<br>
-</p>
-<h3><a name="Receive"></a> Receive tab</h3>
-<p>The <i>Receive</i> tab is only used for POP3, IMAP and News
-accounts. <br>
-</p>
-<p>For POP3, you
-specify if the mails that were successfully retrieved should be removed
-from the server. You can also tell Sylpheed-Claws to get all the messages
-there, not only the ones you already received (in case you leave your
-messages on the server).
-You can choose to leave the messages on the server during a selectable
-number of days (then remove them).<br>
-You can also define a limit for the size of the messages to
-download. Any message bigger than this limit will be
-downloaded up to the limit, and you'll be able to get the rest of it
-via the message view (or not get it).</p>
-<p>For IMAP4, you can choose which kind of authentication to use (ask
-your ISP, or try Automatic). <br>
-</p>
-<p>For News, you can choose what is the maximum numbers of new messages
-to download.</p>
-<p>You can also choose to filter messages on receiving, if not
-set, the messages are only filtered when you use the filter
-entry of the Tools menu.</p>
-<p>The default inbox defines the folder that receives the incoming
-(and not filtered) messages for this account.
-You can define a different folder as inbox for each of your
-accounts.</p>
-<p>If the <i>Get all checks for messages on this account</i> is turned
-off, when using the <i>Get all</i> menu entry (or toolbar button)
-this account will not be checked. To check for new mails for
-this account, you must select the account, then use the <i>Get</i>
-toolbar button (or menu entry).</p>
-<h3><a name="Send"></a> Send tab</h3>
-<p>In the <i>Send</i> tab you can define the settings that apply to
-sending mails.</p>
-<p>You can choose to add the date field to the messages you send,
-generate a unique message identifier, or add custom header
-fields.</p>
-<h3>X-face pictures:</h3>
-<p>The user defined header field should be set up to contain your
-X-face picture.
-Thanks to Jeff Dairiki, you can have a complete online course in this.
-Visit <a href="http://www.dairiki.org/xface/">this page</a> for the
-details.</p>
-<p>If your SMTP server needs authentication, define the user ID and
-password to use in this tab. You can also choose to first authenticate
-with
-POP3 before sending if the receiving server is POP3.</p>
-<h3><a name="Compose"></a> Compose tab</h3>
-<p>In the <i>Compose</i> tab you can define your signature file,
-choose to always copy someone when sending mails (you can
-choose to always copy your boss, or yourself), and define the
-Reply-To field for the current account.</p>
-<h3><a name="Privacy"></a> Privacy tab</h3>
-<p>This tab is only available when Sylpheed-Claws has been compiled
-with GPGME and GNUPG (for signature and encryption).</p>
-<p>With this tab you can choose the keys to use when signing
-or encrypting mails for this account, whether you want your messages to
-be signed by default, etc.</p>
-<h3><a name="SSL"></a> SSL tab</h3>
-<p>This tab is only available when Sylpheed-Claws has been compiled
-with openSSL.</p>
-<p>With this tab you can choose whether to use SSL on the receiving and
-sending servers. STARTTLS is used to connect to the normal, unencrypted
-port, and to start encryption later. This is not supported by all
-servers, but can be handy for passing misconfigured firewalls.</p>
-<p></p>
-<h3><a name="Advanced"></a> Advanced tab</h3>
-<p>The Advanced tab contains some settings you normally do
-not need to change (unless you really know what you are
-doing).</p>
-<p>You can change the default SMTP or POP3 ports used when
-connecting to your mail server, define a domain name to
-use when sending a mail. Some ISP (or mail relays) reject
-mails without a valid domain name.</p>
-<p>The default folders for the sent messages, drafts and
-trash can be defined here. If not changed the current account
-will use the default folders.</p>
-<h3>Attaching accounts to folders</h3>
-<p>Pressing the right mouse button over a folder (in the folder pane),
-and selecting the <i>Properties</i> entry will open the folder
-properties
-form. In this form, in the <i>General</i> tab you can see (but not
-modify)
-the folder name and the corresponding directory path (relative to the
-mail
-directory). In the <i>Compose</i> tab:</p>
-<p>you can select the account, choose to apply this setting also to
-the sub-folders.
-You can also force the address used when sending mail (to force a
-mailing
-list address, for example), choose to send a copy of the sent mails
-to a list of addresses different from the default one defined for the
-selected account.</p>
-<h3>Using accounts in the real life</h3>
-<p>Accounts can, of course be used to retrieve mails from different
-ISPs,
-separate your personal and professional messages, but also to make your
-life easier.
-You can define different accounts just to change your address (as
-sender),
-your signature, change the sent folder, etc...
-Here is a summary of the account specific settings, feel free to
-find your own use for them:</p>
-<p>
-</p>
-<ul>
- <li>Sender name, address and organization. Signature, extra header
-fields.</li>
- <li>Leave or remove message from server (usefull for debug).</li>
- <li>Incoming mails filtering and size limit.</li>
- <li>Default field (<i>Reply-To</i>:, <i>Cc:</i>, <i>Bcc:</i>).</li>
- <li><i>Draft</i>, <i>Trash</i> and <i>Sent</i> folders.</li>
-</ul>
-<p></p>
-<p>By attaching accounts to folders, you can control all these settings
-on a folder basis, but you can also change the <i>To:</i>, <i>Cc:</i>,
-<i>Bcc:</i>, and <i>Reply-To:</i> for each folder (overrides the
-account
-settings).</p>
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