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One
of the great things about SquirrelMail is the degree to
which it may be customized. Depending on the configuration,
you may have several choices of themes, languages, folders,
and other preferences. All of these may be changed without
affecting any other users on the system. There are at
least five main parts to the Options: Personal, Display,
Message Highlighting, Folders and Index Order. More parts
may be available depending on your SquirrelMail installation.
7.1
- Personal Information
Full
Name
You should put your entire name here. For example, "John
Doe". This is what is shown to people that you send
the message to. They will see that it is from "John
Doe". If you don't fill this in, they will see it is
from your email address, "jdoe@mydomain.org".
E-Mail Address
Optional - If your email address is different
than what is automatically assigned, you can change
it here.
Reply To
Optional - This is the email address that people
will reply to when they reply to your message. If this
is different than the email address you are sending
from, you can enter it here. This is useful if you want
people to reply to your Yahoo account rather than your
office address.
Multiple Identities
Click this link to edit multiple identities. This is
useful if you want to choose between different From-lines
for different messages (for example containing your
work or your home emailaddress. On the page that appears,
you can add as many identities as you like. You will
be offered a choice of these when composing a message.
Reply Citation
If you press Reply on a message, you will be presented
with the Compose form with the original message quoted.
Before this quoted message, a text like John Doe
wrote: might be prepended (if the message you're
replying to originated from John Doe). This is called
the citation line. Here you can choose how this line
looks.
- No
Citation
Prepends no citation line whatsoever.
- Author
Said
This produces the line: John Doe Said:
where John Doe will be replaced by whoever the message
you're replying to was from.
- Quote
Who XML
This produces the line: <quote who="John
Doe">.
- User-Defined
Enables you to define your own citation line. In
the two text boxes below, you can type in the citation
start and end. Between these the author name will
be inserted.
Signature
Optional - Signatures are attached at the bottom
of all messages you send out. If you want a signature,
you must make sure that the checkbox beside "use a signature"
is checked, and then fill in what you want your signature
to be in the box below it.
7.2
- Display Preferences
Theme
SquirrelMail offers different color themes for your
viewing pleasure. You can choose between the many listed
there if you so desire.
Custom Stylesheet
Changing a theme only changes the colors, a stylesheet
may change more, for example the font size used by SquirrelMail.
Language
If English isn't your native tongue, you can easily
change the language that most things display in. If
your desired language is in the list, you can choose
it and all future SquirrelMail related messages will
be in that language. Note that this doesn't translate
incoming email messages or folder names.
Use Javascript
One of our main goals in creating SquirrelMail was to
have no Javascript in any of our pages. However, some
of our developers made a very good address book searching
utility that uses Javascript. Some other Javascript
functions were added aswell. Rather than remove it,
we now give you the option of using pure HTML or allow
Javascript aswell. If you don't know what this means,
you are safest to choose Autodetect.
Number of Messages to Index
This is the number of messages to show at a time in
a folder. If there are more than this number in the
folder, you will see a "Previous" and "Next" link above
and below the listing which will take you to the previous
or next messages.
Enable Page Selector
Setting this to Yes shows page numbers above and below
the message list to quickly jump to a specific page
of messages. The number Maximum pages to show
can limit how many page numbers will be displayed above
and below the message list.
Wrap incoming text at
How many characters should we allow before wrapping
the text. This prevents messages from scrolling way
off the screen. 86 is usually a safe thing to put in
here, but you are free to change it to whatever you
desire.
Size of editor window
How wide do you want your "Compose" box to be? This
is the number of characters per line that you will be
able to type before wrapping in the Compose section.
Location of Buttons when Composing
Where are the buttons Addresses, Save Draft and Send
located?
Addressbook Display Format
Choose how you want the addressbook to be displayed.
If you want maximum compatibility with all browsers,
use HTML. Select Javascript if you know your browser
supports it, it will display a nicer addressbook.
Show HTML Version by Default
If a message you receive is in both text and HTML format,
you can choose if you want to see the HTML version (Yes)
or the text version (No) by default.
Include Me in CC when I Reply All
Reply All sends your reply to all recepients of the
original message, including yourself. To leave your
own email address out, set this to No.
Enable Mailer Display
When viewing a message, this displays which email program
the sender used.
Display Attached Images with Message
If someone sends you a message with one or more images
attached and you've set this to Yes, the images will
be displayed right away when you view the message.
Enable Subtle Printer Friendly Link
This determines the way the Printable Version-link will
be displayed.
Enable Printer Friendly Clean Display
This will clean out the message so the print looks nicer.
Other Options
Depending on the configuration of your SquirrelMail
installation, some more options might be displayed here.
They hopefully should be self-explanatory.
7.3
- Message Highlighting
The
idea for this came because if you are subscribed to
many mailing lists, it is very hard to distinguish which
messages came from where while reading through the list
of messages. With Message Highlighting, you can have
the background color of all messages from one mailing
list different than the color of another list.
Just click on [New] to create a new one, or [Edit] to
edit an existing one and the options will appear below.
Identifying Name
This is simply the name that you see which describes
what it is. For example, if you are highlighting messages
from your mother, you might set this to "From Mom".
Color
This is the actual color that the background will be.
You can choose between a number of pre-defined colors
that we have selected for you, or you can enter the
HEX code for the color that you desire (i.e. a6b492).
If you choose to enter your own color, you must also
select the radio button in front so that it is checked.
Match
Here you can choose the matching phrase. From the drop-down
box, you can choose which header field to match against
(to, from, subject...) and in the text box, you can
enter the phrase to match (mom@yahoo.com).
7.4
- Folder Preferences
Folder
Path
On some systems this will not be displayed. If you don't
see this option, just ignore this. On other systems,
this is quite a necessary feature. Usually the option
that is in there is what should be there. This is the
folder in your home directory that holds all your email
folders. If you don't understand this, just leave it
what it is.
Trash Folder
You can choose which folder messages will be sent to
when you delete them. If you don't want deleted messages
to go to the trash, set this to "Don't use Trash".
Sent Folder
You can choose which folder your sent messages will
go to. If you don't want these, just set it to "Don't
use Sent".
Draft Folder
You can choose which folder the messages you save as
draft will go to. If you don't want to use this, just
set it to "Don't use Drafts".
Location of folder list
Determines wether you want the list of folders on the
left or right of your window.
Width of folder list
With this option, you can select how wide the list of
folders will be. If you have very long folder names
or large fonts, it is good to set this pretty high.
Otherwise, you should set it low so you don't waste
screen space.
Auto refresh folder list
SquirrelMail has the functionality to automatically
refresh the folder listing on the left side of your
browser window. This will also update the number of
unseen messages that are in each folder. This is a good
way to check for unseen messages in the INBOX without
having to click on it every time.
Enable Unread Message Notification
This option specifies how to display unseen messages
in the folder listing on the right side of your browser
window. If you set this to No Notification, you will
not be notified of unseen messages. If you set it to
INBOX, when you have new messages, the INBOX will become
bold and a number will appear to the right of it to
say how many new messages are in it. If you set it to
All Folders, this behavior will happen on all folders.
If you notice that loading the folder list is really
slow, you can set this to INBOX or None and that should
speed it up.
Unseen message notification type
When new messages are in a folder, this option tells
either to only display the number of new messages or
also display the total number of messages in that folder.
Enable Collapsable Folders
Collapsable Folders allow you to 'fold' or collapse
a folder which contains subfolders so the subfolders
will not be displayed. You can collapse a folder by
clicking the "-" next to it and expand it again with
the "+" sign. Setting this to No disables collapsing.
Show Clock on Folders Panel
Choose if you want a clock to be displayed above the
folder list and how it should look (Y=year, D=day, H=hour,
M=minute, S=second). The option Hour Format below
gives you the choice of a 12- or 24-hour clock.
Memory Search
If you search a mailbox, the search will be saved for
quick access later. This defines how many mailbox searches
will be saved.
7.5
- Index Order
This
section gives you control over the message list. You
can choose how much information you want in the message
list and in what order it should be displayed.
Use the Up and Down links to move columns around, Del
to remove a column from the display and Add to add one.
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