Preferences
Note: The buttons at the top and bottom of the screen are
common to all the preference screens.
- The top row contains the preference categories:-
- General - - including confirm logout and whether or not
the welcome screen should be displayed.
- Display - concerned with the appearance of the
interface.
- Compose - includes settings for personal name and
whether a signature is included or not.)
- Extra Compose - use of the sent-mail folder,
the size of the text area for the body part and
the spell check language.
- Folder - (this screen).
- The bottom row controls the duration of the changes:-
- Cancel immediately cancels any edits
- Change for this session applies only to the current
session.
- Change for this and future sessions applies for
each session until the change is altered.
You are returned to the Account Management screen after selecting
any of the choices.
Folder Preferences
When you first enter the screen it will look like this:-
Preferences
The individual preferences
In the screen above the Webmail default preferences are shown.
- Suppress dotfiles (files starting '.') from folder listing -
unchecking this will show all your files and mail folders,
including the files that are normally hidden. Files whose name
starts with a '.' are normally in your home directory, and
include configuration files such as the addressbook used by
Pine (.addressbook)
- Confirm folder deletion. If this is unchecked then
selecting the Delete button against a mail folder
name on the Folders screen deletes that folder
immediately without asking for confirmation.
- Mail directory controls
which directory is the default for mail folders. The default is
the mail subdirectory of your home directory. Some
mail clients (for example Outlook Express) use the home
directory by default. If you
habitually use one of these clients then you may need to consider
making this field blank.
- Sent Mail Folder controls which folder is used to hold
copies of outgoing mail.
Again, if you habitually use a mail client that has a different
convention you may wish to change this preference, for example if
you are an habitual Outlook Express user you may wish to change it
to:-
- Postponed Messages Folder controls which folder is used to
store a message that you wish to postpone and return to later.