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 - (this screen)
- 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 - options concerned with the use of, and
actions on, mail folders.
- 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.
General Preferences
The General Preferences screen is the default. 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.
- Main theme and Help theme set the colours that are
used for the main Webmail pages and the help text pages
respectively.
- Enable welcome screen controls whether or not the initial
screen "Welcome to the Webmail Service" is displayed when you
log in.
- Confirm Logout - if this is unchecked then selecting "Logout"
on any screen will log you out immediately, otherwise you will
see a screen asking you to confirm or cancel your logout.
- Use persistent marks -
The Webmail default is to use non-persistent marks. This means
that while you can mark more than one message on a screen you must
take action on the marked messages, for example copying them all
to a folder, before you move to another screen.
If you change to another screen, for example listing the next screenful of
messages, the marks are not retained.
If you enable Use persistent marks then each time you mark a
message a connection is made to the Webmail server.
Because of this interaction with the server working with
persistent marks is slower and
is only recommended if you are working over a fast connection,
for example within the University.
Using persistent marks you can work on a whole mail folder rather
than just the current
screenful of messages. If this option is enabled
then the following options can also be used:-
- Zoom automatically after search controls what
happens with the results of a search on a mail folder. If this
option is selected then, as well as the messages being marked, the
mail folder listing changes to show just the selected messages.
- Unmark messages after aggregate operation controls what
happens after an action has been taken on a group of marked messages,
for example saving them to another mail folder. If this option
is checked then, on return to the mail folder listing, the mark is
removed from the relevant messages.