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 - (this screen)
- 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.
Extra Compose 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.
- Use sent-mail folder - when this is checked a copy of
all mail you send is saved to the mail folder you have
named as your Sent Mail Folder. The default is mail/sent-mail,
the choice is set in the Preferences -> Folder screen.
- Line wrap on reply - wraps the text of the message
to which you are replying if, after inserting the quoting characters
'> ' at the beginning of each line, lines are longer than
the setting in Line Wrap at: below (default 76 characters).
- Line wrap on spell check - wraps the text of the message as part
of the spell check action.
- Line wrap on send - wraps the text of the
message as part of the action of sending the message.
- Enable manual line wrap options - if this is enabled then
extra line wrapping options appear in the Compose screen.
These can be used in conjunction with the automatic options
above.
- Line Wrap at: - controls the number of characters (columns)
which can appear in a line before the line is wrapped.
Many people use an 80-character window, so 76 allows a good fit.
- Normal Compose window size - controls the size of the text
body area visible in the standard Compose screen.
- Large Compose window size - controls the size of the text
body area visible if the Large button is selected from the
standard Compose screen.
- Spell Check language controls which dictionary is used.
At present the only languages are British English and
American English. The choice of which language affects
several aspects, for example the use of
-ise rather than -ize for words such as "itemise".
It is hoped that future releases will offer more languages.