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The Mail Options tool lets you choose how to display citations, how long to wait before marking a message as read, and other mail display settings. There are three categories of settings: General, HTML Mail, and Colors.
For information on individual email account settings, see the Section called Working with Mail Accounts.
In the General tab, your options are:
Normally, Evolution will use the same fonts as other GNOME applications. To choose different fonts, uncheck the box Use the same fonts as other applications and select one font for standard typefaces and a second for monospace, or terminal, display.
These three settings handle the way messages appear to you.
Normally, Evolution will mark a message as read as soon as it is displayed. If you prefer, you may set this to happen only after a delay, or disable it entirely and mark messages as read only when you choose to do so.
This setting allows you to select character interpretation sets so that Evolution can display different alphabets. If you are not sure, pick Unicode (UTF-8), which will work for a large number of languages and character sets.
Choose a color to highlight quotations from other messages.
Here, choose whether to delete messages automatically when quitting Evolution, and whether you wish to explicitly confirm the final deletion of messages.
Evolution can alert you to the arrival of new mail with a beep or by playing a sound file. Choose your alert noise, or select none, as you wish.
The options in the HTML Mail section are:
You can embed a message in an email and have it load only when the message arrives. However, spammers can use image loading patterns to confirm "live" addresses and invade your privacy. You may elect never to load images automatically, to load images only if the sender is in your addressbook, or always load images.
If you have chosen not to load images automatically, you can choose to see the images in one message at a time by selecting View->Message Display->Load Images.
Turn animation on or off here.
Some people do not like HTML mail, and you can set Evolution to warn you. This warning will appear only when you send HTML mail to people in your address book who are listed as disliking HTML.
The Colors tab lets you select different color labels for individual messages. You can return to the default settings by clicking the Restore Defaults button.
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