Evolution Mail has more specialized menus, and more specialized menu items, than any other part of the application.
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This menu lets you control the way Evolution displays your information for you.
Toggle the shortcut bar on and off with this item.
Toggle the folder bar on and off with this item. See the section called The Folder Bar in Chapter 1 for more information about the folder bar.
This item controls whether your message list is displayed by thread or by other criteria. The default order is by date; see the section called Sorting the message list in Chapter 3 for information about the order of the message list.
Edit your mail filters here. See the section called Staying organized: Mail Filters in Evolution in Chapter 3 for more information about mail filtering.
Create, edit, and delete Virtual Folders (vFolders) with this tool. To learn about using vFolders with mail, see the section called Getting Really Organized with Virtual Folders in Chapter 3.
Tools for setting up all your mail account preferences.
Tools for newsgroup and IMAP folder subscriptions.
This item will cause Evolution to forget what your password is.
The items in this menu relate to Evolution mail folders.
You can:
Evolution keeps track of which messages you've seen; to mark everything in a folder as read, choose this item. You can mark a single message as read by right-clicking it in the message bar.
This is a favorite item of everyone with too much junk-mail: one click, and it deletes every message in the current folder.
Empties the trash folder, erasing messages permanently. Once you've done this, they're gone for good.
Use this item to set the file format in which Evolution stores mail. You can choose from standard UNIX-style mbox files, or the mh format. Converting large mailboxes may take a long time, and it's a good idea to have a backup copy beforehand.
The items in this menu relate to Evolution mail messages. Most of them require you to have a message selected, and are also available by right-clicking on a message in the message list.
Displays the selected message in a new window.
Open the selected message in the message composer. You can only edit a message you have written: drafts and messages in the Sent box.
Displays the Print Preview window, ready for printing.
Opens a message composition window addressed to the author of the message. Covered in detail in the section called Replying to Messages in Chapter 3.
Opens a message composition window addressed to the author of the message and all known recipients. Covered in detail in the section called Replying to Messages in Chapter 3.
Appends the body of the selected message to a new message. Covered in detail in the section called Forwarding Mail in Chapter 3.
Marks a message for deletion.
Choose a folder in which to place this message.
Copy the selected message to another folder.
This item, and the three that follow it, will create vFolders which you may customize further or save as-is. This one will create a vFolder which will display all messages that contain the subject line of the selected message.
Creates a vFolder to hold all messages from the sender of the selected message.
Creates a VFolder to hold all messages addressed to the recipient of the selected message.
This item, and the three that follow it, will create Filters for which you must select actions. You may keep the criteria as they are, or alter them as you wish. This one will create a filter which will affect all messages that contain the subject line of the selected message.
Creates a filter which affects all messages from the sender of the selected message.
Creates a filter which will affect all messages addressed to the recipient of the selected message.
At the top of the message list is the message list heading bar; you can click on an individual heading — Subject, for example, to have the message list sorted by that attribute. However, if you right click on a heading, you'll get the following menu:
Sort the list, in ascending order, by the attribute you clicked.
Sort the list in descending order.
Undo any sorting by this attribute, and leave the message list sorted by the previous one.
Instead of sorting the messages, group them in boxes.
If you have your messages grouped in boxes, you can arrange the boxes as well, by choosing this item.
Choose this to remove the column from the message list display.
Opens a palette of columns. You can drag the columns you want from the palette into position in the message list heading bar; red arrows appear when you get close enough to a possibile position.
Your options are:
An Envelope which indicates whether a message has been read (closed for unread, open for read).
An Exclamation Point for priority
A Penguin which indicates something, although I'm not sure what.
A Paper Clip which indicates that there is an attachment to the message.
From, for the From field of a message.
Subject, for the Subject field of a message.
Date, for the date and time a message was sent.
Received, for the date and time you got the message.
To, for the To field.
Size, for a message's size.
Use this item to decide upon the alignment of the message attributes within their columns.
Alters the width of the message list columns to maximize the amount of information displayed.
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Opens a dialog box that lets you choose a complex set of arrangements for your message list, so you can combine sorting and grouping in as many ways as you like.