CHAPTER 27 IN DEPTH: EVOLUTION Tip Several
CHAPTER 27 IN DEPTH: EVOLUTION Tip Several If rules can be created. For example, you could create a rule to filter by the address of the sender, and then click the Add button to create another rule to filter by text in the Subject line. By clicking If All Criteria Are Met in the Execute Actions drop-down list, the mail will be filtered only if both conditions are met. By selecting If Any Criteria Are Met from the drop-down list, the mail will be filtered if either condition is met. Once you ve set the If conditions, you need to select from the Then section of the dialog box. This tells Evolution what to do with the filtered mail. The obvious course of action is to move the e-mail to a particular folder, which is the default choice, but you can also delete the e-mail, set a particular flag, beep, or even run a particular program! As with the If rules, you can set more than one condition here, so you can have Evolution beep and then delete the message, for example. TIPS FOR USING EVOLUTION E-MAIL In many ways, Evolution is similar to e-mail programs you might have used in the past, but also has a few of its own quirks and idiosyncratic ways of working. Here are a handful of preferences you might want to set to have Evolution behave in a more familiar way: Forward e-mail inline: If you attempt to forward a message, Evolution will attach it to a new message as a file. The person receiving the e-mail will then need to double-click the file to view the forwarded e-mail, which can be confusing. The solution is to make Evolution forward the message inline, which is to say that Evolution will quote it beneath the new mail message, like Microsoft e-mail programs. To do this, click Edit . Preferences, click Composer Preferences on the left side of the dialog box, click the Forward Style drop-down list, and select Inline. Change the plain text font: Any messages sent to you in plain text format, rather than HTML, will appear in the message preview pane in a Courier-style font. To have messages display in a more attractive and readable typeface, click Edit . Preferences, select Mail Preferences on the left side of the dialog box, and then remove the check from Use the Same Fonts As Other Applications. In the Terminal Font drop-down list, select an alternative font. The standard Ubuntu font is called Sans and is a good choice. Always create HTML e-mail: Evolution defaults to plain text e-mail for any new messages you create. If you want to always create HTML messages, click Edit . Preferences, click Composer Preferences on the left side of the dialog box, and then put a check alongside Format Messages in HTML. Empty Trash on exit: To automatically expunge all folders of deleted messages each time you quit Evolution, click Edit . Preferences, click Mail Preferences on the left side of the program window, and put a check alongside Empty Trash Folders on Exit.