Various options control how the messages are shown and how the
display is organized.
Show tags panel: The default value for the Display/Tags menu entry.
When set to "Yes", a panel with a button for each tag is shown, each button
being set when the corresponding tag is assigned to the message
currently selected.
Show headers: The default value for the Display/Headers menu
entry. "None" means not to display any message header at all, "Most"
means the most useful (From, To, Cc, Date...), and "All" means the full headers
text.
Display sender as: Tells what should displayed in the "From" column
of message lists: either the name of the sender (when known), or the email address.
Clickable URLs in body: when set to Yes, URLs in the body
panel appear as clickable links. The browser may need to be configured
in the Paths sections.
Threaded display: The default value for the Display/Threaded menu
entry. When set to "Yes", the messages that belong to a same thread are shown
in tree-like representation, and the threads can be opened and closed.
Date format: How the dates are displayed in the message
lists. Choose DD/MM/YYYY HH:MI or YYYY/MM/DD HH:MI depending on what you
find the more easy to read.
N in 'last N messages': The contextual popup menu of a
message on display has a command fetching the last messages of the
same sender than the mail currently shown. This setting tells how
much of these messages this command should retrieve in one go.
Style: The Qt library has several builtin styles (the actual
list depends on the platform the interface is running on). The style
controls the overall look of the interface as well as some usability
tips, such as the function of the middle mouse button. Just try different
styles and keep the one you like the most.
User-specific settings
Email address: Fill in only the email, without any additional
comment (ex: john.doe@company.com). That field is required to be able
to send mail messages with manitou-mail.
Name: The full name of the user that goes along the email
address. (ex: John Doe)
Use as default: The identity to use by default when new
outgoing message is composed (menu command: Message/New).
X-Face: An optional string consisting of ASCII characters
that are supposed to represent the face of the user, encoded in a
black and white 48x48 bitmap. Manitou-mail can decode this string and
display it graphically along the headers; other mail programs such as
XEmacs VM or Sylpheed do this as well. To encode a picture in X-Face
format, you may want to check out
http://www.dairiki.org/xface
Signature: Some lines of text that will be appended to all
outgoing messages before editing takes place.
The paths used by the user interface
Attachments (temporary): the directory where attachments
are written just before launching the application that is associated
with their MIME type.
Bitmaps: the directory where manitou icons files are to be
found. The path set at install time is used by default, but it can be
changed later, if for example, icons should be read from a shared
network drive.
Help files: the directory where help files reside.
The default value is empty and means that they're looked up
in a location depending on the installation and the current
language defined by the OS environment.
Browser: A command that will be launched when an URL
is clicked. If it contains $1, that will be replaced by the URL to be opened,
otherwise the URL will be appended at the end of the command.
Display
Identities
Paths
Examples:
mozilla-xremote-client 'openurl($1,new-window)'
kfmclient openURL
Note that it can be different from the
program used to open 'text/html' attachments.