Now that you've had a look around the Inbox, it's time to check for new mail. Click Get Mail in the toolbar to check your mail. If you haven't entered any mail settings yet, the setup assistant will ask you for the information it needs to check your email.
The assistant will give you several dialog boxes where you configure:
your personal information
your outgoing email server information
your mail account identity name
To check your email, press the Check Mail button. If this is your first time checking mail, or you haven't asked Evolution to store your password, you'll be prompted for the password. Enter your password and your email will be downloaded.
Can't Check Mail?: If you get an error message instead of mail, you probably need to check your network settings. To learn how to do that, have a look at the section called Network Settings in Chapter 9, or ask your system administrator.
Newsgroups are so similar to email that there's no reason not to read them side by side. If you want to do that, add a news source to your configuration (see the section called News Servers in Chapter 9). The news server will appear as a remote server, and will look quite similar to an IMAP folder. When you click Get Mail, Evolution will also check for news messages.
If someone sends you an attachment, a file attached to an email, Evolution will display the file at the bottom of the message to which it's attached. Text, including HTML formatting and embedded images, will appear as part of the message, rather than at the end of the message as an attachment.
To Save an Attachment to Disk:
Open up the desired email
Click on the down arrow at the bottom of the email for the desired attachment.
Select Save to Disk.
Choose the directory and filename you wish.
Click OK
When someone sends you HTML mail, and includes an image in the actual mail (that is, they use the Insert->Image tool, not the Attach tool), Evolution will display the image inside the message.
If an HTML mail with images does not include an image, but asks Evolution to go download the image from a website, Evolution won't display the image unless you ask it to. This is because remotely hosted images can slow down your system, and can be used by spammers to track reads their email. So having them not load automatically helps protect your privacy.
If you want the images to load, select View->Message Display->Load Images. You can also set image loading behavior in the Display tab of the Tools->Mail Settings dialog.
Loading Images from the Net through an HTTP Proxy: If you use an HTTP proxy, Evolution must be able to find it through the gnome-vfs subsystem before it can load iamges from the net.
- Configure it with Nautilus
Open a Nautilus window
Select Preferences->Edit Preferences.
Go to the Navigation tab.
Click the Use HTTP Proxy checkbox and enter the location of your HTTP proxy in the Location field.
- Configure it with the gconftool command
Open a terminal.
Enter the command gconftool --type=bool --set /system/gnome-vfs/use-http-proxy "TRUE"
Enter the command --type=string --set /system/gnome-vfs/http-proxy-host "your-proxy-url"
Enter the command $ gconftool --type=int --set /system/gnome-vfs/http-proxy-port "8080"
For more information about the gconftool command, read the gconftool man page.
To Open an Attachment in a Program:
Open the mail message with the attachment you want to read.
Click the arrow next the attachment icon.
Select the program you'd like to use. It will start up and open the document.