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<h1 id="mail_and_newsgroup_preferences">Mail & Newsgroup Preferences</h1>
<p>The sections listed below describe the Mail & Newsgroups preferences
that apply to all your mail and newsgroup accounts. To see these
preferences:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Double-click Mail & Newsgroups to expand the list.</li>
</ol>
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
<ul>
<li><a href="#mail_and_newsgroups">Mail & Newsgroups</a></li>
<li><a href="#message_display">Message Display</a></li>
<li><a href="#notifications">Notifications</a></li>
<li><a href="#composition">Composition</a></li>
<li><a href="#send_format">Send Format</a></li>
<li><a href="#addressing_preferences">Addressing</a></li>
<li><a href="#junk_and_suspect_preferences">Junk & Suspect Mail</a></li>
<li><a href="#tags">Tags</a></li>
<li><a href="#return_receipts_preferences">Return Receipts</a></li>
<li><a href="#character_encoding">Character Encoding</a></li>
<li><a href="#network_and_storage_preferences">Network & Storage
Preferences</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2 id="mail_and_newsgroups">Mail & Newsgroups Preferences - Mail &
Newsgroups</h2>
<p>This section describes the main Mail & Newsgroups preferences. If you
are not already viewing the Mail & Newsgroups main preferences, follow
these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences. You see the
Preferences dialog box.</li>
<li>Click the Mail & Newsgroups category.</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li><strong>Confirm when moving folders to the Trash</strong>: Choose to
allow Mail & Newsgroups to prompt you before deleting folders.</li>
<li class="win"><strong>Use &brandShortName; Mail as the default mail
application</strong>: Select &brandShortName; Mail & Newsgroups as the
default mail application for Windows and from within other applications
such as Microsoft Word.
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Setting &brandShortName; Mail & Newsgroups as
the default mail application may disable another mail application. To
restore the other mail application as the default, deselect this
option.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>Remember the last selected message</strong>: Choose this option
if you want &brandShortName; to select the message you had selected last
before leaving a folder when you reenter a folder.</li>
<li><strong>Preserve threading when sorting messages</strong>: Select this
option if you want &brandShortName; to preserve the threaded message
grouping
<a href="mailnews_using_mail.xhtml#sorting_and_threading_messages">when
sorting messages</a>. If it is not selected, &brandShortName; automatically
displays the messages unthreaded when you sort them by clicking on the
column headers.</li>
<li><strong>When Mail launches, show the Start Page in the message
area</strong>: Select this to enable the Start Page. The Start Page
appears in the message area when you first open &brandShortName; Mail &
Newsgroups. This page is the default page, but you can enter a different
web page or URL of your choice. To disable the Start Page, deselect this
option. Click Restore Default to return to the original page provided by
&brandShortName;.</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#mail_and_newsgroup_preferences">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="message_display">Mail & Newsgroups Preferences - Message
Display</h2>
<p>Message Display preferences allow you to choose how messages are
displayed (for example, font style and color) in all accounts. If you are not
already viewing the Message Display settings, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences. You see the
Preferences dialog box.</li>
<li>Under the Mail & Newsgroups category, click Message Display. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Mail & Newsgroups to expand
the list.)</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li><strong>When opening messages, display them in</strong>: Here you can
choose if you want to reuse a message window for the next mail or if you
want to open a new one for each.</li>
<li><strong>Block images and other content from remote sources</strong>:
Select this checkbox if you do not want to display remote images and other
content in received messages, except from senders in your address books
whom you have allowed. (This checkbox is selected by default.)</li>
<li><strong>Wait [__] seconds before marking a message as read</strong>:
Choose this option if you do not want a message to be marked as read when
you are only taking a brief look at it. Enter the number of seconds you
want a message to be displayed before it gets marked as read automatically.
<p><strong>Tip</strong>: If you do not want Mail & Newsgroups to mark
your messages as read automatically at all, you can select this option
and enter a very large number of seconds.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>Plain Text Messages</strong>: Select the font you prefer for
viewing plain-text messages: fixed width or variable width. Choosing a font
style, size, and color for quoted plain-text messages can help you more
easily distinguish quoted text (usually a message that's been
forwarded to you or by you).
<ul>
<li><strong>Wrap text to fit window width</strong>: Select this so that
incoming messages are word-wrapped to fit the width of your Mail
window.</li>
<li><strong>Display emoticons as graphics</strong>: Select this so that
when you receive messages that contain emoticons (also called smiley
faces) Mail & Newsgroups can convert them to graphics, for example:
<table border="1">
<tr align="center">
<td><strong>This</strong>:</td>
<td><strong>Converts to</strong>:</td>
</tr>
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<td>:-)</td>
<td><span class="smiley moz-smiley-s1"/></td>
</tr>
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<td>:)</td>
<td><span class="smiley moz-smiley-s1"/></td>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td>:-(</td>
<td><span class="smiley moz-smiley-s2"/></td>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td>:(</td>
<td><span class="smiley moz-smiley-s2"/></td>
</tr>
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<td>;-)</td>
<td><span class="smiley moz-smiley-s3"/></td>
</tr>
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<td>;-p</td>
<td><span class="smiley moz-smiley-s4"/></td>
</tr>
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</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#mail_and_newsgroup_preferences">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="notifications">Mail & Newsgroups Preferences - Notifications</h2>
<p>Notification preferences allow you to select different methods for informing
you on arrival of a new message. So you don't have to always look in the
folders.</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Mail & Newsgroups category, click Notifications. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Mail & Newsgroups to expand
the list.)</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li class="win"><strong>Show an alert</strong>: Select this if you want
&brandShortName; Mail & Newsgroups to display a sliding alert above
your system tray in the lower right corner of your screen when new
messages arrive. The sliding alert only appears once when new messages
arrive, and won't appear again until you bring the Mail &
Newsgroups window to the front.
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<p>When the alert appears, clicking the link displayed in the alert will
take you to the first folder that has new mail.
</p>
<p>The new message alert will continue to work even after you close the
Mail window (as long as another &brandShortName; application is running).
</p>
</li>
<li class="win"><strong>Show a tray icon</strong>: Select this if you want
&brandShortName; Mail & Newsgroups to display an icon in your system
tray (which is usually found in the lower right corner of your screen) when
new messages arrive. This icon will stay in the system tray until you have
visited one of your folders with new mail or checked for new messages
manually.
<p style="text-indent: 20px"><img src="images/mail_newmail_trayicon.png"
alt=""/> <strong>New mail tray icon</strong></p>
<p>When the icon appears, double-clicking it will open the &brandShortName;
Mail & Newsgroups main window.</p>
</li>
<li class="mac"><strong>Animate the Dock icon</strong>: Select this if you
want Mail & Newsgroups to bounce the &brandShortName; Dock icon when
new messages arrive.</li>
<li><strong>Play a sound</strong>: Select this if you want &brandShortName;
Mail & Newsgroups to play a sound when new messages arrive. You can
choose between the default system sound and a custom sound in WAV format.
If you choose the latter, use the Browse button to select the sound file in
the file locator. Click on the Preview button to listen to the chosen sound
file.
<p>Once &brandShortName; Mail has been started, the new messages sound will
continue to work even after you close the Mail window (as long as another
&brandShortName; application is running).</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#mail_and_newsgroup_preferences">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="composition">Mail & Newsgroups Preferences - Composition</h2>
<p>Composition preferences affect how you create messages (for example,
forwarding options and address autocompletion) in all accounts. If you are
not already viewing the Composition settings, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Mail & Newsgroups category, click Composition. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Mail & Newsgroups to expand
the list.)</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li><strong>Forward Messages</strong>: Choose how you want forwarded
message text to appear: as an attachment or inline (in the body of your
message).</li>
<li><strong>Quote attachments viewed inline in replies</strong>: If this
option is checked, then attachments (such as images, text, or messages)
viewed inline are included in the quote when replying to an email.</li>
<li><strong>Automatically save the message every [__] minutes</strong>:
Choose this option if you want Mail & Newsgroups to save the message
you are currently composing automatically at the given interval. After a
computer crash or program failure you can find the latest saved version of
the message in your Drafts folder.</li>
<li><strong>Confirm when using keyboard shortcut to send message</strong>:
Check this option if want to be asked if you're sure to be ready to
send the message when you're pressing Ctrl+Return in message editor.
This may help you avoid accidentally sending the message if you enter the
keyboard shortcut by mistake when composing a message.</li>
<li><strong>Wrap plain text messages at [__] characters</strong>: Enter a
number to set the right margin for text in the message area.</li>
<li><strong>Check spelling before sending</strong>: Select this option to
have Mail & Newsgroups always check the spelling of your message before
you send it.</li>
<li><strong>Check spelling as you type</strong>: Select this option to have
Mail & Newsgroups always check the spelling of your message as you type
it.</li>
<li><strong>Language</strong>: Use the drop-down list to select the language
you want to use to check the spelling in your messages or to download more
dictionaries.</li>
<li><strong>Defaults for HTML Messages</strong>: Here you can define what the
defaults are for font, size, text and background color if you choose to
send mails in HTML format.</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#mail_and_newsgroup_preferences">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="send_format">Mail & Newsgroups Preferences - Send Format</h2>
<p>Send Format preferences allow you to specify how you want to format your
outgoing messages. If you are not already viewing the Send Format settings,
follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences. You see the
Preferences dialog box.</li>
<li>Under the Mail & Newsgroups category, click Send Format. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Mail & Newsgroups to expand
the list.)</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li><strong>Ask me what to do</strong>: This option requires Mail &
Newsgroups to prompt you to choose a format before you send the
message.</li>
<li><strong>Convert the message to plain text</strong>: This option may
cause your message to lose formatting such as bold text.</li>
<li><strong>Send the message in HTML anyway</strong>: If you select this
option, keep in mind that some mail programs may have trouble displaying
the message.</li>
<li><strong>Send the message in both plain text and HTML</strong>: This
option uses more disk space.
<p>You can always override these preferences for an individual message by
using the Options menu in the Mail Compose window.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>HTML and Plain Text Domains</strong>: Use the Add button to add
the domain names that you typically send mail to, if you know which domains
can display HTML-formatted mail messages, and which domains can only
display plain text.</li>
</ul>
<p>For example, if you typically send mail to multiple recipients that have the
same domain name (for example, your colleagues all have email addresses that
end in <q>netscape.net</q>), and you know that this domain name is capable of
displaying HTML messages, then you can add the netscape.net domain to the
list of HTML Domains so that Mail & Newsgroups will automatically send
messages in HTML format to these recipients.</p>
<p>Similarly, if you typically send mail to recipients at a domain that you
know can only receive Plain Text messages, you can add that domain name to
the list of Plain Text domains, so that Mail & Newsgroups automatically
sends messages to that domain in plain-text format.</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: If you regularly compose HTML (formatted) mail
messages, keep in mind that sometimes not all recipients use mail programs
that can display HTML formatting properly. Send Format preferences allow you
to specify how you want to format messages that go to recipients who cannot
display HTML-formatted mail. You can convert messages to plain text, format
them only as HTML, or format them as both HTML and plain text. These
preferences apply to all your mail accounts, but only to mail messages and
not to newsgroup messages.</p>
<p>Whenever you add a person or address card to your address book, you can
specify whether that addressee can receive HTML-formatted messages. However,
when this information is unknown, you can set Send Format preferences for how
Mail & Newsgroups formats these messages.</p>
<p>[<a href="#mail_and_newsgroup_preferences">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="addressing_preferences">Mail & Newsgroups Preferences -
Addressing</h2>
<p>Addressing preferences allow you to control the settings for
&brandShortName; Mail & Newsgroups address books (for example, email
address collection and address autocompletion). If you are not already
viewing the Addressing settings, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences. You see the
Preferences dialog box.</li>
<li>Under the Mail & Newsgroups category, select Addressing. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Mail & Newsgroups to expand
the list.)</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li><strong>Email Address Collection</strong>: Select this if you want Mail
& Newsgroups to automatically collect recipients' email addresses.
Use the drop-down list to choose between having the addresses added to your
Collected Addresses or your Personal Address Book.</li>
<li id="address_autocompletion"><strong>Address Autocompletion</strong>:
Address autocompletion allows you to quickly address mail without having to
search for names or type names completely. Select from which location Mail
& Newsgroups will search for matching addresses: <q>Local Address
Books</q> (Personal Address Book, Collected Addresses, or any other local
address book) or <q>Directory Server</q> (an available LDAP directory
server) or both. If you want Mail & Newsgroups to highlight addresses
that do not autocomplete, then select that option.
<p><strong>Note</strong>: If while addressing mail, multiple email address
matches are found, Mail & Newsgroups displays a list of all possible
choices.</p>
<p>If you select Directory Server, choose a directory server from the list.
A directory server lets you look up addresses that are not stored in one
of your local address books. The directory you select will also be
searched for matching certificates when you attempt to send an encrypted
message to one or more recipients for whom you don't have
certificates on file.</p>
<p>See <a
href="mailnews_addressbooks.xhtml#adding_and_removing_ldap_directories">Adding
and Removing LDAP Directories</a> for information on setting LDAP
directory server settings.</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Directory server settings you enter from the
Preferences dialog box apply to all your mail accounts. You can override
these settings for individual accounts by specifying different LDAP
directory servers or server settings using the Addressing settings for an
account in the Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings dialog box. To set
different addressing options for a specific account, open the Edit menu
and choose Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#mail_and_newsgroup_preferences">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="junk_and_suspect_preferences">Mail & Newsgroups Preferences -
Junk & Suspect Mail</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Junk & Suspect Mail preferences
panel. If you are not currently viewing the Junk & Suspect Mail panel,
follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Mail & Newsgroups category, select Junk & Suspect Mail.
(If no subcategories are visible, double-click Mail & Newsgroups to
expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li><strong>When I mark messages as junk</strong>: Choose this to
set what you want &brandShortName; to do when you manually mark messages
as Junk.
<ul>
<li><strong>Move them to the account's <q>Junk</q> folder</strong>:
Choose this to move manually-marked Junk messages to the Junk folder.
</li>
<li><strong>Delete them</strong>: Choose this to move manually-marked
Junk messages to the trash folder.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Mark messages as read</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong>When &brandShortName; determines that they are junk</strong>:
Select this option to mark junk messages as read, so they will not show
up as new.</li>
<li><strong>When I manually mark them as junk</strong>: Select this
option to mark messages as read when you manually mark them as junk.
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Enable junk filter logging</strong>: Select this option to allow
logging the history of Junk mail detections. Click the <strong>Show log
</strong> button to open a dialog showing this log.</li>
<li><strong>Reset training data</strong>: Click this button to clear the
training data of the adaptive junk filter. Since this will effectively
destroy your personal junk profile, you will be asked for confirmation.
</li>
<li><strong>Tell me if the message I'm reading is a suspected email
scam</strong>: Choose this to make &brandShortName; analyze messages for
suspected email scams by looking for common techniques used to deceive
people.</li>
<li><strong>Allow anti-virus clients to scan incoming messages more
easily</strong>: Choose this to let &brandShortName; make it easier for
anti-virus software to analyze incoming mail messages for viruses before
they are stored locally.</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#mail_and_newsgroup_preferences">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="tags">Mail & Newsgroups Preferences - Tags</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Tags preferences panel. You use the
Tags preferences to define the tag text, colors and order for message tags.
If you are not currently viewing the panel, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Mail & Newsgroups category, select Tags. (If no options
are visible, double-click the Mail & Newsgroups category to expand the
list.)</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li><strong>Customize Tags</strong>: Specifies the tag text and the color
for each tag. You can edit or replace the default tag text with your
own text (up to 32 characters). To change the tag color, click the color
chip next to that tag and select a new color. Use the Move Up and Move Down
buttons to order your tags by descending importance. Messages with
multiple tags will be colored according to their most important tag.</li>
<li><strong>Restore Defaults</strong>: Removes all customized tags and
restores just the default tags' text and colors.</li>
</ul>
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<h2 id="return_receipts_preferences">Mail & Newsgroups Preferences - Return
Receipts</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Return Receipts preferences panel. If
you are not currently viewing the Return Receipts panel, follow these
steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Mail & Newsgroups category, select Return Receipts. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Mail & Newsgroups to expand the
list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>You use the Return Receipts preferences to define return receipt settings
for outgoing messages from all your mail accounts. You also use the Return
Receipt preferences to specify how to manage requests you receive for return
receipts.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>When sending messages, always request a return receipt</strong>:
Enables automatic return receipt requests for all outgoing messages in all
your mail accounts.</li>
<li><strong>Leave it in my Inbox</strong>: Return receipt confirmation
messages are delivered to your Inbox.
<p><strong>Tip</strong>: Choose this option if you want to use a filter
that automatically moves return receipt confirmation messages to a folder
you specify. For information on creating and using filters, see
<a href="mailnews_organizing.xhtml#creating_message_filters">Creating
Message Filters</a>.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>Move it to my Sent Mail folder</strong>: Incoming return receipt
confirmation messages are moved to your Sent mail folder.</li>
<li><strong>Never send a return receipt</strong>: Choose this option if you
do not want to send a return receipt in response to requests for return
receipts from others.</li>
<li><strong>Allow return receipts for some messages</strong>: Choose how you
want to respond to requests you receive for return receipts.</li>
</ul>
<p>To override these global preferences for individual accounts, see
<a href="mailnews_account_settings.xhtml#return_receipts">Mail &
Newsgroups Account Settings - Return Receipts</a>.</p>
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section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="character_encoding">Mail & Newsgroups Preferences - Character
Encoding</h2>
<p>Character encoding preferences allow you to choose how messages are encoded
when being displayed or created in all accounts. If you are not already
viewing the Character Encoding settings, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences. You see the
Preferences dialog box.</li>
<li>Under the Mail & Newsgroups category, click Character Encoding. (If
no subcategories are visible, double-click Mail & Newsgroups to expand
the list.)</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li><strong>Default Character Encoding</strong>: Click this drop-down list to
select the character encoding you want Mail & Newsgroups to use as the
default for incoming mail and newsgroup messages. This is recommended if
it's likely you might receive messages in which the character encoding
(MIME charset) is not indicated, such as when reading messages in
international newsgroups.</li>
<li><strong>Always use this default character encoding when messages are
displayed</strong>: Select this to apply the default character encoding to
all messages.
<p><strong>Tip</strong>: You can later view or change the character
encoding for a specific folder. In the Mail window, select a folder from
the list of Mail folders. Open the View menu, and choose Character
Encoding.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>For messages that contain 8-bit characters, use 'quoted
printable' MIME encoding</strong>: Choose to have Mail &
Newsgroups use <q>quoted printable</q> MIME encoding when sending regular
messages that use an 8-bit character encoding (for example, Latin
ISO-8859-3).</li>
<li><strong>Default Character Encoding</strong>: Select the character
encoding you want Mail & Newsgroups to use as the default for outgoing
mail and newsgroup messages. Note that this character encoding is
<strong>not</strong> used when replying to a message. Instead, the
character encoding of the message being replied to is used by default.
Choose <strong>Always use this default character encoding in
replies</strong> to use the default character encoding for outgoing
messages even when replying.</li>
</ul>
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<h2 id="network_and_storage_preferences">Mail & Newsgroups Preferences -
Network & Storage</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Network & Storage preferences
panel. If you are not currently viewing the panel, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Mail & Newsgroups category, select Network & Storage.
(If no subcategories are visible, double-click Mail & Newsgroups to
expand the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Network & Storage preferences allow you to set preferences for
working offline, going online, mail connections and disk space.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Offline</strong>: Select how you want Mail & Newsgroups to
handle messages when going online or offline.</li>
<li><strong>Mail Connections</strong>: Choose how long you want Mail &
Newsgroups to keep trying to contact the server before timing out.</li>
<li><strong>Disk Space</strong>: Select this to conserve disk space by
automatically compacting message folders when it will save the amount
of disk space you enter.</li>
</ul>
<p>See <a href="mailnews_offline.xhtml#working_offline">Working Offline</a> for
information on working offline.</p>
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