General Preferences

General Panel

Display message preview
Check this option if you want to preview the message text in the main window. Two different layouts are available for the message preview:

Standard layout
This is the standard layout with the folders tree panel on the left half of the main window, the message list panle on the top right section and the preview panel on the bottom right section.

Navigator layout
The navigator layout has the folders tree and message list panels in the upper half of the main window and the message preview panel in the bottom half of the main window.

Mark messages as read
When this option is enabled the messages that are visible in the main window's message preview panel will be marked as readed after the specified amount of seconds.

Character encoding
This item specify the character encoding used to send messages. You should use the character encoding method that is suitable for your country. If you set the wrong encoding, the recipients of your messages may not read the extended characters correctly.

Wrap outgoing messages to
If you enable this option, the text of all outgoing messages will be wrapped to the specified column. This option may be useful if you send mail to a mail client that doesn't wrap text by itself.

Filter messages immediately
By default all filters will be applied to new messages after the download from the mail server is completed. You can tell Emerald to filter each message immediately after being downloaded by enabling this option.

After delete display
This item allows you to specify what message should be displayed after the current one has been deleted. You can choose to display the next or the previous message in the list.

Confirmations Panel

You can have Emerald Mail verify the following actions:

Program Close
When you want to exit the program, you must click "OK" in the verify dialog.

Account deletion
To remove an account, you must verify that you really want to delete it before Emerald Mail will let you.

Folder deletion
To remove a folder, you must verify this.

Message Deletion
Before Emerald Mail will allow you to delete a message, you must verify this action.

Close of Outgoing Message
If you try to close the compose window before you issue a send, you must verify that you actually want to cancel this massage.

Message List Panel

This panel allows you to configure what information is to be displayed in the message list. By highlighting a field, you can either have it shown or not shown by simply clicking a button.

To show a field that is in the "Fields not shown" list, click the field you want to show in the list. When it is highlighted, click the "Show" button to move it to the "Fields shown" list. To move an item to the "Fields not shown" select the field from the "Fields shown" list, and click the "Remove" button.

The position of the fields that you want to show can be changed. By highlighting and clicking the "Up" and "Down" buttons under the list, you can change their order in the list. The items listed from top to button are displayed from left to right in the message list.

Fonts Panel

These settings allow you to set the default font face and size for each panel of the Emerald Mail windows. The panels are:

Message list
The font of the message list in the main window.

Folders tree
The font of the folders tree in the main window.

Message body text
This is the font that will be used as the default font for viewing messages.

Message preview text
This is the font that will be used as the default font for the message preview panel in the main window.

Printer
This is the font that will be used as the default font when printing the message.

Firewall Panel

Emerald mail supports all firewalls and proxy servers that supports the SOCKS V4 protocol and the user#host traversal method.

DialUp or LAN connection
Select this option if you are directly connected to the Internet using a network card or modem.

Use SOCKS server
Select this option if you are accessing the Internet using a proxy or firewall server that supports the SOCKS V4 protocol.

Host or IP address
Use this field to specify the host name or IP address of the firewall server.

Port
Use this field to specify the port number of the SOCKS protocol. The default port number is 1080.

Browser

Web Browser Command
Use this field to specify the executable path and file name of the web browser that Emerald Mail should use to browse to http and ftp sites. Emerald Mail stores the browser command in an operating system-specific format, making possible to specify a different browser for every operating system where Emerald Mail is running.

Emerald Mail will automatically add the url of the site to browse at the end of the command. You can manually specify the position of the url within the command line by adding a %f keyword. The %f keyword will be replaced by the url to browse.