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Evolution User Guide
Novell Confidential Manual (ENU) 21 December 2004
If Evolution does not complete addresses automatically, click Edit > Preferences, then click
Autocompletion. There, select the groups of contacts you want to use for address autocompletion
in the mailer.
Alternately, you can click the To:, Cc:, or Bcc: buttons to get a list of the e-mail addresses in your
contacts. Select addresses and click the arrows to move them into the appropriate address columns.
For more information about using e-mail with the contact manager and the calendar, see “Send Me
a Card: Adding New Cards Quickly” on page 64 and “Scheduling With the Evolution Calendar”
on page 66 .
Replying to E-Mail Messages
To reply to a message, click the message to reply to in the e-mail list and click Reply, or right-click
within the message and select Reply to Sender. This opens the message composer. The To: and
Subject: fields are already filled, although you can alter them if you prefer. In addition, the full text
of the old message is inserted into the new message, either in grey with a blue line on one side (for
HTML display) or with the > character before each line (in plain text mode), to indicate that it’s
part of the previous message.
If you’re reading a message with several recipients, you can use Reply to All instead of Reply. If
there are large numbers of people in the Cc: or To: fields, this can save substantial amounts of time.
Using the Reply To All Feature
Susan sends an e-mail to a client and sends copies to Tim and to an internal company mailing list
of co-workers. If Tim wants to make a comment for all of them to read, he uses Reply to All, but
if he just wants to tell Susan that he agrees with her, he uses Reply. His reply does not reach anyone
that Susan put on her Bcc list, because that list is not shared with anyone.
If you subscribe to a mailing list, and want your reply to go just to the list, rather than to the sender,
select Reply to List instead of Reply or Reply to All.
Searching and Replacing with the Composer
The message composer makes several text searching features available to you.
Find: Enter a word or phrase, and Evolution finds it in your message.
Find Regex: You can search for a complex pattern of characters, called a regular expression or
“regex” in your composer window. If you’re not sure what a regular expression is, you should
ignore this feature.
Find Again: Select this item to repeat the last search you performed.
Replace: Find a word or phrase, and replace it with something else.
For all of these menu items, you can choose whether to search backwards in the document from
the point where your cursor is. You can also determine whether the search is to be case sensitive
in determining a match.
Enhancing Your E-Mail with HTML
Normally, you can’t set text styles or insert pictures in e-mail. However, most newer e-mail
programs can display images and text styles in addition to basic alignment and paragraph
formatting. They do this with
HTML , just like Web pages do.