help: Update accounts.page to reflect how the accounts editor now works
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Michael James Gratton
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<info>
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<link type="guide" xref="index#overview"/>
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<link type="next" xref="archive"/>
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</info>
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<title>Accounts</title>
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<section id="accounts-editor">
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<title>Accounts Editor</title>
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<p>Your email accounts can be added, updated, and removed using
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the <em>accounts editor</em>. To open it, click Geary’s
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application menu button in the main window above the folder list,
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then click <gui>Accounts</gui> in the pop-up menu.</p>
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<p>To change the order that accounts are displayed in the folder
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list, click and drag the handle for an account in the accounts
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editor, or focus an account with <key>Tab</key>, then use
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<keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>↑</key></keyseq> and
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<keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>↓</key></keyseq> to re-position the
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currently selected account.</p>
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</section>
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<section id="adding-accounts">
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<title>Adding accounts</title>
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<p>The first time you start Geary, you will be prompted to add an email account. On this screen,
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select if your account is Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook.com, or other. For other account types, you will
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need to enter your IMAP and SMTP login settings manually.</p>
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<p>Geary will automatically use any email accounts you have added
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via the <app>Online Accounts</app> panel of <app>GNOME
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Settings</app>. If you do not have any accounts added to
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<app>Online Accounts</app>, you will be prompted to add an account
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the first time you run Geary.</p>
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<p>Additional accounts can be added from the Accounts dialog. The <gui>Accounts</gui> option is
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available in either Geary's application menu or the gear menu in the upper-right of the
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toolbar. (The location depends on the install desktop shell. For GNOME Shell and Unity, the
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application menu is available near the top-left corner of the screen.)
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To add an account, click the + button.</p>
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<p>To add additional accounts, open the accounts editor, then
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choose the appropriate email provider from the list at the bottom
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of the window. For providers supported by <app>Online
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Accounts</app>, <app>GNOME Settings</app> will be opened and you
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will be asked for your account information there. For other email
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providers, you will be asked for your account information by
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Geary. Once entered, click <gui>Create</gui> and the account
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information will be checked and then added.</p>
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</section>
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<section id="editing-accounts">
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<title>Editing existing accounts</title>
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<title>Updating existing accounts</title>
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<p>From the Accounts dialog, select an account and click the pencil icon to change various settings.
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Please note that Geary cannot change server settings on an existing account. If you need to
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change your IMAP or SMTP server, you will need to delete the account and re-add it.</p>
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<p>To update existing accounts, open the accounts editor and
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choose the account you wish to update. Geary will display settings
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for the account. From there, you can add and remove additional
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sender email addresses, edit your email signature, and various
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other settings.</p>
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<p>To change the order that accounts are displayed in the folder list, drag the accounts in the
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Accounts dialog to the desired order.</p>
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<p>The <gui>Download mail</gui> setting allows you to configure
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how much mail Geary will download and store locally. Geary can
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only use locally available mail when displaying and searching for
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conversations.</p>
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<p>There are some advanced options available when editing accounts:</p>
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<list>
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<item><p>The <gui>Save sent mail</gui> checkbox controls whether Geary will push successfully sent
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messages up to the account's <gui>Sent Mail</gui> folder. For Gmail accounts, this happens
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automatically. Yahoo and some other accounts can be configured to do this automatically as well.
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For other accounts, if you disable this setting, you may be unable to view messages you've
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sent.</p></item>
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<p>To edit the server settings for the account, scroll to the
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bottom of the window and click <gui>Server Settings</gui>. The
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server settings will be displayed and you can click to edit
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them. Once done, click <gui>Apply</gui> and Geary will check the
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settings, then update the account. Note that accounts added via
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the <app>Online Accounts</app> panel of <app>GNOME Settings</app>
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cannot have their server name, security, login, or password
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settings changed.</p>
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<item><p>The <gui>Sign emails</gui> checkbox indicates whether a signature will be automatically
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inserted when a composer is opened. You may enter the signature into the box immediately
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below. You may use HTML tags to style the text. Switch to a preview of the signature using the
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buttons to the right.</p>
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<p>If you leave the signature in the Accounts dialog blank, Geary will use the
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<file>.signature</file> file in your home directory, if it exists. This file may contain either
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plain text or HTML markup. In the latter case, the markup will be inserted directly into the
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composer, without any escaping.</p></item>
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<item><p>The <gui>Download mail</gui> drop-down allows you to configure how much mail Geary will keep
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locally. Geary can only use locally available mail when searching and forming
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conversations.</p></item>
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</list>
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<p>The <gui>Save draft email on server</gui> checkbox controls
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whether the composer will save copies of email messages being
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written in the <gui>Drafts</gui> folder. If de-selected, you will
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not be able to save draft messages when closing the composer.</p>
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<p>The <gui>Save sent email on server</gui> checkbox controls
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whether Geary will save copies of email that have been sent
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to the <gui>Sent</gui> folder. If de-selected, you will no be able
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to see any email messages you have sent, unless your server
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automatically saves them for you.</p>
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</section>
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<section id="removing-accounts">
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<title>Removing accounts</title>
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<p>To delete an account, open the Accounts dialog, select the account, and press the - button.
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Geary will delete all information associated with the account.</p>
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<p>Accounts added via the <app>Online Accounts</app> panel of
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<app>GNOME Settings</app> must also be removed from there. To do
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so, open <app>Online Accounts</app>, select the account, and click
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<gui>Remove</gui>.</p>
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<p>To remove an account added via Geary, open the accounts editor
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and choose the account you wish to remove. Geary will display
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settings for the account. Scroll to the bottom of the window and
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click <gui>Remove Account</gui>. You will be prompted to confirm
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removing the account. Once confirmed, if you change your mind you
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can still undo removing the account by clicking <gui>Undo</gui> in
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the popup notification, or by typing
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<keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>U</key></keyseq>.</p>
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</section>
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</page>
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