9-1. Preferences
There are 4 tabs in the Preferences
in which you can change various Magellan settings.
9-2. Receive preferences
| Default Text Encoding | Usually, Magellan selects text encoding automatically however, such e-mail that has no description of character set is surely being sent from some e-mail softwares or kind of auto responder. Default text Encoding is for above e-mail. |
| Auto Mail Check | Mail check is done periodically. Please note that your computer will access to the Internet at every mail check. Be careful if your access is dial-up. |
| Skip mail | The
mail of selected size will be skipped. You can download entire message of skipped mail later, or delete it before you read. You can save time for receiving e-mail as you can see from who and about what. |
| Encoded attached text | Some other email client cannot send text file attachment correctly to Magellan. If you have ever experienced this, select 'Save to the file' from the Pop up menu. |
| Unicode base language | Japanese,
Korean and Chinese are quite different language however, many
of Kanji characters and Hiragana characters are common to each
languages. "Unicode base language" is setting for you to select main language of Unicode e-mail message. For example, if you set to Korean, Unicode message including Hiragana characters will be indicated using Korean Hiragana characters. If you set to "Default", your start-up language will be used as Unicode base language. |
| Reply Message | Magellan quotes original message with character '>' when 'All message' is selected. If you don't want to quote, select 'None'. You can also use 'Paste with quote' in the Edit menu. |
| Reply to | You can select replying to the sender only (whose e-mail address appears in the From line) or, all members appear in the From:, Cc:, and Bcc: line. |
| Multilingual mail | You
can select the format of multilingual e-mail, MultiScript or
Unicode. If you send message of any single language, either format is available. It is better for you to select format according to receiver's computer system and e-mail software. If receiver is using Magellan too, MultiScript is recommended. Because the Scripts and attributes of each languages are not lost, receiver can edit message even on other text editing software. Other e-mail client software that can switch encoding is possibly able to receive multilingual message by MultiScript. If receiver's e-mail software supports Unicode, he can correctly read your multilingual message by Unicode. However, Scripts and attributes will be lost. Especially either Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean is included in the mail message, Kanji will be unified and unable to be identified as each language. |
| Main language (optional setting for MultiScript) |
| If you select
Main language, Magellan can send MultiScript mail which has certain
language attribute. With this setting, receiver will be able to read main language part correctly by any e-mail client supports the language. However, your multilingual message should not be sent to other e-mail client software which is not for multilingual message, even you set Main language. It is possible that other language part will be broken. For example, in case you select main language Western, Magellan will send your MultiScript message written in Latin1 and Japanese as iso-8859-1. Even receiver's e-mail client cannot indicate MultiScript, the message is received as iso-8859-1. Select "default" in normal case. If you know well about this function and in case it is necessary for you, set main language. |
| Minimize Scripts (optional setting for MultiScript) |
| Magellan handles switching of scripts strictly. However, minimize data size is more important than strict language distinction in many cases. For example, us-ascii characters included Chinese can be handled as Chinese. The default setting is "Off". If you use single language mostly, turn this switch "On". If you use many languages in your multilingual message, don't change default setting. |
| Keep Paragraph |
| Sometimes
received mail includes many line breaks and message is cramped.
This Keep Paragraph option allows sending mail without unnecessary line break. You can easily edit mail text copy and pasting to other application. If the switch is OFF, mail is sent with line break as usual. The function is effective in Japanese, English and Korean. Other languages are always sent without line break. |
| Notice Magellan can do correct handling of languages automatically in most case. But main language setting is the only manual handling. Use this function with care, or you will send illegible message. |
| TIPS | Multilingual mail and single language mail |
| In this manual, Multilingual
mail means that the e-mail message including characters of multiple
languages. On Magellan, it is different from foreign language
mail including characters of foreign single language. In Multilingual mail, both Unicode or MultiScript is effective. But when you write e-mail in any single foreign language, Magellan will select encoding automatically. You don't have to do setting of language. For example, you write French e-mail message and Magellan will send it by iso-8859-1. When you want to send message in Japanese and French, the dialog which confirms you the format of multilingual you select on the Send preference will appear. |
9-4. Font preference
In the Font preference, you can select
fonts of available languages.
'Message' is the font for showing the e-mail body. 'List' is
for showing the mail list in the Mail Manager window. Font of
other field is stable.
Even Magellan's default setting is appropriate however, you can
change font as you like.
You can set Font and size according to
the language. Setting of Line Spacing is for the Mail Manager
window.
Example:
Select Simplified Chinese from the language list and select font
and size. If you select font of European language, Chinese part
will be illegible. Beijing is available in this case.
In the same way, select Western from the language list and select
font and size. If you select font of Chinese language or other
languages, the characters will be garbage. Chicago is available
in this case.
You can select different Print size on each language.
When you close the window after the font preference in done,
the dialog that confirm you to save change of setting. Change(s)
will apply next time the Mail Manager is opened. In the above
example, Simplified Chinese part will be shown by Beijing and
English part will be shown by Chicago.
9-5. Appearance
You can change the appearance of Icon buttons of the Mail Manager
window.
Following appearance is available.
| Icon &Text |  |
| Icon only |  |
| Text only |  |
Background:
You can change the background color of Mail manager and New mail window.
Select the color from pop-up menu. This function works on 256 or more colors.
Message Color:
You can select color of quote in the Message color preference.
If this is checked, quote message is indicated in different 4 colors according to its levels.
To change color, click on the color and select. If you do not want to show colored text, uncheck this.
9-6. Action
| At Start up |
| Magellan checks mail every time its start up if 'Check mail' is selected. |
| On quit |
| Check 'Empty Trash' and Magellan will empty e-mail in the Trash View on quitting. | |
| If "Empty Html cache" is checked, temporal HTML cache file is deleted on quitting of Magellan. |
| On new mail |
| It is the setting how Magellan notices you arrival of new mail: Flash Icon, show dialog, play sound, both, either, or all. |
| Filtering |
| This function
is available if MailGoGoGo is installed on your computer. Magellan can filter mail by Mail GoGoGo before checking, and receives legitimate mail only. |
