Display

Specify the mail display preferences.

Display Options

Preview Pane

Specify whether to show the preview pane.

Inbox Pane Size (Pixels)

Specify the height of the message list pane.

Threaded Message List

Specify whether to show message list in threads.

Mark Messages as Read After (milliseconds)

Sepcifies hong long to wait before the message is marked as read. The unit is ms.

Show Animated Images

Specify whether to show animated images that are either inserted into, or attached to the messages that you recieve.

Show Deleted Messages with a Strike-Through

Specify whether to show deleted messages (with a strike-through) in the message list.

Loading Images

The recieved messages may contain images in their body or contain links to images on the internet. Linked images might be slow to load, and in some cases might provide information to senders of spam email.
Select one of the options from the group to specify that Email and Calendar does with linked images.
Never load images off the net:Select this option to never download linked images.
Load images if sender is in addressbook:Select this option to download linked images only if the sender is in the list of contacts.
Always load images off the net:Select this option to download all linked images.

Mark citations

Specify whether to mark citations in the message preview pane.

Choose citation color

Specify a citation hightlight color.

Caret Mode

Specify whether to enable caret mode, so that you can see a cursor when reading mail.

set MIME types

Specify the MIME types list.
If there isn't a built-in viewer for a particular mime type inside Email and Calendar, any mime types appearing in this list which map to a bonobo-component viewer in GNOME's mime type database may be used for displaying the content.

Xmailer Mask

Specify mask for xmailer.

Mark message as 'read'

Specify whether to mark messages as read automatically some time after the message is displayed. The time is set in "Mark Messages as Read After (milliseconds)".

List messages as thread by subject

Specify whether or not to fall back on threading by subjects when the messages do not contain In-Reply-To or References headers.

Fonts

Use Custom Fonts

Specify whether to use custom fonts for displaying mail. Select this option if you want Email and Calendar to use the font settings that are specified in the Font preference tool. Email and Calendar uses the font settings in the Font preference tool for its user interface, and for messages in HTML format.

Terminal Font

Specify the terminal font for mail display. If you deselect the Use Custom Fonts option, use this preference to select a font to use in the preview pane.

Standard Font

Specify the variable width font for mail display. If you deselect the Use Custom Fonts, use this preference to select a font to use for the Email and Calendar user interface, and for messages in HTML format.

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