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Overview of Convergence Online Help

Mail

Address Book

Calendar

Instant Messaging

Options

Setting Global Preferences

How Do I Customize General Preferences?

How Do I change my Password?

How Do I Set a Theme in Convergence?

Setting Mail Preferences

How Do I Set the General Preferences in Mail?

How Do I Set a Signature for the Messages I Compose?

How Do I Set the Layout of the Messages in my Inbox?

How Do I Enable Automatic Forwarding of Messages?

Mail Filters

How Do I Create a New Filter?

How Do I Edit a Filter?

How Do I Delete a Filter?

Vacation

How Do I Set a Vacation Message?

Sender Identities

How Do I Set Identity Settings for my Default or External Accounts?

How Do I Remove an Identity Configured on Convergence?

Collecting Email From External Accounts

How Do I Configure Convergence to Collect Mails From Other Accounts?

How do I Remove an Existing External Account?

Security

I Always want to Sign the Messages I send. How Do I Do this?

I Always want to Encrypt the Messages I send. How Do I Do this?

How do I Select a Signing Certificate for my Messages?

Setting Calendar Preferences

How Do I Customize Calendar Preferences?

Setting Instant Messaging Preferences

How Do I Customize Instant Messaging Preferences?

Index

How Do I Set the Layout of the Messages in my Inbox?

You can customize the order in which your mails appear in your mail box and also you can disable or enable message preview. You can customize the layout from Layout option under the Mail options in left pane along the following lines:

To set the order in which the messages appear, perform the following steps:

  1. Select one of the following options under the Message List Default Order section.

    The following options are available:

    • Most recent first: Click the radio button corresponding to this option to list your most recent messages first. This option is selected by default.

    • Most recent last: Click the radio button corresponding to this option to list your most recent messages last.

  2. Click Save Preferences.

    The Options Updated pop up window appears indicating that your messages have been saved.

  3. Click the OK button.

To customize the way the columns appear in your Inbox, perform the following steps:

  1. Change the order in which you want to display the columns by selecting a the column name from the Column Name list.

  2. Click the Move up or Move Down buttons to change the ordering.

    The column on the top of this list will appear at the left in the Inbox.

  3. Click Save Preferences.

    The Options Updated pop up window appears indicating that your messages have been saved.

  4. Click the OK button.

To disable or enable the message preview perform the following steps:

  1. Select the Disable Message Preview check box to disable the message preview or deselect the checkbox to enable message preview.

  2. Click Save Preferences.

    The Options Updated pop up window appears indicating that your messages have been saved.

  3. Click the OK button.