Pronto Configuration Help

The Configuration dialog for Pronto is where you would configure a lot of the options in Pronto, those include Sending options, Receiving options, viewing options, Database options, fonts, icons and the optional mini browser if you use the GtkHTML widget.

Sending Options

Send Messages Immediately: If this option is checked, Pronto will immediately contact your SMTP host and attempt to send the message when you are done composing it. If you are not connected to the internet or would like to compose a lot of messages and send them at once then uncheck this option and Pronto will place all the messages you compose in the Outbox and you can send them all at once when you connect by hitting Send & Receive button on the Pronto toolbar. This option is checked by default.

Automatically put people I reply to in my addressbook, This option will add the from address to your addressbook to each message you reply to. Unchecked by default.

Forward Attachements: Unchecked by default, when checked this option will include attachements, if any when forwarding messages.

Wrap options: 74 columns is the default number of columns that Pronto will wrap after when sending a message. You can change that to any number you like. Also when replying to a message Pronto will place a line at the top of the quoted message that defaults to:
On this date, this sender said:
which is represented by On %d, %n said: (where %d, is date and %n is the sender) .. If you do not want this just empty the Entry box.
You can also choose your Quote Charcter to whatever you like, the default is "> ".
Receiving Options

Check Mail every ? minutes, when a number is entered, Pronto will check your account(s) that are included in your check by default at the provided interval. To disable this option enter 0 in the entry box. The default is 10 minutes.

Return Receipt: Pronto will check every message your receive for requested return receipts by the sender, if one is found, it will either depending on the option you check,
Ask you by poping a dialog that you can choose to return the receipt immediately, send it later or Ignore it.
Quietly always return receipts ..
Or never return receipts .. The default is to ask ....

Message scoring system: When checked, an extra column in the Pronto message list will appear and you can assign certain scores to messages by using the right-click on the message list menu, the Message drop down menu or using the short cut keys. What this will do is let's say you are subscribed to the Pronto list and you already have a filter to place those messages in the Pronto folder, but you would like to see someone's messages at the top, then you assign scores to that particular message and all messages from that someone will be palced at the top.

When importing mail, mark it as new .. unchecked by default, this option will try to mark the mail you import from mbox files to Pronto as new if there is no status header in them.

Dupe check mails over all accounts. Unchecked by default, this option will try to check for duplicate messages as it checks all of your accounts. Ofcourse this option will work only if you have your account set to check for duplicates.

Play sound if I have new mail, when checked will play your favorite sound command and soundfile, ie.. esdplay /home/muhri/newmail.wav .. so each time you check your mail and you have new mail it'll play this sound.
Viewing options

Display image attachements inline in the message view window, checked by default will display only images in your message view window if any.

Change folder font if it contains new mail, checked by default. It will take your prefered font for new items and change the folder font to it when it contains new mail. The default font for new items is adobe-helvetica bold. Which you can change from the fonts tab.

Deleting new messages marks them as read, unchecked by default. When checked will strip new status from those messages when placed in the deleted items folder.

Save window size on exit, unchecked by default. When checked it will save most of the window sizes and pane sizes in Pronto at exit time and go back to it the next time you restart.

Mark message as read after number of seconds, default is 2 seconds. When message is viewed for longer than 2 seconds it will be marked as read and the font will be changed to the font used to normal items on that message.

Path to Netscape, This option is for XmHTML widget users only, it'll launch netscape -remote on any clicked URL in the message view window. default is /usr/bin/netscape.

Print command, default is lpr. The command used to pass the messages to your print queue or printer.

Date format: Default is Month/Day/Year Hour:Minute which you can change to anything you like where :
%M = Month
%d = day
%y = 2 digit year
%Y = 4 digit year
%h = Hour
%m = Minute
%s = Second
So for example for european date '%d-%M-%y %h:%m' is what you would place in the entry to get something like 03-04-00.
Database Options

Database Driver: Default is CSV (Comma Seperated values), if you have other DBD Drivers installed such as mysql or Pg (postgres) then this is where you enter it ...

Database username & Password: Not required for CSV, if your database needs authintication, this is where you enter it.
Fonts
Customizable fonts that you can change by clicking on the change button next to each entry ...

Font used for new items is the font used for new items such as new messages and folders that contain new messages if you have checked the option to change folder font when it contains new messages.

Font used for normal items is the font that will be used on Read messages

Font used to display messages - Not implemented yet.

Font used for the labels in the headerpanel is the font you'll see in the headerbar if you have view headerbar enabled.

Icons
Here you enter your pixmap path for icons, Pronto comes with two sets of icons, pro and neon icons. The default is the pro icons which the path for it will be $PREFIX/lib/Pronto/pro, you can chagne that to $PREFIX/lib/Pronto/neon and restart Pronto to get the neon icons instead. Feel free to make new ones and submit them to the Pronto team at Pronto list.
Web Browser
If you use the GtkHTML widget and would like to use the Pronto Mini-Browser, then this is where you set your Homepage, Proxy server if you have one and proxy port.