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User Options - General Options Tab

• Display Name. Enter your preferred full name in the text box.
• Reply To. Enter your complete email address in the text box.
• Forward To. Enter the email address to which you want all your email automatically forwarded.
  • For example, to forward your messages to another email address simply enter the forwarding address as yourUser@domain.com, or to forward to another mailbox besides your main Inbox enter the forwarding address as ID-othermailbox.

    Note: To forward your email to another email address and also keep a copy in the original mailbox, precede the email address with ".," allowing no spaces in between .

    Example: ".,email@address.com"

• Default Encoding. Default message encoding used for sending messages. Default setting is Unicode (UTF-8).
  • Unicode (UTF-8).  Choose this character set for multi-language mail. In IMail, this includes English, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, French, German, Italian, Japanese, or Spanish.  
  • English (US-ASCII). For composing email for English-speaking readers, based on the English alphabet.
  • Western European (ISO-8859-15). For composing email in French, Italian, German, or Spanish.
  • Chinese Traditional (BIG5). For composing email in traditional Chinese.
  • Chinese Simplified (GB2312). For composing email in simplified Chinese.
  • Japanese (ISO-2022-JP). For composing email in Japanese.
• Initial Item to Display. Default is None. This drop down box allows users to select the folder to display upon initial login.
  • Default Page - The "Today" tab, displays message folders and message folder sizes. This can be manually accessed by clicking on the Today tab.
• Main Menu Bar.
  • Display Shortcut Compose Button. Set by default. Unchecking this option will move the "Compose" email button to the Action menu.
• Timezone Offset. Set to Automatically Determined by default. Changing this offset will affect two items. 1) The time stamp that is displayed on all received messages will be adjusted, and 2) All calendar appointments will be adjusted.
  • Adjust for daylight savings time. Set by Default. Automatically adjusts for daylight savings when in place.