How Do I Set the General Preferences in Mail?

You can set preferences for the Email messages in your Inbox. After setting the preferences for your Email messages, tap Save Preferences at the bottom of the page. Alternatively, you can also set the preferences for more than one option, and tap Save Preferences. All preferences that you set are saved collectively.

The following options are available when setting general mail preferences:

• Place a Copy in: Whenever you send an Email message, a copy of your Email message is by default placed in the Sent folder.

  To save a copy of your sent Email messages in a specific folder, perform the following steps:

  1. Tap Select.

     The Select a folder window opens displaying the folders in your Inbox.

  2. Select the folder into which you want to place your sent Email messages.

  3. Tap Save Preferences.

• Deleting Mail Messages: Whenever you delete an Email message, the deleted Email message is placed in the Trash folder.

  You can set one of the following preferences on deleted Email messages:

  • Move messages to a specified folder. By default all Email messages are moved into the Trash folder.

    To move an Email message to a specific folder, perform the following steps:

    1. Tap Select.

       The Select a folder window appears, displaying the folders in your Inbox..

    2. Select the folder into which you want to place your deleted Email messages.

    3. Tap Save Preferences.

  • Mark messages as deleted. When you mark an Email message as deleted in your Inbox, the Email message is marked for deletion. The Email messages marked for deletion are indicated with a trash can icon adjacent to the Email message.

• • Expunging Deleted Mail Messages: You can expunge all deleted Email messages when you log out of Convergence. To set this preference, select the Empty the trash folder on log out check box.

• Saving Drafts: You can set a preference to save your Email message drafts. By default, all Email message drafts are saved in the Drafts folder.

  To move an Email message to a specific folder, perform the following steps:

  1. Tap Select.

     The Select a folder window appears, displaying the folders in your Inbox.

  2. Select the folder into which you want to place your draft Email messages.

  3. Tap Save Preferences.

• Composing Email: These preferences are applied at the time of composing Email messages.

  The following options are available:

  • Quoting Text in Replies: This option is set by default. When you reply to an Email message, the original is included in the reply. If you do not want to include the original Email message while replying, deselect the check box adjacent to the Include the original message in reply option.

  • Spell Check: To always perform a spell check before sending mail, select this check box.

  • Adding Default Bcc: Use this option to send all your Email messages as blind copies to specified email addresses. This option is not selected by default.

  • To add email address in the Bcc list:

    1. Select the check box labeled Bcc these email addresses.

    2. Enter the email address in the text field provided.

       To specify more than one email address, you must separate them with a comma. A check is performed to see if the email addresses are valid. If the addresses are not valid, the following message appears: Invalid email addresses in bcc list.

    3. Tap Save Preferences.

  • Collected Addresses: Enable Automatically save outgoing email addresses to allow Convergence to collect email addresses that do not already appear in your personal or corporate address books. Convergence saves these collected email addresses in an address book called Collected Addresses. Convergence uses the email addresses in this address book to help you auto-complete email when you write email. See About the Collected Addresses Address Book for more information.