CITES Express Email Web Interface: The Web Preferences Menu

This web page is part of an online tutorial series about the CITES Express Email web interface and explains the options in the web preferences menu.

Full Name: The name that your correspondents will see when they receive email from you.

E-mail Address: The email address that your correspondents will see when they receive email from you. We strongly recommend that you use yourNetID@uiuc.edu.

Reply-To: Enter another email address if you prefer to receive responses to your messages at a different email account.

Message Count: The number of messages displayed at once on your screen in your inbox and other folders.

Display Most Recent Arrival: Choose First to have your new messages displayed before your old messages. Choose Last to have your new messages displayed after your old messages.

HTML Messages: Choose Block images until requested to prevent images from displaying in your messages without your permission (thereby protecting your privacy). If you choose Show images immediately, then images in your messages will display automatically, although there is a small chance that your account might be targeted with more spam. For more information, see the FAQ How do I prevent images from automatically loading in messages?

Compose Width: Width of the Compose window, measured in characters. (Read more about Compose Width on the How to Compose a Message tutorial.)

Compose Height: Height of the Compose window, measured in lines. (Read more about Compose Height on the How to Compose a Message tutorial.)

Sent Folder: The folder designated for storing messages that you sent. You can change this to a different folder name if you prefer to store sent email messages somewhere else.

Save Sent Messages: Select Yes if you would like to keep a copy of every message you send in the folder you designated as your Sent Folder (see above). Select No if you prefer to keep no copies of the messages you send.

Draft Folder: The folder designated for storing drafted messages that you want to send later. You can change this to a different folder name if you prefer to store draft email messages somewhere else.

Trash Folder: The folder designated for storing messages that you deleted. You can change this to a different folder name if you prefer to store deleted messages somewhere else.

Request Receipt: If you would like to be notified by email that your message has been delivered to its recipient, select Yes for Delivery Receipt. If you would like to be notified by email that your recipient has opened your message, then select Yes for Read Receipt. Note: Your recipient might use an email client that does not send receipts or allows this feature to be disabled, therefore, you might not always receive a receipt upon the delivery or opening of your message.

Read Receipt: Some of your correspondents might have set up their email clients to request notification that you have read their email. If you do not want correspondents to receive an email stating that you have read their messages, then select Never send a read receipt. If you select Ask me before sending a read receipt, then you can choose whether or not to send a receipt on a per-email basis.

Delete To Trash: Select Yes to store deleted messages in the folder you designated as your Trash Folder (see above) until emptied. If you select No, messages that you delete will stay in the folder and be marked by a small red circle until you purge them. We recommend that you select Yes.

Reply: Choose to not include original messages in replies, include them as inline text, or include them as an attachment. (Read more about Reply options at the How to Reply to or Forward Received Email Messages tutorial.)

Signature: Enter text to be automatically added to your sent messages. (Read more about creating a Signature at the How to Compose a Message tutorial.)

Include Signature: Select Yes to have your signature message automatically added to your sent messages. Select No if you want to turn off the signature message. (Note: You can still choose whether to include the signature message when composing messages.)

Mode: Choose which appearance you want the web interface to have. We recommend the Frames mode. (Note: Some browsers will not handle frames or javascript properly, in which case you can upgrade to a more recent browser or use the No Frames mode.)

Time Zone: Select the appropriate time zone so that your emails have the correct time stamp.

Message Charset: Select the appropriate message character set if you correspond in another language.

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