One of the goals of the Mahogany project is to be as configurable as possible. Of course, it means that Mahogany has a lot of options - however we hope that it doesn't make the program more difficult to use because you have the complete liberty to ignore all options until you need to use them. Moreover, some program options are completely transparent to the user because they are automatically remembered by the program. All the other ones may be changed from the main options dialog which may be invoked from the main window toolbar or from the menu. Generally, Mahogany configuration settings are inherited in a logical fashion. The settings in the preferences dialog are the global default settings and can be overridden on a per-folder basis. Subfolders inherit from their parent folders. Currently there is no full GUI support for this, but the next release will have the full set of program options available on the per-folder basis. Currently you can already achieve this by editing the configuration file manually. Also, system administrators can provide other defaults in a global /etc/Mahogany.conf file (also found in /usr/etc, /usr/local/etc, /opt/etc, ...).