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You can configure the PalmOS module via the Plugin menu in a lot of ways. Letīs
go through every single item in the configuration dialog which you can access
using the Plugin-Menu:
- Synchronise Mail
- When you have this enabled, you can specify a mailbox which
will be used as place of exchange for mails. Mails in this folder will be transfered
to the Palm at the next hotsync and the outbox of the Palmīs mail program will
be send. This mailbox is also used as a configuration setting for messages sent.
Mahogany will use the properties of this mailbox when sending the messages
retrieved from the Palm's Outbox. If you have enabled the ``advanced user''
option in the program preferences' identity tab, you can set up a separate return-address
or completely different options for this mailbox and therefore have the mail
sent from the PalmPilot with different settings as those sent normally. The
options for user name and return address as set on the Palm are ignored when
mails are sent with Mahogany.
- Mailbox for Exchange
- Enter here the name of the mailbox that should be used
for mail exchange when you have the ``Synchronise Mail'' feature enabled (see
above).
- Mail disposal mode
- This specifies what to do with outgoing e-mails retrieved
from the PalmPilot and sent. You have three options:
- file : move messages from Outbox to Filed mailbox on the Palm
- delete : delete messages after sending
- keep : keep messages in Palm's Outbox
- Always do Backup
- Setting this checkbox to true will make a backup take place
every time you ``Synchronize''.
- Directory for backup files
- This field does contain a valid directory path where
the PalmOS-Module will store the backup of your Palmīs databases.
- Delete no longer existing backups
- This checkbox determines whether you want
files to be deleted on the PC that are residing in the backup directory but
are not any longer on the Palm. This makes it possible to really keep the backup
identical to the Palm, but has the disadvantage that you might loose data if
you (accidently?) delete important data on the Palm and do a backup, as the
backup-ed databases will be deleted too. So think carefully whether you do really
want to do this.
- Make incremental backup only
- Enable this checkbox if you only want to make
an incremental backup. Using this features will speed the backup process up,
as only changed or new databases are downloaded from the Palm.
- Backup all databases
- Enabling this checkbox will make the PalmOS-Module ignore
the backup flags of the databases. By default the PalmOS-Module does only backup
files with a set backup flag. Use this option if you want all files to be backupīed.
- Exclude these databases
- Here you can specify a comma separated list of databases
(without spaces!) that should not be backupīed.
- Do auto-install
- Using this feature enables the auto-install feature and everytime
you ``Synchronize'' the module will check the auto-install directory for Palm
databases. If databases are found they will be installed and deleted without
further notice!
- Auto-install directory
- Specify here a directory where the files to be auto-installed
can be found.
Besides that, some general options are available:
- Pilot device
- Here you can specify the device where the Pilot is residing (this
ought to be /dev/pilot under Unix/Linux and Com1: or Com2: under MS Windows
(not yet supported)).
- Connection speed
- You have the choice beetween different hotsync speeds (``connection
speed''), measured in baud.
- Try to lock device
- You can force a lock of the above set device by enabling
``Try to lock device''
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Charlie &
2001-04-19