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The configuration dialog

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:

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