Your default user preferences are configured when your account is created and they define how mail, address books, and compose work for you.
You can change these preference settings from the Options tab. If the option described here is not visible in your view, the preference is not available for your account.
You can choose to automatically include the Junk folder and Trash folder in any searches. By default these folders will not be searched.
To always show the search string in the Find text box, check Always Show Search String. When this enabled, the search text box displays the search query that produced the list of items the display in the Content pane.
If Change password is displayed, you can change your password from this tab. If you have trouble changing your password, contact you administrator for the password rules.
Select the UI Theme to define the background color for your mailbox interface.
Select how you want to group your mail, by conversation or message. If you have the Conversation feature, Conversations is the default.
Select how many items (messages or conversations) to display per page. The default is to display 25 items per page, but you can select 10, 50, or 100 items per page.
When Show fragments in conversations/message lists is enabled, the first several words of the email text display next to the Subject in the Subject column of the content pane
The search defined in the Initial mail search field defines the search to execute when you log in. The default search is your Inbox. When you log in, the results of your Inbox display. You can change this field to have another folder, tag, or a saved search displayed when you first open the Web Client. See Query language description for the syntax.
Set whether to show the reading pane when viewing mail. The default is to always show the reading pane.
By default, the Save copies of messages to sent folder is enabled. Copies of messages you send are saved to your Sent folder.
Specify whether to reply to incoming mail with a vacation message saying that you are out of the office, and what the message should say. This is also sometimes referred to as an out-of-the-office auto-reply.
Enable and specify an address to send notifications that you have received new mail.
Specify an address to forward your email to. You can have the original email deleted from your mailbox.
Specify whether to view mail as HTML, for messages that have been formatted as HTML. Turning this off causes mail to be displayed as plain text, showing the HTML tags themselves rather than applying them as markup.
Configure If I send a message that I then receive to handle messages that you send that include your address as one of the recipients of the message or that go an address such as a mailing list that includes you.
Mail identity is the name and email address used in your email correspondence. When you send new email, reply to, or forward an email message, this identity is always associated with the email.
In Send mail from: type the "friendly name" that should appear in the From field of your outgoing email messages, for example: john. In the second box, select the email address to send messages from. If your administrator did not create alias addresses for your account, you will not have other address to select from.
(Optional) Check Reply-to, if replies should be sent to a name and address different from that which you configured in Send from. Enter the name and address that should receive replies for this identity. For example, replies to training messages John sends should be sent to Team Training at training@example.com.
Create a signature to be automatically added to your messages.
Specify the placement of the signature in your email messages: either add the signature below all messages in the email, or have the signature added at the end of your composed, replied to, or forwarded text.
Enter the signature that should appear on your email messages.
Specify whether to automatically add a signature to all outgoing email messages. You can create a signature and not enable it.
Filtering applies a set of matching rules to incoming mail and then executes a specified action. Use this tab to define mail filtering rules as described in Filtering your messages
Enable the feature to automatically add addresses to your address book when you send mail. If this is enabled, addresses are saved to your Email Contacts Address Book.
Select the number of contacts to display per page. The default is 25.
Keyboard shortcuts let you use the application without going to the mouse. A large number of shortcuts is available. The list shows all the existing keyboard shortcuts. Also see Keyboard Shortcut keys