GNUMail.app User's Guideby Martin Brecher <martin@mb-itconsulting.com> Advanced Settings [top of page]The user has the possibility to set some other settings which cannot be set using GNUMail.app's graphical preferences panel. Those settings are changed using GNUstep's defaults command line tool. Before we talk about those advanced settings that affect GNUMail.app's behaviour, we will first discuss GNUstep's defaults database and the mentioned defaults utility. NOTE: If you are scared to dive into those GNUstep internals: you don't have to! The stuff described below is absolutely not essential! So novices should skip this chapter. Do not blame me for errors you invoke by misunderstanding... Introduction: GNUstep's defaults database [top of page] As all GNUstep applications GNUMail.app does not have its own configuration file, but stores its preferences in GNUstep's defaults database which is stored in the hidden .GNUstepDefaults file in your $HOME/GNUstep directory. So please make a backup of this file before changing anything directly. An easy way to browse through the database is using Philippe C.D. Robert's GSDefaults.app. However, since GNUstep does not have a fully functional graphical Preferences Utility yet, the preferred way to modify the defaults database in general is the defaults command line tool which's usage will be described in this section. This tool will be especially helpful if something screwed up which you cannot fix using the Preferences Dialogs. defaults --help will always give you a quick overview of what this tool is capable of.
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