Setting your user preferences

Your default user preferences are configured when your account is created. These preferences define how your Zimbra Web Client features work.

You can change these settings from the Preferences tab. If an option described here is not visible in your view, it is not available for your account. You can also set up your personal email identities and POP accounts and select a theme for your mailbox.

You can set preferences in the following tabs. Click the tab name for a description of the tab's content.

• General

  In the General tab you can

  • Configure the default version of the ZWC to use, advanced or standard, select your mailbox theme, language and default time zone.

  • Search settings

  • Displaying check boxes in the Content pane

  See Setting your general preferences

• Mail

  In the Mail tab you can:

  • Select how messages are displayed.

  • Set up how your mailbox handles messages that are received

  • Create an auto-reply message that can be used when you are away

  • If you are set up to use a POP3 client, you can configure the POP access behavior when messages are downloaded to ZWC.

  See Setting your mail preferences

• Composing

  In the Compose tab you can

  • Select the text editor you want as the default, either HTML or plain text.

  • Select whether to include the original text in the body of your reply message.

  • Specify how to mark forwarded or replied to messages.

  • By default, the Save copies of messages to sent folder is enabled. You can change this

  See Setting your preferences for the email compose window

• Signatures

  You can create signatures for your email messages.  If you create multiple identities, you can create different signatures and assign them to specific addresses.

• Address Book

  In the Address Book tab you can

  • Enable the feature to automatically add addresses to your address book when you send mail.

  • Enable to use the Global Address List when autocompleting addresses.

  • Enable to use the Global Address List when viewing contacts in the Contact Picker.  

  • Select whether you would prefer to view contacts as a list or as business cards.

  • Select the number of contacts to display per page. The default is 25.

  See Setting your address book preferences

• Accounts

  The accounts tab is used to create and manage your personas. Persona is the mail identity used in the From field of email messages you send.

  See Setting your Account preferences for using persona

• Mail Filters

  Use the Mail Filters tab to define mail filtering rules. To learn how to set up mail filter rules, see How filtering works.

• Calendar

  In the Calendar tab you can

  • Define how your Calendar should look

  • Set parameters to use when creating an appointment.

  • Select to show the  mini-calendar.

  • Set the reminder notice for meetings.

  See Setting your Calendar preferences

• Instant Messaging

  In the Instant Messaging tab, you can set up how instant messaging (IM) is integrated with your account.

  See Setting IM preferences

• Import / Export

  The Import/Export tab can be used to import or export your complete account data, specific folders, calendars, and contact lists. This is useful if you want to backup your account or a specific folder locally.

   

• Shortcuts

  In the Shortcuts tab,  you can learn about the Keyboard shortcuts.  A large number of shortcuts is available. You can also create custom shortcuts by assigning numeric aliases to folders, tags, and saved searches.

  See Using Shortcuts to navigate