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The menu bar's contents will always provide all the possible actions for any given view of your data. That means that, depending on the context, menu bar items will change. If you're looking at your Inbox, most of the menu items will relate to mail; some will relate to other components of Evolution and some, especially those in the File Menu will relate to the application as a whole. The contents of the menu bar are described in the chapter called Menu Reference.
Anything even related to a file or to the operations of the application generally falls under this menu: creating things, saving them to disk, printing them, and quitting the program itself.
Although it doesn't contain anything at first, the Edit menu fills up with useful tools that help you edit text and move it around.
All of your assistants and configuration tools go here. For the Inbox, that means things like Mail Configuration and the vFolder Editor. For the Calendar and the Contact Manager, it's color, network, and layout configuration.
This menu contains a list of actions you can perform on the information you've stored with Evolution. The contents vary depending on the view, but for the Inbox, it contains items like Mark All Messages Read and Expunge, to erase all the messages you've marked for deletion.
Select among these items to open the Help Browser and read the Evolution manual.
Once you've familiarized yourself with the main window you can start doing things with it. We'll start with your email inbox, since you've got a letter waiting for you already.
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