# Display Preferences

This page controls how Balsa appears to you.

# Fenêtre principale

## Use Preview Pane

Définit si l'affichage des messages s'opère dans le volet d'aperçu ou dans une fenêtre d'affichage séparée.

## Show Message Counts in Mailbox List

This will allow the number of total and unread messages for each mailbox to be shown in the left pane of the Balsa main window. You can save space by not showing them; if you choose not to show them, Balsa will then show the number of unread messages (in parentheses) after the mailbox name.

## Alternative Layout

Balsa's default layout has a full-height mailbox list on the left, and the message list above the preview pane on the right. You can choose an alternative layout, in which the mailbox list and the message list occupy the upper part of the window, and the preview pane is full-width below them.

## Automatic View

Select this option if you want Balsa to open the first unread message when you open a mailbox. If no message is unread, Balsa opens the most recent message.

## Page Up and Page Down

By default, the Page Up and Page Down keys scroll the message by whole pages. Use this option to choose a different amount.

# Fenêtre de message

## Moving a Message

If you are reading a message in its own message window and you move it (to the trash, or another mailbox), Balsa can move on the next unread message or the next message in the same mailbox, or simply close the window.

# Tri et fils

## Default sort column

Choisissez la colonne sur laquelle vous voulez effectuer le tri dans les nouvelles boîtes aux lettres.

## Default threading style

Choisissez le style par défaut des fils de discussion pour les nouvelles boîtes aux lettres.

## Expand threads

Si vous choisissez d'afficher une boîte aux lettres sous forme de fil de discussion, vous pouvez décider si les messages du fil doivent être déroulés ou enroulés quand la boîte est ouverte.

# Message

## Fonts

Using system fonts to view and compose messages makes the display consistent with other applications. If you choose this option, the message's subject line will be made bold.

Alternatively, you can choose your own font to view or compose a message, with a different weight or font for the subject line. A fixed-width font such as Monospace can be useful for viewing source code, or formatted text such as tables or ASCII art.

## Quoted Text Regular Expression

The entry box allows you to set a regular expression you would like to use to identify text that should be considered quoted for incoming messages. The regular expression should match the beginning of line of quoted text a single level deep, the program will then use this to calculate the depth of quoting and alter the quoted text colors appropriately. A default regexp is provided that should work in most situations.

This regexp affects both highlighting and spell checking, and uses the extended regular expression set. For more information see the grep(1) manual or info page.

## Alternative Parts

You can choose whether Balsa should show a text/plain part or a text/html part, when a message contains both.

# Couleurs

## Message Colors

Choisissez les couleurs du texte cité.

## Link Color

Balsa uses this color to highlight a hyperlink in a message.

# Formats

## Date Encoding

Set the format used to display dates in Balsa. This uses the same format string as `strftime`, a summary which is provided below:

`%a`-- The abbreviated weekday name.

`%A`-- The full weekday name.

`%b`-- The abbreviated month name.

`%B`-- The full month name.

`%d`-- The day of the month.

`%R`-- The time using a 24-hour clock. (HH:MM)

`%r`-- The time using a 12-hour clock (HH:MM AM/PM).

`%T`-- The time using a 24-hour clock, with seconds (HH:MM:SS).

See the `strftime` manual page for a full listing of conversion specifiers.

## Selected Headers

Une liste, séparée par des espaces, des en-têtes à afficher dans la fenêtre des messages.

## Fallback codeset

Some messages contain national characters without specifying how they are encoded. You can choose whether Balsa displays such characters as “?”, or tries a specific character set to display such messages.

# Messages d'état

## Information Messages

Balsa gives you information in the form of five different levels of messages. You can specify how you want all five levels to be presented to you.

## Display Progress Dialog

This sets the behaviour of the dialog that is shown when Balsa retrieves messages from its specified POP3 servers. The dialog can be shown only while the messages are being retrieved, automatically closing after Balsa is finished. Or it can be set to stay active until manually closed. Finally, the dialog can not be displayed at all.