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- Modify Message Forwarding and Message Notification preferences screen to clarify the distinction between internal forwarding and external notification email.
- Add a blue help icon for this item to Preferences Menu page
- Update documentation for Message Forwarding and Message Notification preference.
- Add two new help files and the "Pref" icon to loncapafiles.lpml
- Update course coordinator manual with new Messages preferences documentation

    1: \label{Prefs_Messages}
    2: \textbf{Automatically forward messages sent to one LON-CAPA account to another} 
    3: 
    4: If you have multiple LON-CAPA accounts and wish to receive all communication in one account, set LON-CAPA to forward messages sent to your other accounts to the single account where you wish to receive your aggregated messages. You can forward messages to more than one account.
    5: 
    6: To forward messages do the following:
    7: 
    8: \begin{enumerate}
    9: \item Click "Set my user Preferences" (\includegraphics[width=0.01\paperwidth]{pref}
   10: \textbf{PREF}) on the Main Menu, or the remote control (if used).
   11: 
   12: \item At the \textbf{Change Preferences} screen, click the
   13:   \underbar{Change Message Forwarding and Notification Addresses} link.
   14: \item Type your desired forward address in the text field
   15:   labeled \textbf{New Forwarding Address(es)}. This should be one or
   16:   more LON-CAPA addresses, like ``user:domain'', separated by commas.
   17: \item Click the \fbox{Change} button.
   18: 
   19: \end{enumerate}
   20: 
   21: \textbf{Receive an e-mail message notifying you when a LON-CAPA message is sent to you}
   22: 
   23: 
   24: LON-CAPA can also send new message notifications to your conventional
   25: email accounts. You can choose the specific types of messages
   26: which will cause notifications to be sent to the email addresses
   27: you provide. The specific types of message  
   28: are: critical messages, standard messages or any message. The notification email
   29: will include an excerpt of the text contained in the body of the original LON-CAPA
   30: message.
   31: 
   32: To receive notification email do the following:
   33: 
   34: \begin{enumerate} 
   35: 
   36: \item Click "Set my user Preferences" (\includegraphics[width=0.01\paperwidth]{pref}
   37: \textbf{PREF}) on the Main Menu, or the remote control (if used).
   38: 
   39: \item At the \textbf{Change Preferences} screen, click the 
   40:   \underbar{Change Message Forwarding and Notification Addresses} link.
   41: \item In the ``Notification E-mail Address(es)'' section, check the checkbox labeled \textbf{Add new address}
   42: \item Type a notification address into the text field
   43:    labeled \textbf{Notification address}. This should be an Internet email
   44:    address like ``user@example.com''.
   45: \item Use the radio buttons to select which types of LON-CAPA message should
   46:  cause a notification email to be sent to the specified address.
   47: \item Choose whether you want any HTML tags contained in the original message body
   48:  to be preserved in the excerpt included in the notification email.
   49: \item Click the \fbox{Change} button.
   50: \item Repeat this procedure to add more notification email addresses, one address at a time.  
   51: 
   52: \end{enumerate}