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appear in the alert when you receive a
new message, or whether you want the
alert to hide the text and prompt you to
go to the message.
Message validity period: Indicates
how long you want an outgoing
message to be valid.
5 Select the Chat tab and set any of the
following preferences for chat sessions.
Create chats from messages: Indicate
when you want to group messages
from the same person into a chat.
Show timestamps in chats: Indicate
whether you want to see the local date
and time the message was sent next to
each message.
Display my name in chat window as:
Enter the name you want to use as the
label for your messages in Chat View.
Label color: Select a color to
differentiate your messages from the
sender’s messages while in Chat View.
Use color for: Indicate whether you
want both your name and message text
in the selected label color, or only your
name.
6 Select the Network tab and set any of
the following preferences for network
connections.
Automatically collect MMS
messages: Indicate whether you want
to download multimedia messages
automatically.