• Offline contacts — Select whether contacts withan offline status are shown in the contacts list.• Own message colour — Select the colour of theinstant messages you send.• Received message colour — Select the colour ofthe instant messages you receive.• Show date/ time info — To view the date and timeof the instant messages in conversations, selectYes.• IM alert tone — Change the tone that sounds whenyou receive a new instant message.Retrieve IM contact listsYou can retrieve contact lists from the server, or add anew contact to a contact list. When you log in to theserver, the previously used contact lists are retrievedfrom the server automatically.Record chatsWhen viewing the content of a conversation, to recordthe messages that are exchanged during aconversation or while you are joined to an IM group,select Options > Save conversation.To stop recording, select Options > Stop recording.To view the recorded chats, in the main view, selectOptions > Saved conversations.Search for IM groups andusersTo search for IM groups and users, in the IM communitymain view, first scroll to an item such as one of yourown status items, or to an item within one of your IMcontact lists.To search for groups, select Options > Newconversation > Search for groups . You may be ableto search by group name, topic, and members (user ID).To search for users, select Options > New IMcontact > Search from server. You may be able tosearch by user's name, user ID, phone number, and e-mail address.When a search is complete, select Options and fromthe following:• More results — To retrieve further search results.• Previous results — To retrieve previous searchresults if they are available.• Add to IM contacts — To add a contact to your IMcontacts.• Open conversation — To open a conversation witha contact.• Send invitation — To invite a contact to chat.• Blocking options — To block messages from acontact, add a contact to the blocked list, or view thelist of blocked contacts.• Join — To join the chat group.• Save — To save a retrieved chat group as a favouritevisible under the Conversations heading.• New search — To start a new search with differentcriteria. 59 Messaging
