News Account Properties

General

Description
This will be the text that appears in the Folders tree panel of the Main Window.

From E-mail Address
Enter your full Internet e-mail address in this space.

From Real Name
Enter your full real name or preferred nickname here.

Reply-To E-mail Address
Enter your full Internet e-mail address that should be used to send answers to your messages.

Reply-To Real Name
Enter your full real name or preferred nickname that should be used to send answers to your messages.

Receive

Server name
This is the machine name of the news server on your network.

Port
This is the port that you need to connect to download your e-mail. Unless you know the port to be different, it should be the standard port for the selected mail server (119).

Check mail every...
When this option is enabled, Emerald Mail will attempt to automatically download the mail from the mail server if the specified amount of minutes were elapsed since the last download.

Skip messages bigger than...
If this option is enabled, Emerald Mail will skip all messages whose size is larger than the specified amount of kbytes.

Send

Send server name
This is the machine name of the e-mail server on your network.

Port
This is the port that you need to connect to send your e-mail. Unless you know the port to be different, it should be the standard SMTP port 23.

Send CC/BCC messages one at a time
If this option is enabled, when sending messages to multiple recipients a copy of the message is sent to the mail server for each recipient. If this option is disabled, only one copy of the message is sent to the mail server along with the list of all recipients.

Signatures

To use e-mail signatures, Emerald Mail allows you to set up a list of signatures that can be appended to the end of every e-mail you send. To make a new signature, click the "New" button, and an editor will appear. Above it, you must type in a Description of the signature. This will be used as the identifier for the signature in a number of places. Examples of signature descriptions are "Standard" or "Professional". After you type in the Description, you can tab to the editor, or click inside the editor and start typing your signature. You can also Edit or Delete a signature by highlighting its identifier in the list of Signatures, and clicking "Edit" or "Delete".

To make a signature appear in an e-mail by default, select it from the list, and click the "Set As Default" button.

Alias

Alias are just alternative e-mail addresses that you can use instead of the default (and hopefully real) e-mail address defined in the General panel.

To use aliases, Emerald Mail will allow you to set up a list of aliases that can be used for e-mail you want to send. To make a new alias, click the "New" button, and a form will appear. The "Description" field is the name that appear on the aliases list, the "E-mail address" and "Real name" fields will be used as the From field of the outgoing messages.