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 type
The buttons allows the selection of the mail server type. Emerald Mail support both POP3 and IMAP4 mail servers. The use of an IMAP4 server is recomended only if you are permanently connected to the internet, or you are using the mail server of your company's intranet.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 download your e-mail. Unless you know the port to be different, it should be the standard port for the selected mail server (110 for POP3 and 143 for IMAP4).User ID
This is your e-mail user ID. Make sure all proper punctuation and capitalization is observed.Password
Type in your e-mail password.Leave all messages on server
Check this option if you want to receive a copy of the messages and leave them intact on the mail server. Emerald Mail can keep track of the already downloaded messages and wont download them again.
This option is working only for POP3 servers.Reset
Press this button if you want to download all mail that is waiting on the mail server without checking if the messages were already downloaded.
This option is working only for POP3 servers.Use UIDL
If your mail server supports the UIDL command check this option and Emerald Mail will keep track of the downloaded messages using a more secure method. If the mail server doesn't support the UIDL command, Emerald Mail will revert back to the standard tracking method.
This option is working only for POP3 servers.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.
This option is working only for POP3 servers.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.
This option is working only for POP3 servers.
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.Save copy of outgoing mail
If you wish to keep a copy of every e-mail you send in the Sent folder, check the "Save copy of outgoing mail" option.Verify POP3 account before sending
Check this option if your e-mail provider requires a successfull POP3 login before accepting e-mail from an SMTP client.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.
Filters
A filter can be applied to any incoming e-mail in Emerald Mail. What the filter does is look for certain text strings in different parts of the message. If it finds a match, the action specified for that filter is taken, such as moving the message to a different folder.
To use filters, Emerald Mail will allow you to set up a list of filters that can be applied to every e-mail you receive. To make a new filter, click the "New" button, and a form will appear.
For more help on how to fill in this form, see the Filter Setup help panel.
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.