![]() This goes for local clients and mail archives as well as server configurations, client configurations, and everything in between. That way, even if something breaks and is irrecoverable, you have a backup you can restore. Before doing anything, back up everything you even think you might touch to change. Therefore, it’s extremely important that you back up everything prior to making changes to configurations, mail servers, or archives. Some of the steps I recommend can have adverse effects if they are performed incorrectly. We’ve all run into a time where a mailbox has been corrupted and we’ve lost data. ![]() DisclaimerĮmail mailboxes, archives, and configurations, particularly involving mail servers, are treacherous. I’ll go over the most common issues hopefully you can figure out what’s wrong using this list and fix it. Unfortunately, there are a ton of different possible causes, and an equal number of different possible solutions. Obviously, it’s not an intended function of the email setup. For others, this could lock their email client into an all-day affair of downloading and syncing. The user then has to download all of their old messages before they can access their mailboxes.įor some users, this might be a slightly longer startup time than normal. When a user then connects to the IMAP mailbox, it’s as if they have never connected before. Essentially, the local index for email becomes broken or disconnected in some way. The issue I’m discussing today comes from various potential issues, settings, or glitches in mail programs or servers. Or rather, you can, but you need to maintain a connection to send messages, receive notifications of new messages, and otherwise interact with the mailbox. You also have to remain connected to the mailbox, so you can’t really download and run off with your messages. IMAP is more complex than POP, and has more points of failure. Of course, the advantages are not without their disadvantages. This is in contrast to POP, where you connect long enough to download all new messages – and anything that you need access to that isn’t in your local archive – and then disconnect. When you need to see the contents of an email, you download it – a matter of milliseconds, typically – and can work on it. With an IMAP protocol, you’re connected to a mailbox as long as you’re working on it. IMAP has several advantages due to the way it works. I include this information more as trivia than as anything useful to most of you. You don’t need to know any of the dirty details, of course. IMAP has gone through several revisions, with the current being Version 4 Revision 1, or IMAP4rev1. They function in different ways and both have their own benefits and drawbacks. It is also one of the few truly global protocols so many other technological protocols end up fragmented, with different apps and different clients using different protocols.Įmail, indeed, has two different protocols: IMAP and POP. Remember that you also have to create that email address in your hosting account before it will work.IMAP is one of the two main email protocols, and is the acronym for the Internet Message Access Protocol. You now know how to setup an email account in FoxMail. That's it! We've successfully setup an email account, and can now start sending and receiving emails to and from that account, from FoxMail. ![]() SMTP authentication means that FoxMail will login to your mail server even when sending emails (not just receiving), ensuring that you are the only one that can send emails from your account. Then click Next.ġ0) Click the SMTP Authentication box. you should check with your provider to be sure.ĩ) Enter your Outgoing SMTP Server setting here. this may be the entire email address or just the username prefix (john). These server names will have been provided to you in your welcome email, and often times are simply .Ħ) Enter your Incoming POP3 Server setting here.ħ) Now enter the Account Username as provided to you by your hosting provider. Now you have to enter your Incoming (POP3) and Outgoing (SMTP) server names. Then click Next.Ĥ) Enter the Sender's Name as you would like it to appear in the From field of outgoing emails here.ĥ) Then enter your new email address here. it is not the username required to login to email. Click Next.ģ) Enter a User Name here this can be anything you want, as it merely identifies this as a new account in FoxMail. Then click New.Ģ) The FoxMail Account Wizard opens. Now let's learn how to setup that new email account in FoxMail, so you'll be able to send/receive emails to/from that new email account from here.ġ) Start by clicking the Account link here. ![]() Click here to see this article as a Video Tutorial!
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