Setting Preferences
Our service provides several features, which allow you to customize and maintain your account, so that it will work most efficiently for you. These are called Preferences. Below is a description of what each one of these features has to offer.

Update Mailbox Settings

Name & Title

Enter your Name & Title as you would like them to appear in the From field of your outgoing messages. Filling this field will help the recipient better identify the message sender.

Return E-mail Address

Enter the E-mail address to which your mail recipients will reply. The default value, if not specified, is your free E-mail account.

UIN

Enter your ICQ™ number in order to use ICQ™ message and chat facilities with other ICQ™ members.

Notification of New Messages

You can specify how you want to be notified of incoming messages to your address.

Via ICQ™:
ICQ™ will notify you when you receive an incoming message.

Via E-mail address:
Enter your E-mail address. A message notifying you of new E-mail arrived to your account will be sent to the E-mail address you specified here.
Note: This service messages cannot be downloaded to your offline E-mail account.


Define a Signature


Here you may create or modify a signature for your outgoing mail. A signature is a block of text that may be included at the end of your outgoing messages.


Enter your signature in the text area provided. You can use this space to include your name, E-mail address, a company logo or any other text you desire. Try to keep your signature short, no more than a few lines, as this signature may be appended to your outgoing messages, adding overhead to the transfer time of the message. Here is an example of a signature:
 
  -------------------------
  My First & Last Name
  mylogin@host.domain
  http://www.host.domain

Complete the Process 

Click OK to confirm your signature and mailbox setting changes. The next time you write a message, your Name & Title will appear on your outgoing messages. Also, you will be able to have your signature appended to the end of your message by marking the Add My Signature checkbox in the Compose window.
 
Preventing Illegal Entry Via Links


Click the I would like to view my HTML messages in safe mode option to help prevent illegal entry via links. When you receive an HTML message in safe mode, click the message header to display the message in a new browser window.


Retrieving E-mail from Other Accounts


In case you have other E-mail accounts, besides the one issued to you by our service, and you would like our service to fetch messages addressed to those accounts, you should fill in the account details in the Other Mail Preferences section of the Preferences window.

In order to retrieve your mail from these POP accounts, you need to press the Other Mail button that appears in the Inbox folder. By pressing this button, the messages will soon appear in your Inbox folder. For example, if your POP account contains 100 messages and you choose to retrieve 20 messages (see Max # of Messages below), each time you press the Other Mail button, the last 20 messages in your POP account will be retrieved.
Login Name:
Usually the name appearing to the left of the '@' sign in the E-mail address (example: john@net.com).

Password:
The password associated with the account. The password is held in strict confidence by our service.

POP Server:
Usually the name appearing to the right of the '@' sign in the E-mail address (example: john@net.com).

Port:
The communications port used when connecting to the POP server. The default for most servers is 110. Normally, you should not change it.

Retain Mail on Host?
Check the box if you do not wish messages to be deleted from the POP server after they have been retrieved.

Max # of Messages:
Enter the maximum number of messages to be downloaded at a time.

Here are some tips on how to configure your Other Mail settings, if you are not absolutely sure of what to specify in each field:

  1. Call or write your System Administrator or Help Desk.
  2. Check your ISP's web site for a page which supplies "configuration information".
  3. If you have another mail program already configured, copy the settings which are used there, into the appropriate Other Mail fields.
  4. Take an educated guess, using a common convention: Many ISP's will use "mail" as the first node of their mail handling DNS (Domain Name Server - a storage area which contains a list of Internet addresses and their alphanumeric equivalent). For example, a Service Provider by the name of net.com might use mail.net.com as the POP Mail Server Name. An example using this "guessing" routine: The user, John Doe, has an account, john@net.com. John might try putting "mail.net.com" in the POP Server field and "john" in the Login Name field.

If the above doesn't work, you might try another guess, by using your Service Provider's name in the POP Server field and your user ID at that Provider in the Login Name field. Using this option in the above example, John might try putting "net.com" in the POP Server field and "john" in the Login Name field.

Password Information:
Enter the POP Mail password you would normally use, not this service's password. The password is held in strict confidence by this service.

Note: Our service can handle up to three accounts, not including the default account issued to you by our service. If you have opened several E-mail accounts in this service, you will not be able to use them as Other Mail accounts, since they are intended to be managed separately. 

The changes above will take affect only after pressing the OK button.