External Mail Account Grabber Help
This page is where you can set up grabbers for your
non-Divmod mail. Grabbers will access your external accounts
using either POP3 or IMAP and will retreive new messages and
add them to your divmod account. These grabbers run
periodically (about once every five minutes).
At the top of the page, click either 'Add external POP3
account' or 'Add external IMAP account'. If you don't know what
type of account you have most likely it's a POP3
account, as they are the most common type of account
provided.
- Under Username enter the username of the
account you wish to retreive mail from.
- For Password enter the password of your
external account, and repeat it in the Again
box.
- For Host enter the hostname of the
server you connect to to retreive your mail. This would be
something like
mail.apple.com
or mailbox.myisp.com
- Most users should probably leave the default
Port setting, as it is fairly uncommon for
mail providers to either use non-standard ports or to allow
users secure access to their mail (unlike Divmod, where we
provide you with secure access to all aspects of your
account). However, if your provider has told you to use SSL
(secure) access to your account, click
the SSL checkbox to enable SSL access. If you
need to use a non-standard port then change its value in the
textbox. If you need to use a non-standard port and SSL,
check the checkbox, then change the value in the textbox. If
you've read all of this and are more confused than when you
started, you can most likely just leave the default values
and the grabber will just do the Right Thing.
- Under Email Address as you may have
guessed, you should enter the email address associated with
this external account
- Lastly, under Messages Per Grab you can
specify the number of messages you'd like the grabber to
retrieve on each periodic run (between 1-50 messages). We
reccomend keeping this value between 20-30 to allow you to
review messages as they are grabbed and to classify them
using our integrated spambayes system. If you train the
messages a little at a time, spambayes will be more accurate
in the sorting of your mail, and you'll have less work to do
as your corpus of messages grows.