- Setup an email account -


Every setting related to your email address can be found in the Add/Edit Services Area of JoMail. The first step in setting up an email account, is to open the Add/Edit Services area.

Open Add Services

  1. Click on the Options menu at the top of JoMail.
  2. Select Add/Edit Email Accounts. This should open a window for you.


Enter an Email Address

  1. Put an email address into the field named Email Address (required) and click the Save button. With any luck, everything should be set up for you.
  2. Click the Exit button to get out of the Add/Edit Services area.
If you are using POP email, then you are going to have to do some more. Don't exit out of Add/Edit Services or re-open it if you closed it. Proceed to the next section and give some specific information. Otherwise, click the Get Mail button to test.
 

Give Specifics about an Account

JoMail is designed so that all you have to do is enter an email account and nothing more. This feature will work best on Web-Based email and only part of the time for POP email providers. If you have problems getting your email, then you may need to enter some information to help JoMail out.

Select an email account from the pane on the right in order to edit information about it.

    You typically will need to enter the POP3 (Incoming) server and the SMTP (Outgoing) server. In order to receive email, you need to specify the POP server. In order to send email, you need to specify the SMTP server. Type the name of a server and then click Save.

      Example POP server: pop.jomail.net

      Example SMTP server: smtp.jomail.net
 

    JoMail needs to log you into your web-based email in order to be able to retrieve email. There are times when JoMail is unable to find the place where to login. To make things simpler for JoMail, you can specify the login page so that there is no confusion. Here is how to go about this:
  1. Open your browser (Netscape or Internet Explorer, i.e.).
  2. Go to the page where you login to your email. This is the page where you give your password.
  3. At the top of the window there is a bar that has something like http://www.somewhere.com/, copy this entire line. This is what you want to put into JoMail.
  4. Put the information into the area next to Login page (URL):.
  5. Save the information.
      Example Login URL: http://mail.yahoo.com/
 

Then...

JoMail is ready to be used right now. There are a couple of extra or Advanced options that can be specified. This is all found in the Advanced Options area.

Select an email account from the pane on the right in order to edit information about it. Once selected, click the Advanced button on the bottom. You can edit all of your email accounts once the Advanced window is open.
 

        When sending email, you can specify a name that is attached with your address. When people receive email from you, this name will be displayed in the From: field of your message. If no name is specified, then your email address will just show up. An example From: line:

      Example: William Jaymes <wjaymes@jomail.net>

      This option is selected by default. Some email services like to put their new messages at the bottom of the list rather than at the top. JoMail will stop getting messages when it comes across one that it already has. If your email service puts your new messages at the bottom of your inbox, un-check this option and Save.       This option is selected by default. Some attachments can be rather large. It takes JoMail a little longer to check messages for attachments. If you don't want to receive attachments or would like to make JoMail retreive your messages faster, un-check this option and Save.
 
 

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