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Here several important settings are configured, so it is advised (as the program
itself will tell you when it is run for the first time) to set them up before
starting using Mahogany. These include your personal identity settings - see
also your preferred mail and news servers which is configured from the network
page (1.7.2).
- Username
This is used as (default) login name for the accounts which require one (POP3
or IMAP4) and also as the base for the return address unless it is overridden
by explicit setting of the return address.
- Hostname
This is used as the default hostname for your username. If you do not specify
a return address, this must form a valid mail address when used together with
your username.
- Return/Reply address
Here you can specify a return mail address where you want to receive mail and
replies to your mails from other users. By using this you can hide your original
(possibly ``uglier'') return address.
- Return return address from To: field
If set, Mahogany will use the original To: address field values for
the Reply-To: header entry of any message replies that you send. This
makes sure that the same person sending you mail will always see the same mail
address for you. It is especially useful, if you collect mail from several different
incoming mail folders. An example: Someone sends you mail to John.Doe@mycompany.com.
If you reply to this message, it will appear as coming from John.Doe@mycompany.org,
even if you read this mail from home, on a machine called MyBox.fun.org.
On the other hand, if someone sends you mail to MyAlias@writeme.com,
your reply will carry that as a return address, so that person will never know
about your mycompany.com office address.
- Personal name
Your full personal name to be included in your address.
- User level
Setting it to advance will allow you more detailed configuration of Mahogany,
allowing you to make changes to the configuration which might be confusing to
a novice user. It's recommended that you first become familiar with the program
before changing the value of this option.
This page allows you to configure the network-related settings. Please notice
that the four server names (for POP3, IMAP4, SMTP and NNTP) are only the default
values and that Mahogany can use as many different servers (in particular, POP3
and NNTP) as you wish - for this, it is just enough to change the server name
when creating a new folder from the default value specified here.
- POP server
This is the default server for your POP3 mail folders.
- IMAP server
This is the default server for your IMAP mail folders.
- SMTP server
This is the server used for sending outgoing mail, please ask your system administrator
if you don't know its name. If you don't configure this setting, you will not
be able to send any e-mail!
- NNTP server
This is the server used for reading USENET newsgroups and posting news articles.
- TCP Timeout Values
These timeouts are used for all accesses to remote servers. Generally it is
a good idea to set them to small values to avoid unnecessary delays if something
goes wrong. On the other hand, you want to make sure that they are long enough
for slow connections, like for example through a modem line. If you get a lot
of error messages about failed accesses to remote servers, you should try to
increase these settings.
- TCP Open Timeout
This setting decides after how many seconds the attempt to open a connection
to a remote mail or newsserver will time out. I.e. if no connection can be made
within this time interval, the request will fail.
- TCP Write Timeout
If the attempt to write data to a remote server takes longer than this, it will
fail.
- TCP Read Timeout
If the attempt to read data from a remote server takes longer than this, it
will fail.
- TCP Close Timeout
If the attempt to close the connection to a remote server takes longer than
this, it will fail.
- TCP Rsh Timeout
If the attempt to open a remote shell connection (used for some mail operations)
to a remote server takes longer than this, it will fail.
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Charlie &
2001-04-19