Accessing Your External Accounts

Instead of logging on to each of your external email accounts, you can retrieve your accounts’ email messages directly from your Netvigator Email account. When you set up to access other external mail accounts, you can specify where the messages are saved and create a persona to be used when you reply to or forward a message received from that external account.

Messages from your external account are not automatically received in your Netvigator Email account. Click the Refresh icon on the toolbar to get the latest messages.

If you set up add an external POP account, you can configure the POP access behavior when messages are downloaded to your account.

Add External Accounts

1. Go to the Preferences>Accounts page.

2. Click Add External Account. The account name New External Account displays in the Account Name column and in the External Account Settings>Account Name text box. You can change this.

3. In the External Account Settings section, enter the email address of the external account.

4. In Account Name text box, enter a descriptive word to identify this account. This is used to identify the external account.

5. Select the type of account: POP or IMAP.

6. In the Username of Account text box, enter the name associated with this email account. Sometimes your user name is the part of your email address before the @ and other times it is your full email address.

7. In the Email server text box, enter the name for your external account’s server.

8. In the Password text box, enter the password you use to sign in to this external account. To see that the password you typed is correct, select Show password.

9. If your service provider uses a different port than the default, change it in the Advanced Settings area. If you use a secure connection, enable Use an encrypted connection (SSL) when accessing this server.

   Your provider should let you know if they do not use a standard IMAP (143) or POP (110) port.

10. Click Test Settings. The information is verified.

11. Select the folder the messages should be downloaded to.

12. To delete messages from the external account after you receive them in your account, check Delete messages on the server after downloading them.

13. Configure the From name, reply to address and signatures settings for messages you send.

• Type the name that should appear in the From field of your outgoing email messages (for example, John). This is the name that is shown before your email address.

• To direct replies to email messages from this persona to a name and address different from that which you configured in From, select Set the “Reply-to” field of email messages to.  Enter the name in the text box.

• To associate a signature with the persona, click Signature and add a new signature.

14. Click Save.

See Set up POP Behavior for Your Account