Fox Mail Version 5.0 Email Tutorial:
Creating a New Email AccountMaking Changes to an already Existing Email Account
An extra feature of Fox
Creating a New Email Account
If you have never set up an email account, the account wizard will auto start-see next image.
If you have an account already set up and want to add a new account, choose New from the Account menu
User name can be whatever you want it to be
Click Next
Sender's name can be whatever you want it to be
Email address is your full email address
Click Next
Choose if you are using POP3 or an HTTP account such as Hotmail or Gmail
This system auto fills in some settings that you may need to change
Account often times may need to be your entire email address, this system only fills in the first portion
Change the Incoming (POP3) and Outgoing (SMTP) server to whatever your email provider has listed
Password is your email account password
Click Next
If your email provider requires outgoing mail authentication, check mark that here
Choose if you wish to leave a copy of your messages on the server
Click Finish.
To make changes such as specify port numbers, continue to making changes.
Making Changes to an already existing email account
To make changes to an already existing email account, choose properties from the Account menu
In Personal
You can change your Name, your email address, and the email address you want listed as the address to reply to
In Mail Server
You can change Authentication for the outgoing mail server
Your mail servers for Incoming (POP3) and Outgoing (SMTP)
The email address and the email password
Click Setup to change authentication information
Click Advanced to change server port information
In Receive
You can choose to leave a copy of the message on the server
In Network
If you have problems making a connection, check your network settings
Extra feature in Fox Mail
Protect your email account if you leave it on at all times, but need to leave your computer
From the account menu, choose Access Password
Set the password and any time someone attempts to access anything in fox, they need to enter the password
Fox Mail allows you to set several kinds of spam and junk mail filters
These options are found in the Tools menu
If you are not getting mail from a specific person, try adding them to the white list to ensure they are not getting blocked.