To get to this page, go to the Utilities -> Misc Settings page
The Misc Settings page lets you set up various features of VPOP3.
The Show Splash screen at startup option lets VPOP3 show a 'Splash Screen' whilst it starts up. The splash screen does not slow down the starting of VPOP3, it only displays whilst VPOP3 is going through its startup procedure. If you disable the splash screen then there may be a pause of several seconds between VPOP3 starting and the VPOP3 icon appearing in the task bar. Do not try to run VPOP3 again during this period, or there may be unusual error messages displayed.
The Keep original Received: date/time on POP3 downloaded messages option makes VPOP3 copy the Received: timestamp that the ISP added into the Received: header line which VPOP3 adds. This will prevent all downloaded messages being shown as Received at the same time (the time that VPOP3 dialled the ISP).
The VPOP3 Host Name setting tells VPOP3 what to call itself when it communicates with other mail software. You can type in the name you want to use (eg mail.mydomain.com) or use the word domain to make VPOP3 use the Default Domain setting, or IPAddress to make VPOP3 use its numeric IP address.
The POP3 then SMTP Connection option tells VPOP3 to connect first of all to the ISP POP3 server(s) then the ISP SMTP server. Normally it will connect to both servers at once, but this can cause problems with some ISPs that require POP3 then SMTP authentication.
The Anonymise VPOP3 Services option tells VPOP3 not to include the software name in the text of its POP3/SMTP/HTTP/IMAP4 etc servers. This is because if any weaknesses are discovered in the VPOP3 security, then the software name could make it easier for these weaknesses to be exploited. During testing and problem diagnosis it is best to have this option turned off so that VPOP3 does announce its name.
The Hide IP Addresses option tells VPOP3 not to include client and server IP addresses in SMTP trace headers that it adds to sent messages. This will not affect trace headers added by the email client or any remote mail servers. Note that normally these IP addresses are NOT normally a security risk as they are normally of limited use, or can be discovered using alternative means, and they can be very useful for problem diagnosis.
The SOCKS V4 Firewall settings allow you to tell VPOP3 to communicate with ISPs via a SOCKS V4.0 (or V5.0) proxy server or firewall (such as VSOCKS, Wingate, Winproxy etc).
Enter the IP address of your SOCKS firewall in the SOCKS Server Address field. Enter the TCP/IP port number in SOCKS Server Port field (normally this is 1080). Enter any user id required by your SOCKS firewall in the SOCKS Server User Name field - this is left blank if your SOCKS firewall does not require authentication.
Contact your network administrator An Administrator is a VPOP3 user who is allowed to change VPOP3 settings, add/remove users, view queued messages etc. if you know you have a SOCKS firewall, but do not know the necessary settings.
You define whether a particular connection method uses the SOCKS firewall on the Connection Settings Page.
Enter the name of the Listserver automated user in the Listserver Name box
Enter the email address where replies to automated Listserver messages should go - ideally this will be an administrator user, eg 'postmaster'
If you enable the Report Bad Listserver Messages to Default User option then messages to Listserver which contain no valid commands will be copied to the default user as well as the error message being sent to the sender.
Some Intranet enabled fax servers can collect mail from a POP3 mailbox. This option tells VPOP3 to send mail to <faxnumber>@localdomain to this mailbox. VPOP3 treats any unrecognised address containing only 0 - 9, "+" and "-" as fax numbers. So if you send mail to '+44-1234-1234567@yourdomain' then VPOP3 will place this message into the 'fax' mailbox.
(In order for this to be used for sending faxes you need a suitable fax server such as GFI FAXmaker as well, and check that the fax server is set up appropriately)
VPOP3 will also support the companyname.name.number@yourdomain format which GFI FAXmaker supports for specifying the recipient names
If you turn on the Allow external access to FAX mailbox option, then the above method of sending messages to the fax mailbox will work from incoming POP3 mail as well. If the option is turned off, then only mail sent to VPOP3 using SMTP will be automatically put into the FAX mailbox.
Note that this option does NOT affect the VPOP3 FaxServer option. The settings for that option are available from the Utilities -> VPOP3 FaxServer page. This setting is only used in conjunction with a 3rd party fax server.
