The following options allow you to specify the properties of a mailbox or a group of mailboxes you have selected:
Alias
Type an arbitrary user-friendly name you wish to assign to the mailbox. If you leave this string empty, it will automatically filled in a pattern ╗<user@host>╗. This alias will also appear in popup message notification box.
User
Type a user name of the email account. For instance, if my email address is ╗vvo@geocities.com╗, I would type ╗vvo╗ in this field. If you see ╗invalid password or user name!╗ in the status column you must have misspelled the User name or the Password.
Host
Type the Internet address of the host where your email account is located. For instance, despite that my email address is ╗vvo@geocities.com╗, I would type ╗mail.geocities.com╗ or ╗204.7.246.132╗ in this field. Contact your system administrator whenever you observe ╗cannot connect!╗ or ╗invalid host!╗ in the status column.
Password
Type in the correct password here.
POP3 server port number
TCP/IP port decimal number of Post Office Protocol v3 server running on the host specified by Host field. Default number is 110. If you see ïcannot connect¢ in the Status column you should contact your system administrator to obtain correct port number for the POP3 service.
Poll period
The program¢s primary feature is a periodic mailbox checking. This field allows to set a desired period of time in minutes. You may wish to set more often checking for ïimportant¢ mailboxes and vice versa.
Download extra lines with header
MMM can download several additional lines of message when downloading message header. You can use this feature in 2 ways - to quickly peview several lines of each message, and to fix problem of some mail servers, which could not return full header in some cases.
Disable APOP
Set this option if your mail server does not fully support APOP, resulting in not stable work in APOP mode.
Disable this mailbox
Set this option to completely disable mailbox. Note that you will not be able to check mail on this server.
Fix TOP problem
Some mail servers have problems with answering TOP command, which results in same header for different messages. Try setting this option for special handling of TOP command, only if you have described problem.
NOTE:
A yellow key showing over the mailbox icon designates that the mailbox was last checked using a secure authentication scheme (APOP command), which eliminates the danger of someone stealing your password by simply intercepting a packet on the network that carries the authentication request to the mail server. If the yellow key is not showing then the password is transmitted in clear text. Ideally, you would want that all your mailboxes are showing with yellow keys. Otherwise, please insist that your mail server organization install such a POP3 server that supports the APOP command, since it will make your account much safer.