Working with Poco
You can customize many aspects of Poco's operation. Most of these settings are located in Program Settings, under Tools, Options menu, or by pressing F7. Here is a brief description of each settings pane.
Settings: the top-most item, allows you to register Poco with Windows as the default mailer. By doing this, you will enable Poco to launch when you click on a mail link in a web browser.
Program: here you can toggle fast reading on or off, change mailbox selection to single-click or double-click and setup the default dialing properties allowing Poco to dial and hang-up the modem as needed. Default SMTP server is used for all accounts that don't have individual servers specified. You can also change the default X-Url header if you registered your copy of Poco.
Miscellaneous: "Hide application on close" causes Poco to hide when you click on the top right close button. To unhide Poco, simply double-click on its tray icon which will remain visible. Minimize to tray option will also hide Poco's application window when minimized. Unchecking "Open last message when changing mailbox" will prevent Poco from automatically loading mail while switching mailboxes. You can also toggle in-line display of attached images, text, html and VCF files; toggle tool tips on or off. HTTP proxy host will be used when downloading images referenced in received mail, as well as when using Check for Update feature. Advanced users can also define their own time-out value for online operations, as well as limit the number of threads Poco will spawn when checking mail. Finally, select a custom sound for new mail alert. To disable or enable the mail alert sounds completely, use the settings for individual accounts in Accounts Setup.
Automation: turn automatic mail checking on or off; automatically spell-check mail before it is sent; set up Poco to send any queued mail right after checking for new mail; empty trash when exiting; and initiate automatic backup when Poco is run a certain number of times. To prevent virus-infected files from getting onto your computer, enable automatic virus protection. This will launch your virus scanning software, if files of certain type are received (simply separate the file extensions to scan with a space). If you would rather scan all attachments regardless of their file type, leave this box empty. Optional command line parameters that your virus scanner may need can be entered in the field provided.
Drag and Drop: lets you customize drag and drop settings. First part of this pane will affect auto-creation of filters. These filters are created when you drag and drop an address onto the mailboxes pane. This action will create a filter that will route all mail from that correspondent to the new or dropped mailbox. You can completely disable Auto Filters, or alter the way they affect messages. COPY mail will create a filter that will copy an incoming or outgoing message to a specific folder, while allowing the message to reach its intended mailbox. For instance, if run on Incoming messages, script will still allow incoming mail that's been filtered to show up in the In mailbox. If you decide to MOVE the messages while filtering, any mail filtered for a specific recipient will be moved to the new mailbox, and will not show up in the In box. Same applies for filters that are run on Outgoing messages, except the default destination is the Sent mailbox. As mentioned, these filters can run on Incoming or Outgoing mail, or both; simply place a checkmark to indicate which. It is important to note that this affects the defaults, but you are still free to edit the filter after it has been created through the Filters and Scripts window. Second part of Drag and Drop pane configures what happens to messages dropped on the mini address list, whether they are forwarded or bounced to the recipient.
Directories: override the default directory settings for Mail, Attachments, Address Books, Scripts, Signatures and Templates. Changing these settings is not recommended for novice users, but can be used to move your data folder to a different drive, to a removable volume or to a shared network drive.
Privacy / Security: this section will allow you to enable some of Poco's privacy and security features. Features on this pane are all controlled with the Privacy Password at the bottom of the pane. You can turn on password prompt on start-up, so Poco will not run until the correct password is entered, or on entering Program Options or Accounts Setup as to prevent your configuration from being viewed or changed, prevent unauthorized access to View Messages on Server feature without correct password. You can also show the privacy sheet along the bottom of the main window for quick access (privacy sheet can be invoked at any time with Shift+F12 even when turned off), if the password is entered when the privacy sheet is activated you will need to enter it before you can remove the privacy sheet.
Message: Editing Options affect the message editing window, enable word-wrapping after specific number of characters per line, and toggle automatic spell-checking as-you-type. Optionally, you can also make the editing caret bolder. In Working Options you can request to Delete attachments when deleting messages and change your accelerator key for sending mail. Normally, Poco will not overwrite existing attachment if an attachment with the same name arrives - this behaviour can be changed in Receiving Options.
Defaults: setup default colours when starting a new message, or replying to a message. Place a checkmark next to any style you would like to override the default settings. For more details, see the Styled and plain messages.
Marking: here you can define the custom marks used in the mailbox index, pick a background colour for marked messages and enter a description.
Quoting: allows you to customize quoting of replied/forwarded and to a degree bounced messages. To find out more, see Replying, Forwarding and Bouncing message.
Style Quoted: quoted messages can be styled depending on the how many times the message text has been bounced between correspondents (discussion thread). Here you can customize the colours used to style the thread, or turn it off altogether..
Fonts: set up fonts to use for message index and message view pane. The latter is also used as default font when sending new mail and for the script editing window. If you need to increase or decrease the size of the message preview font outside the settings, use the tool buttons just above the message preview pane.
Colours: set up custom colours used in many areas of Poco. You can specify your own colours, choose from some of the presets available or have Poco generate a colour skin based on your favourite colour: pick a colour from the Auto-create colour button then click on Create. Poco can load or save colour presets as "skins" by using the lower section. Skins can either contain only colour information, in which case Poco will use the default images for toolbar and the buttons, or both colour information and the toolbar layout. This allows you to customize Poco's appearance to a great degree. Unlike some other skinnable programs, Poco cannot skin all aspects of the user interface. This was done to preserve Poco's small memory footprint and retain its stability and familiar user interface. On the other hand, toolbar can be completely customized, starting with moving the buttons, to removing them and adding new ones. For examples on how to build your own skin see included skins. When saving a skin with custom buttons, you can toggle "When saving copy images from the current skin" on and off - when turned on Poco will copy all the needed images and save them with the new skin, otherwise Poco will save the skin using Poco's default system toolbar.
There are several preset skins you can use, by choosing them from the Skins drop box. These options work best for system that support more than 256 colours. If your system only supports 256 colours best results are achieved by choosing the Windows skin, or picking colours that show as solid (as opposed to dithered) in the colour dialog box.
Index: these options will help you customize the appearance of the mailbox index. Flip the index vertically, so that the new messages are added to the top, show the index grid lines and change the shading options for message index. Again, these options are best used for systems supporting more than 256 colours. For systems supporting only 256 colours, shading options can negatively affect legibility of your message index, so they are often better left turned off.
Address Books: use this pane to define your address books. See Adding contacts to the address book for more details.
Address Lookup: allows you to tweak the way addresses are looked up in New Message window, for To, CC and BCC fields. Simply place a checkmark next to the type of lookup you would like to perform for each address.
Poco has built-in support for backing up and restoring mail. To backup all your mailboxes, go to E-mail, Backup and Restore menu, then select Backup Mailboxes.... You will be prompted for a location - if you already entered one in the Options (F7) in the Automation section, then that location will be already filled in. Hit OK button to start the backup.
To restore your mailboxes, go to E-mail, Backup and Restore menu, then select Restore Mailboxes.... Enter the location from which to restore and hit OK button to start. A small warning: restore function will overwrite any mailboxes with identical names already present in Poco directory.
One of Poco's unique features is ability to switch to your backed up mailboxes without restoring them. Simply click on E-mail, Backup and Restore menu and choose Switch to Backed Up... Enter the path to your backed up mailbox and Poco will initialize your backed up mailboxes in your current session, without even restarting. You can browse your backed up mailboxes, as you would normally, and operate on them in any way you see fit. To get back to your current mailboxes, simply go back to the E-mail, Backup and Restore menu, and choose Exit Backed Up.
Poco supports additional mailboxes and nested folders to help you organize your mail. Mailboxes window is usually docked to the side of the main application, and if it isn't you can bring it back by pressing F8. Use the buttons underneath the mailboxes to create new mailboxes, create folders or delete any of them. You can nest mailboxes inside folders. Folders can contain only other mailboxes, they cannot contain messages. This is why if you drop a message on top of a folder, nothing will happen. To move messages to a mailbox, you simply open the mailbox they are currently in (by clicking on it), select the messages you want to copy, and drag them over to the destination mailbox. For quicker access to all your mailboxes, you can also right-click on the selected messages and choose the Move menu. To copy a message to another mailbox, use the same process, except hold the Ctrl key when dropping the message - this will copy the dropped message or messages to that mailbox. You can also copy or move messages by using the standard clipboard operations: copy, cut and paste. Just select the messages you want to move, press Ctrl+X for move, or Ctrl+C for copy, then open the destination mailbox and press Ctrl+V.
If you want to see at a glance the number of messages in each mailbox and/or the number of unread messages in each mailbox, turn on the appropriate column - under Mailbox menu, go to Mailboxes Columns menu and turn on the columns you would like to display.
To delete messages simply select messages you want deleted and press the Delete key - deleted messages will be placed into the Trash mailbox. To empty trash, just right click on the Trash mailbox and choose Empty Trash. Even though messages will be deleted from the mailbox, they will still be physically present in the mailbox until it is compressed. Compressing the mailbox clears out any deleted messages and updates the index - this is done for better performance.
For those interested in more details, mailboxes are actually plain text files, with filenames ending with ".mbx", located in Poco's Mail directory. Folders are simply directories within the mail directory containing other mailbox files. There is no other designators that Poco uses to track mailboxes - on start-up, Poco simply scans the Mail directory, and all the MBX files and folders are added to the mailboxes tree. This open system gives great power to the end user. Scripts can simply write a message to the file ending in ".mbx", and it will automatically be recognized by Poco as a mailbox. You can also move or delete your mailboxes outside Poco, in Explorer, and Poco will pick up all the changes. To refresh mailboxes without restarting Poco, just right click on Mailboxes pane and choose Refresh. You can also use RefreshMailboxes script command to do the same.
Mailboxes also use ancillary files to speed up operation: ".idx", ".d" and '.dat' files. IDX files are the index files, used to track messages and status changes, until you compress the mailbox. D files keep track of deleted messages for compress mailbox operation. If you make any changes to the mailbox outside Poco, Poco will automatically invalidate the Index file and rebuild a new one, while at the same time using the information from the old Index file and the Deleted messages file to retain any status information. Finally, DAT files contain mailbox specific settings.
The Show Only toolbar is great for quickly finding messages you need. If you need to perform a more exhaustive search, you should use Find Messages, Ctrl+F or go to Message, Find Messages menu. Find Messages can operate on all or some mailboxes at the time, and will find text you are looking for within message headers or message body. You can choose to ignore letter case, or you can perform a case sensitive search. Optionally, you can specify an ignore text, which if found, will not return that message, even if the word you are looking for is in the message.
The Find Messages power lies in the fact that once found, you are not simply taken to the message, one at a time - Find Messages actually saves all the found messages to the new mailbox (defaults to "Found", but you can override it with any mailbox name), so the search results are saved until you delete them. Once the search is completed, you are taken to the mailbox with found messages. When you just open the Find Messages window, it will use a new mailbox name for the found messages so only the found messages will be present when the search is finished. But for advanced use, you can specify an already existing folder instead - in this case, the messages will be appended to the mailbox. This allows you to do incremental searches and have all results present in a single form.
To search only within a certain mail folder, open any mailbox directly within that folder and open the search window. You can then select to perform search within the current folder.
If you need to know where a particular message was found, i.e. in what mailbox, that information is saved with each found message, inside message headers. Just click on Show Headers, and look for "X-Found:" header for message origin.
Clicking on the progress indicator at the bottom of Poco's main window, or by selecting View, Progress Messages menu item (F12) will bring up the Progress Window. Here, you can follow any error or progress messages reported in the current session. The tabs present in the window are Progress and Messages. Since Poco uses multithreaded operation, you can have several different threads in action at any point in time. When checking mail for several different accounts, Poco will initiate several threads, one for each account to speed up delivery. This results in a much faster message retrieval. If you need to cancel all of the threads currently in progress, just press the Stop button - sometimes it may take several seconds until all threads finish. To stop a single thread, highlight it in the Progress tab and press the Stop button above. The second tab Messages contains regular progress messages as well as any error messages reported displayed in bold type. Copy button will copy all of the text to the clipboard, while Save button will save them to a file.
Poco offers several ways to keep your mail confidential. They range in the level of security they provide, so please choose the ones that best suit your needs.
Basic security preferences can be found in Program Options dialog box (F7), under Privacy/Security section. These options are controlled with a single password called Privacy Password.
Start-up Password
If you enable the start-up password, Poco will prompt for a password whenever it is run. Poco will not run until the privacy password is entered.
Locking Out Program Options
If you generally leave Poco running when you are not around the computer, then it can be useful to prevent unauthorized access to Program Options window by enabling this option. Again, only privacy password will allow access when this protection is active.
Locking Out Accounts Setup
You can also protect access to Accounts Setup in the same section of Program Options.
Locking Out View Messages on Server
If you are concerned that someone may use View Messages on Server feature to view mail currently on your POP server you can also lock out this feature in this section.
Using Privacy Sheet
You can temporarily lock out Poco while it is running by using the Privacy Sheet. When invoked with Shift+F12, Privacy Sheet will block the main Poco window and cover the contents of the index and the preview pane. To remove the Privacy Sheet you will need to enter the privacy password.
The Privacy Sheet can be used even when no privacy password is currently set - to temporarily obscure Poco's window, for example when a co-worker comes in for a chat.
Protecting Individual Mailboxes
You can also protect individual mailboxes with different passwords which can be useful for multi-user configurations. To enable the protection enter Mailbox Properties from the Mailbox menu, or by right clicking on the mailbox. If the mailbox protection is already on, you will need to enter the mailbox password before entering the Mailbox Properties window.
Encrypting Individual Messages
For a better level of security, you can use message encryption, available under Message, Privacy menu. This feature should be used with caution: encrypted messages are actually irreversibly scrambled and only the correct password can piece them back together.
Message encryption can also be turned on per account basis in Accounts Setup (F3), under Privacy tab. This will ensure that all incoming or all outgoing mail for that account will automatically be encrypted when saved into the mailbox. To access the encryption menus for individual messages, click on Message then Privacy menu or right-click on the mailbox index and then go to Privacy menu.
When you open an encrypted message, Poco will display a link in the message body to temporarily decrypt that message. When you click on the link and enter the correct password the real message will be displayed and the index fields will be filled in for that message. The password you entered will be saved while Poco is running so the next message that was encrypted with the same password will be automatically viewable. You can make Poco forget this password under Message, Privacy menu.
When a message is temporarily decrypted for reading, no parts of the message in clear text are saved to the disk by Poco for security reasons. Even the index entries that appear after you decrypt a message will disappear once you close Poco or switch to another mailbox.
To permanently decrypt a message, use the Message, Privacy menu. If you enter the correct password this message will be decrypted and saved as a standard Poco message in RFC 822 format.
Differences between Mailbox and Message Privacy
It is important to understand the differences between protecting a mailbox with a password and encrypting a message. While protecting a mailbox does not offer the strong security of message encryption, it retains the speed and flexibility of Poco's mailboxes. Message encryption on the other hand provides a high level of security. To maximize this security, use longer passwords - 6 characters is recommended minimum.
Poco can help you deal with junk mail by using built-in Junk Mail scripts. To access them, simply right-click on the message you consider junk mail in the message index pane and go to Junk Mail - In the Future... menu item. To trash mail in the future from the same sender, choose Trash messages FROM same sender. Or to trash messages with a similar subject line, select Trash messages with similar SUBJECT. Poco will add a script to run on all incoming mail that will monitor incoming messages and trash them if they meet your criteria. Trashed messages will be sent directly to the trash mailbox, which will show in a different colour to notify you that some of your new mail was deleted. If you want to see what you received, just open the trash mailbox to get to the message.
Importing information into Poco
Address Books: To import an address book into Poco, use the E-mail, Import, Address Book menu. The imported information will be added to the currently selected address book. If you would rather place the imported information into a new address book, create one just before importing (see Address Book). Poco can import two standard formats of address books, LDIF and CSV. LDIF format has a fixed structure, so importing it is very straight-forward. CSV (Comma Separated Values) can be ordered in different ways - before importing a CSV file make sure that it is ordered correctly. You can re-order a CSV file by simply opening it in a spreadsheet program and re-arranging the order of columns. Poco requires the CSV file to have the nicknames in the first column (field), full names in the second, e-mail addresses in the third and notes in the fourth (optional). Poco will ignore fields beyond the fourth one. So, for instance, a sample CSV file would look like this:
"Sheila", "Sheila Smith", ssmith@provider.com Bort, Bort Jones, bjones@elsewhere.com Vincenzo, , vini@com.com, "Web site: http://..." Friends, , "sheila, bjones@elsewhere.com, vini@com.com"All of these entries are valid. When exporting from Netscape, the recommended format is LDIF, while when exporting from Outlook, recommended format is CSV. Make sure before exporting with Outlook to correctly order the CSV fields as described above - delete all the fields mapped by default by Outlook, and drag and drop First name, Last name and E-mail address (in that order) on the mapping pane.
Mailboxes: Poco can also import mailboxes from Netscape, Eudora or other RFC 822 compliant mail clients. Outlook unfortunately uses a proprietary mailbox format, so you will need to export your mailbox into one of the supported formats before being able to import it into Poco. To import the mailbox simply go to E-mail, Import, Mailbox menu. Choose what mailbox format you want to import from the dialog box that comes up, the location of the mailbox to import and which Poco mailbox should receive the imported messages. The location of the source mailbox will be fetched directly from the registry, but you can override it. If the destination Poco mailbox does not exist, Poco will create a new mailbox, if the mailbox does exist imported messages will be appended to the mailbox.
A note on importing Netscape and some Eudora mailboxes: Netscape and in certain cases Eudora store attachments within the mailbox, rather than saving them to a file. This results in much larger mailbox sizes. During import, Poco will automatically extract files from the imported messages, save them to your attachments directory and save the message without the embedded attachment to the Poco mailbox.
Exporting information from Poco
Poco will allow you to export the address books and mailboxes to the same formats that you can import with. Exported formatting requirements are identical to the ones described above. To export a specific address book make sure it is currently selected, go to the E-mail, Export, Address Book menu and select the format you wish to use. To export a mailbox, first open the mailbox, then click on E-mail, Export, Mailbox menu and choose the format.
Starting in version 2, Poco supports another way to automatically process your mail in the form of Filters. While Filters functionality is already present in PocoScript, Filters have been implemented to supplement PocoScript, so creation of custom processing rules is now simpler and faster.
Creating a Poco Quick Filter
The main focus of Poco's Filters is ease of use and quick creation. Creating a new filter is as simple as right-clicking on the index pane: simply position your mouse over the message you want to filter and over the column containing the header you are interested in, then press the right mouse button and click on Quick Filter. Poco will fill-in the necessary fields of the Filter mini-dialog box, just hit OK to confirm it.
For example, to filter all messages coming from the same e-mail address, locate one of these messages, position the mouse over the message, specifically over the From column, then right click. From the menu select Quick Filter, if you want change the filter action, for example to move processed messages to another mailbox. When done hit OK. Poco will automatically add this filter to run on all incoming mail in the future.
Note, Poco will recognize that if you are inside an outgoing mailbox (Out, Draft or Sent) you most likely want the filter to run on outgoing mail, instead of on incoming mail. You can override this by extending the filter mini-dialog box by pressing the arrow down button and selecting when you want the filter to run. You can also force filter to scan message case-sensitively, so only the correct case will set off the filter. Finally, filter can be bound to a specific account, so it will only run on messages being fetched or sent under that account.
Removing and Editing Filters
Whether you used Poco's Quick Filter option, or have created filter yourself you can delete it by going to Filters and Scripts window (F4). The Incoming filters will be listed on the Incoming Filters tab, while Outgoing filters are located on the Outgoing tab. To delete a filter just highlight it and click on Delete button.
To edit the same filter, simply double-click on it, and the mini-dialog box will open with the filter properties.
Filter vs. Scripts
As mentioned previously, Poco's Filters are not meant to replace the PocoScripts, but rather supplement them by offering an easy way to filter simple messages. Poco will still run any scripts added to the list of Incoming or Outgoing scripts right after the filters have been run on the message.
While Poco's Filters excel at most-common message processing, scripts are still the recommended way to run more complex processing on the messages, like scanning for junk mail. Added benefit of Filters is that they can execute a script when trigerred which allows for great flexibility.
Filters in Detail
Filters will run automatically on either received or sent mail, depending on which tab they reside in Filters and Scripts window. The order they run is from the top filter to the bottom one and you can rearrange them by simply dragging and dropping them on the list. If you have both filters and scripts running on messages, filters are always run before scripts, and if a filter cancels message processing (see below) the scripts will not run on that message either.
A single filter consists of two parts: the conditional construct and the filter action. Poco will first examine if the filter conditional construct is true for the currently processed message, and only if it is Poco will follow the filter action.
Filter condition generally consists of the message header to search (like Subject), text to search for, whether to perform a case sensitive search by matching the exact letter case of the text, and finally the reverse flag which allows you to filter message not containing the found text. There are two special cases that you can select instead of a regular message header: you can choose to search all of the headers by selecting %headers%, or all of the message body by selecting %body%. Finally, filters can also be bound to a specific account, so they are only applied if the message being scanned belongs to that account. All of these can be set directly from the filters mini-dialog box.
There are several available filter actions that you can choose at the moment. Thanks to Poco's flexible architecture, more may be added in the future.
You can choose to move or copy the message to a different mailbox. If you select move instead of copy this message will no longer be saved in the In mailbox, and the processing on the message will stop - Poco will move onto the next message and will not run any more filters or scripts on that message.
You can also mark message with one of Poco's eight message marks, so it is better visible in the mailbox.
If the message was forwarded from another account or for some other reason you wish to change the Poco account that owns the message you can set the filter to change the account to any other.
A filter can also run a script on the message - this is useful if you want to do custom processing on the message if it matches a simple condition. You can also use features that are not available to Filters but are available to PocoScript by running simple, sometimes one-line scripts. This will allow you to play a sound on a matched message, run an external program or print the message.
Finally, you can have the filter stop further processing of the message and not run the rest of the filters or scripts by using the stop filtering command. Poco will move onto the next message.
Scripting is implemented through PocoScript, an interpreted language created for Poco that focuses on mail processing and handling. Even though it has a narrow focus, PocoScript can act as a conduit between Poco and other applications to implement more sophisticated mail processing, such as mail encryption.
PocoScript is manipulated through Filters and Scripts window, under Tools menu, or by pressing F4. You will see five buttons along the top:
Filters - this is where you define and edit Poco's filters, see above for details.
Scripts - here you can manipulate more general script settings. You don't need to know how to write PocoScript to take advantage of this feature. There are only two ways a script can run automatically without you starting it: if it's selected to run on all incoming mail or if it's selected to run on all outgoing mail. This means that any time a message is sent out or received, the script will be run and have a chance to process that message. To add or remove script from being executed automatically, simply add or remove it from the list in the Settings part of Filters and Scripts window. To execute a script manually, use the options along the bottom of the window, select a script and press Now button. Some scripts have user customizable options that you can set without ever touching the script: to setup a particular script, you can either double-click on it if it's added to Incoming or Outgoing scripts, or select it and click on Setup button on either pane. You will be taken to the Setup Script tab of the Filters and Scripts window, see below.
Setup Script - If the script uses user interface extensions, you will be able to set up the script here. You can select which script you want to setup from the drop-box along the top. If the script can be setup, you will see the fields with values and descriptions for that particular script. If the script cannot be setup or it doesn't have any values to setup, you will see a message informing you of this. To setup scripts, you still don't need any direct knowledge of PocoScript. If you do know a little bit about PocoScript, and would like to get up close and personal with the actual script, you can click on Edit Script button. It will load the selected script and take you to Edit Script tab, see below.
Edit Script - to actually edit script, use the Script tab. While writing the script, F1 will take you to the Help window, which will try to locate the command you were writing for additional information. Dry Run button will execute the script, but the %message variable, which normally is always present and represents the message to process, will not be initialized, so there is less chance for losing messages. Consider this a debugging function, that allows you to test your scripts. Finally, the Debug tab shows you all the variables and their values as they are initialized by the script and the values they had when the script stopped, but only when using Dry Run. This is a great way to familiarize yourself with PocoScript and test your scripts.
Buttons - the final tab lets you customize the quick-run buttons for scripts, that appear on toolbar just right of the main toolbar. There are 10 buttons you can setup, and each is also accessible with key shortcut CTRL-1, CTRL-2, ..., CTRL-0. Pick the script to run on the left, and type the description of the script in the right field. The first 11 letters of the description will show up on the button itself, while the rest will show in the tool-tip window that appears if you hover your mouse over the button. You can also access the buttons through the Tools menu.
To find out more about PocoScript itself, please see PocoScript help.
Poco supports several command line parameters which you can use to launch Poco in different ways. These are:
poco.exe /m "mailto:address"
Starts Poco and starts a new message addressed to the address provided.
poco.exe /c
Checks mail upon start-up.
poco.exe /s
Sends queued messages upon start-up.
poco.exe /c /s
Upon start-up, first check mail, then send queued messages.
poco.exe /s /c
Upon start-up, first send queued messages, then check mail.
An additional /q parameter can be used to quit Poco immediately once the desired operation was completed. This parameter cannot be applied together with /m parameter. Allowed combinations are:
poco.exe /c /q
poco.exe /s /q
poco.exe /c /s /q
poco.exe /s /c /q
If the Automatic Timed Mail Check is turned on, mail check will be performed on start up even without /c parameter. If the /s parameter is present on the command line, then the order of execution will be as following:
poco.exe /s
Send Queued will be performed before checking mail.
poco.exe /c /s
Checking mail will be performed before sending queued messages. The mail will not be checked twice in the latter case.
poco.exe /r "My New Script"
Use to run script with filename "My New Script.poc" upon start-up. Script has to be present in Poco's Scripts directory, do not pass the file extension ".poc" to the command line parameter.