FoxMail

FreePOPs is a stand-between program. It acts as the liaison between your email client and your free webmail service provider (like Yahoo!, HotMail, GMail). This document will help you setup your FoxMail for use with FreePOPs.

Prerequisites:

• Latest version of FreePOPs downloaded and installed
• FoxMail (I used FoxMail 5 here, but I believe all Foxmail are same) installed
• Internet Connection :)

1. Open FoxMail.
2. In FoxMail, go to Accounts  -> New to start the new account setup wizard. If you have started FoxMail for the first time, then this wizard will appear automatically.
   
   You'll see a Wizard window like the one above. Click Next.
   
   
3. Now you will see a window like the one below.
   
   Put a name in the User Name field and click Next. Note: this User Name is not your mail server's username. It's a name that FoxMail will use for your account.
   
   
4. The next window like the one below will appear asking you for your identity.
   
   Put your name in the Sender's Name field and put your email address in the Mail Address field.
   
   
5. A window asking your server details like the one below will appear.
   
   You have to select POP3 Account as you are using FreePOPs for bringing your webmail into your inbox right through a POP3 protocol.
   
   Type localhost in the POP Server field.
   
   Put your complete email address in the Account field and your webmail password in the Password Field.
   
   You might be thinking why you need to put the whole email address here, as you only put your username while checking your free webmail host through your web browser. Well, as you know FreePOPs is a middle software between your pop3 mail client and your free webmail provider and supports multiple webmail providers through different individual plugins. So, when your mail client sends any requests to FreePOPs by sending the login name and password, FreePOPs detects the part after the @ sign and decides which plugins to use and which server to connect to. That is why you have to put your complete email ID here. Hope you understand.
   
   As FreePOPs doesn't have any support for sending mail over the SMTP protocol, you have to depend on your ISP's SMTP server for sending mail. So put your ISP's SMTP server details in the SMTP Server field and click Next.
   
   
6. A window like the one below will appear.
   
   Click Finish to complete the Wizard.
   
   
7. Now go to Account -> Properties from the File menu. A window like the one below will appear.
   
   Select Mail Server in the left option list. On the right side of the window you will find an Advanced button. Click that button to open Advanced Properties window.
   
   
   You will find a window like the one above. In this window put 2000 in the POP3 Server Port field. Click OK in this Advanced Properties window and click OK in the Account Properties window.
   

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Last modified on Nov 1, 2008 - 3:04 PM UTC