Opera

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 Opera for use with FreePOPs.

Prerequisites:

• Latest version of FreePOPs downloaded and installed
• Opera (I used Opera 7, but I think all versions are same) installed
  
• Internet Connection :)

1. Open Opera.
2. From the File menu, go to Mail -> New Account,
   
   
   
3. Now you will see a window like the one below.
   
   Select Regular e-mail (POP) and click Next.
   
   
4. Now the New Account Wizard will start.
   
   In this first window like the one above, you have to put your name in the Real Name field, your email address in the E-mail address field. If you have any organization then you can put the organization's name in the Organization field or if you don't have any then leave the field blank and click Next.
   
   
5. 
   In this window you have to put your whole email address as your login name in the Login name field. And your webmail access password in the password field and click Next.
   
   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.
   
   
6. A window asking your server Information like the one below will appear.
   
   Put localhost in the Incoming Server field.
   
   Unfortunately FreePOPs doesn't have any support for SMTP server. That means you cannot send mail using FreePOPs. To send mail you have to depend on your ISP's SMTP server or any other SMTP server. In this window put your SMTP server address in the Outgoing Server field and click Finish to complete the primary stage.
   
   
7. Now go to Mail -> Manage accounts... from the File menu.
   
   
   
8. You will see your account in the Manage Accounts window like the one below. Select the account you just added and click Edit button.
   
   
   
9. A new Account properties window like the one below will appear.
   
   Go to the Server tab and in the Incoming POP server section put 2000 in the Port number field. Click OK.
   
   
10. You will come back to the Manage Accounts window.
    
    Click Close to finish your account setup process.

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