Network & Outgoing Mail

Options -- Network

Permanent connection
This option tells MailBell that the mail server is always available via LAN or permanent internet connection.

Dial-up entry
If you are connecting to the internet via dial-up networking, please select your dial-up entry here. MailBell will automatically detect when you go online and will then start checking for new mail. You can configure if you want to do mail checking when going only with any of your dial-up networking entries or just with a specific one.

Warning! You can configure MailBell to dial out when an account needs checking and no internet connection is available. However, if you configure your accounts to check email frequently (e.g. every minute) this will result in a high phone bill due to many phone calls.

Dial out only ...
If you have to pay for dial out connections you can limit automatic dialing to certain hours of the day. Enter time here in 24 hour format separated by a colon, e.g. "08:00" for 8am or 19:30 for 7:30pm.

Hotmail via Proxy
To access hotmail accounts, MailBell simulates a web-browser. Some environments require web access to go through a proxy server. If you need so specify a proxy server, please do it in the form <server> or <server>:<port> or <user>:<passwort>@<server>:<port>.

Options -- Outgoing Mail

Use given SMTP-Server
If you find one of your real emails in the trash can you can "reactivate" it by sending it to your own mailbox again. To do this, it is necessary that you enter your mail server and email address here. MailBell will then send the email to yourself via that server.

Determine SMTP-Server
If this option is enabled, MailBell tries to determine the SMTP server based on the receiver's email address via DNS. This option requires Windows 2000, NT, XP or Internet Explorer 6.x or higher.

Use own address as "from"
When reactivating trashed mail, MailBell attempts to resend the mail exactly as it arrived in your inbox. However, some SMTP servers will not allow this, because techically this means are trying to send mail with a forged From-address (sending mail as if it was sent by the original sender).

With this option, the mail will be sent with your own email address as the email sender, which ist a compromise because it will make it lose the original sender's address, but may be the only way to get the message back. (You can still retrieve it by looking at the at the MailBell trash list or by looking for the X-From field in the email's mail header.)

Sender Domain Identification
This is a technical detail which may be necessary with some mail servers. Please use it only if advised by our support or if you know exactly what the SMTP HELO/EHLO commands are for.