%META:TOPICPARENT{name="OdsMail"}% ---+ Configuring an external IMAP4 account in ODS-Mail This guide demonstrates how to use the ODS-Mail UI to set an external IMAP4 account, and retrieve synchronized messages. 1 Confirm that [[OdsMailInstallGuide][ODS-Mail has been installed]] in your host ODS instance. 1 Browse to your host ODS instance, http://<cname>[:<port>]/ods, e.g., [[http://id.myopenlink.net/ods/][http://id.myopenlink.net/ods/]]. 1 Log in. 1 Create ODS-Mail instance: %BR%%BR%%BR%%BR% 1 Go to Preferences: %BR%%BR%%BR%%BR% 1 Click External Accounts in the left pane: %BR%%BR%%BR%%BR% 1 Click the Create Account button: %BR%%BR%%BR%%BR% 1 Fill out the form presented: * Name: your own name for the external mail box, e.g., "My GMail via IMAP" * Server type: specify: "IMAP" * Connection type: None or SSL/TSL, for example, "SSL/TSL" * Server address: the address of the external IMAP4 Account Server, for example "imap.gmail.com" * Server port: the external IMAP4 Account Server's port, for ex: "993" * Username: your username for your account on the given external IMAP4 Account Server * Password: the password for your account on the given external IMAP4 Account Server * Store in: the location in your ODS-Mail, where the retrieved messages from your external IMAP4 account will go, for example, "Inbox" / "MyImapMail" * Check for new messages every 15 minutes, for example * After get: set "Leave original" / or "Delete from server after retrieval" %BR%%BR%%BR%%BR% 1 Click "Verify" to verify your account setting and log in credentials: %BR%%BR%%BR%%BR% 1 Click "Ok" and then click "Save". 1 As result the created external IMAP4 Account should be presented in the list of available ODS user's External accounts: %BR%%BR%%BR%%BR% 1 If you want to manually retrieve the messages from your external IMAP4 account, hatch the check-box in front of the account and click the "Get Mail" button: %BR%%BR%%BR%%BR% 1 Status information should be presented: %BR%%BR%%BR%%BR% %BR%%BR%%BR%%BR% 1 To view how many messages have been retrieved, you can go to "Activity Manager": %BR%%BR%%BR%%BR% 1 View your external account messages by going to the set from above external IMAP4 account folder, for ex. as in our example Inbox -> My GMail via IMAP %BR%%BR%%BR%%BR% ---++Related * [[OdsMail][ODS-Mail]] * [[OdsMailInstallGuide][ODS-Mail's Installation Guide]] * [[OdsMailFiltersGuide][Creating Filters in ODS-Mail]] * [[ODSMailWebIDFilterRule][Web ID Filter Rule Example]] * [[ODSMailIMAP4FilterRule][Set Filter Rule associated with IMAP4 account Example]] * [[OdsMailSpamFilterGuide][Set Spam Filter Example]] * [[ODSMailSpamFilterRule][Manage Spam Filter with Addressbook interaction]] * [[ODSMailWebIDSMIME][ODS-Mail's SMIME + WebID Support Guide]] * [[OdsWebmailProgrammersGuide][ODS-Mail's Programmers Guide]] * [[ODSMailPop3External][Configure an external POP3 account in ODS-Mail]] * [[ODSMailIMAP4Thunderbird][Synchronizing Mozilla Thunderbird IMAP4 account store with ODS-Mail IMAP4 mapped instance]] CategoryMail CategoryODS CategoryOpenSource CategoryHowTo CategoryOdsMail