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. Confirm that ODS-Mail has been installed in your host ODS instance. Browse to your host ODS instance, http://<cname>[:<port>]/ods, e.g., http://id.myopenlink.net/ods/. Log in. Create ODS-Mail instance:

Go to Preferences:

Click External Accounts in the left pane:

Click the Create Account button:

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"

Click "Verify" to verify your account setting and log in credentials:

Click "Ok" and then click "Save". As result the created external IMAP4 Account should be presented in the list of available ODS user's External accounts:

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:

Status information should be presented:

To view how many messages have been retrieved, you can go to "Activity Manager":

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

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