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---+ 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, <code>http://&lt;cname&gt;[:&lt;port&gt;]/ods</code>, e.g., [[http://id.myopenlink.net/ods/][http://id.myopenlink.net/ods/]].
   1 Log in.
   1 Create ODS-Mail instance:
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   1 Go to <b>Preferences</b>:
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   1 Click <b>External Accounts</b> in the left pane:
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   1 Click the <b>Create Account</b> button:
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   1 Fill out the form presented:
      * <b>Name</b>: your own name for the external mail box, e.g., "My GMail via IMAP"
      * <b>Server type</b>: specify: "IMAP"
      * <b>Connection type</b>: None or SSL/TSL, for example, "SSL/TSL"
      * <b>Server address</b>: the address of the external IMAP4 Account Server, for example "imap.gmail.com"
      * <b>Server port</b>: the external IMAP4 Account Server's port, for ex: "993"
      * <b>Username</b>: your username for your account on the given external IMAP4 Account Server
      * <b>Password</b>: the password for your account on the given external IMAP4 Account Server
      * <b>Store in</b>: the location in your ODS-Mail, where the retrieved messages from your external IMAP4 account will go, for example, "Inbox" / "MyImapMail"
      * <b>Check for new messages every</b> 15 <b>minutes</b>, for example
      * <b>After get</b>: set "Leave original" / or "Delete from server after retrieval"
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   1 Click "Verify" to verify your account setting and log in credentials:
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   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:
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   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:
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   1 Status information should be presented:
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   1 To view how many messages have been retrieved, you can go to "Activity Manager":
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   1 View your external account messages by going to the set from above external IMAP4 account folder, for ex. as in our example <b>Inbox</b> -> <b>My GMail via IMAP</b>
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---++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]]

   
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