Settings

All attributes and the corresponding options are described below:

General group

• Profile name
  Select a unique profile name here. If the name is already taken, the email profile cannot be saved.

• Comment
  Any comment about the email profile.

• Creation date
  The entry date of the email profile is displayed here. This value cannot be changed and is assigned automatically by the program.

• Modification date
  The date on which the email profile was modified is displayed here. This value cannot be changed and is assigned automatically by the program.

Server Settings group

• Incoming mail server
  Enter the URL of the incoming mail server here.

• Port
  Enter the outgoing mail port here. Depending on the reception and/or encryption method, the appropriate port will be suggested, which you can accept by clicking Yes.

• Email reception method
  Select one of the two possible methods, IMAP or POP3, here. Please note that POP3 is outdated.

• Encryption method
  Select the encryption method for email reception here. You can choose between None, SSL, TSL, or, for IMAP, Start TLS.

• Authentication
  Set the authentication here to specify how the recipient should log in to the email server. The following options are available:
  - For POP3: Login and SPA
  - For IMAP: PLAIN, LOGIN, CRAM-MD5, NTLM, Exchange Online, and Google Workspace.
  Depending on the authentication method, the input fields in the Authentication group will change.

• Receive timeout
  Set a limit for receiving an email here. If no email can be received within this number of seconds, the reception is aborted with an error. If this setting is 0, the timeout is set to the default value of 30 seconds.

Authentication group

During authentication, different attributes are displayed depending on the selection in the server settings for authentication and email reception method.

Email reception method POP3

• User
  Enter the username of the POP3 account you use to log in here.
• Password
  Enter the password for the POP3 account you use to log in here.

Email reception method IMAP

• PLAIN
  Here, the user name (for authorization), user name (for authentication), and password are transmitted unencrypted. The three character strings are combined into one character string and Base64-encoded.
  The user name and password are displayed. These must be filled in.

• LOGIN
  With LOGIN authentication, as with PLAIN authentication, the user name and password are transmitted unencrypted in Base64-encoded form. Unlike PLAIN authentication, the two character strings are transmitted in two steps.
  The username and password are displayed. These must be filled in.

• CRAM-MD5
  The username and password are displayed. These must be filled in.

• NTLM
  The use of NTLM over HTTP enables single sign-on to web servers or proxy servers using the credentials of the Windows user login. NTLM is no longer considered secure[1] and should no longer be used if possible.
  The user name, password, and domain are displayed. These fields must be filled in.

• Exchange Online
  The OAuth2 client credentials flow is designed so that an application acts on its own behalf, without direct interaction or the identity of a user. At Microsoft, this is implemented via Microsoft Entra ID and application permissions.
  The following input fields are displayed: Tenant ID, Client ID, Client Secret, and Owner Email

• Google Workspace
  This is Google's OAuth2.
  The following input fields are displayed: Service Account Email, Private Key, Certificate Password, and Owner Email.

Encryption

Here you can activate the latest encryption protocol TLS 1.3.

See also:

• POP3
• IMAP
• Exchange Online
• OAuth2
• TLS 1.3 (Transport Layer Security)