PopTray Demo

  1. Why am I showing you this?
    eg. Today I had 15 messages. 10 were garbage (spam). One was >700k. I deleted the garbage, and checked the big one to see if it was worth downloading. It wasn't, so I deleted it too.

  2. Alternative ways to check your email:
    1. Your email program (Netscape, Outlook Express,...)
      • You can set up your email program to get email for several accounts from several servers.
      • This brings all of each email message onto your computer (attachments too). This can take time, and can be dangerous if the attachment has a virus.
    2. Webmail (or other online email. eg. Hotmail, Yahoo,...)
      • You can check your mail on the server, and delete spam and large items
      • Not all ISP's offer this service
      • For multiple accounts requires logging in to each service (time consuming)
    3. Remote mail programme (eg. PopTray)
      • logs in to all your accounts, downloads just the headers
      • fast & easy


  3. Install
    1. Download from http://poptray.crause.co.za
    2. Virus check!
    3. Install: run the exe (self-extracting .zip file)
      (you may do this from within an installer program, like CleanSweep)


  4. Set up
    1. Accounts

      Name

      Server

      Login

      Password

      AnneNexicom

      nexicom.net

      apanter

      		  

      voco softhome

      mail.softhome.net

      voco

      		  

      Anne softhome

      mail.softhome.net

      apanter

      		  


    2. Options:
      • email program: (click ...Browse button and select it)
        eg. C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe
      • other options
        eg. check mail every xx minutes, play different sounds, mark email with different colours, etc.


    3. Rules:

      Example:

      No

      Name

      On

      Area

      Compare

      Text

      warn

      Delete

      1

      NoParis

      yes

      Subject

      Contains

      Paris Hilton

      Yes



    4. Help:
      Check the Help button. (Well documented)


  5. Check mail

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