Accounts
Clicking on the accounts tab on the right-hand side allows you to define all your e-mail accounts.

A Help button can be found in the lower left corner of the screen.

First up is the account management buttons:
Add a new account. First press this button, a new account tab will appear, then fill in all the required fields.
Delete the currently selected account from PopTrayU. You must have at least 1 account defined.
Test your account parameters by connecting to the server. Also tries to identify the server software and show UIDL support. UIDL support is needed for Quick-Checking and Safe Delete.
Save the account information. If you don't press this button the new account info, or account changes won't be saved to the PopTray.ini file.
Cancel the changes you have may made to the account settings.

For each account you define you have to fill in the following fields:
Enabled Checkbox that selects whether PopTrayU will check this account when doing an periodic check or when you click the Check All button.
Name The name you want to give this account. This is the name that will appear on the account tabs.
Server The address or ip of your POP3 server (eg. mail.isp.com).
Protocol PopTrayU only supports the POP3 protocol by default. By installing protocol plug-ins PopTrayU can also support other mail protocols (eg IMAP4, POP3SSL, HTTPMail, etc.)
Port If your server uses a different port than the default POP3 port (110), you can specify it here.
When using SSL or protocol plug-ins, this value may be automatically adjusted.
Login The login name you use on your E-mail Account (Usually the part before the @ in your e-mail address).
Password Your E-mail Account password.
E-Mail Program The e-mail program to run for this account. You may leave the field blank and the default e-mail client set in the options screen will be used.
Sound The sound to play when you receive new mail in this account. You may leave this field blank and the default sound set in the options screen will be used.
Color The color to be used in the Tray to indicate you have mail in this account. Use a different color for each account.
Check Every... If you set the Timer Interval per Account option (on the Interval tab), you must set the interval between mail checks for each account here. Set time interval in minutes using the up-down buttons or typing in a number.
Use SSL/TLS Can only be enabled if OpenSSL dlls are present in the PopTrayU directory. This will use a secure/encrypted connection to download your email. It will automatically change the port number to the standard secure port number (unless STARTTLS advanced option is checked), and use the most common secure settings available.
Don't Check... If enabled, this allows you to set a time range between which the account will not be automatically checked. The disabled icon will be navy instead of red to distinguish this state from account disabled. The account can still be manually/individually checked on request, but it will not automatically check on a timer during these times.

Advanced account options:

These options are hidden unless the "Advanced" button is pressed.

Authentication

Depending on what protocol is selected (and whether you have installed OpenSSL DLLs), you may see some or all of the following choices:

  • Auto - Let PopTrayU decide for you what authentication method should be used
  • Password - This is the standard old-fashioned way of sending the password in plain-text to the server
  • APOP - This is a less secure form of password encryption some email servers may offer if they do not offer SSL connections. The password is sent as an "MD5 Hash" which is not as secure as SSL, but more secure than plain-text passwords.
  • SASL - the most secure option for sending your password. PopTrayU will pick the most secure password encryption algorithm that both your email server and PopTrayU support.
SSL/TLS Version This setting can be used to manually specify which version of SSL or TLS should be used in connecting to your email server. SSL 2.0 is generally not recommended because it's less secure. TLS are newer versions than SSL, but not all servers support the newest version(s) of TLS. This option is only available when "Use SSL/TLS" is enabled.
STARTTLS Also sometimes called "explicit TLS", this option will initate a connection over the "insecure" port, and then tell the server to switch to secure mode (SSL/TLS), before sending the username, password, or downloading mail. This option is only available when "Use SSL/TLS" is enabled.