How Do I Set Identity Settings for my Local or External Accounts?You can create a new account to collect external mail.
To configure Convergence to collect email from other accounts, perform the following steps:
Click New Account node under the External Accounts node in the left navigation panel.
A new tab titled New Account appears in the central panel with the following options:
Account Info: Requires user information that you must provide for the external account.
Incoming Server: Specifies the incoming server details that you must provide for the external account.
Confirm: Enables you to review the account settings. You can also modify the settings by going to the previous screens using the Previous.
Status: Collects all the email from the external account.
Enter the user information in the Account Info page by using the following options:
Email account name: Email account name.
Email Address: Email address for this account. This email address appears as the From email address when this account is used as the identity for sending mail.
Give this account a name: Name for this account. Your account is identified with this name under the External Accounts node.
Click Next.
The New Account page appears.
On this page, enter the properties related to the external account.
The following options appear:
Incoming Server
Server Name: Enter the server name and port number that Convergence should use to get the external email.
Security: By default, the security option, None and the port number 110 are selected. If you want to collect your email by using TLS (Transport Layer Security), select the TLS option. If you want to collect your email by using SSL (Secure Socket Layer), select the SSL option. If you use SSL, the corresponding port number is changed to 995 (the default SSL port). If your server uses a customized SSL port, you must change the port number accordingly.
Select the Delete messages after successful retrieval check box if you want to delete the message from the external server after getting the email.
Folder receiving incoming messages
Target folder: Choose the folder into which you want to collect external mail. By default all external email is collected in the Inbox. If you want your external email to be stored in a separate folder, click Select. The window appears where you can select the folder into which you want to store your incoming external mail.
Authentication
Enter the login or user name for the external account in the Login/User name text field
Enter the password for the external mail in the Password field.
Re-enter the password in the Confirm password field.
Enable the Remember password checkbox if you want Convergence to remember your password.
The password is saved as part of your user preferences.
3. Click Next.
The Confirm page appears.
4. Click Create Account to create the external mail configuration.
The Status page appears. Convergence authenticates the user against the external server and gets the email based on the inputs provided.
The node is created with the new account information under the External Accounts tree. A new identity is created based on the information provided for the external account. This is available under the Identities tree in Mail preferences. To know more about identity settings, see How Do I Set Identity Settings for my Local or External Accounts?