These days it's rare for someone to have, and use, a single email address. That's why MailWire's Message Retrieval feature is so great: it allows users to access email from another account simply using the MailWire Web interface. That means users can add their Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! or any other mail account to MailWire so that they can receive all of their emails, from a number of different accounts, from within a single interface. A nice complement to Message Retrival is SMTP Accounts, which allows users to send email from additional accounts as well.
To view your message retrieval settings, click the settings icon. Then expand the Settings and Advanced Settings folders and click Message Retrieval in the navigation pane.
Adding a New Account
Adding an account to message retrieval is quite simple. You will, however, need to fill in several pieces of information in order for MailWire to actually connect to the account and start retrieving messages. If you do not know any of these settings, it's a good idea to contact your IT or Email Administrator with the list, below, that corresponds to the type of connection you want to make with the account, either POP or IMAP.
POP Retrieval
MailWire's POP retrieval service will download email messages from another server via POP3 and deliver them to your MailWire mailbox. The primary difference between POP and IMAP is that a POP account will generally retrieve messages from the server, then delete them from the originating server. While MailWire's Message Retrieval feature DOES allow you to leave messages on the server, users need to make sure they enable it. Otherwise, POP retrieval will delete the messages. When creating a new account for POP message retrieval, the following options are available:
- Type - Select either POP or IMAP.
- Server Address - The address for the email server for which you want to connect. This will most likely be the URL to the mail server. (E.g., mail.example.com).
- Port - The port used to connect to the email server. By default, the port is 110. However, some mail providers may require a separate port be used for POP retrieval.
- Username - The identifier used to authenticate with the email server. This will most likely be the full email address you want to bring into MailWire.
- Password - The password used to log into the mail account.
- Retrieval Method - The method by which MailWire checks for new messages on the server, either Manual or Automatic. If you choose to manually retrieve messages, you will have to load the Message Retrieval page and click Retrieve to check for new messages.
- Destination Folder - The folder you want to use for messages that are downloaded from the server.
- Enable APOP authentication - Select this option if the server requires additional login security.
- Leave messages on server - Select this option to keep your messages on the server after they are downloaded to your MailWire mailbox.
- Requires SSL - Select this option if the connection to the server must be SSL.
- Enable spam filtering - Select this option to apply your MailWire spam and content filtering settings to any messages downloaded from this server
IMAP Retrieval
MailWire's IMAP retrieval service will download email messages from another server via IMAP and deliver them a your MailWire mailbox while leaving the original messages on the original mail server. When creating a new account for IMAP message retrieval, the following options are available:
- Type - Select either POP or IMAP.
- Server Address - The address for the email server you want to connect to. This will most likely be the URL to the mail server. (E.g., mail.example.com).
- Port - The port used to connect to the email server. By default, the port is 143. However, some mail providers may require a separate port be used for IMAP retrieval.
- Username - The identifier used to authenticate with the email server. This will most likely be the full email address you want to bring into MailWire.
- Password - The password used to log into the mail account.
- Retrieval Method - The method by which MailWire checks for new messages on the server, either Manual or Automatic. If you choose to manually retrieve messages, you will have to load the Message Retrieval page and click Retrieve to check for new messages. Automatic retrieval does not require you to return to the Message Retrieval page.
- Folder Transfer Method - The method by which MailWire imports any email folders from the server. Unlike a POP connection, IMAP allows existing folders to be brought into MailWire. This is the benefit of using IMAP as your connection type.
- Requires SSL - Select this option if the connection to the server must be SSL.
