Frequently Asked Questions

FAQ in progress

Most of this information comes straight from the [zoe-general mailing list]

Facts

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Others


Where is Configurations/Default

You need to create this directory if it does not exist.

How do I adjust the get mail frequency ?

  1. Create a plain text file in %ZOE%/Library/SZ/Configurations/Default/ named alt.dev.szmail.SZServiceAgent?.properties
  2. insert the following content: time.interval=180000 (The time interval is expressed in milliseconds.)
reference: [Zoe-general]

How do I adjust the number of Search Results ?

The fetch limit is the number of top results which will be considered by MessageRank?. The default is the magic number 12. Increasing the value, will increase the number of messages returned by the search.
  1. Create a plain text file in %ZOE%/Library/SZ/Configurations/Default/ named alt.dev.szmail.SZEnvelope.properties
  2. insert the following content: fetch.limit=20

Fine tuning Zoe (some Luscene settings explained)

see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=3653672


View message threads

When viewing the message simply click on the message title.


My email client won't allow me to access port 10025

You have to change what port Zoe uses for SMTP:
  1. Create a plain text file in %ZOE%/Library/SZ/Configurations/Default/ named alt.dev.szsmtp.SZSMTP.properties
  2. insert the following content: port=10025 (or whatever is appropriate for you.)
  3. Restart the app.
reference: [Zoe-general]

If your email client doesn't allow you to change the SMTP server port, you can tunel SMTP traffic on port 25 to port 10025 on your local machine by using this command. You need to be logged in as root:

ssh -L 25:127.0.0.1:10025 127.0.0.1 -n -f -N

reference: [1]


I've setup another identity but my email isn't going there

You need to define the accounts which are going to be use by the new identity in the same way as you did define some email accounts for the original identity.
This is how it goes:
Identity -> Accounts -> Emails
So if you have multiple identities, you need to define a set of accounts for each identity.
reference: [Zoe-general]

How do Import email from Microsoft Outlook?

see Converting To Mbox

The Blogger API

Random bit regarding accessing Zoe through the Blogger API

While blogID is essentially meaningless in Zoe, they can be (ab)used to access a specific date for example if you want to access messages from November 9, 2002... you can set the blogID to 20021109... the format is YYYYMMDD...
reference: [Zoe-general]

Is there a way to rename the user?

No. The user name is derived from the system user name.

I run Zoe behind an NAT router and access it from the internet, how come my attachment links are broken?

You have to tell Zoe what hostname to use for delivering attachment.
  1. Create a plain text file in %ZOE%/Library/SZ/Configurations/Default/ named alt.dev.zoe.Application.properties
  2. insert the following content: wan.host=www.my-own-zoe-host.ch (or whatever is appropriate for you.)
  3. Restart the app.

Bind Zoe to localhost only?


In Application.java, change line 402 to specify the address of the interface you would like to use. For example:

_socket = new ServerSocket?( this.port(), 0, InetAddress?.getByName( "127.0.0.1" ) );