System Configuration/Email Accounts

Setting up an email account

  1. Go to the preference panel (under ZOE on the main page).
  2. Click on ACCOUNTS.
  3. Fill in appropriate information (see table bellow for more details)
  4. Click on SAVE.

General Information

Account Type Either POP or IMAP, with or without SSL
Email Address Your email address for this account
Name Your Name
Enable this account 'Get Mail' check this acount if enabled
Enable Google Web Service Good Question

Host Settings (Incoming Email)

Host Name the name of the computer ZOE retrieves email from (see note below)
User Name the user name to login with this host
Password password for this host
Leave messages on server Should Zoe delete messages from the host, or leave them on the server?

SMTP Settings (Outgoing Email)

SMTP Host the name of the computer ZOE relays email to
SMTP User the user name to login with this host
SMTP Password password for SMTP server
Forward messages to server See Email Forwarding

Notes Regarding Host Name

Restricting IMAP

Some users have reported a problem where Zoë attempts to read and index content outside of the users IMAP account. While this behaviour is likely the result of a poorly configured email server, you can restrict Zoë to a given inbox:

Suffix the IMAP server's hostname with a slash followed by the IMAP path prefix.

eg.

imap.myisp.com/mail.

The above will usually resolve to $HOME/mail on unix systems. For more information regarding the issue and for a newer, more flexible solution, see Restricting Imap.

Changing Port Settings for POP Accounts

There is a way to set a different pop port for each email account in Zoë:

Add the port number to the host name directly.

eg.

mail.com:1110