4.3.7 Options

Most email clients have many options to select.

• Delete messages from the server (Leave messages on server). This is an option that lets you specify if you want to delete messages from a server. Most of the time, you want to delete messages from the server once they are retrieved. However, if you want to be able to retrieve messages from the server from different clients, you need to make sure messages do not get deleted.
• Check for new messages at startup. Normally, you want your email client to check email messages as soon as it is started. The only exception is that when you want to control when you want to connect to the incoming email server.
• Check every x minutes. This sets up the email client program to check the incoming email server periodically.
• Automatically download new messages. This option is often enabled by default. However, you can disable this, and just have the email client notify you about new messages, but not to download them. This can be helpful if you have a slower connection, and don't want to download messages unless you have better access to the network.
• Fetch headers only. This feature can be combined by not automatically download new messages. You can download just the headers so that you know who sent you what messages. You can then delete all the junk mail without downloading the contents.
• Use secure connection (SSL). This feature should only be enabled if you know that your ISP supports SSL.
• Use secure authentication. Again, this feature should only be enabled if your ISP supports secure authentication.