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Email Connection

WinGate Requires:

wingate200090000.gif POP3 proxy, accepting connections on port 110.

wingate200090000.gif Mapped link to mail-forwarding server (SMTP), accepting connections on port 25.

Email Connection:

1. From the menu bar, under the "Window" menu, select "Internet" to bring up the "Internet" dialog box.

2. Hit the 'Configure' button to bring up the "Internet Mail Setup" dialog box.

3. In the "Mail host name:" and "SMTP relay name:" entries, enter 'wingate', or whatever label you gave in your hosts file to the machine running WinGate.

4. In the "User ID:" field, enter your POP server user name and your POP server's host name, in the following fashion: 'user name' # 'host name'. For example: billg#microsoft.com.

5. The delimiter character '#' should be that specified in the set-up of the POP3 proxy.

6. In the "TCP connection type" options, enable "LAN".

7. Hit the "More…" button to bring up the "More" dialog box.

8. In the "POP3 port:" and "SMTP port:" entries, enter the port numbers that the WinGate POP3 proxy and mapped link are configured to accept connections on.

9. The rest of the Email Connection set up does not relate to WinGate.