52CHAPTER 3: USING MESSAGING FEATURES
■IMAP — The Internet Message Access Protocol is also used to retrieve e-mail messages from a mail server but includes some features not supported by POP3.
■Associate a mailbox with the e-mail account.
■Identify a third party server as your outgoing SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) e-mail server.
The remaining sections in this chapter provide general information on configuring an e-mail account and how to work with e-mail messages forwarded from an IP Messaging mailbox to an associated e-mail account.
POP3 E-MailFollow these general steps to create an e-mail account in an application Applications that uses POP3 (ask your administrator for the specific information
required in your IP Messaging environment).
■Create an account in your e-mail application that points to an IP Messaging mailbox.
■Set the incoming mail server (POP3) to be the IP Messaging DNS domain name.
■Configure IP Messaging as your outgoing server (SMTP), or configure a third party server.
Once a message is downloaded to the e-mail account, it is marked reviewed in the IP Messaging mailbox. If you do not configure the e-mail account with a leave-message-on-server option (in Outlook Express, this is the Leave copy of message on server option), the message is also marked deleted and removed from the IP Messaging mailbox after the configured retention time.
Sending Messages
Your IP Messaging administrator must identify a third-party SMTP server to send, forward, or reply to e-mail messages. You can then configure this server in your e-mail application as the SMTP server.
Optionally, your administrator can identify IP Messaging as the SMTP server. However, this configuration limits the exchange of e-mail messages to IP Messaging subscribers; you cannot send or forward messages to external addresses, or reply to e-mail messages from external addresses.