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Adding and configuring Email Accounts is straight forward. To configure or add Email Accounts, open up the Accounts dialog for the Email client.


Screenshot above: The Accounts dialog of the Email Client.

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Opening the AccountsDialog

The Accounts dialog can be either opened clicking the Extras Menu's Email Accounts… menu item or the Account Settings link on the Introduction Panel of the Email Client.


Screenshot above: Opening the Accounts dialog using the Menu Bar's Extras menu.


Screenshot above: The Email Client's Introduction Panel with it's Account Settings Link.

Adding a new Email Account

To add a new Email Account, you need to open up the Email account assistant. You can do so by either clicking the New Account link from the Introduction Panel or by clicking the 'Add account…' button from the Accounts dialog.


Screenshot above: The Add account… button of the Accounts dialog.


Screenshot above: The Introduction Panel with it's New Account link.

Adding a new Email Account
  1. The Email account assistant will guide you through the steps necessary to add a new Email Account. By opening up, it will show the first of 6 cards. This card will introduce the assistant by explaining what information is necessary to add a new Email Account to conjoon. Click 'Next >' to skip to the next card after you have read through the introductionary text.


  2. In the second step, the assistant will ask you to provide your name and your email address representing this account. This data will appear in the From headers of an email message, so the recipient can identify you as the sender of the message. Click the button 'Next >' to skip to the next card after you have provided this data.


  3. The next card will present to you a form to specify the Inbox Server's data. The Inbox Server receives all email messages for you and provides functionality to download this messages with an email client. Please specify the address of the server and your username and password for authoring you to query the server for new messages. After you have done this, click the 'Next >' button to go to the next card.


  4. After configuring the Inbox Server, the assistant will present you a card to specify the Outbox Server. The Outbox Server is a server that is required to route email messages you are sending to the specified addresses. Specify the address or host name of the Outbox Server and check the option 'Server requires authentication' to enable the fields 'User name' and 'Password'. This is needed if the outbox server requires you to authorize with a valid username and password for sending messages. In most cases, these credentials equal to the credentials provided for the Inbox Server. Click 'Next >' once you have configured the Outbox Server.


  5. The last card of the assistant that provides configuration options will let you specify a name for the account that is used internally by conjoin to identify it. The name you provide must not already be existing. In most cases, it is a good idea to use the Email Address you have specified in the second card of the assistant as the Account Name. Click 'Next >' once you have specified a valid Account Name.


  6. The final card of the assistant sums up all the information it has gathered during the process. Check the data for typos. In case you have made a mistake and want to change a value, you can click the '< Previous' button to return to any previous card to specify the information again. Otherwise, click the 'Finish' button.


  7. Once you have clicked the 'Finish' button, teh assistant will store all the data gathered during the configuration process. The dialog will close afterwards.

Removing an Email Account

To remove an Email Account, select the corresponding item from the Account LIst by clicking on it. The Remove account button will now get enabled. Click this button to remove the selected account. A confirmation dialog will appear that asks if you really want to remove this account. Click OK to proceed, click Cancel to abort the operation.
If you click OK, the Email Account will be removed from the Account List. However, you have to apply the changes you have made by removing the selected account by clicking the OK or Apply button from the Accounts dialog's footer.

Clicking Apply will not close the dialog after the operation succeeded, however, clicking the OK button will close the dialog after all changes have been saved.

Setting an Account as Standard

To set an Email Account as the standard account to be used in conjoon, select an entry from the Accounts List by clicking on it.

To de-select an entry in the Accounts List, hold the Ctrl-key and click the corresponding entry you wish to de-select.

The 'Use as standard' button will get enabled. Click the button to mark the account represented by the currently selected entry in the Accounts List as the Standard Account. The entry's typo will change from normal to bold; furthermore, the corresponding entry in the list will be marked with a Star to indicate that this entry represents the Standard Email Account.

The Standard Account is used as

  • the default Email Account that is selected when opening the Email Editor and editing Email Messages
  • the default Email Account from which Email Messages are end when using the Quickpanel Widget's Email Editor

The very first Email Account you are adding to conjoin will be automatically set as the Standard Account.

Related Topics

Email Account Configuration Overview

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