Setting up Email Services
Advanced topics
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Select the
General
tab.
Sample Options screen, General tab
4
Select
Check for new messages every …. Minutes
.
Because you can always refresh your list of email by selecting
Send/Receive
, Toshiba
recommends that you increase the interval at which the clients check for mail to at least
60 minutes.
Direct email delivery
The Magnia SG20 is capable of delivering email directly to the target user. The
configurations described earlier in this chapter all have the Magnia SG20 direct mail to
another server (either the domain host’s email server or the ISP’s email server) for
relaying to the final recipient.
If you leave the SMTP server field blank, as shown in the example below, the Magnia
SG20 will attempt to deliver Internet email directly to the target user’s server, bypassing
ISP and other servers.
While this technique can be used in some cases to bypass intermediate servers, some
ISPs block SMTP delivery to any server but their own. If you attempt to use this
configuration and have difficulties, contact your ISP to see if it allows SMTP traffic to
other email servers.
Domain hosts and SMTP
Many domain-hosting services require some form of authentication before they will
accept SMTP connections. Three common methods are:
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Access through an ISP— if your domain is hosted by your ISP, you are authorized to
access the domain’s SMTP servers by accessing them through your ISP.