Configure E-Mail I: Which Connection

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Here you choose, which e-mail connection InstantCrypt is to use. There are three main choices: Your default e-mail program, your webmail and "Manual", which means you need to open the e-mail program manually and then transfer the content.

Here are the steps:

1. Open the configuration form

From Main Form: Tools | Configure E-Mail

A Form opens: Setting up a Connection to your E-Mail

2. Make your choice: check one of the radio buttons:

Your default e-mail program (should be named with its name)

Here you have the option to check or uncheck "Always use the Mail-to protocol"

Web mail
Manual

3. Test the chosen option

To test, check the option you prefer and click the "Test" button.

This will try to prepare a test e-mail and show you if the chosen option works.

3.1 Your Default E-Mail Client is checked

3.1.1 Unchecked: Always use the Mail-to protocol

Uses your installed e-mail program, such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc., to send program-generated e-mails.

If available, this uses Window's MAPI protocol. Many, but not all e-mail program's support MAPI, among them Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, WinMail, Mozilla Thunderbird, T-Online's eMail, and others.

What you should see:

Your e-mail program opened (you may have to log in first) with recipient, subject, mail message, and attachment.

If MAPI fails, the program automatically uses the Mail-to protocol: here you have to add the attachments manually. Almost all e-mail applications can work with Mail-to.

What you should see in this case:

A. Your e-mail program opened (you may have to log in first) with recipient, subject, mail message, but NO attachment.

B. A form showing the attachment (if there is any) that you need to attach to your e-mail.

3.1.2 Checked: "Always use the Mail-to protocol"

When you checked "Always use the Mail-to protocol" the program to always use the "Mail-To" protocol and not even try MAPI. You would do this if the program produces errors otherwise.

What you should see: same as above

3.2 "Web Mail" is checked

To use your web mail, such as Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Google Mail, etc. This setting will open your browser and prepare a form from which you can import everything into your web mail.

If you give the program the Internet address of you web mail, the program can open it automatically: Open your web mail manually once, then drag-drop or copy-paste the address from the browser into the form's "Landing Pad" field.

What you should see:

A. Your browser opened.

B. A form showing recipient, subject, mail message, and attachment that you need to import into your web mail.

3.3 "Manual" is checked

This will open a form with all the entries needed for an e-mail (recipient, subject, text, attachments) filled out. You have to open your mail and transfer (copy-paste, drag-drop, "attach") these items.

What you should see:

A form showing recipient, subject, mail message, and attachment.

4. Do all this automatically from now on

If checked, the program will in the future send your mail from the main from with these settings without showing you this form every time. (To change settings, you can access the settings any time from the menu of the main form of the program.)
If unchecked, the program will show you the configuration form when send an e-mail so you can change the settings.