A proxy server is a middle person between your email program and the mail server that you download your messages from. Instead of talking to the mail server directly, your email client talks to POPFile, which fetches the messages from the mail server and then passes them on to your email client.
This way, all mail goes through POPFile and is filtered before it reaches your email program.
To make your email program work with POPFile, you have to configure it to talk to POPFile instead of to your incoming mail server directly.
To configure your email program for POPFile:
- Change the incoming POP server to "127.0.0.1".
- Make sure you remember the original value (like "pop.isp.net"), we'll need it in an instant.
- Change the user name for downloading mail to {original POP server name}:{user name}.
- This way, POPFile gets to know both which server it needs to talk to and which user name to use.
- If your user name is "bob", for example, and the original mail server name is "pop.isp.net", your new user name is "pop.isp.net:bob".
- To access an account that requires an SSL connection (such as Gmail), use "{original POP server name}:995:{user name}:SSL" ("pop.isp.net:995:bob:SSL").
- The password can be left in place.
If you also use a virus scanner or other POP proxy, you may have to change the POP port used by POPFile and your email client.
