EF Mailbox Manager 2.50 - User Guide and FAQ

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Main Window

The EF Mailbox Manager has an intuitive two pane interface arranged horizontally and of course the usual components such as a toolbar and a status bar.

The upper window, the Account list, displays the status of configured and active accounts. Additional information is displayed concerning number and size of messages in the mailbox, number and size of downloaded messages, time of actualization as well as status and any error messages.

In both lists each column can be sorted just as you like. Position and width of columns may be changed with the mouse. You may also set sorting criteria for information displayed by clicking the head of a relevant column with the mouse. An arrow symbol marks the column which is being sorted. The arrow also indicates the sorting sequence (ascending or descending).

Each list has a specific context menu by which you can quickly get to and execute the most important operations.

In both lists the output of information is designed in a way that information already available is displayed immediately even though further information is yet being loaded. When checking for new messages the account and size columns will be updated first, then information concerning addresses of sender and recipient, reference of the message and date of creation will follow.

Ping

Checks network connection with one or several remote hosts.



Ping works the following way:

• Network connections with one or more remote computers are examined as ICMP packages are send to the host and echo answer-packages are expected as a reply.
• There is a one second waiting time after sending each package.
• The number of received and transferred packages is displayed.
• Each received package is compared with the transferred message. According to standard, echo packages with 32 byte data each (a sequence of capital letters), are transferred.

With Ping you are able to check the name of a computer and its IP address. If the IP address is confirmed, but not the name of the computer, than there may be a DNS (Domain Name System) problem. If this is the case you should check whether the queried hostname is set in the local host file or in the DNS data base.



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