Using POPFile with other proxies such as virus scanners
If you use an email scanning proxy that has changed your email setting like some versions of Norton Antivirus, then POPFile won't work straight off the bat: the email proxy will grab them instead. You need to configure POPFile to talk to the email scanner. (If your virus scanner didn't change your email POP3 server setting then there is no need to follow these instructions).
(So, basically, emails get downloaded by the scanner, passed to POPFile, and then - finally - passed to your email program.)
Now, since different brands of email scanners work differently, we'll work like this:
- Disable the email scanner and return your settings to normal.
- Tell POPFile to listen for connections on a different port.
- Tell your email program to connect to POPFile on a different port.
- Re-enable your email scanner with the new settings.
Disabling your e-mail scanner
Follow your manufacturer's instructions for this.
Change POPFile's port
Head to the Web Interface's Configuration tab, and change your POP3 Listen Port to any similar number - we recommend 123. Click Apply.
Change your email program's port
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Just choose your email program and follow the column down. While these instructions might look complicated, they actually only take about two minutes - and it's hard to go wrong. (Just in case, make a note of your original settings in case you need to go back.)
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Outlook
- Go to the Tools -> Email Accounts menu.
- Click on View or change existing e-mail accounts and then click Next.
- Select your account, then click on Change.
- Click on the More Settings button.
- Click on the Advanced tab.
- Beside Outgoing server (POP3), enter the same number as you chose earlier (we recommended 123).
- Click OK, and repeat the process for each of the accounts you want to use POPFile with.
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Outlook Express
- Go to the Tools -> Accounts menu.
- Select your account and click Properties.
- Click on the Advanced tab.
- Beside Incoming Mail (POP3), enter the same number as you chose earlier (we recommended 123).
- Click OK, and repeat the process for each of the accounts you want to use POPFile with.
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Eudora
- Eudora's port setting is in its hidden, 'esoteric' settings.
- Go to 'My Computer' and navigate to the directory that Eudora is installed in - it's usually C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Eudora
- Click on the 'extrastuff' folder.
- Select the 'esoteric.epi' file, and copy it using the Edit > Copy menu.
- Go back to the main Eudora folder, and paste it using Edit > Paste.
- Start Eudora.
- Go to the Tools -> Options menu.
- Scroll to the bottom of the list of option menus and choose 'Ports & Protocols'.
- Next to 'POP3', enter the same number as you chose earlier (we recommended 123).
- Click OK. You're done.
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Re-enable your email scanner.
Reactivate your scanner (consult your scanner's manual) and it should automatcally set everything up for you. Mail should now be scanned and sorted.
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