Top Dog automatically detects all your incoming and outgoing mail accounts.

You should not need to manually create any accounts in Top Dog.
These are automatically created and updated by Top Dog.

There are four types of accounts in Top Dog:

• One or more POP Accounts
• One or more Webmail Accounts
• An SMTP Account
• A Localhost Account

Normally Top Dog simply intercepts your email communications much like Norton Anti-virus or similar programs do.
There is no need to set up accounts, all mail is simply processed in the background.

However, in Power User mode you can choose to connect to Top Dog directly as opposed to having Top Dog intercept connections to your accounts.
You may choose to do this so that you can connect to Top Dog via another computer.
If you choose this route then you must manually tell Top Dog what accounts you would like it to check and what account you would like it to use to send outgoing email.

The Localhost Account is the user name and password used to connect to Top Dog directly.
Normally this is identical to your SMTP and POP account information but it doesn't have to be.
It does however, have to be identical to the settings in your email reading program.

The SMTP Account is the account used to send mail.
Normally this is identical to your POP account information but it doesn't have to be.

The POP Accounts are the accounts used to retrieve mail.
Sometimes these are referred to as "mail boxes".
Top Dog allows you to add any number of POP accounts.

The Webmail accounts are used by Top Dog to access web based mailboxes like Hotmail and msn mail.