The SMTP Client tab allows you to control the way Top Dog acts when making SMTP connections.

Most users should never need to concern themselves with, or change the settings on this tab.

The SMTP client tab controls the way Top Dog connects to your remote server to send outgoing mail.
SMTP is the language that is used to send messages.

Your email reading program connects to Top Dog to send messages.
Top Dog in turn, connects to your remote server to send the message using the settings on this tab.

Client Active (Send outgoing mail)

This option turns the SMTP client on and off.
Unchecking this option will result in no mail being sent.

Send Mail at Startup.

If this option is set then Top Dog will attempt to send any pending mail as soon as it is started.

Time out after X Seconds Waiting For Response.

If the Top Dog client is waiting for a response from the server for longer than the value set here Top Dog will drop the connection.
Normally, if you are running the client and the server on the same machine this should not be a problem.

Retry failed messages every X minutes.

Use this option to set the frequency with which Top Dog will retry failed messages.
Messages may fail to be sent due to problems with your connection to the SMTP server.
This option is only relevant if Enable extended mail sending options option is turned on.
Otherwise Top Dog will do it's modifications on the fly and any errors will be reported directly to your email program.

Send failure warning after X failures.

If an email cannot be sent, Top Dog places a warning message in your mailbox notifying you of the failure and the reason for the failure.
Use this option to set the number of times an email should fail to be sent before a failure warning is issued.
This option is also only relevant if Enable extended mail sending options option is turned on.
Otherwise Top Dog will do it's modifications on the fly and any errors will be reported directly to your email program.

Permanently fail messages after X Failures.

After the number of retries set here Top Dog will bounce the email back to your inbox.
This option is also only relevant if Enable extended mail sending options option is turned on.
Otherwise Top Dog will do it's modifications on the fly and any errors will be reported directly to your email program.