The Receiving Tab contains controls that determine how incoming messages are processed when they are received by Top Dog before being downloaded by your email reading program for you to read.

Information Added to email Body:

There are four options you can choose from which determine what sort of information is added to the body of your incoming email.
Note: This information is removed by Top Dog from your email when you reply to a message according to the settings on the Sending Tab.

Summary Report
If this option is chosen Top Dog will add a Summary Report directly into the body of your incoming email.

Information Detail Level.

This box contains a slider bar that determines the level of detail of the information on the email contents that gets inserted into the body of your incoming messages.
If you do not want any information added to your incoming messages then simply slide the slider to the far left or choose the none option below.
Normally, people leave the slider in the middle somewhere.

Buttons

Button Types

This option determines the type of buttons you want added to the body of your incoming email.
Note: Hovering over the buttons will bring up a hint, and update the status area at the bottom of your window with an explanation of their function.

• Full Buttons
  This option creates a report like this:
  
  Pressing the first button shows the summary report, pressing on the rest of the buttons categorize the message.
  The meaning of the buttons are:
  
  • Personal
  • Spam
  • Bulk mail
  • Virus
  • Hoax
  • Joke
  • Urban Legend
  • Chain Letter
  • Petition
  
  
  
• Basic Buttons Only
  This option creates a report like this:
  
  • Pressing the first button shows the summary report.
  • Pressing on the second button categorizes the email as personal.
    The sender will be automatically whitelisted and Top Dog's Neural Network will be trained to recognize similar emails as personal in the future.
  • Pressing on the third button categorizes the email as Spam.
    The sender will be automatically blacklisted and Top Dog's Neural Network will be trained to recognize similar emails as spam in the future.
    

Links Only

If this option is chosen Top Dog creates a report that looks like this:

None

If this option is chosen Top Dog will not add any information to incoming email.

Information Location

This option determines where in the body of the email the summary report is inserted.

• Automatic
  The summary report will appear at the top of the email body if the danger level associated with the email as a whole is high.
  Otherwise the summary report will be inserted at the bottom of the bottom of the email body.
• Always Top
  The summary report will appear at the top of the email body regardless of the danger level associated with the email as a whole.
• Always Bottom
  The summary report will appear at the bottom of the email body regardless of the danger level associated with the email as a whole.

Other Receiving Options

Prompt for Confirmation When Categorizing email.

If this option is chosen Top Dog will give you a chance to confirm the category you have chosen, as well as the actions Top Dog will take based on the category you choose.

Ensure both a Plain Text and an HTML version of the email.

If this option is chosen then Top Dog will add a plain text or HTML version of the message body if one or the other is missing.
email is usually sent with both versions. It is up to your email reader which version will be displayed.
This option is recommended because it makes the Top Dog reports much more readable.

Delete report if unread for X days.

This option sets the number of days that Top Dog will keep the reports it generates.

Delete messages from Doghouse after X days.

This option sets the number of days that messages sit in Doghouse before they are deleted.
To avoid messages building up over time, Top Dog will automatically delete emails left in Purgatory longer than the time specified here.
If you do not want Top Dog to delete messages from Purgatory, simply set the time limit to a very large number.

Keep backups of unmodified retrieved messages for X Days

This option sets the number of days that Top Dog keeps backups of your incoming messages.
These backups are of the email before Top Dog modifies it in any way.
They are accessible through a link at the top of both Top Dog's summary report and it's full report on the email.
Backups are stored in raw format as .EML files.
They are located in your backups directory. If you have installed Top Dog in it's default location the path is:
C:\Program Files\Top Dog\Users\SingleUser\Messages\Backups\

Add information regarding attached files.

This option will add information about any file that is sent as an attachment to a message that you receive.
This information includes the type of file, as well as the risk associated with opening a file of that type. For example: If you were to receive a file with a .txt extension, Top Dog would tell you that it is a plain text file and is safe to open. If on the other hand you were to receive a file with a .shs extension Top Dog would tell you that it is a Shell scrap file, and that it is very dangerous to open. Note: As a point of interest, Windows hides the extension of some types of files such as Shell scrap files even when "show all file extensions" is turned on. Try naming a file "readme.txt.shs" and you will most likely see the file as "readme.txt"!

You can click on the File Extensions... button to look up a file extension, or to view or edit the list of 7000+ file extensions and their meanings.