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The Server Tab allows you
to control the way Top Dog acts when receiving POP connections.
Most users should
never need to concern themselves with, or change the settings on this
tab.
The POP server tab controls
the POP service that Top Dog provides.
POP is the language that is used to retrieve messages.
Top Dog supplies a "mailbox"
which your email reading program uses to connect to and download messages.
The settings on this tab determine how this service is provided.
Allow connections to Top Dog
POP service by this machine only.
If this option is checked you
Top Dog will ignore any connection attempts from any machine but the one
it is running on.
This is a good security feature.
Unless you have Top Dog running on a different machine than your email
client you should leave this checked.
Allow any LocalHost connection
to this service regardless of userid or password.
This option is recommended
since you can safely assume that connections from the same machine that
Top Dog is running on are legitimate.
Return all mail when connecting
directly to LocalHost.
If this option is on then if
you connect directly to Localhost Top Dog will return all collected email.
Normally when intercepting connections Top Dog will return only the email
that came from the account currently being intercepted.
If this option is off then Top Dog will return only mail that was sent
directly to Top Dog using SMTP.
Active.
Check this box to activate
the POP server. This is necessary in order for your email client to get
mail.
The only reason you should normally deactivate the POP server is to change
the options below. E.g. Port number.
You must deactivate the POP server to change the options below.
Auto Select Port.
If this option is selected
Top Dog will automatically scan for a port that is not currently being
used.
If you plan to connect directly to Top Dog you will want to fix the port
so that you know what port you should be connecting to.
Top Dog will complain when started if there is another program using the
port you have chosen.
Listen to Port.
This option changes the port
that Top Dog listens on for POP traffic.
The usual port is 110.
It is recommended that you leave the port number set to 110 unless you
have some other POP service running that conflicts with this port number.
Maximum Incoming Connections.
This option sets the maximum
number of simultaneous connections that Top Dog will accept.
This should not normally be an issue.
Timeout After X Seconds.
If the Top Dog server is stuck
waiting for a response from the client 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.
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