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♦ pop3_password This is used to retrieve mail. It corresponds to the
password field in the SMTP/POP3 login dialog. If all of these five fields
are set, the login dialog is not displayed.
♦ Debug When set to YES, displays all SMTP and POP3 commands and
responses. This is useful for troubleshooting SMTP/POP support
problems. Default is NO.
Sharing SMTP/POP addresses
The database should have its own e-mail account for SQL Remote messages,
separate from personal e-mail messages intended for reading. This is
because many e-mail readers will collect e-mail in the following manner:
1. Connect to the POP Host and download all messages.
2. Delete all messages from POP Host
3. Disconnect from POP Host.
4. Read mail from the local file or from memory
This causes a problem, as the e-mail program downloads and deletes all of
the SQL Remote e-mail messages as well as personal messages. If you are
certain that your e-mail program will not delete unread messages from the
POP Host then you may share an e-mail address with the database as long as
you take care not to delete or alter the database messages.
These messages are easy to recognize, as they are filled with lines of
seemingly random text.
The MAPI message system
The Message Application Programming Interface (MAPI) is used in several
popular e-mail systems, such as Microsoft Mail and later versions of Lotus
cc:Mail.
☞ For a list of operating systems for which MAPI is supported, see
“Supported operating systems” on page 447.
MAPI addresses and
user IDs
To use SQL Remote and a MAPI message system, each database
participating in the setup requires a MAPI user ID and address. These are
distinct identifiers: the MAPI address is the destination of each message, and
the MAPI user ID is the name entered by a user when they connect to their
mail box.
MAPI message and the
e-mail inbox
Although SQL Remote messages may arrive in the same mailbox as e-mail
intended for reading, they do not in general show up in your e-mail inbox.
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