The Mail Express acts like a build-in SMTP server.
This way you can send mail without a real SMTP server.
You have to enter a DNS address.
Tools > Options > Mail Express
The easiest way to find your DNS is to use The Foxmail Auto DNS. You can download it at:
I want to use FoxMail on a USB or other removable device... how to do that?
Foxmail uses the absolute path ONLY for accounts(mailboxes) located in the folder selected by the user... If you create your accounts in the default location (\mail), Foxmail could be used from any logical drive (like on USB drives wich can have different drive letters allocated in each different computer) without any problems arising while doing so.
How do I set up existing eMail accounts for broadband use?
When you switch from Dial Up Networking to broadband (Cable or xDSL), you may want all your eMail accounts to take advantage of the new high-speed connection. To do so, please follow the procedure below for every eMail account that needs to be accessed through your broadband connection:
1. Right click on the account's name (the one with the orange peg in front of it)
2. Select properties
3. Go down the list to "Network"
4. Check "Use account specific network settings"
5. Check "Use LAN or leased line"
6. Close the screen by clicking the [OK] button.
After you changed all accounts to broadband:
7. To write the settings to the settings file: Close FM
Now you can restart FM, and your Yahoo account (or any others you changed) should use your broadband connection.
I have created a lot of mailboxes, but I now want to be able to change the order in which they appear. Is that possible?
With FoxMail alone? No, unfortunately not, although this wish/suggestion is known to the FM developers. Thankfully one of the members of these forums (Wizard) has written a handy tool to do just that. It is called " FoxMFolder Rearrangement (FMFR), for the download locations, please refer go to:
Hey, FM is a great program, but... I would want to see a possibility to break the lines at a certain position, to change the default dictionary... do you know a way to do so?
Uhm... as a matter of fact: Yes, we do! But not from within FoxMail itself... A briljant programmer has written a program with the very fitting name "FoxTool" (also referenced to as "The FoxMail Swiss Army Knife"), which can do just that, and... much more.
For more information about the program, and the download locations, please refer to the FoxTool Support Forum at:
FoxMail shows the date alsways in YYYY-MM-DD format, can that be changed?
Yes, thanks to the administrator/webmaster of the French FoxMail site, Ra-Mon, this is possible!
Go to our FoxMail Downloads, and download the appropriate date patcher from the "FoxMail Add-ons" menu.
Unzip the program to the FoxMail program directory, make sure that FoxMail is not running, then run the patcher, you need to point it to the foxmail.exe program, then execute the patch.
After this start FoxMail, open a new message and go to the bottom, you should see the date there in the right format!
I want to get rid of Microsoft's Internet Explorer; but will FoxMail cooperate with my new browser?
In matters of passing the link to the other browser so you can open the page? Yes! But...
However, FoxMail does use a part of MSIE to render HTML messages (when viewed as HTML, of course), and to edit (compose) your own HTML messages. So, complete removing MSIE from your system will most definitely turn the HTML capabilities of FoxMail off!.
A suggestion would be to delete just the MSIE exe files, and leave the rest installed, make your new browser the default browser, and... off you go!
Yes, You can. Right-click the template's name in the Template Manager and select "Set Default" or go to "Account properties" >> "Templates" to setup the default one.
I only have 50 messages left in my account's mailbox; however the mailbox still is as large as before... how come?
Simple: FoxMail won't return the space to your system when you delete messages; if it would do so... recovering deleted messages would be impossible!
In order to reclaim the wasted space, you will have to "Compress" your mailbox (each and every of them) once in a while.
To do so, right-click on the mailbox, and select either "Compress" from the menu, and click [Yes] on the confirmation screen; or select "Properties" from the menu to see the wasted space (if any), and to compress the mailbox from there. (No confirmation screen!)
Note: After compressing, you [u]cannot[/u] recover any deleted messages from that mailbox!!!
In relation to the previous question about 'Read Receipts': Does FoxMail acknowledge requests for 'read receipts' sent by other eMail clients?
Yes, it does! However, check whether the option is set to "Notify" on each read receipt, this is necessary since requesting a read receipt is a well known trick used by spammers to validate an eMail address!
To do so, go to: "Tools" >>> "Options"; now select the Receipts tab at the top of the dialog screen, and select the radio buttion in front of "Notify me for each read receipt request".
BTW: We do not honor read receipt requests, but you will hear from us to let you know that we received your message, in one way or another!
The is no "Draft" folder. Drafts are stored in the "Outbox" with a special flag to separate them from mail that was written off-line and then moved to the "Outbox" queue.
To send a draft after it is finished, or at the proper time, simply open it and click on the [Send] button.
BTW: There are two ways to save a draft as such:
By clicking on the button with the floppy, the message will be closed (as explained above, it it still present in the "Outbox")
By pressing [Ctrl] and [S] on the keyboard, the message is saved (in the status bar it will say 'Save OK'), but the message will remain open!
Can I change the font size for Message List, Preview Pane, and Message?
Yes, actually you can, but the settings are in three different places:
A. Changing the Message List font/Font size:
Right-click on the account's name (this is a "per account" setting), this is the one with the "orange peg" in front of it; it can be found in the accounts list, at the top left-hand side of the FoxMail main screen.
Select "Properties"
Go to the "Font+View" icon, left-click on it.
On the right-hand side, change the font and/or the font size
Close the "Properties" window by clicking the {OK} button. Now this one is done!
Note: We had to use the "+" instead of the ampersand, the FAQ software insisted on putting a word in the place where the symbol should have been...
B. Changing the font/font size for the preview window
Right-click in the preview pane
Select "Editor properties"
Set the font and/or font size
Close the settings window by clicking the {OK} button. Another one done!
C. Setting font, or font size, for messages:
Open a message
Go to "View" in the menu bar
Select "Editor Properties" from the menu
Set the font and/or font size
Close the "Editor Properties" window by clicking on the {OK} button
I have problems reading the text, hyperlinks in plain text mode... can I change the font, font size, URL-color or background?
The good news is: You can change them all!!! The bad news however is... you'll have to do it for every account in FoxMail separately...
Note: In the following I assume that you have FoxMail running in the default lay-out.
A. The preview window
Be sure you are at the FoxMail Main Screen.
Select a message from the message list.
In the preview window, right-click in the message preview.
From the context menu that will appear select "Editor properties".
You will see four colored bars, click on the gray one (Background color)
Change it in for instance white by selecting white from the color palette.
If you like the setting the sample window shows you, then click on the {OK} button to close this properties window.
You may also change the font, font size, URL color, and even the default font color here which FM will use to display the message in the preview window.
B. Fully opened message
Now double click on the selected message, you will notice that the background again is dark gray. You can change this by:
In the fully opened message, right-click in the message's body text (the actual message).
From the context menu that will appear select "Editor properties".
You will see four colored bars, click on the gray one (Background color)
Change it in for instance white by selecting white from the color palette.
If you like the setting the sample window shows you, then click on the {OK} button to close this properties window.
How can I change the default ports that FoxMail uses to retrieve and send eMail?
When your ISP/MSP uses a different port, other than the usual ports 110 and 25, you can change these default ports in FoxMail on a "per account" basis. To do so, follow the steps below:
Right-click your account's name in the tree view.
Select "Properties" from the context menu.
Select "Mail Server" on the new window.
Click on the [Advanced] button, and make the necessary changes to the port numbers.
Click on [OK] and return to the FM Main Screen.
Test the connection, if it works, shut FM down and restart it if necessary.
That is all there is to be done to change FM's default ports into the specific ones in use by your ISP or MSP.
Note: The above is usually necessary when mail is to be sent through a server that requires authentication, if this is the case, don't forget to check the checkbox "Server requires authentication"!!!
What is the "Access Password" in the account's context menu???
This option will put a password on the account, you will have to provide this password every time you open this account, or press {F4} to collect the mail on all your accounts. Use this option only if want to hide mail from others using the same computer!
If you accidentally entered a password here, please refer to the "Problem Solving" section of this FAQ.
How can I set FoxMail to use "plain text" instead of HTML?
The procedure is one that is done "per account", meaning that if you have three accounts, you'll have to do it three times, for each account individually!
Open the account's properties by right clicking on the account's name in the account tree view.
Select "Properties" from the context menu.
Scroll down the list untill you see "Templates", select this option by clicking on it. (Or type {T} to jump to it immediately.)
Next, the right-hand part of the screen will be changed into one with three tabs (New, Reply, Forward), select the tab of which the type of template to be used you are about to change.
Set the "%%%%% message format" to "Text", where %%%%% is the type of message (New, Reply, Forward)
When done, click on {OK}, then close FM (to save the changes to the accounts file). Repeat this procedure for every account
1. Open FoxMail,
2. Click on the first account to be moved in the accounts list.
3. Note the [Up]/[Down]-buttons below the list.
4. Use these buttons to move the account to the desired location.
Note: The [Up]/[Down]-buttons may not be available at certain points, the [Down]-button won't be available when you have selected an account at the bottom of the list, just as the [Up]-button won't be available when you are on the top-most account.
