StarsPath.com Guide to IncrediMail How to get the most out of your StarsPath email account! The ad: Ever seen email like in the movies? Get IncrediMail and experience email for the first time. The Scoop: IncrediMail, is a fun email program that checks and sends entertainment style emails. It is an outside email program interface which sends and receives your email instead of logging in on the website to do this. Whats really good about this? You can download all your email at once, then read it much faster because you dont have to wait for each mail to download seperately. Then you can tell it to check back every so often, while you do other stuff on the computer etc. This is especially nice if you have a high speed connection, always connected to the internet. IncrediMail is not an email service, but an email program to access your email service. It requires Pop3 and Smpt, which means you will need to upgrade to StarsPath Mail Plus first if you are a free StarsPath email member and want to use your StarsPath Email account with this software. Mail Plus members are set to go! You have to download and install the IncrediMail software (above link). Also it requires your internet connection be on. It does not provide one. Read more about the program here, then see the demo above. It also requires some manual setting up at first(see below). The auto setup feature did not work for us. How it worked & Features: When sending animation, audio and background to an AOL member the audio was the only thing that did not work correctly. To see the images the receiver first had to click to allow AOL email to show images. When sent to a web based email account the background did not show up. The email sent fine to other Incredimail users. There are Special effects when sending or deleteing mail. Cool, selectable characters or items called notifiers inform you on your computer when you have new mail if the program is running and you are connected to the internet. IncrediMail, downloads all your email from your email service on startup and at adjustable intervals. It will let you leave a copy of your emails on your original internet account if you set that option. This is Not suggested because you may go through your email space quota if you let it sit long enough. Occasionally an email will pause the download. In those instances you should stop the download and try again. If it does not work at that point, you must go log on to the website and check and delete your emails there. *Be warned once the email is downloaded to IncrediMail, and if you did not set the program to leave a email copy on the original service, you can not put emails back on your internet account for access. They will only be on the computer that has the IncrediMail Installed. There is a free version, and a pay version with No Ads(like the tiny one, that says IncrediMail sent at the bottom of every email) and more features like skins. General IncrediMail Tips: You want to make sure you set up a password to log on to Incredimail.(we strongly suggest keeping the same one as your starspath account to avoid confusion and prevent your forgetting the incredimail password) {To do this open IncrediMail click Properties and click manage identities, select your identity, and then click properties. Whatever you choose will be your password for the program.} Also be sure to right click on and then left click exit the Incredimail icon (envelope)on the lower right taskbar when you close Incredimail, or your mail will remain available to others when you are away, who might click on it. IncrediMail Quick Setup Guide: If you do not have StarsPath Mail Plus, Log in to your account, click options and get it. Once you have Mail Plus, Download and install IncrediMail to your computer. After install: Fill out the initial information and agreement screens- then Select Let me configure my settings myself. Click Next. Top: Enter the name or nickname you want sent out visible when you send emails. Below: Enter your mail plus starspath email address. Example: yourmembername@StarsPath.com Click next. Then enter the Incoming Mail server and Outgoing Mail Server inforamtion. You can find this information By logging in to your starspath email account then, click on options and look for link that says: Check Email With Outlook or Other Software. You will find the information you need to enter in these two fields there. Instructions should also be listed on the first page under service updates after initial log on, when you first upgrade. Click next. Enter your membername, without the @Starspath.com. Ex: yourmembername Then enter your StarsPath email password and click finish. Then click tools, accounts, be sure your email is highlighted then click properties. Click server, then check the box My server requires authentication. Now click the advanced tab. In Outgoing mail (SMTP) field add 2525 click ok then close. You are now ready to use your IncrediMail with your StarsPath member account. *NOTE: If you can not receive emails go to the advanced tab again and set Incoming mail (POP3) to 110. Click ok. If you want to leave a copy of your email on the server. Click tools, accounts, properties, Advanced. Under delivery set the settings you want. Click the ? there for more info on these settings. Now Have Fun! Click here to Return to the previous Page or click the back button on your browser.