The Advanced tab contains options that most people will never need to change. You may not be “most people,” however, so I explain these settings here. Note that the options available on this tab differ slightly for POP and IMAP accounts, as shown in Figures 27-11 and 27-12, respectively.

FIGURE 27-11
The Advanced tab for POP accounts tab in the Internet E-Mail Settings dialog box.

FIGURE 27-12
The Advanced tab for IMAP accounts in the Internet E-Mail Settings dialog box.

The advanced settings that are common to both POP and IMAP accounts are the following:

• Server Port Numbers, Incoming server: The default values are 110 for POP servers and 143 for IMAP servers. It’s rare for a server to be set up on different ports, but if yours is, you can enter the correct port numbers here.
• Server Port Numbers, Outgoing Server: Regardless of whether your incoming server is POP or IMAP, your outgoing server is SMTP and the default port number is 25. Do not change this unless you know that your outgoing mail server uses a different port—a rare occurrence.
• This Server Requires an Encrypted Connection (SSL): Turn this option on for the incoming or outgoing mail server, or both, if required.
• Server Timeouts: This is the amount of time that Outlook will wait for the mail server to respond when retrieving or sending e-mail. The default setting of 1 minute works fine in most cases. If you find Outlook timing out, it probably means that you are working over a slow connection or that your server is often busy. Try a longer timeout setting to resolve this problem.

If you are working with a POP account, you have several settings available that control how Outlook handles messages on the server:

• Leave a Copy of Messages on the Server: By default, messages that you have received are removed from the server as soon as they are downloaded to Outlook. Turn this option on if you want Outlook to leave the messages on the server after download. This can be useful if you want to later retrieve your messages from another computer.
• Remove from Server after . . . Days: Specifies how long messages are to be retained on the server after they have been downloaded.
• Remove from Server when Deleted from “Deleted Items”: A message is retained on the server until you permanently delete it in Outlook.

If you are working with an IMAP account, there is one unique option, Root Folder Path, that specifies the root folder of the mailbox. Normally you leave this blank and Outlook uses the default root folder on the server. If you need to specify a different root folder, enter it here.

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