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Although I love randomly-selected names, passwords, etc, as it turns out, this is a real e-mail address, and I feel like I should pick something less likely to cause somebody to receive spam.

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Adam Coddington 2012-07-18 21:25:26 -07:00
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@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Django Mailbox supports both common internet mailboxes like POP3 and IMAP as wel
.. table:: Protocol Options
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Mailbox Type 'Protocol' Notes
Mailbox Type 'Protocol':// Notes
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POP3 ``pop3://`` Can also specify SSL with ``pop3+ssl://``
IMAP ``imap://`` Can also specify SSL with ``imap+ssl://``
@ -34,13 +34,14 @@ Mailbox URIs are in the normal URI format::
protocol://username:password@domain
Basic IMAP Example: ``imap://username:password@server``
Basic POP3 Example: ``pop3://username:password@server``
Most mailboxes these days are SSL-enabled; if yours is, add ``+ssl`` to your URI. Also, if your username or password include any non-ascii characters, they should be URL-encoded (for example, if your username includes an ``@``, it should be changed to ``%40`` in your URI).
If you have an account named 'contemporanea@gmail.com' with a password of '1234' on GMail (which I happen to know uses the POP3 server of 'pop.gmail.com' and requires SSL), you would enter the following as your URI::
If you have an account named 'youremailaddress@gmail.com' with a password of '1234' on GMail (which I happen to know uses the POP3 server of 'pop.gmail.com' and requires SSL), you would enter the following as your URI::
pop3+ssl://contemporanea%40gmail.com:1234@pop.gmail.com
pop3+ssl://youremailaddress%40gmail.com:1234@pop.gmail.com
Local File-based Mailboxes
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