Mail.ru The Bat setup
Surely each of us knows the domestic mail service mail.ru. But not everyone knows that it can be managed not only through the official website.
There are also a number of mail programs that serve to conveniently manage your mailboxes on different domains. Today we will analyze the settings of Mail.RU for the most popular for almost two decades The Bat programs. There are two types of The Bat settings for Mail.Ru: via the IMAP protocol and via the POP3 protocol. We'll look at both, starting with IMAP.
Let's go into The Bat! itself. In the "Mailbox" menu, select "New mailbox".
The name of the box is entirely your imagination. Click "Next".
Here is a more specific page where you need to enter “Your full name”, which will be displayed in the “From:” field in sent messages, as well as “E-mail address”, where you enter your address for which we are setting up the program, and , if necessary, fill in the "Organization" field. Click Next.
Now the page is even more stuffed with settings! Here we enter everything exactly as in the instructions:
- To access the server, use the IMAP protocol;
- Server for receiving mail - imap.mail.ru;
- The SMTP server address is smtp.mail.ru.
Plus, the “My SMTP server requires authentication” option also needs to be checked and clicked “Next”.
In the "User" field of the next window, enter your mailbox, including your login, the "@" sign and the mail.ru domain. In the "Password" field - the password for the mailbox.
After clicking the "Next" button, we answer the question "Do you want to check the remaining properties of the mailbox?" positive, and click “Done”. In the new menu, select the "Transport" item, and in the "Connection" items for both sending and receiving, select "Secure to a special port (TLS)". This is necessary to ensure maximum security through encryption. You also need to check that the SMTP (Sending Mail) port is 465 and the IMAP4 (Receiving Mail) port is 993.
We don’t leave this menu anywhere, but click “Authentication...” next to the “SMTP server” field. Check the box next to "SMTP Authentication (RFC-2554)" and select "Use mail receiving settings (POP3/IMAP)". Click "OK".
On the newly created account, you next need to right-click and click “Update folder tree” so that the list of folders is similar to the list of folders in the mailbox.
We return to this context menu again. Now you need to configure the place where letters sent using the program and other letters from system folders will be saved. Click "Mailbox Properties...".
We look for “Mail Management” on the right and check the boxes next to “Sent” and “Trash”. In the field on the right, select items identical in name.
The "Mail Management" section has a "Delete" subsection. We go into it and check the boxes next to “Move to the specified folder”, select the “Trash” folder using the “Browse” button. Remove the checkbox from “Use alternative deletion for old emails” and check the “Mark deleted emails as read” checkbox.
This completes the IMAP setup. Now let's look at setting up POP3.
In the same way - “Box” - “New mailbox...”.
Select any mailbox name in the “Box name” field and click “Next”.
Identical to the previous settings, put the sender’s name in “Your full name”, and the address of the mailbox being configured in “E-mail address”. Click "Next".
A menu opens where you need to select the following items:
- To access the server, use the protocol - POP3;
- Server for receiving mail - pop.mail.ru;
- The SMTP server address is smtp.mail.ru.
Check the box next to “My SMTP server requires authentication.”
Immediately check the “Leave emails on the server” checkbox in the next window, and in the “User” and “Password” fields - your email login and password. The login, I remind you, should consist of the name, the “dog” icon and the mail.ru domain.
We'll enable encryption here too. We answer the question “Do you want to check the remaining properties of the mailbox?” in the next window, click “Yes” and click “Finish” to go to properties.
In the "Transport" section, place in the "Connections" items "Secure on a special port (TLS)", check the ports: POP3 server - 995, SMTP server - 465. Opposite "SMTP server" click "Authentication..." , check the box next to "SMTP Authentication...", check the box "Use mail receiving settings (POP3/IMAP)". Click “OK” everywhere - mail via the POP3 protocol is configured.
