Account and Options¶

This page documents the Options dialog — where you configure your account, composition defaults, connection behaviour, and your signature. Open it from Tools ▸ Options (Ctrl+O) or the toolbar button.

The dialog is organised into tabs along the top: Account, General, and Signature. OK at the bottom saves and closes; Cancel discards your edits. Closing the window another way asks whether to save or discard.

First run

On first launch the welcome screen takes your account. This dialog is where you change it afterwards, and where the server's message appears when it rejects your details.

Account¶

The Account tab holds the app-wide connection settings and your account's details.

The Account tab

Setting	Purpose
Interface Language	The language used throughout the app's interface — English or Türkçe.
Connection Type	How the app reaches the server.

Connection Type offers:

Type	Meaning
Internet	A normal Internet connection. This is the usual choice.
Internet (Ping before connect)	The same, but the server is pinged first — useful on links that need waking up.

Beneath these, the Account Information sub-tab carries:

Field	Meaning
Account Name	The label shown for this account.
Email Addr.	The account's e-mail address.
Password	The account password.

Saving checks your entries: the address must be a well-formed e-mail address, a real account must carry a password, and a server-side error message appears under the fields when the server rejects the account.

Changing your e-mail address resets the mailbox

Editing Email Addr. once an address is already saved asks you to confirm: Changing the user name will cause a mailbox state reset applied during an immediate restart. Continue? Declining restores the old address and leaves the dialog open. Filling an address in for the first time saves straight away.

General¶

The General tab

Composition¶

Option	Effect
Enable Rich Format (HTML) in Email Body	Compose in HTML by default rather than plain text.
Quote Message in Reply	Include the original message text when you reply.

Connection¶

Option	Effect
Automatically download attachments from everyone	Fetch attachments as soon as mail arrives, without prompting. On by default; turn it off to fetch them on demand. Use List Senders to manage per-sender exceptions (see below).
Show notification when a new message arrives	Raise a desktop notification on new mail.
Try to establish connection on startup	Connect automatically each launch.
Reconnect automatically on disconnection in:	Retry the connection after the given delay when it drops.
Allow P2P Connections	Permit peer-to-peer connections. Learn More explains the trade-offs.
Fragment messages bigger than:	Split outgoing messages larger than the given size.
Always send read receipts to everyone	Send read receipts without prompting. Use List Recipients for per-recipient rules (see below).
Metered connection	Reduce background data use on a metered link.
Show Junk mail in original folders as well	Also show junk-filtered messages in the folder they would normally land in.
Enable CEF Remote Debugging	Serve the developer tools of the app's built-in browser on port 50134 of this computer, for Chromium's `chrome://inspect` and other DevTools clients. Off by default; takes effect after a restart.

Connection options your server offers

Try to establish connection on startup and Reconnect automatically are offered at your server's discretion: it tells the app which of the two it supports, and the dialog shows them to match. Both are offered by default.

Junk visibility takes effect on the next launch

Changing Show Junk mail in original folders as well needs a restart. The app offers to restart right away; decline and the new setting applies the next time you start it.

Compatibility¶

These let other mail programs (a standard POP3/SMTP client) talk to the app locally:

Option	Effect
Enable POP3 server	Serve your mail over POP3. Choose Local or Public reach.
Enable SMTP server	Accept outgoing mail over SMTP. Choose Local or Public reach.
Alternate Password	Set a separate password for these local servers.

What the POP3 and SMTP servers expose

These bridges are intentionally narrow:

POP3 serves the Inbox. A connecting client sees the messages in your Inbox, and that is the whole of its view.
SMTP accepts your own account as the envelope sender. The MAIL FROM address must be the account's own e-mail address; the bridge rejects any other sender.

Both local servers are unencrypted

The POP3 and SMTP bridges are plain, insecure variants running without SSL/TLS. Your alternate password and the full contents of every message travel in cleartext. Keep these servers on Local reach, over a machine or network you trust; Public exposes that cleartext traffic to everyone on the network.

The local SMTP server rewrites your message

A message submitted over SMTP is parsed into Sobamail's internal format, stored and compressed in that form, and regenerated server-side for SMTP delivery. The resulting MIME document therefore differs byte-for-byte from what you submitted. Anything keyed to the exact original bytes — notably end-to-end cryptographic signatures such as S/MIME or PGP/MIME — is broken by the round trip. Use the Sobamail SMTP servers directly if you need your MIME delivered unaltered.

Remote debugging opens every page the app shows

While Enable CEF Remote Debugging is on, any program running on this computer, under any user account, can connect to port 50134 and read and control every page the built-in browser shows: the messages in the reader pane and every app. Turn it on while you develop an app, and off again when you are done.

Signature¶

Text entered here is appended to every message you send.

The Signature tab

A Preamble group adds an optional lead-in:

Field	Meaning
Use signature preamble	Turn the preamble on.
(preamble text)	The text placed before the signature (commonly a separator line).
Num. leading lines	How many blank lines to insert ahead of the signature.

Two options open a small companion dialog:

Opened from	Dialog	What it manages
List Senders	Download attachments from…	Addresses and domains whose attachments download automatically. Entries can be removed here.
List Recipients	Always send read receipts to…	Addresses to which read receipts are always sent. Add, edit, or remove entries.

Both fill up on their own as you answer the prompts in the reader pane — this is where you review and undo those answers.

Some changes need a reconnect or restart

Account changes take effect after OK and a reconnect, which the app performs for you. Junk visibility, CEF remote debugging and a changed user name need a restart, and say so at the time.

Icon reference¶

Function	Icon
Options