Email Responder:  General Settings

Email Responder:  General Settings

To change Email Responder's General Settings, click the Settings toolbar button, or Tools, Settings.  The Settings window opens with the General tab visible.

Application Settings

• If you check Start Email Responder when Windows starts, the program automatically loads each time Microsoft Windows starts up.
• If On close minimize Email Responder to system tray, when the close button () is pressed or the keyboard shortcut Alt+F4 is used, instead of the program exiting, it minimizes.  Instead of a button in the Task Bar, Email Responder is represented by an icon in the System Tray ("System Display Area") at the bottom right of the screen.
  

Email Sorting Options

The Email Sorting Options control how mail is sorted in the Message List when you first login to Email Responder.  You can change the sort order at any time by simply clicking on the column titles.  You can sort using two columns.  For instance, the settings shown above would sort the list first by date and time, with the earliest dates at the top of the list and the latest dates at the bottom.  If two or more messages had identical date/time values, they would be in alphabetical order based on the From email address, with "a" addresses at the top and "z" at the bottom.

Refresh Mail Settings

If Retrieve changes from server every is checked, Email Resonder automatically updates its display to show both newly arrived mail, as well as changes made by other users such as assigning, replying to, or deleting mail.  You control the time between automatic updates using the n minutes control.  The shortest update interval is 5 minutes, the longest is 59.

Use Default

Pressing Use Default resets all General Settings back to the original settings after the program was installed.  It has no effect on settings from any other tab.