Installing Sylpheed Email Client for Direct Exchange

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Overview:

An email client eases the sending of Direct messages and the viewing of incoming Direct messages, MDNs and failure notifications. The CONNECT team uses Sylpheed, a free lightweight email client, for implementation testing Below are Sylpheed setup instructions:

Email client Setup (Sylpheed):

1. Download and install Sylpheed for Windows.
2. Create an email account in the client to be able to send / receive emails.
3. Open Sylpheed → Configuration → Create New Account Edit → Select IMAP4  and click "Forward".
4. Give name on the account and a valid email address (ex: tester1@direct.connectopensource.org).

5. Basic → Server Information → Protocol -> IMAP4
   IMAP Server for Receiving -->  (external email server IP)
   SMTP Server (send) --> (external email server IP)
   User --> Email server login
   Password --> Email server password

6. Receive → Select "Get All" check box.

7. Send --> check Add user defined Header --> add
                  Header name => Disposition-Notification-Options
                  Value => X-DIRECT-FINAL-DESTINATION-DELIVERY: optional, true

8. SSL IMAP4--> Use SSL for IMAP4 connection
   SMTP--> User STARTLS command to start SSL session
   Check  "Use non blocking SSL"

9. Advanced --> SMTP Port --> <Open port for SMTP connections>
   IMAP4 Port --> <Open port for IMAP4 connections>

10. OK and REOPEN the client.