What POP3 authentication-methods does Beam support?
Beam currently supports standard POP3-authentication (cleartext passwords) and APOP (somewhat “encrypted”, but not really secure). If you ask Beam to check with the server and select a method, it will try APOP if the server indicates that it is supporting it. As this indication may be (and in fact sometimes is) incorrect, using APOP may fail. If that occurs to you, please try POP3, which should always work. • I have told Beam to fetch mails automatically every … minutes, but nothing happens. How come? This probably means that the ‘Automatically check for mails only if PPP is up’- prefs-setting is active and you are not using a dialup-connection to the internet (like when you are using DSL). If so, Beam avoids checking for mails since it believes you are not connected to the internet (no PPP-daemon is running). Otherwise, Beam would trigger dial-on-demand connections every xx minutes, working up your phone bill… Just deactivate the PPP-setting and things should work. • Sending mail
