# Account management

You can choose different settings for each of your accounts in Operal Mail > Mail Accounts...Tools > Mail Accounts....

## General

- The account name is only used within Opera Mail, not in your messages.
- Do not set up an email account to use both POP and IMAP simultaneously as this is likely to cause problems. Use either POP or IMAP for each account.
- Use account categories to select between groups of accounts, for example, you can display just your three work accounts, or your two home accounts.
- Your name and email address appear in outgoing messages, for example Nice Person <someone@example.org>.
- Outgoing messages can indicate an organization you belong to (optional).
- Outgoing messages can indicate an alternate address people should send replies to (optional).
- You can send carbon-copies (Cc) or blind carbon-copies (Bcc) of all messages sent from the account to a particular email address (optional).

## Servers

Enter the email or news account information you received from your service provider, or contact them if you're missing information.

## Incoming

- Leaving messages on a server makes it possible to retrieve the messages again from another computer.
- If you read messages from multiple computers, they can be marked automatically if you have already downloaded (read) them from another computer.
- You can choose whether to download message bodies while checking messages or when reading each individual message.
- IMAP users can also choose whether or not to store local copies of downloaded message bodies.
- You can choose how often to check for new messages automatically and which accounts to include.
- You can decide which accounts to include when you check for new messages manually.
- You can have a sound played when you get new messages.

## Outgoing

- International users may need to specify a character set for their language.
- Enable format=flowed wrapping in messages, and wrap at 76 characters for legacy clients (those without format=flowed).
- Enable queueing to have messages sent in batches when you click the "Send" button (useful if you have a dial-up connection).
- When sending or replying to a message, you can have all recipients automatically added to your contact list.
- Specify a signature that will appear at the bottom of all messages you send.

## Low-bandwidth mode

Low-bandwidth mode is a setting on mail accounts that uses as little bandwidth as possible. For POP, this means that Opera Mail does not fetch more than the first 100 lines of a message unless requested. For IMAP, Opera Mail only synchronizes new messages and does not fetch attachments unless requested. This mode is not advised if you set a POP account to delete message after X days, as messages that are not completely downloaded will be removed from the server and you will not be able to retrieve the complete message.