E-Mails

OpenGoo can act as an web mail client for its users. You can send and receive e-mails by any POP3 mail account you have.

PLEASE NOTE: There are lots of mail-related features we would like to include and enhance in OpenGoo (such as IMAP, SSL, more compatibility, more functionality). We are currently looking for people to help us. If you would like to contribute, please visit us at www.opengoo.org.

• New: Creates a new e-mail message.

• Inbox: Shows e-mail messages that have been received.
• Sent: Shows e-mail messages that have been sent.
• Draft: Shows e-mail messages that have been saved as a draft (and not sent yet).
• Unread: Shows only e-mail messages that have not been read. This is a filter that can be used in combination with the three buttons described above (i.e. you can see just unread e-mail messages from the inbox).

• View all: Use this command to reset all filters and see all e-mail messages.
• Unread emails: Clicking directly on this command shows only unread e-mail messages, but from all accounts. Using the submenu you can narrow your filter to a specific account.
• All emails: Clicking directly on this command shows all e-mail messages from all accounts. Using the submenu you can show only e-mails form a specific account.
• Unclassified emails: Shows all e-mail messages that have not been assigned to a workspace (classified), in other words all e-mail messages that only the account owner can see. (As soon as you assign an e-mail message to a workspace, all users who can view e-mails in that workspace will be able to read that message.)

• Mark as read: Marks the selected e-mail messages as read.
• Mark as unread: Marks the selected e-mail messages as unread.
• Add Email account: Lets you add an e-mail account (see below for details). Please note that you need at least one e-mail account configured to use the Email module of OpenGoo.
• Edit account: Lets you edit an existing e-mail accounts (see below for details).

• In the upper part of the dropdown menu you see existing tags. Choose one to assign it to the currently selected e-mail messages.
• Add tag: Lets you create a new tag and assign it to the currently selected e-mail messages.

• Move to trash: Moves the currently selected e-mail messages to the trash.

• Check mail accounts: Checks all configured e-mail accounts for new messages.

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Adding an e-mail account to OpenGoo is similar to adding an e-mail account to your desktop mail client (i.e. Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail). You basically enter your e-mail address, the mail server addresses (POP3 and SMTP), plus your login details.

If you whish you can delete an existing e-mail account at any time. To do so, open the account settings form and click the “Delete mail account” button:

An alert dialogue will then ask you whether or not you wish to keep existing e-mails of that account:

E-mail accounts are independent of workspaces - they are personal to each user. This means that your e-mail messages are visible only to you by default. Only when you assign one or more e-mail messages to a workspace then every user with permissions to read e-mails on that workspace will be able to access those e-mails.

Moving Emails with attachments into a workspace will place that attachment into the document area.

If you add and email to a workspace that has an attachment. Then when you go to Documents you will see the file(s) in there.

Does OpenGoo support SSL/TLS encryption?

At this time (OpenGoo 1.0), we are not able to offer SSL/TLS encryption. A unsupported workaround can be found here.

Does OpenGoo support GPG encryption?

Not at this time (OpenGoo 1.0).

Does OpenGoo support IMAP?

Not at this time (OpenGoo 1.0).¹⁾

Does OpenGoo support Gmail?

Gmail accounts are currently (OpenGoo 1.0) not supported because they require SSL/TLS connections. Until we support SSL/TLS, a workaround would be to setup Gmail to forward all your email to another email account that supports POP3 without SSL.²⁾

Does OpenGoo support Hotmail?

At this time (OpenGoo 1.0) there is no support for importing email from Hotmail. To our knowledge this service doesn't support POP3/SMTP or other popular mail protocols (unless they offer it with some type of premium account).

Possible Workaround: If you have access to a Windows XP computer, download the Windows Live Desktop Mail Program. This will give you an email client that connects to Hotmail and allows you to download your email to your local machine by clicking and dragging. Once on your machine, you can either back up your mail, or connect to your mail server using IMAP then reupload the messages.