Test Email Configuration

Test and Confirm Configuration

Sandboxie offers quick configuration for most email programs. Please see Sandbox Settings > Applications > Email Reader for more information.

After completing the email configuration, you may want to test it to make sure that new emails will not be lost when you delete the sandbox. To do that, follow these steps:

• Disable Internet access in the sandbox. This is a precaution measure, to make sure that your sandboxed email program cannot retrieve new mail messages before you confirm the configuration is correct:
  Open Sandbox Settings > Restrictions > Internet Access, then click Block All Programs, and finally click OK.
• Run your email program sandboxed under Sandboxie. (You can use the Run Email Reader command from the Tray Icon Menu of Sandboxie Control.)
• Compose a test draft message to yourself. Don't send it.
• Quit your email program. If your email program suggests to send the test message, disregard the suggestion.
• Delete the sandbox. (See Delete Sandbox.)
• Run your email program normally, that is, outside the supervision of Sandboxie.
• Confirm that you can use the normal (unsandboxed) instance of the mail program to see and edit the test message you created.

If the email message that you created in a sandboxed instance of your email program is also accessible in the normal (unsandboxed) instance, even after the sandbox has been deleted, then the configuration is correct.

• When done, re-enable Internet access in the sandbox:
  Open Sandbox Settings > Restrictions > Internet Access, then click Remove (to remove the restriction), and finally click OK.

For more information, see Email Protection and FAQ Email.