Miscellaneous
General settings
You can use the button to check for a newer version of MyTunesRSS and you can configure MyTunesRSS to check automatically when starting the program. You can also activate an optional confirmation when quitting MyTunesRSS. The option to minimize MyTunesRSS to the system tray only works with Java 1.6 and might cause problems on some systems. The name "system tray" is a somewhat Windows specific term. On OS X it is the top right area of the menu bar for example.
mytunesrss.com account
The mytunesrss.com account is used to reach your server via a nice address like http://mytunesrss.com/username instead of using the external address displayed in the server information window. You can select any user name when registering at mytunesrss.com. If you have such an account you have to enter your login information here to make both mentioned URLs working. You MyTunesRSS server has to be running of course. MyTunesRSS uses your HTTP connector settings but you can optionally have it use your SSL connector settings if you like. Currently the iPhone application does not work with SSL though.
JMX server
MyTunesRSS starts a JMX server which you can access to configure the application. For those who don't know what JMX is: it is a way to manage Java applications through a simple user interface. In the case of MyTunesRSS it is a simple web interface. It can be used for configuring MyTunesRSS without using the normal interface. This is useful either if you run MyTunesRSS headless on a server system and you don't have the normal configuration GUI available or if you need to configure MyTunesRSS remotely. Otherwise it does not make much sense using the JMX interface since the normal configuration interface is much easier to use. You can configure the listen address for the JMX sever (a host of 0.0.0.0 means to listen on all network interfaces). If you need basic authentication you can enter a username and password here. You access the JMX server with a browser.
Configuration is done via so called MBeans. An MBean has properties and action. You can set properties which correspond to the configuration settings of MyTunesRSS and trigger actions which actually do something, e.g. starting the server. You find all configuration MBeans for MyTunesRSS in the domain MyTunesRSS. Do not mix up with the domain engine.mytunesrss available after starting the server. This is the Tomcat configuration. The other MBeans are JVM internal stuff. If you do not like the web interface, you can also use the jconsole client which comes with the JDK. Add the system property com.sun.management.jmxremote to enable local connections. Start jconsole on the same computer that is running MyTunesRSS in headless mode and the console will discover it automatically. If you need remote access via jconsole you have to specify the port with com.sun.management.jmxremote.port.
Web interface welcome message
You can specify an optional message which is displayed to the users on the portal web page. You can use any HTML tags here.
HTTP proxy settings
If you need to use a proxy server to access the internet you can configure it here. It is used when accessing mytunesrss.com, when checking for updates and when sending support requests.
SMTP mail server
If you want to use the admin notification feature, if you want to receive statistic reports or if you want to enable the feature for users to get a new password if they forgot their current one, you need to configure an SMTP server. You set the server host and port, the login and password and the sender name/email address here.