## 8 Basic iMule Tips

- NEVER run iMule as root.
- If you are behind a firewall or router, be sure that the ports have been opened. The default ports are 8887 (TCP) and 8886 (UDP). If these are blocked, you will have a VERY LOW connection, or no connection at all.
- Set your temp and shared directories in Preferences->Directories. To recursively select a certain directory, right-click over it.
- You should NOT share
  - Your temp download directory!
  - Your /etc directory
  - Probably not your /var, /lib, /boot, or /usr directory
  - Certainly make sure that any really confidential files (password files, private SSH keys, credit card numbers :) are *not* shared. So generally do not share your entire home directory, although you might want to share some files or directories in it.
- Remember that you get certain download priveledges with those clients (iMule, eMule, etc users) to whom you upload files, in the form of reduced queue waits.

### 8.1 Transfer icons

To find descriptions of the various icons found inside iMule, take a look at http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started#Icons_and_What_They_Signify