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WebMail
WebMail offers you an easy way to read your email from any internet connection. All you need is a computer connected to Internet, any web
browser and a POP3-compliant mailbox. You're no longer limited to you own computer - you can safely use any computer anywhere to read your mail without reconfiguring email software and without downloading your
mail to the computer you're using.
WebMail Interface |
Send and Receive your email from anywhere |
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Great for people who travel on business |
Easy to learn |
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Loggin in
To access WebMail, you can use the icon in your Control Panel or point your browser to http://www.yourdomain.com/up
(put your real domain name or IP number in place of “yourdomain.com”). Using your user name and password to access your email.
Your username is part of your POP3-compliant mailbox. It can be extracted from your email-address: if your address is "me@domain.com",
your username is "me".
If you're planning to use the same mailbox with both WebMail and a traditional offline client like Eudora, Netscape Mail or Outlook Express,
note that these clients normally delete all your messages from your mailserver leaving WebMail nothing to read. Just go through the options of
these programs and tell them to leave (a copy of) the messages to the mailserver.
Important
Once you've logged into WebMail, please don't use the "Back" and
"Forward" buttons of your browser. While they might sometimes work, they often cause unpredictable errors (like "POST Data expired") that require you to re-log in..
Security
WebMail is very secure when used correctly with a decent browser. When you log in, your messages are transferred from your mailbox temporarily
to the server WebMail is running on, and when you log out, the temporary copies are deleted leaving no trails of your visit. Care has been taken so
that browser should not leave a copy of your messages to it's cache.
For WebMail to be as secure as we intended, please log out after you're
done with your mail. After you log out, the only information that will stay on the server about you are your options (including your real name, email address and your address book).
We also provide a secure (SSL) version of WebMail for those users who want the maximum security. Apart from being a bit slower than the normal
version, it offers exactly the same features.
Inbox
Inbox contains a brief listing of all the messages you have on your mailbox. To read a message, click on the senders name. To delete
messages, select messages using the checkboxes on the left and click "Delete selected". Clicking "" will reverse the sorting order of your messages.
Some of the messages might be marked with icons: new, unread
messages with "", high-priority messages with "", messages containing attachments with "" and messages that you have replied to with "R".
Message
Just below the buttons you will see basic information about the message
you are reading. Click "[Show all headers]" to see all the headers of the message or "[Show basic headers only]" to hide the messy ones. To save
the email address of the sender to your address book, click "[Save address]".
If the message contains attachmets, you will see them either embedded to the message (often the case with images) or as a box containing basic
information about the attachment. Clicking "Save attachment" will let you download and save the attachment and "View attachment as text" read the attachment in case it's readable.
Options
This page will let you change your options: name, email address, language and so on.
We require you to fill out your name and email address so that the messages you'll send will have correct information about the sender. We
will never give out or sell this information for any purpose.
If the options you'll see on this page are not enough, click "Advanced
options". You'll get a smaller window full of customizable variables. Be careful when changing these, you might actually mess up your
configuration so badly that it's not possible for you to change them back.
Address book
You can define nicknames for all the email addresses that you frequently use using the address book.
Each entry in the address book requires a nickname for a person or group and their email addresses. A nickname is an easily remembered, shorter
substitute for the email addresses in the entry. Nicknames can be used in place of the real email addresses in the To, CC and BCC fields of outgoing messages.
Use the following format when adding entries (one row / entry):
Nickname: email1, email2,
Examples:
domain.com staff: jimmy@domain.com, sammy@domain.com
domain.com errors: errors@domain.com
You can optionally use blank lines to separate groups of nicknames.
Message composition
To/CC/BCC: These fields are for the email addresses of the recipients of your message. You can type in complete email addresses
(user@domain.com) and/or nicknames from your address book. You can also try typing the first few letters of a nickname and pushing [TAB] to complete the nick (whether this works or not depends on your browser).
When sending a message to more than one recipient, separate the addresses with a comma.
You can optionally attach one file to your message: if there's a button on
the right side of the field "Attachment" that says "Browse..." your browser supports this feature. Click the button and choose the file you want to
attach. You may have to change the "Files of type:" to "All Files (*.*)" to see the all the files in your directory.
When attaching files, please note that the maximum size of one attachment is around 500 KB's. Bigger files might get through, but there's
no guarantee. Also note that sending a message with an attachment may take a long time, up to half an hour.
If you'd like to continue the message you're writing at a later time, click
"Save draft". Your message will then be saved so that you can start working on it again at any time you want.
In addition to the information provided here, WebMail has a full online help section in the editor. |
