Webmail
Webmail is a Web based system that performs the functions of a mail client. Once installed you can send, receive, and view all the mail in your hosting account from anywhere in the world via a Web browser.  The application we use - Open Webmail - is one of the most capable webmail programs available anywhere, at any price (just another free feature of your web hosting account!).  In addition to normal send and receive functionality, Open Webmail offers: 

• Spellcheck
• Search and Advanced Searching capabilities can be carried out on numerous fields and criteria
• Complete calendar with mail integration - send messages to specified e-mail addresses as a reminder of an event!
• Ability to import existing address books
• Customize the look and feel: background changes, theme changes, calendar options and message filtering options.
• Enhanced security measures

Open Web Mail First Use:
The first time you log into Open Webmail you will get a couple of screens worth of questions/options for different settings. We suggest that you scroll to the bottom of the screen and click "Save" the first time and come back later to customize - you can do so by clicking on the "Preferences" from the main screen.
Open Webmail comes with an extensive support section built-in, just click the Help? link at the bottom of any page for an large collection of help pages, tutorials, and more information. The Help pages are also available at this web site for reference:
http://openwebmail.org/openwebmail/help/en/index.html

Migrating Address Books
This rollout includes the ability to import an existing address book from a mailbox in the previous Webmail version to the current one. Pre-existing address books will not automatically transfer to the new version - you will need to import the address book. The easiest way to import is to go to your current Webmail address book, and copy/paste the addresses into a text file that is then saved on your PC.

To import this saved address book text file into the new mail service, log into your new Webmail, click on the address book link in the new program, and then click on "import". Choose the 'Outlook' option, and then browse for that text file with the addresses. Once imported, be sure that the format is correct by sending an email to one of the addresses in your book .

Old Webmail Use & Instructions
Webmail is a web based system that performs the functions of a mail client.  Once installed you can send, receive, and view all the mail from your web hosting account from anywhere in the world via an Internet connection.  Once configured, webmail can be reached from your account Control Panel or from any browser using the URL: http://yourdomainname.com/up.

Configuring webmail
To use webmail for your account you must first access and configure it though the Control Panel.  Simply go to your Control Panel and click on the webmail button .   This will automatically set up the necessary files for your account.  The first time you access webmail for a particular pop account you will be prompted to fill out a brief preferences section.

User Preferences
The user preferences page is where you make changes to the default settings for a pop account's webmail settings.

Real name - Enter the real name you want to show in the reply address.

Reply address - Enter the full e-mail address that you want your messages to be replied to.

Style button - Allows you to change the webmail color scheme for that pop account.

Default sort - The default method that your messages headers or simple headers.

will be sorted by when you view them in webmail.

Default headers - Gives you the option of viewing all

Headers - The information about how your message was sent and the various places it may have been relayed.

Custom signature - A statement that will be appended to all your out going messages. Log-In Screen

The first page encountered after installation is the user log-in name.  The User ID is the name of the pop account that you want to use. This can be the name of any valid pop account that you have set up. The password text box is the password for that pop account.

Important - Deleting Messages
You must log out after deleting email or the email will not be removed!

New Open Webmail - http://yourdomain.com/webmail



Mail Boxes / Webmail Functions

The inbox screen is the first page you see after a successful log-in.   Here you can find all your new messages and ones that haven't been moved or deleted.

To read a message, click on its subject.  This screen is the basic format of all the various screens of webmail.  At the top the current mailbox (you can navigate between mailboxes by clicking on this button) and total messages, total size of messages is displayed.  Below that are links that take you to pages for composing a message, changing user preferences, an address book, refreshing the current page, and logging out of webmail.

If you have many messages, you can jump to them by using the arrows at the top or specify a page to view.

Next to the arrows is the trash button.  This will send the current message (selected with the trash button next to the name) to the trash folder.  If you check the check all button, it will select all messages in this folder and move them to the trash folder.  Sending mail to the trash does not delete the message but simply moves it.  If you want to empty your trash, enter the trash folder.  Mark items in the same manner as before but instead of moving them, the trash folder deletes them with the delete button in the upper right corner.

At any time if you are in a screen and want to go back, either use the folder drag down button or the back to button at the top of the screen.

Under the menus and button at the top are the actual messages for this pop account.  The first category is status. A paper clip will show up if there is an attachment in the message.

The following descriptors are fairly standard:

Date - Shows the date that the message was received.

Sender - The sender of the message

Subject - The subject of the message

Size - The size of the message and trash button selects the message to be moved to the trash folder.
Compose Page

The compose page is where you compose and send messages.  The functions here are very similar to those found in conventional e-mail clients. The lines are fairly self explanatory:

To - The full e-mail address to whom your sending this message.

CC - Carbon copy.  Placing a full e-mail address here also sends your message to the CC address, and all recipients will see that is was carbon copied.

BCC - Blind carbon copy.  Similar in function to CC but all recipients will not see an address placed in the BCC section.

Reply-to - The address you want the message you are sending to be replied to if different than the default.

Attachment - Attaches a file to the message you are sending. Clicking the browse button makes a file-manager type window to locate a file to attach.

Subject - The subject of the message you are sending.

By clicking on To , CC , or BCC you will open a small browser window that contains the address in your address book.  The large text box below is where you type the body of the message.  Hitting the send button sends the message and cancel takes you back to the inbox.