About General Settings

Use General Settings to specify what information about you can be viewed by other people, how long you can stay logged in to WebMail before being automatically logged out, and an alternative e-mail address to which you want replies sent.

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Privacy Select a level of privacy.
  • None: Other WebMail users will have access to your first and last name, e-mail address and phone number.
  • Limited: Other WebMail users will have access only to your e-mail address.
  • Unlisted: None of your personal information will be available.
Timeout Set the amount of idle time -- the time in which you are not sending or receiving e-mail or modifying preferences -- before WebMail automatically logs you out. You can enter a number (in minutes) between 1 and infinity.
Reply To Specify an alternate e-mail address that you want replies sent to.

About Appearance

You can customize the look and feel of WebMail. You can select the language used, specify the location of the Button Bar in Message view, and even specify foreground and background colors.

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Language Specify the language to be used throughout WebMail. The current version of WebMail only supports English. Future versions will support multiple languages.
Button Bar Location In the Message view, you can specify whether to show the button bar at the top of the Message view, at the bottom, or both.
Compose Specify whether the Compose Message view should include Carbon Copy (CC:) and Blind Carbon Copy (BCC:) fields.
Purge Purge causes the Purge Deleted Messages option in the Folders view to automatically be enabled.
Colors Specify the colors you want used throughout WebMail.

About Password

You can change your WebMail password without having to contact your ISP. Simply enter your old password and then your new password twice, and then click Apply. Your new password will now be required the next time you log in to WebMail.

If you can't see this option

If you can't see the Password option, it is because you must log in to your ISP using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

To log in to your ISP using SSL

  1. In your Web browser, add the letter "s" after "http". For example, if the URL to your WebMail is http://mail.companyx.com, you would modify the URL by adding the letter "s" to get:

    https://mail.companyx.com

  2. Press Enter and, when prompted, enter your username and password.
  3. After logging in, click Preferences and the Password will now be visible.

Note If you receive an error, you must contact your ISP to find out the port number to use for connecting using SSL.

About Mailbox Quota

Mailbox Status reminds you about how much space your ISP allows you to use to store messages. Mailbox Status also indicates how much space you have left and how much you've used up already. If you determine you need more space, contact your ISP.

About Forwarding

Forwarding lets you specify one or more additional e-mail addresses where you want new messages forwarded when they arrive in your WebMail mailbox.

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Enabled Enable the Forwarding feature.
Keep local copy Keep a copy of new messages received before forwarding them.
Forward to Specify one or more additional e-mail addresses where you want new messages forwarded to when they arrive in your WebMail mailbox.

Note Press Enter after typing each address.

About Auto-reply/Vacation Message

Use Auto-reply/Vacation Message when you will not be retrieving messages for an extended period of time. For example, if you're going on vacation, you can create a custom message that will automatically be sent to anyone who sends you a message telling them when you will return.

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Enabled Enable the Auto-reply/vacation feature.
Message Create the default message to be sent to anyone who e-mails you a message while you're unavailable.

About Finger Daemon

Finger is an Internet utility, originally limited to UNIX but now available on many platforms, that enables a user to obtain information about other users who may be at other sites (if those sites allow access by finger).

Given an e-mail address, finger returns the user's full name, an indication of whether or not the user is currently logged on, and any other information the user has chosen to supply as a profile. Given a first or last name, finger returns the logon names of users whose first or last names match.

WebMail lets you create a custom message to be returned when another user fingers your e-mail address. If Finger Daemon does not appear as an option in Preferences, your ISP has disabled it. Contact your ISP if you want to use Finger Daemon.

About Proxy Configuration

If you have additional e-mail accounts outside of your WebMail account, you can use WebMail to routinely collect your messages. For example, if you have an e-mail account at work, home, and school, you can specify the addresses and WebMail will copy new messages from them to your WebMail account.

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Host Specify the hostname of an additional e-mail account.

Example: mail.schoolname.edu

If you're not sure, ask your ISP or other institution for the hostname.

Username Specify your e-mail account username used for accessing messages from the account.
Password Specify your password used for accessing messages from the account. You must enter the password twice to verify.
Type You can use either POP or IMAP to retrieve your messages from a proxy server.
  • POP: Acronym for Post Office Protocol. All of your messages are downloaded to your local computer. Once the messages are downloaded, they're deleted from the messaging system.

  • IMAP: Acronym for Internet Message Access Protocol. Your messages are stored on the messaging system.

Leave Leaves a copy of the messages on the server that WebMail is retrieving them from.

Note: To remove proxy entries in Preferences view, clear the Host and Username fields and then click Apply.