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Accessing Email on
Your Website
Using an Internet
Browser Using POP3/SMTP
(e.g. Outlook Express)
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Mailboxes
When your website is first
created, Email sent to ANY address at your domain name will be sent
to the Administrator's mailbox. For example, let's assume that the name of
your Administrator ID is "webmaster" and your
domain name is "mydomain.com". Any Email sent
to webmaster@mydomain.com, would go to the
"webmaster" mailbox, as would any other Email, for example
sales@mydomain.com, questions@mydomain.com, admin@mydomain.com,
etc., etc.
If you want certain Email addresses to
go to a mailbox other then the Administrator's, then you have to define
additional users of your domain. Let's assume you want to have two
additional people with their own mailboxes - "John Doe" and "Jane Doe".
(Remember to
substitute YOUR domain name in the examples for the domain name "mydomain.com")
You would first login to your
Administrator account at http://mydomain.com/admin
using your Administrator Username and password.
After logging in, you click on the
"Add User" option under the "Users" menu:
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You then complete the information
about the user you want to add.
In this example, we're adding the
username "johndoe" for the person "John Doe". Users you add can also
create their own sub-websites in the form "http://mydomain.com/~johndoe",
so you have to define how much of your disk space they are allowed to use.
Remember, this disk space is a portion of the total disk space available
under your hosting plan. You then click on the "Add" button to add the user. |

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Now we add the other user.
In this example, we're adding the
username "janedoe" for the person "Jane Doe". Again, she will be able
to create her own sub-website (http://mydomain.com/~janedoe),
so you have to define how much of your disk space she is allowed to use and
click on the "Add" button to add the user. |

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You can now see the two users you've
added. You can delete the users from here if want to. You can always click
on "?Help" in the "Mailboxes/Users" titlebar for detailed help information.
Click on the "Site Administrator"
title on the left-hand menu to return to the shortcuts menu. |

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Now click on the "Configure Sendmail
SMTP Server" to change the options for your Administrator mailbox: |

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This is where you can setup Aliases,
Auto-Responders, and Spam Filters. Click on "?Help" in the "Mailboxes/Users"
titlebar for detailed help information. |

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Each user you created can now login to
their own control panel to manage their Email and files. They would go to
http://mydomain.com/user and login using their
Username and the password you assigned them. Once they login, they can
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The Help buttons provide extensive
help on using the User Administrator control panel. Here are some of the
things a user can do:
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Change their name
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Change their password
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Create Email alias (e.g.
john_doe@mydomain.com)
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Create SPAM filters,
auto-responders, and a vacation message
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Forward their Email to another
address
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Backup/Restore their files
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To access
your Email on the Internet using a web browser
http://yourdomain.com/squirrelmail
Username: username@yourdomain.com
Password: (Your password)
Note: Your browser must be
configured to accept "cookies" in order to use web Email.
To send and receive Email
using a
SMTP/POP3 client, e.g. Outlook Express
POP3 and SMTP Server Name: mail.yourdomain.com
Username: username@yourdomain.com
Password: (Your password)
You must check the "My server requires authentication" in the account
properties.
Note: If you have checked the
"My server requires authentication"
option but still receive a "Relaying Denied" error when
trying to send Email, then your ISP (Internet Service Provider) has configured
their network to not allow access to other SMTP servers. You will have to set
your SMTP server to your ISP's SMTP server. Your POP3 server remains pointed to
mail.yourdomain.com.
This will allow you to receive Email from your domain and send Email using your
ISP.

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