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What Can Users Do with Web Messaging?
Web Messaging provides users with full e-mail functions and the ability to change personal information from a web browser on any system connected to the Internet.
Users can connect to the Web Messaging server and log on to their mail account using their IMail Server user ID and password.
Users can start Web Messaging by entering the web server's address in their browser's address field. This web address consists of the host name of the IMail Server host and a web server port number. The default port number is 8383. For example, if your IMail Server host is named mailhost1.ipswitch.com, then the Web address will be:
http://imail.ipswitch.com:8383For information about setting the port number, see "Web Address for the Web Messaging Server".
Users can bookmark the address (save it as a Favorite site) in their web browser.
Once logged on, users can read, send, delete, and reply to e-mail, send and receive attached documents, and print e-mail directly from the browser.
Users can also set mail forwarding, enter a vacation message, organize their mail into folders (mailboxes), maintain an address book, maintain LDAP and finger information, and set delivery rules for incoming mail.
You can give users the ability to change their password. Users can also set preferences to change how the mail summary appears and how mail functions work.
Users now have the ability to follow a link directly to IMail Web Calendaring without logging out of Web Messaging.
Online help is available from the Web Messaging pages.
Notes for the System Administrator:
- Users should be aware that the Web Messaging server connection may time out when the server receives no requests from the user's browser for 12 minutes. After 12 minutes, the session is placed in a rollover queue that holds up to 50 users.
- Because the rollover queue is used, users must click on Log off to be sure they have logged off of the Web Messaging session. The Log off function removes the user from the rollover queue and the standard connect tables.
If the server times out while a user is creating a message, the user won't know it until clicking the Send button, in which case they are returned to the logon screen and the message is lost. When composing a long message, we recommend that you save frequently. Click the Save button on the Compose page to save the message in the Draft mailbox. You can then re-open the message from the Draft mailbox, and continue editing.
- Web Messaging is not a POP3 mail client and will not display mailboxes that a user has created on their POP3 client. Mailboxes created with an IMAP4 client or Web Messaging will appear, as both of these methods create mailboxes on the server.
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