What Can Users Do with Web Messaging?

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Web Messaging provides users with full e-mail functions and the ability to change personal information from a web browser.

Users connect to Web Messaging and log on to their mail account using their IMail Server user ID and password.

Users 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 is:
http://mailhost1.ipswitch.com:8383

For information about setting the port number, see "Web Address for the Web Messaging Server".

Once logged on, users can read, send, delete, and reply to e-mail, send and receive attached documents, and print e-mail.

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 also 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 can click on a link to connect to Web Calendaring without logging out of Web Messaging.

For more information, see the online help, available from the Web Messaging pages.

Notes for the System Administrator:

• Users should be aware that the Web Messaging 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 Log off to be sure they have logged off. Logging off 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 Send, in which case, they are returned to the logon screen and the message is lost. When composing a long message, save frequently. Click Save 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 does 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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