WEB MESSAGING

PREFERENCES

General User Settings

• Full Name. Enter your preferred full name in the text box.

• Reply To. Enter your complete email address in the text box.

• Messages Per Page. Select the number of messages you want to display in the message list.

• Open Compose in. Select one of the following options:

• Same Window. Use this option if you want to compose your messages in the same browser window.

• New Window. Use this option if you want to compose your messages in a new browser window.

• Forward To. In the text box, enter the email address to which you want your email automatically forwarded. For example, you can forward messages to your assistant, or to another mailbox besides Inbox by entering the forwarding address as yourUser ID-othermailbox.

• Show Message Preview Pane. Click the check box if you want to view your message in the preview pane. Clear the checkbox if you want to view your message in a new browser window.

Note: If you choose to show the message preview, message summaries will include a Preview pane that shows the first few lines, including From, To, Date, and Subject and the initial lines of the message. The message preview appears on the same page as the folder and message lists and Inbox.

Change Password

• New Password. Enter your new password in the text box.

Note: Passwords must be a minimum of three alphanumeric characters, cannot include spaces, and cannot exceed thirty characters.

• Retype Password. Retype the new password in the text box.

Sending

• Default Message Encoding. Choose one:

• Unicode (UTF-8).  Choose this character set for multi-language mail. In IMail, this includes English, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, French, German, Italian, Japanese, or Spanish.  

• English - US-ASCII. For composing email for English-speaking readers, based on the English alphabet.

• Western European - ISO-8859-1. For composing email in French, Italian, German, or Spanish.

• Save Copy of Outgoing Messages in Sent folder. Choose this option if you wish to keep copies of your messages in the Sent folder.

Forwarding

• Include original message. Select this check box to include the original message when it is forwarded.

• Include attachments. Select this check box if you want to include the original attachments in your forwarded message.

Replying

• Include original message. Select this check box to include the original message in your reply.

Delete Options

• Move message to deleted folder. Select this option to move deleted messages to the Deleted folder. These messages remain in the folder until you purge them by selecting one or more messages and clicking the Delete button.

• Purge Message. Select this option to completely remove deleted messages. Purged messages are deleted from the server A server is a program running on a networked computer that processes requests from a client A client is a program running on a networked computer that requests services from a server program, which is usually running on another networked computer. The client communicates with the server using a protocol. For example, an FTP client communicates with an FTP server using the FTP protocol. program, which is usually running on another networked computer. The client and server communicate using a protocol A set of rules that defines how computers will exchange information.. For example, an FTP client communicates with an FTP server using an FTP protocol. and cannot be recovered.

• Confirm Before Delete. Select this check box to have IMail ask you to confirm the request before deleting the selected message(s).

Auto Responder

Use this area to set up an automatic response so that each time you receive mail, a prepared message is sent back to the sender. This feature is activated when you enter text in the Message box. (In other words, if the Message box is empty, no automatic response is sent.) Compare this feature to the Vacation feature, below.

Note: To prevent automatic responses to bulk mailers, an automatic response is not sent if the original message contains the Precedence:bulk header. To prevent automatic responses to list server mailing lists, automatic responses are not sent if the original message contains imailsrv in the mail address.

• Folder. Select Inbox from the list box if you want all incoming mail to activate the automatic response. If you want the automated response to be activated only for any other mailbox folder, select it from the list box.

• Enable. Select the check box to enable the Auto Responder. Clear the check box to disable it.

• After Responding Forward mail to. If, in addition to sending an automatic response, you want to forward incoming messages to another mailbox folder, type the folder name in the text box.

Message

In the Message text box, enter the message to be returned to all senders who send mail to the specified mailbox. The first line of the body of the message is used as the subject line for the automatic response.

Signature

A "signature" is a tag that is added to the end of all your messages. For example, you might add a signature that says, "Be sure to visit my new web site." Or, you might prefer to enter your name, phone, and address information. Enter the desired text in the Signature text box. If you do not want to include a signature, leave it blank.

Note: If you use the rich text editor to compose messages and you want to include text formatting on your signature, you can format the signature by adding standard HTML tags to the signature. For example:
<h4>John Q. Public</h4>
<h5>Phone 706-123-4567<br>
Fax 706-321-7654</h5>   

Vacation Message

You can automatically send a vacation message to anyone who sends you mail. This feature is activated when you enter a message in the Vacation Message text box and click Enable. Your vacation message will be sent once to each email address that sends you mail. The email addresses of those who have been sent your vacation message are tracked, to prevent any email address from receiving your vacation message more than once.

Note: Compare this feature to the Auto Responder feature (which sends an automatic response to each message that's received, regardless of whether or not the sender has already received the automatic response).

To send a vacation message

• In the Vacation Message text box, enter a vacation message and click Enable. This message will be sent once to each user who sends you mail.

To stop sending a vacation message

• Click to clear the vacation message Enable option.