- Mail
Accounts/Forwards
Accessing
Your E-Mail
Zipping/Un-Zipping
Files
Mail
Accounts/Forwards
E-mail
accounts and forwards/aliases are set up directly from
your control panel. You are provided with one POP3
account upon installation of your account, which is a
"catch all" e-mail account, meaning that all mail that
is sent to your domain name is automatically captured
no matter what is before the @.
If you set up a new mail account (fred@yourdomain.com)
for example, all mail that is sent to your domain with
the exception of "fred" is sent to your main mailbox.
Of course, mail sent to "fred" will be sent to
fred.
Accessing
Your Email
We
recommend using Eudora as your email client. This is a
mail program that runs under MS Windows and Macintosh
OS. Eudora connects to the mail server over the
Winsock or Macintosh TCP/IP. Mail may be composed and
read offline, but make sure that Winsock or TCP/IP is
running before attempting to send or receive email.
Although your account exists on our server, you won't
be able to receive email at yourname@yourdomain.com
until InterNIC has activated you in the domain name
servers.
After
Eudora has been installed, it must be configured to
point to your server. To do this, start Eudora and
select "Settings" from the menu bar. Most of the
options are self explanatory. Here are the steps you
need to perform to set up Eudora:
1)
Install and start up the Eudora program
2)
Select "Settings" from the "Special" menu
3)
Select the "Getting Started" tab, then under Real
Name, enter your Real Name
4)
Under "POP Account" put
yourlogin@yourdomain.com
5)
Leave Return Address blank unless you want people to
send return email to you at a different email
account
6)
If you use the Macintosh version, the radio button for
TCP/IP connection should be highlighted
7)
Click the "Personal Information" tab (also only for
the Macintosh version)
8)
Under POP account put yourdomain@yourdomain.com
again
9)
Fill out the "Real Name" and "Return Address" as you
did before
10)
Under "Dialup User Name" enter yourdomain (do not
enter .com or .net here)
11)
Click the "Hosts" tab then enter
yourlogin@yourdomain.com again under POP Account, and
put yourdomain.com under SMTP Server.
12)
Go to the "Checking Mail" tab and make sure "Save
Password" is checked.
That's
pretty much all the configuration Eudora needs. Many
of the configuration areas will be filled in when you
go to them, for instance it will usually fill in the
POP account info where ever it needs it after you
enter it the first time. Now, when you select "Check
Mail" under the File menu, a window will pop up asking
for your password. Enter in your password then click
on the proceed button and Eudora will check to see if
you have email. You can now send a test email message
to yourself and then check to see if it gets returned
to you. If you checked "Save Password" as in step 12,
Eudora will not prompt you again for your password
after the first time. If multiple users have access to
your computer, and you don't want them to have access
to your email account, make sure "Save Password" is
unchecked.
Your
default email address is yourlogin@yourdomain.com, and
that's where all your email will be sent to, unless
other configurations take priority (such as
autoresponders and redirects mentioned later).
Mail
program samples
The
sample assumes a domain name of fred.com
Microsoft
internet mail
- Full
name = fred
- Email
= fred@fred.com
- Internet
Mail server = fred.com
- Account
= fred
- Pass
= xxxxxx
- Smtp
= fred.com
- From
= anything@fred.com
Netscape
- Your
Name = fred
- Email
Address = fred@fred.com
- Reply
to = anything@fred.com
- Mail
Server user name = fred
- outgoing
Smtp = fred.com
- Incoming
= fred.com
If
you would like additional POP email accounts, you can
do so from your control panel. Remember there may be a
additional one-time charge for each POP account
depending on your account. To check numerous POP
accounts, read the manual or help files that come with
Eudora or your email client software for
configuration.
Each additional POP account will have it's own
unique username (which is the first 5 letters of your
login, and your new e-mail address). Some mail
programs will require that you enter the actual login
as the POP account name to check mail. For
instance, if your domain name is "freddie.com" and you
are setting up a POP account "sales@freddie.com",
you will be assiged the login "freddsales". Your mail
program may require you to enter
"freddsales@freddie.com" to check mail.
If you are having trouble checking mail with your mail
software because of the login (ie. freddsales), and
you e-mail client does not provide you with an option
for an actual account login name, we recommend the
following e-mail clients to help solve your
problem:
Microsoft
Outlook
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If
you are familiar with the shell (Unix) programs,
"pine" and "mail", you can use either of these to
check and send email as well.
Zip/Unzip
Files
This
Unix program is compatible with the zip program for
DOS and Windows. To zip files, first have the files
uploaded to your server, then log into your account
with Telnet. Navigate to the directory where the files
are that you want to zip (for instance by typing cd
www then cd sounds). Then type: zip myzip file1 file2
file3
This
puts the files "file1", "file2", and "file3" into a
new zip archive called "myzip.zip". On the other hand,
if you had the archive "myzip.zip" and wanted to get
back the files, you would type: unzip myzip
Typing
zip or unzip by itself will give you a usage summary,
showing nearly all the options available.
