Managing Mail

Within your control panel you can:

  • Create, edit or delete e-mail boxes and set individual mailbox quotas.
  • Allow mail user access to the control panel.
  • Use several mail aliases for a single mail name.
  • Set up redirection of mail addressed to the mail name to another e-mail address.
  • Enable the mail name to function as a mail group used for forwarding mail to a number of e-mail addresses at once.
  • Manage mail group membership for the mail name
  • Set up auto responders: automatic replies to e-mail sent to the mail name.
  • Configure the integrated anti-spam software for filtering incoming mail.
  • Configure the antivirus filter.

Managing Mail Names

When you create e-mail accounts for users, you create e-mail boxes, which will be accessible via POP3 or IMAP protocols. Mailbox creation is as easy as typing in a name and password. Click the Mail icon at the Domain administration page to access the Mail Names Management functions:

From this page, you can enable/disable the mail service for the domain. To this effect, click the Enable or Disable icon respectively.

You can allow/disallow access from the control panel to web-based mail interface (Webmail), and specify the settings for handling incoming mail addressed to the users not existing at this domain:

  1. Click Preferences
  2. For the mail to nonexistent users, you can choose any of the following options: Bounce with message, Forward to address, or Reject.
    • Select the Bounce with message option to have the mail returned to sender with the bounce message you specify.
    • Select the Forward to address option to have the mail forwarded to the address you specify.
    • Select the Reject option to have the mail rejected during SMTP session without queuing for delivery. This option can save bandwidth and server resources.
  3. If you wish to use a web-interface for working with mailboxes in this domain, select the WebMail checkbox. You will then be able to access the web interface by specifying the URL: webmail.domain_name.tld in the web browser, or by clicking the WebMail icon on the Mail Name Properties screen.
  4. Click OK to submit the settings.

To create a new mail name, follow these steps:

  1. Click Add New Mail Name. The mail name creation page will open:
  2. Enter the desired name into the Mail name field and specify a password that will also be used by the mail user to access the control panel.
  3. To allow the mail user access to the control panel, click the Control panel access checkbox, and select the interface language and skin for the mail user's sessions. Check the Allow multiple sessions checkbox to allow multiple sessions under the same mail user's login. For the mail user's interface, you can also set a number of list items per page, and set the limit on size of interface buttons.
  4. To create a mailbox, select the Mailbox checkbox, specify the mailbox quota if desired, and enable the mail filtering using the Enable spam filtering checkbox if you want the mail to be filtered by server.
  5. Click OK to submit all changes.

After the mail name is created, it appears on the Mail Names list, accompanied by seven icons:

  • indicates whether mail user is allowed to access the control panel for managing his/her account,
  • represents a mailbox,
  • represents a mail redirect
  • represents a mail group
  • represents a mail auto responder
  • represents spam filtering
  • represents antivirus filtering

These icons are displayed in grey when the corresponding services are not active, and appear in colour when active. To edit mail name account settings select a mail name or click on an icon corresponding to the service you wish to configure.

To switch to displaying the mail aliases for the mail names in the list, click the Show Aliases button, to hide them use the Hide Aliases button.

To remove one or several mail names, check the checkboxes in the mail names list, corresponding to the mail names you wish to remove and click Remove Selected.

 

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