Web-based E-mail

WebMail links: Main Screen | User Info | Folders | Message Filters | Contacts |

Login Page: follows this format: http://mail.ispname.com, with your ISP's name in place of "ispname.com".

 

 

Preferences for your Web-based E-mail:

Links on this page: Sending Options / Display Options / Delete Options | Signature / Forwarding / Vacation Message |

The Preferences screen of your Web-based e-mail has 4 sections:
    1) "Options" - Mail Sending Options
                     - Message Display Options
                     - Delete Options
    2) Signature
    3) Forwarding
    4) Vacation Message

All of these can be accessed in the manner described below.

Click the down-arrow for the Options and Styles menu, as shown below.  Then click Preferences.

    (You can click "Signature", "Forwarding", or "Vacation Message" to drop directly to those sections.)

 

General Preferences:  Sending options, Display options, Delete options:

The first part of the "Preferences" contains three different types of "Options":
    Mail Sending Options
    Message Display Options
    Delete Options

The Save button and Reset button apply to all three of the subsections.

Mail Sending Options:

The recommended settings are shown in the image below.

You can also create a Sent Folder which saves a copy of all e-mail messages as you send them.  In the option to "Save a copy of outgoing mail in Sent folder", select Yes.

Message Display Options:

The recommended settings are shown in the image below.

Changing the number of messages per page to more than 10 can be more convenient.

Delete Options:

You can create a Deleted Folder which saves a copy of all e-mail messages that you delete, just in case you didn't really want to delete them.  In the option to "Delete messages", select Move to Deleted folder.  You can also place a check-mark for Confirm delete messages.

Remember:  The Save button and Reset button under the Delete Options apply to all three of the subsections.

If no changes are made, scroll down for 3 more "Preferences", described next.

If no changes are made, scroll down for 3 more "Preferences", described next.

 

Extra Tools:  Signature, E-mail Forwarding, and Vacation Message:

Open the User Preferences window (Options and Styles menu -> Preferences, as described above).

Scroll down to see the 3 Preferences shown below.

My Signature

This text will be added to the end of messages you send.

My Forwarding Address

You can have e-mail automatically "rerouted" to another e-mail address.  This is useful when changing e-mail addresses.  Many people also use this feature to forward e-mail for multiple e-mail accounts to one centralized e-mail account.

Note: You can forward your mail to more than one e-mail addresses by entering multiple addresses separated by commas.

To keep a copy and forward a copy, precede the forwarding address by a dot and a comma.
For example, you'd enter .,EmailID@ispname.com.
This will forward mail to EmailID@ispname.com and keep a copy in your mailbox.
 

My Vacation Message

If you are going to be away for a while, you can create a vacation message that will be sent to anyone who sends you mail.  The "Vacation Message" is sent only once to each email address that sends you e-mail, regardless of how many messages are sent to you by that address.  It is limited to 1000 characters.

Note: This is different from the "Auto Response" feature, which sends an automatic response to each message that is received, regardless of whether or not the sender has already received the automatic response.
 

 

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