Setting Up Email
All of our accounts come with at least one POP3 email account. This enables you to receive your mail off of our server by configuring your email program (Eudora, Pegasus, Netscape mail, etc…) You also have the ability to accept mail at anyname@yourdomain.com (i.e., sales@yourdomain.com, webmaster@yourdomain.com). This is commonly referred to as unlimited aliases and it requires no additional setup on your part [Please note this is not available for non-virtual accounts]. We also include unlimited e-mail forwarding which allows you to redirect email that has been sent to one alias on to another alias (i.e., messages sent to sales@yourdomain.com can be redirected to jkeller@aol.com).
We are currently working on a very nice web interface that will allow you to administer your e-mail account with your browser. Currently telnet must be used to change and setup unlimited fowarding. Fortunately, we have written a program that will make the setup process simple once you login to the server. After logging in(telnet), simply type "emailadmin". Our program will then prompt you for all of the necessary information, and the changes will take place immediately.
In general, your POP client needs to be configured to get its mail from our server and to use our server as a SMTP relay host. This section shows how to configure two popular POP client software packages (Eudora and Pegasus Mail) for the PC. Please note that both Eudora and Pegasus Mail are also available for the Macintosh and are similarly configured.
Eudora for both the Macintosh and PC is available from ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/Eudora. Eudora comes in two forms: freeware and a commercial version. The commercial version has many enhancements but costs a little money (for more information send mail to eudora-sales@qualcomm.com). To configure Eudora to access your POP mail account on our server yourdomainname.com for the email user tim I would do the following:
Pegasus Mail is a freeware program written by David Harrison and is available from ftp://ftp.iastate.edu/pub/pc/email/pegasus/. It runs under a number of operating systems including DOS, Windows, and MacOS.
Pegasus mail is a little harder to setup than Eudora but is worth the effort. Using the same example (email user tim, we can setup pegasus mail with the following steps:
1. Since Pegasus Mail supports many mail
transports you must first setup the Preferences before you can
setup the POP network parameters. From the File pull down
menu select Preferences => General settings.... dialog
2. Configure the fields in the General
settings dialog to the following values:
3. Click and configure the other options in
the General settings dialog to the users preference.
4. From the File pull-down menu select the
Preferences => Advanced setting... dialog.
5. Configure the fields in the Advanced settings dialog to the
following values:
6. Exit Pegasus Mail and restart it.
7. Now under the File pull-down menu there
should be now a Network configuration option. Select the Network
configuration dialog.
8. In the TCP/IP Network Configuration
dialog configure the following fields to the corresponding
values:
9. Set the other buttons and fields in the
TCP/IP Network Configuration dialog to the user's preference.
10. Send yourself some Email to test it
out. Please note that since the password is configured in the
Pegasus Mail client the user does not need to type it in every
time it is invoked as with Eudora.
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