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Web-based email allows you to access your mail
from any web browser. There are several important
differences:
You can only access email that is left on the
server. Microsoft Outlook and other mail programs
remove the mail from the server when they deliver
it, so you must make sure that there is not a machine
running which checks your email account. An example
of this, you normally access email from a desktop
computer, but use a laptop while traveling. You
must turn off the email checking on the desktop
for there to be any email to access on the server.
Logging On
To log onto your email, point your browser at
(type into the address field): https://mail.yourdomain.com:20000.
(Use your own domain name.)
Note the "https:".
That tells the browser that the connection is secure,
and this must be present. Log in with your email
user name and password.
Read your email by clicking on a link. To delete
email, check the box and hit the delete button.
Note that there is no deleted email folder, and
you cannot recover an email once it is gone.
Web-based email does not automatically open the
email for you the way Outlook does. You usually
need to double click on an attachment to read it.
Web-based email is not automatically screened
for viruses. Although your anti-virus program should
catch any hostile actions, you should be careful
about what attachments you open. In particular,
any attachment that is of type application/exe or
application/midi should be deleted.
Replying and Forwarding:
Be sure to check your From: email address for
accuracy. If you have multiple forwards to a single
mail box, it may not be what you expect. You can
change it on the fly, or we can set it to whatever
you like.
Due to space limitations, the system does not
retain a copy of sent mail. If you wish to keep
a copy, send a cc: to yourself.
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