WebMail Setup options
WebMail allows you to set a number of options to personalise your WebMail sessions. When WebMail opens click the Options button on the menubar:
Personal Information
Change the name, address, and signature that people see when they read and reply to your email.
Server Information
Although it is essential to create folders to store your message, if you have too many folders it can in turn slow down the operation of WebMail. If you have more than a dozen or so folders it is a good idea to use the IMAP folder subscription option. Place a tick in the Use IMAP folder subscriptions box to enable this feature.
Now when you start up WebMail, only the INBOX will be listed in your list of folders. You should subscribe to the folders which you most commonly need to access, such as sent-mail and the folders that you regularly use to save messages. To subscribe to a folder, click the Folders button. In the Folders window click on Show unsubscribed . In your expanded list of folders you should put a tick beside the folders you want to see in your folder list, and then choose Subscribe to folder(s) from the drop-down list of actions. Then click Hide unsubscribed , and then go back to reading your messages.
Only go to the trouble of using folder subscriptions if you have a lot of folders.
Language
Use this option to select the default language for display.
Time Zone
There is usually no need to change this option from the default value. If you are using WebMail abroad you may wish to reset the time zone appropriately.
Filters
Click here for further information about using filters.
Message Viewing
Filter message content for profanity using this option.
Deleting and Moving Messages
From here you can choose to move messages marked for deletion straight to the Trash folder instead of marking them as deleted.
Maintenance Operations
Select this option to customise how WebMail deals with routine maintenance tasks, such as:
- Perform maintenance operations on login?
- Rename sent-mail folder at beginning of month?
- Delete old sent-mail folders at beginning of month?
- Number of old sent-mail folders to keep if deleting monthly
- Purge old message in the Trash folder?
- Purge Trash how often
Display Options
Use these options to setup how WebMail appears, how many messages are displayed, how messages are sorted, etc.
Message Composition
Select this option to customise how messages look when you write them and how quoted elements are displayed, etc.
Login Tasks
From here you can select whicj mailbox opens with WebMail, and whether to display the last login time
New Mail
Use this option to set how frequently WebMail will refresh your browser pages. You can also use this option to set WebMail to display a pop-up message when new mail arrives.
Addressbooks
Click here for further information about using addressbooks
