Webmail

[sweetpea]

Is webmail only accessible via the control panel?
I hope not.

[Brendan]

Hi,

The current webmail is available only through the control panel. We will have an option available for everyone to use without having to go through the control panel shortly. Until we get it up if you are desperate for it you can check out mailstart.com

-Brendan

[sweetpea]

Thanks for the answer.

I don't particularly like it, but if you say something else is coming,
that's OK with me. I'm not desperate - I just wanted to know because
that's a feature I'll probably use.

[valerie]

Does this mean that everyone who has an email account must be given the control panel log-in information in order to access that account via webmail?

[Brendan]

Hi,

goto http://yourdomain.com:2095 and have your webmail login ready ; )

-Brendan

[gary_c]

I'm upgrading to the new server/control panel and so I was checking out Neomail. But there are some problems, and also it doesn't seem to have as many features and capabilites as the old webmail program. I can check the default mail address at mydomain:2095, but not other mail boxes that I set up. The authorization box that pops up from the mailbox control panel has the new mailbox name, but it won't access the password.

Accessing mydomain:2095 just brings up my default inbox; there's no way to access any of the other mail accounts, as you can in webmail. Is this functionality coming? I assume it is, otherwise why the change?

Shouldn't there be a web-based way to select the mail account to access?

Also, I can't log out of the neomail inbox that I can access (the default address); clicking on "logout" gives me a "document contains no data" error message.

Just trying to get this stuff straightened out before I shift my site from the old server. TIA.

-- Gary

[JordanTLClive]

If you had the address you@yourname.com, type in you@yourname.com in the password box. Every pop3 box will be able to be accessed that way.

[gary_c]

Thanks for your reply. Right now I can't get the password box for a second mailbox because I can't log *out* of my first choice. Clicking on the neomail's inbox log-out icon gives me a "document contains no data" error. So the next time I go to the :2095 address, my first mail box inbox opens (neomail reads the cookie) so there's no way to get to a new password box and from there to a second mailbox. I checked your suggestion by using IE rather than Netscape. It didn't have the cookie set already so I got a fresh log-in form. Now my second mailbox is the only one I can access with IE. I can't log out of that neomail inbox either, only get an error.

Since I plan on having more POP boxes than I have browsers, I see a problem with this situation up ahead :) . And I don't want to disable cookies just to make neomail work. Can you log out of your neomail inboxes okay?

-- gary

[gary_c]

While I'm on this subject, here's another thing that bothers me about neomail, which wasn't a problem with WebMail Check. Any of the POP account folders can be deleted from the inbox of all of the POP accounts. So my daughter (for example) could be using her POP account with neomail and could delete my other mailboxes. It seems neomail wasn't intended to be multiuser, with this security breach. It's too bad because otherwise neomail seems to have a more sophisticated interface than WebMail Check.

Am I seriously confused or are these valid concerns? If they're valid, is it possible for WebMail Check or some other web mail program that hides others' POP boxes to be an option, instead of neomail?

-- gary_c

[JordanTLClive]

You are obviously free to setup your own programs on your server to check your email. I HIGHLY reccomend that you use a program such as Microsoft Outlook to check your email. You can get Outlook Express for free and it has identities, so your daughter could not only NOT delete your folders, but not even see what folders you have!

[gary_c]

Sure, I'm aware that I can use an email client locally that can check multiple POP accounts. In fact I've been doing that for a long time with Mail-It on BeOS. What I liked about WebMail Check is that I could create a POP account for a friend -- friend@mydomain -- and they could use it either with a regular email client or with their browser, and they had no access whatsoever to any of my other POP accounts. In other words, WebMail Check is a relatively secure multiuser web mail application, whereas Neomail is not, as far as I can tell.

[charlesr]

I personally do not like Neomail! I noticed the problem also with the folders in Neomail. However I don't believe it actually deleted the folder. I personally do not like everyone to know every email address created in the pop accounts, and it shows that by the folders. I would rather see WebMail installed again in place of Neomail. Not really sure of why they installed the new one, unless they like the feature of folders?

If you go to the site http://www.mailreader.com/ the WebMail program is there to do as we what with it. Free source code, under the GNU. I think Neomail is free also. So if it was my decision since there is no cost, just reinstall the old software it works best for me. I haven't heard to many positive results from people using neomail, probably because new people haven't see what the old one was like!

I don't think there would be any trouble in installing the software, I haven't done it yet. But when I am forced to be on the new servers, sure enough I will install it. To many bugs with neomail. Thanks :)

[gnorthey]

I am satisfied with both NeoMail and MailReader.

NeoMail is available from source forge which makes it one of those developer projects where you just have to put up with the glitches.