Email Guide: using Webmail

Horde Mail – use this to read you email – it is one of three different styles we have available.

Squirrel Mail - – use this to read you email – it is one of three different styles we have available.

Squirrel Mail is one of the most common webmail clients

& the one most people are familiar with

Roundcube – use this to read you email – it is one of three different styles we have available.

Is handy as it shows attachment sizes

Change Password – lets you change your password (obviously)

A few notes on password security

NEVER use the first part of your email address as password

Always use a combination of letters & numbers

Try not to use dictionary words

Aim for 6 characters or more

Lets you forward emails from this address to another one, say a gmail or hotmail account.

Forwarding does not delete the email from this account, so be sure to periodically login & delete old emails

Allows you to automatically respond to emails sent to this address. For example you might like to have a holiday message telling people when you will be answering emails again

Lets you generate a small file with auto configuration for common email clients. Also shows you configuration settings for incoming & outgoing mail servers. NOTE – some of this information may not work, as we are utilizing different outgoing mail servers to those defined

The email clients that can be auto configured are:

Auto-Configure Microsoft Outlook 2000® for IMAP Access
Auto-Configure Microsoft Outlook 2000® for IMAP Access (SSL)
Auto-Configure Microsoft Outlook 2000® for POP3 Access
Auto-Configure Microsoft Outlook 2000® for POP3 Access (SSL)
Auto-Configure Microsoft Outlook Express® for IMAP Access
Auto-Configure Microsoft Outlook Express® for IMAP Access (SSL)
Auto-Configure Microsoft Outlook Express® for POP3 Access
Auto-Configure Microsoft Outlook Express® for POP3 Access (SSL)
Auto-Configure Mac Mail.app® for IMAP Access
Auto-Configure Mac Mail.app® for IMAP Access (SSL)

* Mac Mail IMAP Note: The "IMAP Path Prefix" needs to be set to INBOX otherwise Mail.app will not be able to store deleted, draft or sent mail on the server.

When accessing an email account through a desktop email application such as Outlook Express®, the email application will require specific information about that email account. You can use the auto-configure options below to attempt to automatically configure your email application. If the available options are not compatible with your application, you will need to use the Manual Settings information to configure the application.Note: IMAP email access coordinates between the server and you mail application. Messages that have been read/deleted/replied-to will show as read/deleted/replied-to both on the server and in the mail application. POP3 does not coordinate with the server. Messages marked as read/deleted/replied-to in the mail application will not show as read/deleted/replied-to on the server. This means that future downloads of your inbox or other mailboxes with POP3 will show all messages as unread.

You will be better off setting email accounts up manually

Manual Settings

Mail Server Username: your emailaddress@australis.net
Incoming Mail Server: mail.australis.net
Incoming Mail Server: (SSL) australis.apphosting.com
Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.australisit.net port 25
Outgoing Mail Server: (SSL) mail.australis.net (server requires authentication) port 465
Supported Incoming Mail Protocols: POP3, POP3S (SSL/TLS), IMAP, IMAPS (SSL/TLS)
Supported Outgoing Mail Protocols: SMTP, SMTPS (SSL/TLS)

You can enter an email address to see the routes a test email takes to delivery