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The instructions below are for Pacific Online's old webmail located
here:
http://email.pon.net/oldwebmail - Our current webmail is located
here: http://email.pon.net
The following instructions and screen
shots outline all of the icons listed on the left side of the screen
under the "Settings" Icon. A short description is followed
by a screen shot.
General Settings: This page lists the number of messages in
your mail box and the total space being used. More importantly it is
here that you can change your email password. You also have the option
to forward mail to another mail box as well as if your forwarding
mail, to also leave a copy of the forwarded message in Webmail.
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Home: This page contains fields for
inputting general information about yourself. This information is
basically for yourself and is not seen by others.
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Business: Again this information is
for yourself, and is not seen by other people.
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Vacation: There are many options
here pertaining to creating a message that is automatically sent to
people when they email you (usually this is used if you are going to
be away from your office or are on vacation). You can set this message
so that some people do not receive it, it replies only if the original
message was sent to you, and you can choose to either include or not
include the original message in the auto reply.
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Anti-Virus: Any viruses caught by
the filtering will show up in the Quarantine section with a little
picture of a "bug" next to them. This section is where you can
choose to have them put into the quarantine or deleted
automatically. Please note that if you have the viruses set to go
into your quarantine, they are not deleted when you delete and purge
your quarantine. You cannot get the virus by opening the virus
email. Messages stripped of viruses are removed daily from the
Quarantine section. If you want the viruses to automatically be
deleted simply choose the option "Delete message
immediately". Note that the Anti-Virus level of filtering cannot
be changed and is set to normal.
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Anti-Spam: This is a very important
section. The first three options allow you to either 1. Delete the
piece of SPAM immediately (you will never see it), 2. Block the
message into Quarantine (this is recommended, so that you can take a
cursory glance through your Quarantine section at any time to see the
types of email that it is catching), and 3. Tag and let message pass
through - this will let all email come into your mailbox, SPAM and
viruses alike.
The next important section on this screen is setting the level of your
SPAM filtering. The options are: Disabled, Normal, Strong, and
Extreme. We recommend either Normal or Strong...and you may want to
test these settings out for several days before you find one that
works best for you.
Lastly there are 8 types of categories that webmail defines SPAM as;
Custom, Hoax, Adult, Patterns, Goods, Health, Money, &
Miscellaneous. You can disable any of these simply by removing the
check box next to the appropriate category. These small icons will
appear next to messages in your quarantine so that you know what
category the SPAM was flagged as.
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Attachments: Emails with attachments
as bugs or viruses can be filtered. Here is where you do that. You
can set the level of filtering for attachments ranging from no filtering
to extreme filtering. You can either have the filtered email with the
attachment automatically deleted or saved in your quarantine. Like the
SPAM and Viruses, any filtered attachments are saved in quarantine for
14 days before being deleted.
You can also choose to send the sender or the recipient of the
attachment virus a "virus notification" alerting them that
they are sending a virus as an attachment.
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Reporting: This section is disabled
as to keep load down on the mail server.
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Blacklist: This section contains
email address that you do not want to receive email from. You can add
them directly here, or you can add them by opening the message in your
inbox and then clicking on the "add to blacklist" link at
the top of the actual message.
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Whitelist: This section contains
email address that for some reason appeared in your quarantine. You
can add their addresses directly here, or you can add them by opening
the message in your quarantine and then clicking on the "add to
whitelist" link at the top of the actual message.
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Display: This is an important
section as you can set the number of messages per page in webmail. We
recommend setting the number of messages per page to the maximum limit
which is 99 messages. You can also set the default language to one of
a very large number of languages available.
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Accounts: You can use this section
if you have another email account that is pop3/imap compatible.
Basically you enter this other email account information in the fields
provided including the incoming mail server setting for the email you
are setting up. Once setup, a folder will appear with your other
folders (when in the Inbox, all folders appear on the left hand side
of your screen). To check your email from this "virtual"
account, simply click on its folder name - and you will be able to
read all email from your "other" email account. This is a
pretty slick feature if you want read emails from your other email
accounts, all in one main email box!
Options: Here you can set things such as outgoing messages to
be sent in plain text or HTML, your signature file (this is text that
appears at the bottom of every email you send), and you can specify a
different "Reply To" address.
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