CommuniGate Pro WebMail Guide

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The CommuniGate Pro server provides Web (HTTP/HTML) access to user accounts. The WebUser component works via the HTTP module and allows users to read and compose messages and to perform account and mailbox management tasks using any Web browser.

Even you prefer a regular POP or IMAP mail client, the WebUser Interface can be used to access the features unavailable in some mailers. For example, the WebUser interface can be used to specify Subscriptions and Access Control Lists for account mailboxes - the features many IMAP clients do not support yet.

The WebUser interface is completely customizable, so the pages shown in this section may look differently on your Server.

WebUser Interface Pages

The WebUser Interface consists of several types of HTML pages that you can access using the controls - links and buttons.

Hello page
This page is displayed when you log into the system. It allows you to switch to other WebUser Interface pages, as well as to other portions of your site.

Mailboxes page
This page lists all mailboxes in your account and allows you to create, rename, and remove mailboxes, and to open mailboxes so you can browse the messages stored in your mailboxes. See the Mailboxes section for more details.

Mailbox page
This page lists all messages stored in the selected mailbox. You can copy, move, redirect, forward and delete listed messages. You can open and read messages listed on the Mailbox page. See the Mailboxes section for more details.

Message page
This page presents the content of the selected message. You can read the message, copy, move, delete, redirect, and forward the open message, and you can reply to it. See the Messages section for more details.

Compose page
This page allows you to compose a new message and send it. See the Composing section for more details.

Settings page
This page allows you to customize your WebUser Interface.

WebSite page
This page allows you to upload files to your Personal Web Site.


WebUser Account Settings

You can tune the WebUser Interface by modifying settings on the Settings page.

The Settings page contains the options that customize Accesses to Mailboxes, Mailbox Browsing, Message Browsing, and Message Composing. Besides, it contains some generic settings:

  • Layout format (frames/no frames).
  • The address-controlling option used to protect WebUser virtual sessions.
  • The character set options.

The WebUser Interface Settings page contains a link to the account Mailbox Subscription and Mailbox Aliases page.


Password Modification

The WebUser Interface Settings page allows you to modify the account password:
Password Modification
Old Password:
New Password:
Reenter New Password:

To update your password, enter your current password, then enter your new password twice, and click the Modify button.

The WebUser Interface Account Settings page contains a link to the account Public Info page:

Personal Info
AttributeValueWhat's this?
country code
office fax
any useful info
city
home page
mobile phone
organization
pager
office phone
job title
 

Users can update their Publicly Available Information by modifying the data in the value fields. To create a new attribute, a user should enter the attribute name into the empty attribute name field in the line table row. Settings any value field to the empty string deletes that attribute.

The editor always shows a set of well-known (though still not standardized) attributes, but it does not store them if their values are empty.


Automated Rules

The Web User interface provides access to the account Automated Mail Processing Rules. If the Can Modify Account Rules account option is not enabled, then you can view the account Rules, but you cannot modify them.

You can turn the Auto-Reply option on and you can modify the Auto-Reply message text even if the Can Modify Account Rules option is not enabled for your account.

See the Automated Mail Processing Rules section to learn how to specify the Rules.


RPOP Accounts

The Web User interface provides access to the list of the Remote POP Accounts that the system polls on your behalf.

If the Can Modify RPOP Accounts account option is not enabled, then you can view the list of RPOP Accounts, but you cannot modify them.

See the RPOP Module section to learn how to specify the Remote POP Accounts to poll.


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