3.3. MAIL MENU

CHAPTER 3. HOW DO I USE CPANEL?

3.3

Mail Menu

The Mail Menu area allows you to manage all aspects of your email, from adding new accounts, managing mailing

lists, and setting spam filters. There are quite a number of options available, so take your time. Note: All email

options can be used in conjunction with each other. For example, you could set up an auto responder on your

main account to email an  Out of Office  message, a forwarder to send the email to your uncle's house where you

are staying, and a spam filter to reject all email with  credit  in the subject line. This flexibility is what makes

email so powerful as a communication medium.

Figure 3.5: Mail Menu

3.3.1

Reading your email

You can read your online email using NeoMail or Horde. Both of these popular webmail scripts allows

you to read your email, save them, keep an address book, and perform all of the other basic email functions

that you are used to. The main difference between NeoMail and an offline email applications, such as Eudora or

Microsoft Outlook Express, is that all of these functions are performed online, rather than on your own computer,

and offline applications generally provide many more features. NeoMail or Horde is optional. You can still use

your favorite offline email applications, if you prefer. You can even use a combination of NeoMail or Horde and

another tool   you can check your e mail online, perhaps when you're at work, and download your email to your

computer when you get home. You can automatically configure Outlook Express , or manually configure other

mail applications.

To read your email online:

1. Click on the Web Mail link in the Mail Menu area to access your default email account, or click on the

Add / Remove accounts link and click on the Read Webmail link next to the account that you want

to read.

Note: You can also save this link as a bookmark, so that you can access it without having to use CPanel.

2. Click on the web application that you would like to use.

3. You are now in the NeoMail or Horde window for your default email address. Refer to the page 15 if you

need more information about using NeoMail or page 16 if you need more information about using Horde.

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