CommuniGate Pro WebMail Guide

WebUser Interface Pages
WebUser Interface Settings
Password Modification
Public Info Editor
Automated Rules
RPOP Accounts
Secure Mail (S/MIME)

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 if 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 Interface 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 contains a link that opens the Password Editor page:

To update your password, enter your current password, then enter your new password twice, and click the Modify button.
Note: The New Password fields may be absent. This means that the Administrator did not allow you to modify your Account password.

You can specify the Password Recovery E-mail address. It should be an address of some other account, most likely - on some other system. If you ever forget your CommuniGate Pro Account password, you will be able to ask the Server to send your password to that E-mail address. To set the Password Recovery E-mail address, enter your current password and the Password Recovery E-mail address into their fields and click the Modify button.

Public Info Editor

The WebUser Interface Settings page contasins a link that allows you to open the Public Info Editor page. You can use this page to modify your Account data that is stored in the Directory. Other users can retrieve this information from the Directory, using any LDAP client, or Web access to the CommuniGate Pro Directory.

The System Administrator defines the set of Account Settings used as user's Public Info. If the Public Info Editor page contains no fields, the System Administrator has not speicifed any Public Info settings.

Name	Value
Work Phone:
City:

You can update the Public Info Account Settings by modifying the data in the value fields. Please note that the CommuniGate Pro Server can 'rename' Account Settings when storing them in the Directory. The City setting may be stored as the standard l directory attribute, while the Work Phone setting can be stored as the telephoneNumber attribute in your Directory record. The Server Administrator specifies the Account Settings <-> Directory Attribute renaming rules.

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.

Secure Mail (S/MIME)

The Web User interface allows you to send and receive digitally signed and encrypted messages. It can decrypt encrypted messages, verify digital signatures, and perform other Secure Mail operations.

The Secure Mail functionality is available only if your Account and Domain have the SMIME Service enabled.

See the WebUser Interface SMIME section to learn how to use Secure Mail functions.