E-Mail

Sending

We allow sending mail through our servers (also known as "relaying") for our customers while trying as hard as we can to make this as quick and easy as possible for you while it is as hard as possible for worms, viruses and spammers to abuse our service.

So prior to sending mail through our server (typically mail.yourdomain.com) you need to authenticate first. There are two ways to do that:

1. You can use SMTP authentication

2. You can use an e-mail client to access any mailbox in your account after which our SMTP server will accept connections from your IP address for a small ammount of time

See the email chapter in the Control Manual for details.

All mail passing through our mail server is processed by SpamAssassin and/or other mail filthering software and we reserve the right to silently discard outgoing messages if our scanning software detects spam, viruses or other malicious content in them.

Receiving

We offer POP3, IMAP and web-based access to your mailboxes. You will need a mail client such as Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, Mozilla Mail, etc in order to access your mailbox via these protocols. In all cases you can enable spam filtering for your incoming mail in your Control Panel.

Please refer to the respective chapters of the Control Panel for details on how to set up a mail client or use Web-Based E-mail.

Web-based e-mail

You can also access your mailboxes using the web-based email client that we provide. All you need in this case is a web browser and a connection to the Internet.

We are using the IMP web e-mail client which is part of the Horde framework and has an addressbook and a spellchecker integrated.