Adding a User Account

To begin adding a user account, click on Add User from the Email Accounts page. When you do so, you will be presented with a page that contains the items below. When the items are set to the values you want, click on the Save button to finish adding the user.

Note: Many of these values, especially those in Display Settings and Compose Settings, can be left at the defaults when adding a new user account, as they are better set by the user. They are included in the Add User page so you may edit them if you wish, however.

Mailbox

Username - The email address (e.g. "user" in user@domain.com).

Password - Enter a password for the email account.

Confirm Password - In order to ensure you typed the new password correctly, enter it again in this space.

Display Name - Enter the name of the person using the email account.

Reply-to address - Enter an alternate reply address you wish to use. This will be the default reply to address for mail sent from this account.

Time Zone - Choose the time zone that you wish to use in SmarterMail. Daylight Saving Time is automatically managed by SmarterMail.

Mailbox size - This box allows you to set the maximum mailbox size for the account you are adding.

Disable this user - This will completely disable this user, but the account is not deleted. The user will not be able to log in, send or receive email for this account until you reactivate it.

Domain administrator - If this option is checked, the user will have full domain administrator privileges, including the ability to add and edit users.

Lock password - This option 'locks' the password for end users. If this option is checked the user will not be able to change their password.

Hide from Global Address List - Enabling this option will remove the user account from the Global Address List. Use this option on accounts that are not tied to real people, like support@example.com.

Enable POP retrieval - Enabling this option will allow the user to pull their messages from a remote mail server into their account using POP.

Forwarding

Forwarding address - If you wish to send copies of all incoming mail to a different email address, enter it here. For example, if your mobile phone has an email account and you will be away from your computer, enter the mobile phone's email address here to recieve the emails on it. You can only forward to a single email address. If you need to send to multiple addresses, have your domain administrator create a user alias for you.

Forwarding exclusions - If you wish to limit what emails are sent as forwards, you may choose to do so with this option to avoid forwarding spam.

Delete message on forward - Check this box to delete the message from the inbox of the original email account after forwarding it to the new email address.

Webmail Display

Sort messages by - When viewing the messages in a folder, they will be sorted according to the option chosen in this drop down. By default, messages are sorted by date in decending order.

Skin - If the system administrator allows domains to change skins, select the skin you would like to set for this user's default from the drop down list.

Compose

Spell Check Dictionary - Choose from any of the dictionaries that the administrator has installed on the server, or choose to auto-detect which dictionary to use from your browser's language setting.

Compose Format - Choose the method of email composing that you would like to use.

• HTML - Use this option if you wish to add stylistic elements to your emails
• Plain Text - Use this for a simple method of email editing. You will not be able to change colors or fonts, but your emails will generally be much smaller and readable on more email clients

Text Encoding - Choose the encoding that you wish to use for outgoing messages. Encodings define what character sets are used in messages you compose through the web interface.

Compose Window Size - Choose the edit window size from this drop down that best works with your browser. Recommended is small for resolutions smaller than or equal to 800x600, medium for 1024x768, and large for resolutions equal to or higher than 1280x1024.

Forwarding Method - There are several methods by which a message can be forwarded. Please see the list below to understand each of them.

• Normal - Includes original content, including font styles from original message, as part of the new message.
• Plain text only - Inserts the plain text version of the original message into the new message. This is useful if you want to exclude links or fonts.
• Embed as attachment - Attaches the original message to the new one. The message will not appear in the body of your message.

Reply Header Type - Choose whether to include a shortened basic header in your replies, or the full header instead. For most users, basic headers will be sufficient.

Reply Text Indicator - If your compose method is plain text, this character will get added to each line of the original message in order to distinguish it.

Include previous replies in reply - If checked, the message you are replying to will get embedded in the new message.

Save copy of replies in Sent Items folder - If checked, all messages you send from the web interface will get saved in the Sent Items folder. If you send many messages, you may need to regularly delete items from the sent items folder.

Signature - Add text to this area for a 'signature' that will display at the bottom of each email message that is composed in the web interface.

Adding a User Alias

A user alias is an email address that forwards messages to a list of email addresses. Even though an alias acts as an email address, users cannot login to an alias like they do a standard email address since no email is ever actually stored for the alias. Emails are just sent to the list of addresses provided for the alias. For example, in a working environment with multiple email addresses, the office may want to make a central email address that distributes messages to all personnel. The alias workplace@example.com can be made for messages to be sent and then distributed to all of the employees.

To begin adding a user alias, click on Add Alias from the Email Accounts page. After you fill out the fields on the page, click on Save to finish adding the alias.

Alias Name - Enter the name of the alias

Emails - Enter the full email addresses of the users to which this email should direct incoming mail.

Note: For more information on using the alias as a catch-all, see the topic Using a Catch-All.

Domain Spam Filtering

With many advanced features, Anti-Spam measures will help protect your users from unwanted email. The system administrator has probably already set up some default spam options which you may accept or override as you feel is best.

Use default spam settings - Choose this option to accept the default spam options provided by your system administrator. The settings will be displayed for your reference.

Override spam settings for this domain - Select this option to customize the way spam is handled. Spam check weights and actions will become overridable. More information about the types of actions allowed can be found below.

Spam check weights - Each type of spam check has an associated weight that factors into the spam probability of a message. When an email comes in, all of the checks listed are run, and for each check that the message fails, the weight is added to the overall score of the email. The thresholds for each spam probability are examined, and the email is placed into the appropriate category.

SPF Filtering Options
Pass - Indicates that the email was sent from the server specified by the SPF record (more likely good mail). The weight you set may be 0 (for no effect) or a negative number, thereby reducing the spam rating.

Fail - Indicates that the email was sent from a server prohibited by the SPF record (highly likely spam). Set this to a relatively high weight, as the probablility that the email was spoofed is very high.

SoftFail - Indicates that the email was sent by a server that is questionable in the SPF record. This should either be set to 0 or a low spam weight.

Neutral - Indicates that the SPF record makes no statement for or against the server that sent the email. Except in very special circumstances, leave this set to 0.

PermError - Indicates that the email sender does not publish an SPF record or there is a syntax error in the record. Since SPF is relatively new, many legitimate domains do not have SPF records. It is recommended that you leave this at 0 until SPF becomes more popular on the internet.

Actions
When you choose to override the spam options set by your system administrator, you get to choose the actions that are taken when email comes in that has a low, medium, or high priority of being spam. For each spam level, choose the action you wish to have taken. If you chose to add text to the subject line of messages, enter in the text in the box below the action drop down.

Trusted Senders - Email addresses (ex: joe@example.com) or domain names (ex: example.com) can be added to the domain list of trusted senders. When email comes in from a trusted sender, all spam filtering for that email is bypassed. Enter one email address or domain name per line.

When all settings are entered, click on the Save link.