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SLU
Webmail Information
Logging
into webmail 
Setup webmail profile
- Click Mail in the left frame to open the mail application
- Click Options
- Click on Personal Information under the Your Information heading
- Select the Default Identity from the Your default identity: field
- Select the Default Identity from the drop down menu to edit this identity
- Under Your Full Name: type the name you want displayed on your emails
- Under Your From: Address type in your email address
- Under Your Reply-to address leave blank to use Your From: email address or type in your email address
- You can type in a signature in the Your Signature: section at the bottom of the page
- Check the box for Save Sent Mail? and choose Sent from the drop down menu
- Click Save Options
- Click on Mail in the left frame at the top of the window to return to your email
Compose
an email
- Click New Message
- Address
the new message
- Type a subject
- Type a message
- Click Send
Message
Read
e-mail
- Click
on the link under From or Subject to
read a message
Delete
messages
- Select
the messages you want
to delete (checkbox on
left)
- Click Delete
- Some
message(s)
will have a line
through
them, and a trash
can to
the left, these messages have been marked as deleted by another email program
- Click Empty
Trash folder to
permanently
remove deleted messages
Attach a file in e-mail
- Compose
a new message by clicking New Message
- Scroll to Attachments at the bottom
- Click
the Browse button
- Browse
to the file
- Select
the file, and click Open
- Click
the Update button
- The
file name will appear
in a new line
- Address,
compose, and send the
message
Create
a signature
for e-mail
- Click Mail in the left frame to open the mail application
- Click Options
- Click each drop down to select the proper identinty, usually Default Identity
- Scroll to the bottom and locate the Your Signature: section
- Type
(or paste) your signature
as you would like it
to
appear
- ClickSave Options
Create
folders
- Click
the Folders icon
at the top of the page
- If
you want the new
folder
to be a sub-folder
of an existing folder,
then you first must
check the box to
the left of the existing
folder
- Click the (+) plus symbol next to a folder to expand the sub-folders
- From
the Choose
Action drop-down
box, select Create
Folder
- Type
a name for your folder
- Click OK
Move
messages folder to folder
- Go
to the folder which contains the message your would like to move
- Select
the checkbox(s) next
to the message(s)
that you want to move
- From
the Move|Copy
drop-down menu,
select the folder
to which you
want to move the message
- Click
either Move or Copy
(to the left of that
menu)
- Move: moves
a copy of
the
message to the folder
you selected and
marks the copy in
the current folder
for deletion
- Copy: copies the message
to the folder you
selected, leaving
the original message
in the current folder
- To
automatically
direct messages
to
a particular folder
refer to section on Message
Filters below
Delete
folders
- Click
the Folders icon
- Click
the checkbox next to
the name of the folder(s)
you want to delete
- You
can select more than
one folder
- From
the Choose
Action selection
box, select Delete
Folder(s)
- Click OK
Rename folders
- Click
the Folders icon
- Click
the checkbox next to
the name of the folder(s)
you want to rename
- From
the Choose
Action drop-down
box, select Rename
Folder(s)
Type
the new name for your
folder
Click OK
Creating and Managing message filters
You can filter your mail by automatically deleting or filing messages with certain characteristics which you specify. For example, have all the mail from a listserv or particular sender automatically filed in a specific folder. You can then review those messages at your leisure without them clutteringup your inbox.
- Click Mail in the left frame to open the mail application
- Click the (+) plus symbol to left of Mail in the left frame to expand the Mail section
- Click Filters directly below mail on the left frame
- This will display all mail filtering rules in the main frame
- These rules are writen dierctly to the email server, they will be applied to each message delievered to your mailbox
- Whitelist: these addresses will be dlivered directly to your inbox
- Vacation: you can specify a message to be sent in relpy to all incoming mail, used primarilly for out of office responses
- Blacklist: you can automtially delete or send all matching message to the trash with this list
- Forward: this rule will forward listed messages to another email address
- Click the link to go to the Forward Filter
- enter the email address you would like to forward mail to
- Click Save
- To create a new filter click New Rule
- Enter a name for the rule in the Rule Name: field
- Select a the logic for rule matches, All of the following allows multiple criteria with and logic, Any of the following allows multiple criteria with or logic
- Select
the field by which
to filter your mail
- Select the matching criteria, for example:
- Is will match a spcific string, like a single mail address
- Ends with can match a number of email addresses from a specific domain
- Specify
the text
you want to filter
for
- "To" "Ends with" "listserv.stlawu.edu" will match all message from our listserv
- "To" "Is" "faculty@listserv.stlawu.edu" will match any message from the faculty list
- Select
the
filter
action under Do this:
- Select
the appropriate action
depending on
what you want
to
happen to the
filtered mail.
- If
you want
the mail moved,
then
you will need
to select Deliver to folder: and then select the
appropriate
folder from
the drop-down
box to the right of the action
- Delete message completely will remove the message without sending it to the Trash, follow the step ablove and select the Trash folder to send it to the Trash
- You can also send messages to another email address with Redirect to:
- Also Reject with reason:, sending a message back to the sender
- Click
Save
- Repeat
process as desired
to
create
more filter
rules
- Specify
the order in which
you want the filters
applied by ordering
the list of
filter
rules. Filters
will be automatically
applied in the
order they appear
in the list
- Click the arrows to the right of the filter rule to move the rule up or down in order.
- To turn the filter rule on or off click the green check (to disable) or red x (to enable)
- To delete a rule click the trash can icon to the left of the filter rule
- To copy a rule click the copy button to the left of the filter rule
- To edit the new rule click the Copy of originallistname link
- Specify a new name in the Rule Name: field
- update the mail filter criteria
- Click Save to finish
Using
campus address book
- Click Options
- If you are not in the Mail application select Mail from the Edit options for: field and click Go
- In
the Other
Options column,
click Address Books
- A
new screen will appear
with options to choose
the order of address
books to search when expanding
addresses (detail)
- Under
Available Address books,
highlight SLU Directory
- Press
the finger button that
points to the right
- SLU
Directory should now
be listed under Selected
Address books
- Verify
that My
Address
Book is also listed
under Selected
Address books
- If
not, highlight
it and
move it as done
in previous step
- Select the address book under Selected Address books
- Then below click to hilight the flieds to search in each address book (detail)
- In
the section labeled "Choose the address book to use when adding addresses.", set this to My
Address
Book
- Click Save
Options
- Make
sure that you can search
and successfully find
addresses
- Click
on the Address Book button at the top of the page
- Make
sure SLU Directory is listed
in the third box
- Select the field to search form the drop-down menu next to find
- Type
in a search string
- Click Search
- Click
the name
to find the e-mail address
- Within the users account details you can click on the
address
to open a new message to that user
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