Table of Contents

1. How to Administer Your Account
2. How to set up your Email Client

1. How to Administer Your Account

(Rewritten 2004.07.18) Administer your account means things like changing your password, or using the auto-responder when you are on holidays. You can administer your account in two ways:

1. Thru the webmail interface.
  2. Thru the self-admin screens.
  The webmail is the simplest method. However certain more complex things such as putting additional aliases on your account must be done with the self-admin screen.

1. Thru Webmail interface: Just log into the webmail by typing mail.bluesoft.ca into any browser. Then look for the appropriate links.

2. Thru Self Admin Screens: To do this, your account must be enabled for self-admin. Any account can be configured for self-admin. Talk to your mail admin about this. In any web browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator), type mail.bluesoft.ca/admin into the browser window. This will bring up a login form. For your user name, type in your full email account, including the domain name. Eg: JohnB@MyDomain.com. For the password, use your current password. When you login, you will see a screen with all the information about your account, including aliases. In future, you can use this screen to change your password, or to use the auto responder. To get more aliases added, you have to ask your "domain administrator".

2. How to set up your Email Client

Given that you have verified that your account is working correctly, most people still want to configure a specialized email client such as Eudora, MS Outlook, or Netscape Communicator so they actually download the messages onto their own machine. This is typically where all the problems occur, because there are so many different versions of email clients, each of which have the necessary fields in a different location. For this reason, I wrote a separate document describing setting up email clients. Setting up Mail Clients for the Merak Server