Table of Contents

1. Logging In
2. Change Your Password
3. Forwarding Your Email
4. Options Field
5. Adjusting your Auto Responder

1. Logging In

To log into your mail account, use the following URL: mail.bluesoft.ca/Admin This link should take you to the administration login form. If this doesn't work, it may be that whoever set up your account did not make it "self configurable". Contact the person who set up your account.

On the login screen, fill in your FULL email address, including the domain name. For example, FredT@MyDomain.com. A common mistake is to forget the domain name. Once you log in, you will see a screen allowing you to adjust various parameters in your account, with four section: User, Forward, Options and Responder.

2. Change Your Password

Once you are logged in, just type the new password into both the password field and the Confirm Password field, then push "save".

3. Forwarding Your Email

This field would be used if you wanted someone else to handle your company mail while you were away. But keep in mind that you can now access your own mail from anywhere in the world using the webmail interface, so its not used as much as it used to be.

4. Options Field

The options field suggests that there is an anti-spam filter. However it is useless, because it takes too much effort to type in every junk mail message. See separate documents on how to prevent spam.

5. Adjusting your Auto Responder

The idea of the auto responder is to automatically send a reply to anyone who emails you when you are out of town, saying something like: "Your message has been received. I am out of town till May 18th"

To "set" the responder, push the link titled "Responder File" and type in your message. Then push "save", and then push "Refresh". The reason for pushing "refresh" is to avoid a bug whereby the old page will continue to be displayed. Once you have the message in, then flip the drop down from "Do not respond" to "Respond Always". And again push "Refresh", just to avoid confusion.

To turn your responder off, erase the message, and push save, then push refresh. And sent the drop down to "Do Not Respond".

The refresh bug has been reported, and at some point, the mail server will be upgraded to fix this problem.