WebMail Administration

This tutorial describes the administration screen accessible to administrators within the WebMail system.

Before you start

Make sure you have followed Setting up WebMail to enable your webmail service.

For each user who will have administration permission, make sure the 'System Administration Privileges' box is checked in the Users' Properties dialog box.

 

Log in as an administrator

Log in usng the administrator's primary mailbox name, and the administrator's password.

 

View the Admin page

Now you are logged on you can send and receive email however we are more interested in the administration page, so click Admin in the top navigation.

The Administration page is split into four sections: Domain, Self Registration, Messages, and Search Message Contents. We will look at each of these in turn:

Each Mailtraq installation can have a domain name, and several domain aliases (you might have registered domain.com and also domain.org). This dropdown allows you to select the domain name that should be used for all outgoing mail that WebMail users generate.

 

If checked, this section will enable users to sign themselves up to use the service, even if they are not already listed as a User within the Mailtraq Console.

You should create a template user and mailbox within the Mailtraq Console, and select them in the dropdown boxes. Be sure to give them the correct permissions - you would not, for example, want to give every user administration privileges!

To prevent abuse you may want to request an email address (separate from this WebMail system), and, if you do, you can set the system to email them at that address with a random password, which they would then have to use to login with.

 

This section provides controls to prevent abuse of the system. You can limit the number of recipients, and you can record the IP address of the machine the user is connecting from. This option is most useful if you are providing a public access service, as this helps trace a user in the case of an abuse complaint.

 

One of the most powerful features of the Mailtraq WebMail system is its support for full-text searches of messages. However as this can be extremely CPU-intensive, it is disabled by default. If you choose to enable it, you can specify the maximum number of results to return, and the amount of time the search should take - searches which take longer are abandoned. See notes on system requirements.

 

When you have adjusted the settings for your server, click 'Save Changes'.