General settings
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General settings

You reach "General Settings" by clicking on Settings in the webmail-module, then click on "General Settings"

Account Name

Enter the name of the account, should be unique.

Sort E-mails by:

Control how emails in the maillist are sorted.

Sort by Account ?

Check this to sort all mails by the account from which they were fetched.

Short view in maillist for columns from/to:

The columns "from" and "to" are listed in a short way. (e.g. long: Name <name@name.com>, short: Name)

Show the size of the mails in the maillist:

Display the size of each mail in the maillist (if this is not checked: Then the size of the mail is displayed in the preview pane)

Number of E-mails to show per page:

Number of mails that are shown in the maillist on one page.

Time to wait after downloading/sending messages:

The time in seconds to wait after sending or receiving mails

Always hide sidebar:

Automatically hides sidebar. This is useful when working with 800x600.

Minimize sidebar when viewing other websites:

This minimizes the sidebar when klicking on links in the tree / sidebar (currently unused)

Sidebar width [pixel]:

Controls the sidebar width. (default: 100)

Tree width [pixel]:

mpacts the width of the tree. When using large directory structures you may need to increase this value. (default: 200)

Notify me when new mails are available:

When new mails are available on one of the accounts, a special symbol () appears in the toolbar. Clicking on it, a list of new mails is displayed. Then you are able to delete unwished mails before downloading them.

[Important]Important

Notifying is only active when the webmail module is opened in the browser

Time in seconds to look for new mails:

Defines how many seconds to wait until performing a new check.

Always compose E-mails in HTML:

Setting this a java-applet is loaded everytime you compose a new mail. (requires Sun Java Runtime Edition)

Always add signature to new E-Mails:

The "Add Signature" checkbox is automatically enabled when composing mails.

Signature:

Define your signature (this is a special text you can always add at the end of your mails)

Don't fetch E-mails bigger than [size in kb]:

Enter here the maximum size of emails to fetch. "Oversize mails" are left on the account and don't get deleted

Anti-Spam Functionality:

In order to protect you from spam you can define some rules to detect spam. Those mails that are detected as spam are moved to the "Undesired"-folder (subfolder of trash).

Defining rules: Every rule is written in one line.

Disabled file extensions:

Most viruses are sent via email including infected attachments. To block attachments you don't need, you can define its extensions. e.g. to block all .exe and .vbs-files type: .exe, .vbs

Be aware the whole email is still fetched from your mail-server to the mgw-server, the unwanted attachments are only blocked for downloading to your computer.

Always recache E-mails (slower):

Parsing emails can take a long time (especially for html-newsletters with many attached inline images). To parse big mails it may be neccessary to increase "memory_limit" in your php.ini (default is 8M = 8 MByte).

Therefore all emails are cached. In the first step of the caching-process all attachments are extracted from the mail and stored at cache/attachments (for normal attachments) or at cache/img (for images).

In the second step the rest of the mail is filtered by some criteria (see next two options for this) and stored at cache/readmessage.

Display emoticons as graphics:

Displays emoticons as graphics in the preview pane. (e.g. :), :-), :-(, :(, ;-), :-P, :-D, :-[, :-\\ )

Enable inline display of attachments such as images, text files, etc.:

Using this option some attachments are displayed directly in the mail. This happens to images and text-files.

[Note]Note

All known file-types are listed in /webmail2/inc/mime_types.php, all unknown file-types are treated as prossible viruses and a warning message is displayed when downloading)

Secure HTML E-mails:

Filters all emails with inline html-content. Most viruses contain javascript-code or redirect using iframes, etc. That's why some tags are simply filtered with this option:

If you are programming viruses and want to test them, please unset this option or use M$ Outlook (Express).

Don't download external images:

When viewing html-mails (e.g. newsletters) external images are not downloaded. Most companies use these images to implement a disposition notification for their spam mails.

Show the Structure of an E-Mail:

Display the structure of a mail in the preview pane.

Enable Downloading a mail as .eml file:

This enables th ecomplete download of an email as .eml-file in the preview pane. (by clicking on structure inside the preview pane)

Scan all ciritical attachments for viruses:

Perform a scan for viruses of all critical attachments before downloading them. (Those attachments that are critical or not are listed in modules/webmail2/inc/mime_types.php)

System-path of your virus scanner:

When scanning attachments for viruses you need to define the location of your virus-scanner. (e.g. /usr/local/f-prot/f-prot for Windows & F-Prot or c:/scan/scan.exe for McAfee-Commandline-Scanner for Windows)

Virus Scanner:

Defines the type of your virus-scanner.

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