E-mail for Linux Servers

Setting up e-mail

The Linux server using the Blue Quartz control panel allows you to set up additional users for your domain through the control panel (<yourdomain>/admin/). 

Any user can receive e-mail.  E-mail can be left on the server or forwarded to a specified address. Each user can also have aliases associated with it.  Aliases are the names people can send e-mail to (i.e. sales@yourdomain.com, support@yourdomain.com, etc.)  An Alias forwards mail to a  user within the domain.

If you wish to create a user, click on "add user."  Because every user on the server has to have a unique name, you may find that common names are unavailable (webmaster, sales, etc.).  Don't worry, you can still receive e-mails to any name you wish, but you may need to do so through aliases.

Let's say you want to create a user name for someone named Tom Jones.  You would enter Tom Jones's name, and then list a user name (like tjones, or jonest, etc.)  If you would like all e-mail addressed to sales@yourdomain.com to go to Tom Jones, then in the box label "e-mail aliases" you would simply enter "sales" (without the quotation marks).

After the user is created,  you will be placed back on the page listing the users, and your new user will be listed.  If you wish to place a forwarding address for that user, then you should click on the envelope icon and you will be taken to an e-mail admin page for that specific user.

If you do not specify a forwarding address, mail will remain on the server .  In order to download mail, you must configure your mail client (i.e. Netscape, Eudora, Outlook) to download your mail directly from the mail server. When configuring a client for POP3, use the syntax mail.yourdomainname.com  for your POP3   mail server, and the username and password that has been created under your domain name.

You will also be asked for an SMTP server name.  This is the outgoing mail server.   We recommend using your ISP's SMTP server.  The SMTP server name is generally invisible to people who will receive your e-mail.  All that most people will see is the identity that you specified when you set up your mail client, and this can be your own domain name.  However, you can use the SMTP server for you domain name if you wish.   The SMTP server is the same as the POP e-mail server (mail.yourdomain.com) 

IMPORTANT:  If you do use your own domain's SMTP, you should note that the Linux server has a security function that prevents unauthorized use of the outgoing server.   This security function is called "POP before SMTP."  In order to send mail through the SMTP, you must first try to download mail from the server.   Downloading mail requires a password, so this authenticates you as an authorized user, and allows you to send mail for a period of time thereafter (about 15 minutes).

Web Mail

You can view your email through your web browser.  Simply go to www.yourdomain.com/webmail and log in with the appropriate use name and password.

Changing mail settings for individual users

Individual users can change their passwords, mail forwarding address (if any) and autoresponder (vacation message) simply by going to www.yourdomain.com/admin.