Creating
separate POP e-mail boxes for different e-mail accounts
is a good way to keep e-mail separate between departments
or personnel. POP boxes are currently the prominent
type of e-mail boxes in use on the Internet and can
be accessed with most major e-mail programs such as
Outlook Express.
A.
Creating
and Configuring POP Accounts ?
POP
accounts can be created only for specific e-mail addresses.
For example, e-mail addressed to specifically sales@youractualdomain.com
could be held in a private POP mailbox accessible
with a unique popID and password.
B.
How
to Configure Your E-mail Program:
Microsoft
Outlook Express :
This
page describes how to configure Outlook Express to
access your POP e-mail box.
1.
Select Accounts... from the Tools pull-down menu.
2.
You will see a listing of all the different accounts
that you have Outlook Express ....configured
to use. Click on Add... and select Mail... to add
a new e-mail account.
3.
From here out the Account Wizard will guide you. We
won't cover each of the ...steps in our instructions,
but the important information is below:
E-mail
address:
@yourdomain.com
Type
of mail server:
POP3
Incoming
Mail:
yourdomain.com
Outgoing
Mail:
Enter
the SMTP server provided by your ISP. UNIX hosting
users may enter smtp.yourdomain.com
Login
to the domain through secureCRT for which you want
create aliases.
Give
the Login & Passwd.
Then
next to $ sign type "pico. redirect" press
enter.
A
window would open, then do the following as below:
-
(suppose u want to create aliases such as radha, krishna
etc… for the domain geeta.com redirecting to
meera@hotmail.com)
radha
meera@hotmail.com
krishna meera@hotmail.com
default
login@domain.com
Then press "ctrl + x" to save the changes.
I
have some mails in my pop3 account but when trying
to download it keeps on asking for the password again
& again?
This
may be because there must be a bigger mail then the
allotted space to the pop3. Send mail to linuxsupport@cyberwebglobal.com
to delete the mail, which is creating the problem,
& also specify an email address where you would
like to forward your mails.
The
sophisticated mailing system called MonsterMail(tm)
is included as part of your service. In addition to
being able to have nearly unlimited infobots by simply
adding text files to a directory, you can also redirect
mail for everyone in your domain by simply modifying
a plain text file.
There
is a file in your home (root) directory called. redirect.
This file can be edited and reuploaded. Just make
sure that each of your redirects is on its own line,
with a space between the name and where you want it
directed to. Don't add empty lines between entries,
and make sure the file is saved in text (ASCII) format,
and uploaded in text (not binary) format. When you
download it to your hard drive, you will see that
it already has a one-line entry that looks like this:
default
yourdomain@yourdomain.com
This
line must be left as is, otherwise your POP email
accounts could get messed up. But suppose you want
all email for your domain to go to your already existing
POP account somewhere else. You would then change
your. redirect file to look like this:
If
you want to redirect other names in your domain to
other people, you could make the file look like this,
as an example:
default
yourdomain@yourdomain.com
Fred 73452.452@compuserve.com
info goddess@afterlife.com
This
would redirect mail for fred@yourdomain.com to 73452.452@compuserve.com,
info@yourdomain.com to goddess@afterlife.com, and
all other email in your domain would go to yourdomain@yourdomain.com.
The
benefit of PlusMail redirects is that you don't need
a separate POP account for each email address you
want to use in your domain. You can put in your webpages,
"Send email to help@yourdomain.com" without
the need to create a separate entry in the. redirect
file because ALL email goes by default to yourdomain@yourdomain.com,
unless "help" is specified to go somewhere
else!
Multiple
redirection is possible. For instance if you want
email to go to two addresses at the same time, enter
the different emails with no space and a comma to
separate them. You can have upto 4 email address to
cc:...they must be listed on the same line though.
For example:
Help
beavis@aol.com, butthead@prodigy.net
Email
redirects can be used in conjunction with autoresponders
to return an error message to people sending emails
to invalid email addresses on your domain. This autoresponder
could send back an error message like "Oops,
you reached an invalid address, please try again."
See "Simple Autoresponders" for how to implement
this.
An
autoresponder is a simple way of setting up an email
address, which will return a message automatically
when someone sends email to it. Here are the instructions
for setting this up.
In
your root (home) directory, there is a directory called
infobots. Set up a welcome message in this directory
-- you can name it anything you like, but for our
example we'll call it info. Don't call it info.txt
-- just name it plain info with no file extension.
The text for the welcome message could say:
"Thank
you for requesting more information about our webpage
design package. We have several design packages to
choose from. Here are our prices..."
Now,
whenever someone sends email to: info@yourdomain.com
they will automatically receive that text email message
to whatever email address they specified as their
return-to address. It's as simple as that. Don't set
up a redirect in your. redirect file for this.
You
can have as many autoresponders as you want. Just
save them all in the infobots directory and give them
each a unique name of anything with between 3-16 characters
long.
Please
visit the following links to download the software
as good as Telnet. As the port on which Telnet runs
has been blocked from the server end to Virus problem.
a)
http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/
b) www.zdnetindia.com
A
telnet account is just another name for Unix/Linux
userid. When you sign up with us, you get a userid
and password. You may ask for more than one such userid.
Each telnet account for your domain has its own separate
home directory, but shares the same www and FTP directories.You
need a telnet program to access your telnet account.
Simply put in yourdomain.com as the host, and connect
to the server. When you are connected, you will be
prompted for your userid and password.
Some
of the programs available at the shell prompt are:
·
mail - a primitive email program
· pine - a more powerful email program
· ftp - to FTP onto other sites
· telnet - to telnet to other sites
· pico - an easy to use text editor
· vi - a not so easy to use (but standard)
text editor
· lynx - a text-based world wide web browser.
In
general, it's a pretty complete POSIX environment.
You access these programs by typing in their names
and then following commands relevant to each program.
If you need help with any of the programs, at the
shell prompt, type man and the name of the program
to get instructions for that program online. If your
problem does not know the name of the program, try
apropos subject (i.e. apropos mail). It is important
to remember that Unix is case-sensitive, and that
"Index.htm" is not the same as "index.htm."
Note:
If
you experience problems with your telnet program when
accessing the above programs you will need to make
an entry in your login directories. bash_profile file.
Just add the following to the last line export TERM=vt100.
This will allow you to access all shell programs properly.
You
can find out how much space is in use by the www files
for your domain by using Telnet to log into your account
and then from the Unix prompt, typing the following:
du
-s /www/htdocs/yourdomain
This
will give you a report back of the number of kilobytes
(k) all files in your www directory add up to.
If
you have an anonymous FTP area, also check:
du
-s ~ftp/yourdomain.com
To
check how much space files in your home directory,
are using, type:
du
-s $HOME
Adding
up the results from all three of these commands will
give you the total amount of space you are using,
but a simpler way of checking all three directories
is to type:
du
* www/* anonftp/* -c
You
will then see a space report for each directory (-a
to see for each file) and at the end, a total.
Setting
up and Customizing Your Own "404 - File Not Found"
Error Page
A
file already exists in the www directory of your server.
Its called missing.html. You can edit it to your liking,
or create your own. As long as its called missing.html
and it's in your root www directory, the server will
display it whenever someone tries to access a page on
your domain that does not exist.
