All of our Unix based pro-series accounts now come with a control panel feature that controls email box creation, email forwarding, email alias creation and password maintenance. The control panel automatically alters the .domains file that resides in your account, so if you use the control panel you should leave the .domains file alone and of course never delete it.Changing your account password:To access your control panel point your web browser to the following address:
http://yourdomainname.com:911
So, if your domain name was basket.net, you would point your browser to:
http://basket.net:911
A username and password box will pop up automatically. Enter your website account's main username and password and you will gain access to the control panel. If a username and password box does not pop up then the control panel feature has not been installed into your server yet. This is a new feature and we hope to have it installed into all servers by the beginning of the year 2000.
Control panel feature instructions:
- changing your account password
- changing an email box password
- adding a mailbox
- deleting a mailbox
- creating an email alias
- deleting an email alias
- forwarding email from a mailbox or an alias
- what are those pesky "#" symbols for anyway?
- spam control for mailboxes
- reporting a control panel bug or error to technical support
After changing your main account password you will need to logon to the control panel again. You may have to shut down your web browser and re-load to accomplish this.
Note: All Passwords must be at least ten digits long and contain numbers and number and lower case letters for security reasons.
Please note that if your first mailbox (ie max) is your main account mailbox. If you alter your password for this mailbox you will also alter your main website account password. Keep this in mind. Also, never delete your main account mailbox.
Please note that although the email address people will send to will be called rabbit@yourdomain.com (for example), you must use your mailbox number when retrieving email through a POP email program. In this case, if your main account username is max and your domain name is yourdomain.com and mailbox rabbit is your third email box, then you would use POP setting max3@mail.yourdomain.com to retrieve your email for box rabbit.
NOTE WELL: Pro accounts come with unlimited mailboxes free (including your primary one). Space your mailboxes take up are a part of your disk space allotment. Creation of a mailbox beyond your allotted amount will result in additional charges to your account.
Click on the email addresses icon. Click on add. Specify the name of the alias to create (for example anynamehere) and press continue. The next screen (shown) asks you where the alias should point to. You can point it to an existing mailbox in your account, a brand new mailbox or forward it to an email address of our servers. Choose what you want and press submit.
You will now be taking back to the same screen. Aliases can point to multiple locations at once. For instance, you can have emails going to alias anynamehere@yourdomain.com forwarded to two locations at once! If you would like to specify an additional location for mail to be sent to for this alias, enter it...otherwise click on exit.