WEBMAIL CLIENT OPTIONS

You can read your online e-mail using NeoMail, Horde, or SquirrelMail if your web hosting account allows this. All of these popular web mail applications allow you to read your e-mail, save them, keep an address book, and perform all of the other basic e-mail functions that you are used to. The main difference between web mail and an offline e-mail applications, such as Eudora or Microsoft Outlook Express, is that all of these functions are performed online, rather than on your own computer, and offline applications generally provide more features.

Horde summary
Horde is a full-featured e-mail application. The text below describes the main buttons in Horde and what they do. This is provided as a summary reference, and not a detailed description of how to use Horde. If you do not know how to use some of the features, have a look at the Horde Short Introduction.

Horde functions (available from the top menu bar):

1. Inbox - Displays your inbox with all your current mail that has not been viewed, moved, or deleted.
2. Compose - Write a new e-mail message. There are several options available, such as using an address book to choose the recipient(s) of your e-mail, adding attachments, and using special characters in the e-mail.
3. Folders - Organize your mail messages into different folders. You can have as many different folder as you want.
4. Options - Set a large number of options on how you use Horde. Please read the description of a setting carefully before applying it.
5. Search - Search for a particular e-mail message. You can search by any field in the e-mail and search through any folder.
6. Help - Displays the Horde online help. Please read this help when you have any questions or problems.
7. Addressbook - Stores e-mail addresses of contacts. Click on any e-mail address to create a new e-mail message to that person.
8. Logout - Logs you out of the Horde application. You should always do this when you have finished using Horde.
   

Additional Horde functions (available from the bottom menu bar):

1. Calendar - Displays a calendar on which you can enter events.
2. Memos - Create notes for your future reference.
3. Tasks - Create a list of tasks that you need to perform.

SquirrelMail summary
SquirrelMail is a full-featured e-mail application. The text below describes the main buttons in SquirrelMail and what they do. This is provided as a summary reference, and not a detailed description of how to use SquirrelMail. If you do not know how to use some of the features, have a look at the SquirrelMail home page.

SquirrelMail functions:

1. Compose - Write a new e-mail message. There are several options available, such as using an address book to choose the recipient(s) of your e-mail, adding attachments, and choosing a signature.
2. Addresses - Stores e-mail addresses of contacts. Click on any e-mail address to create a new e-mail message to that person.
3. Folders - Organize your mail messages into different folders. You can have as many different folder as you want.
4. Options - Set a large number of options on how you use SquirrelMail. Please read the description of a setting carefully before applying it.
5. Search - Search for a particular e-mail message. You can search by any field in the e-mail and search through any folder.
6. Help - Displays the SquirrelMail online help. Please read this help when you have any questions or problems.

NeoMail summary
NeoMail is fairly self-explanatory. The text below describes the main buttons in NeoMail and what they do. This is provided as a summary reference, and not a detailed description of how to use NeoMail. If you do not know how to use some of the features, have a look at the NeoMail home page.

Note: You can not use HTML code in NeoMail - plain text only.

NeoMail functions:

1. Inbox - Choose a folder to display. The default folder is your Inbox.
2. Compose - Compose a new e-mail message and send it using the Send button. You can not use HTML code - plain text only.
3. Refresh - Refreshes the displayed page. Use it to check if new mail has arrived since the window was opened.
4. User Preferences - Displays the Preferences page, which allows you to set a variety of options., such as default language, number of messages displayed per page, and your e-mail signature.
5. Address Book - Displays your Address Book of saved e-mail addresses. Click on an address to create a new e-mail with their e-mail address automatically added.
6. Folders - Allows you to create new folders and delete old ones. Useful for organizing your e-mail.
7. Empty Trash - Empties the neomail-trash folder.
8. Logout - Closes the connection between you and NeoMail.
9. Page Navigation - Navigate to the first, previous, next, last, or specific page of e-mail.
10. Move - Moves the selected items to the displayed folder - the default folder is the trash. Click on the on the tick box next to the specific message to select, or click on the All tick box to select all messages in this window.