System Default Web Mail Preferences
How to get here
- From the home page, click the > tab. The page appears.
The IMail Administrator has the capability to globally set default web client preferences for all new users, to include Viewing, Composing, and Forwarding, Replying & Deleting preferences.
Viewing Web Client Preferences
The following items only apply to the standard version of Web Messaging.
- This drop down box gives two alternate selections for login.
- - Initial login will open the INBOX message folder.
- - Initial login will open the mail folders page, displaying all message folders and sizes. This can be manually accessed by clicking on in the folder tree.
- Checked by default. This feature will split your message list window, and allow user to preview the selected message below the message list.
When preview pane is off, the message list window will display more messages, but will required a double click to view a message.
This control is not used with the low bandwidth template, as it is set to automatically open a message when clicked on.
- . Checked by default for new users. This feature allows selection of a message by use of a check box. Unchecked will remove the check boxes and revert to usage of message highlighting with usage of the shift+ key for blocks of messages, or the ctrl+ for multiple random messages on a page.
For existing users before who have a saved user preferences file, the check box option will be turned off. For existing users that have never saved their preferences, they will be treated as a new user with the check box option turned on.
"Check All" will only apply to the currently displayed page for the standard web client.
- . Checked by default for new users. Controls only the display of the Maximum Mailbox Size bar in the web client. Turning this feature off will still adhere to the Maximum Mailbox Size, which is set at the Domain Properties, and/or User Properties.
The following preferences only apply to the low bandwidth template (Web Messaging Lite)
- This drop down box gives three alternate selections for login.
- - By default the initial login page displays a message showing the number of unread messages. This message is also a link to the user's if there are new unread messages. This check box will skip this page and go to .
- - Initial login will open the mail folders page, displaying all message folders.
- - Initial login will open the INBOX message folder.
- . Use the drop down menu for the following two options:
- View Message in Existing Window
- View Message in New Window
- Default set to 10. Allows flexibility for users customize page display. If the number is larger than the screen will hold, a scroll bar will appear. When there are more messages to display than the setting, then linked page numbers will display at the bottom of the message folder. The highlighted page will tell you what page you are on.
If your messages per page is set to a number that higher than what will fit in your web browser window, a scroll bar will appear.
- . Default set to 50. To/From is the address displayed in a mailbox folder list. The number set will control the maximum number of characters that will display in the mailbox folder before it truncates the display. This control allows flexibility for users with wide monitors or large font.
For example, for a user with a wide monitor can set this field to 70 to allow more characters to display. Should the screen display not be wide enough the displayed line will wrap within the text box.
- . Default set to 50. Subject is the message subject displayed in a mailbox folder list. The number set will control the maximum number of characters that will display in the mailbox before it truncates the display. This control allows flexibility for users with wide monitors or large font.
For example, for a user with large font can set this field to 30 to allow fewer characters to display. Should the screen display not be wide enough the displayed line will wrap within the text box.
- Unchecked by default. This feature controls check boxes on a current page or check boxes for all messages in the mailbox folder.
When this feature is checked, the "Check All" will mark all messages in the mailbox folder.
When this feature is unchecked, the "Check All" will check only the messages on the current page.
The following preferences apply to both versions of Web Messaging
- . Checked by default. This feature will suppress images for all messages. Once the link has been clicked, the images will always display when the message is selected.
A link will appear as seen below:
Once this link is clicked, the images will always display when the message is selected.
- . Checked by default. This feature when checked will search all messages and disable any javascript encountered.
showing that a script was removed:
Composing
Following are User settings for composing new messages:
Forwarding
- Checked by default. This check box will include the original message when it is forwarded.
- Checked by default. This check box will include the original attachments when it is forwarded.
Replying
Deleting
- Radio button selection.
- Set by default. Select this option to move deleted messages to the Deleted folder. These messages remain in the folder until you purge them by selecting one or more messages and clicking the button.
- Select this option to completely remove deleted messages. Purged messages are deleted from the server and cannot be recovered.
- Set by default. Select this check box to have IMail ask you to confirm the request before deleting the selected message(s).
. To save any changes made.