Initial IMail Administration Server Login

Restart Your System

After successful installation, some installations will prompt for you to restart your system. This is usually caused by the installation not setting up a file properly. A Dynamic Link Library (DLL) is most likely to cause this problem. To ensure that your IMail Server runs properly, restart as soon as possible.

IMail Console IMail Administration Server Login

The IMail Console Administration accessible only remotely or logged into local machine can be accessed as follows:

• From the Start menu, select Programs > Ipswitch > IMail Server > IMail Console Administration. The IMail Console Administration main page should appear.

Web IMail Administration Server Login

Two options to log in to the Web Administration are as follows:

1. From the Start menu, select Programs > Ipswitch > IMail Server > IMail Web Administration. The IMail Web Administration home page should appear.
2. Open your web browser and enter "http://localhost/IAdmin". Localhost will bypass the login screen and take you directly to the IMail Web Administration home page.

Adding Administrators and Users to Your System

After successful login to the IMail Server, if you did not create a System Administrator during installation, you will need to create one now along with some test users.

Creating System Administrator using the Web Administration

• Click Manage Users from the IMail Server home page. The User Administration page opens and displays users for the primary domain.
• Click Add, and the Add IMail User page will appear.

Enter the following information:

• Username. Enter a unique user ID (user name) for the e-mail account. User IDs are limited in length to 1 to 30 characters and must be created from alphanumeric characters. The User ID cannot include spaces and must be a unique name within the domain you are adding the user to.
• Full name. Enter the user’s First Name and Last Name.
• Reply To Address. Enter an e-mail address that you want to have IMail Server automatically use as your Reply To mail address. You can leave this text box empty to let recipients of this user’s messages reply to the User ID you entered. You can also enter an e-mail address that omits the domain name, if you are sure the rest of the address is a fully qualified domain name. For example, if the complete e-mail address is Stephanie@mail.ipswitch.com, you can enter Stephanie@ipswitch.com.
• Forwarding Address. Enter an e-mail address that you want to have IMail Server automatically forward a user's mail to.

  Example 1: To forward messages to another mailbox besides INBOX by entering the forwarding address as "yourUserID-othermailbox@domainname.com".

  Example 2: To forward e-mail to another mailbox and also keep a copy in the original mailbox by preceding the e-mail address with ".," allowing no spaces in between. ".,userid@domainname.com"

• Maximum Mailbox Size. (0 is default value) Enter the default maximum size (in bytes, KB, MB, or GB) of all the mailboxes in each user account. If the user's Maximum Mailbox Size is zero, the defaults for the e-mail domain are applied to the user. If the domain's default is also zero, the Maximum Mailbox Size for the user is unlimited. If a new message will cause the total size of all mailboxes in a user's account to exceed the Maximum Mailbox Size value, the mail is returned to the sender.

  When the Maximum Mailbox Size value is non-zero, it will override the e-mail domain's default settings. In this case, the 0 value is no longer unlimited for the domain default settings.

  The following will occur when a users mailbox is over the Max Mailbox Size:

  • All new incoming mail will no longer be received, they will get bounced.
  • New messages can still be sent.
  • Other users sending messages to a users full mailbox will receive a postmaster message stating the user's mailbox is exceeding the allowed limit.
  • When users mailbox is below the Max Mailbox Size, it will begin receiving mail again.
• Maximum Mailbox Messages. (0 is default value) Enter the default maximum number of messages allowed in each user account. If the user's Maximum Mailbox Messages is zero, the defaults for the e-mail domain are applied to the user. If the domain's default is also zero, the Maximum Mailbox Messages for the user is unlimited.

  When the Maximum Mailbox Messages value is non- zero, it will override the e-mail domain's default settings. In this case, the 0 value is no longer unlimited for the domain default settings.

  Note: If the Max Mailbox Messages option is set to 5, and the user's main mailbox already has five messages stored, then the next message sent to the user's main mailbox is bounced. However, if the next message is sent to a sub-mailbox instead, the message is delivered as long as there are less than five messages currently stored in the sub-mailbox.

• Encoding. Default message encoding used for sending messages. Default setting is Unicode (UTF-8).
  • Unicode (UTF-8).  Choose this character set for multi-language mail. In IMail, this includes English, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, French, German, Italian, Japanese, or Spanish.  
  • English (US-ASCII). For composing e-mail for English-speaking readers, based on the English alphabet.
  • Western European (ISO-8859-15). For composing e-mail in French, Italian, German, or Spanish.
  • Chinese Traditional (BIG5). For composing e-mail in traditional Chinese.
  • Chinese Simplified (GB2312). For composing e-mail in simplified Chinese.
  • Japanese (ISO-2022-JP). For composing e-mail in Japanese.
• Enable Password Change (selected by default). Select to let the user change his/her password in Web Messaging.
• Account Enabled (selected by default). Select to let the user use the e-mail account remotely through POP3 or IMAP4. You can clear this option to disable the account without changing the user's password or removing him/her from the domain.
• Access Information Services (selected by default). Select to make the user's LDAP information available in the LDAP database.

  Caution: Clearing the Access Information Services check box permanently deletes the user's information from the LDAP database and prevents distribution of user information via the IMail LDAP service. There is currently no method available to hide information within an OpenLDAP database, except to use this option to clear user information. If you want to show LDAP information for this user after clearing this option, you must add the LDAP information back into the user information.  

• Access LDAP Attributes (selected by default). Select to let the user modify his/her LDAP attributes (name, address, organization, etc.).
• Enable Web Calendaring. Select to let a user access IMail Web Calendaring.
• Enable Ipswitch Instant Messaging. (Only present if Ipswitch Instant Messaging is installed). Select to let the user have access to Instant Messaging. Clear the check box to disable the user's access.
• Enable Web Access. Select to let a user access his/her IMail Web Messaging client.
• Account Suspended. Automatically becomes enabled if a user's web access becomes suspended from the settings set in the Domain Properties > User Login Settings. To re-enable web access web access for the user Account Suspended must be manually unchecked.

  Note:This feature is controlled on a per domain basis in Domain Properties under User Login Settings.

• Enable Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. Checked by default. Setting allows a user with a mobile device to synchronize with their web client information for e-mail, contacts and calendars.

  Outlook synchronization is also capable, but requires installing the WorkgroupShare Client. This enables synchronizing e-mail, contacts, calendars, notes, and tasks with mobile devices.

  Disabling this feature at the User Property level will disable synchronization for only the specified user.

  See the Mobile Synchronization Setup for more client help.

  Note: Disabling Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync at the User Property Level will disable synchronization for only the specified user.

  Tip: For a single user to begin using Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync® there are 3 levels that require Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync® to be enabled: 1) System level, 2) Domain level (see Domain Properties) and 3) the User level (See User Properties).

• Enable Archiving. This check box allows the IMail Administrator the control to enable/disable specific users for message archiving.

  Tip: The System Setting and Domain Archiving must be enabled for Mail-box Based Archiving for user-level Archiving to be disabled/enabled.

  Tip: For existing domains with users requiring disabling/enabling for archiving, use the Console Administrator bulk-edit feature. Simply select necessary users on the Users page, and click edit. Any modifications made will update only the selected users.

  Note: Disabling Archiving at the domain-level will override all user-level settings.

Save. Click to save your settings.

Cancel. Click Cancel to exit without saving changes.