Lite Web Client Help

Manage User Options

You can change your password and personalize your mail sending, message display, forwarding, and delete options by clicking the Manage User Options button from the main menu.

• Save. Click this button after you make changes to the user settings, below.
• Cancel. Click this button to return to the main menu without saving any modifications to User Options.

General Options

• Display Name. Enter your preferred full name in the text box.
• Reply To. Enter your complete email address in the text box.
• Forward To. Enter the email address to which you want all your email automatically forwarded.
  • For example, to forward your messages to another email address simply enter the forwarding address as yourUser@domain.com, or to forward to another mailbox besides your main Inbox enter the forwarding address as ID-othermailbox.

    Note: To forward your email to another email address and also keep a copy in the original mailbox, precede the email address with ".," allowing no spaces in between .

    Example: ".,email@address.com"

• Default 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 email for English-speaking readers, based on the English alphabet.
  • Western European (ISO-8859-15). For composing email in French, Italian, German, or Spanish.
  • Chinese Traditional (BIG5). For composing email in traditional Chinese.
  • Chinese Simplified (GB2312). For composing email in simplified Chinese.
  • Japanese (ISO-2022-JP). For composing email in Japanese.
• Timezone Offset. Set to Automatically Determined by default. Changing this offset will affect two items. 1) The time stamp that is displayed on all received messages will be adjusted, and 2) All calendar appointments will be adjusted.
  • Adjust for daylight savings time. Set by Default. Automatically adjusts for daylight savings when in place.

Viewing Messages

• Number Of Items Per Page. Set to 10 by default. This controls the number of messages to display per page of your message list before paging.
• Display Embedded Images as Attachments. Not checked by default. Embedded images within a message take up a lot of your email storage space and take longer to load for viewing. Checking this option will make all embedded images as mail attachments.

Composing Messages

• Send Messages As Plain Text By Default. Not checked by default. HTML is the default setting to compose your messages. Includes many features such as bold, italic, underlining, multiple fonts, multiple colors, bullets, numbering, etc. Checking this option will compose your message using no formating.
• Show the CC Field By Default. Checked by default. Select this checkbox to always display the CC field when composing a new message.
• Show the BCC Field By Default. Not checked by default. Select this checkbox to always display the BCC (Blind Copy) field when composing a new message.
• Save a copy of the Message in the Sent Folder. Checked by default. Choose this option if you wish to keep copies of your messages in the Sent folder.
• Automatically add recipients as contacts. Not checked by default. Choose this option if you wish to automatically add recipients to your Contacts when sending new messages.
• Signature. A "signature" is a tag that is added to the end of all your messages. For example, you might add a signature that says, "Be sure to visit my new web site." Or, you might prefer to enter your name, phone, and address information. Enter the desired text in the Signature text box. If you do not want to include a signature, leave it blank. Example.

  Note: If you use the rich text editor to compose messages and you want to include text formatting on your signature, you can format the signature by adding standard HTML tags to the signature.

Forwarding Messages

• Include Original Message When Forwarding. Checked by default. This check box will include the original message when forwarded.
• Include Original Attachments. Checked by default. This check box will include the original attachments when forwarded.
• Include Signature When Forwarding. Checked by default. This option will insert the user's signature when forwarding.

Replying To Messages

• Include Original Message When Replying. Checked by default. This check box will include the original message in your reply.
• Include Original Attachment When Replying. Unchecked by default. This will include all original attachments when replying.
• Include Signature When Replying. Checked by default. This option will insert the user's signature when replying.

Deleting Messages

• Show a Confirmation dialog before Deleting Messages. Set by default. Select this check box to have a request for confirmation before deleting the selected message(s).
• Deleting. Radio button options.
  • Upon deletion, move messages to the Deleted folder. 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 Delete button.
  • Upon deletion, purge messages from the system. Select this option to completely remove deleted messages. Purged messages are deleted from the server and cannot be recovered.

Spam Reporting

The Spam Reporting tab is only available for email customers with IMail Premium Servers. Customers with IMail Standard Servers will not display this tab option.

• Show a confirmation dialog before reporting messages. Checked by default. This option ask for a confirmation before reporting the message as spam.

Spam Reporting Options (select one)

• After reporting, do nothing to message. This option will report the message as spam and will be delivered to your Inbox as regular mail.
• After reporting, delete message. Set by default. This option will report the message as spam and then delete the message.
• After reporting, move message. Default is Spam. This option will report the message as spam and then move your message to another folder. If no folder is selected a default Spam folder will be created. Select from the drop down text box to move your spam messages to an alternate mail folder.

  Note: When a mail folder is not selected from the drop down text box, then a Spam folder will be created after saving.

Contacts

• Default List Sort. Set to Display Name by default. This option controls the sort option for your contacts when initially displayed.
• Default Address Book.. Set to Personal Contacts by default. This option controls the default address to use when selecting email addresses for sending.

Calendaring

• Default Calendar. Set to personal Calendar by default. This option allows user to select which calendar will open by default when creating a new appointment using the Action menu > New Appointment.
• Enable Reminders. Set by default. Unchecking this option will suppress all calendar reminders.
• Show a confirmation dialog before deleting appointments and tasks. Set by default. Unchecking this option will suppress the confirmation prompt when deleting calendar appointments and tasks.