Topic: diffrences between POP and IMAP server access and Webmail

[Hoay Fern]

hi,

i am hoya fern and i am new user of E-Smith

i was confuse about the option POP AND IMAP SERVER ACCESS and Enable /Disable WebMail


if i wish to let my user access their email when they are in home, which option should I choose ?

is it i have to set POP AND IMAP SERVER ACCESS = Public and Enable/Disable Webmail = Enable..............

or i can set enable of them ?

may i know what are the diffrences between both of them ?

pls explians if i enable POP AND IMAP SERVER ACCESS = Public , how the user can read their emails.

pls explain if i enable the Enable/Disable Webmail = Enable , how the user can read their emails.

[Dan Brown]

POP and IMAP allow a user to access the mail server with a standard mail client, i.e., LookOut Express, Netscape, Eudora, etc.  Webmail allows a user to access the webmail.  The two options have nothing to do with each other.

Which option you should choose is up to you.

[Hoay Fern]

hi,
thanks for ur reply.

is it mean that if we want the use access our mail at home using outlook express, i have to enable this POP and IMAP

in outlook express
incoming mails setting : pop.xxxxx
outgoing mails:smtp.xxx

if we enable webmail means that they can access their email at internet Explorer and type https://xxxxxxxx/webmail, am i rite to said that ?

i have another question:

how can i keep the email in webmail ?

i found that after i read it, it is deleted automatically.

is there any way that i keep a copy of email in webmail ?

pls assist

hoay fern

[Jochen Hoegerl]

Hoay Fern wrote:
>
> in outlook express
> incoming mails setting : pop.xxxxx
> outgoing mails:smtp.xxx


You can use just the IP-Adress or if you want to use names

mail.xxxxxx  for pop AND smtp


> if we enable webmail means that they can access their email
> at internet Explorer and type https://xxxxxxxx/webmail, am i
> rite to said that ?
>

Yes

> i have another question:
>
> how can i keep the email in webmail ?
>
> i found that after i read it, it is deleted automatically.
>
> is there any way that i keep a copy of email in webmail ?
>

Normally the mail is not deleted, it is just marked as read.


> pls assist
>
> hoay fern