Webmail (a brief description)

Webmail Information

Vendor: Horde Project www.horde.org (open source)
Category: Email client: send, receive, and manage messages
Platform(s): Web browser on any platform
Version: 4.1.1
Local Documentation: Webmail, Using Webmail, Filter Email with Webmail, Purging Deleted Messages
Help and Support: Webmail has some on-line help. Check the CSS Webmail page for local documents about Webmail. Because ITS also supports Webmail, you can get help there: its-helpdesk@uiowa.edu, 319-384-HELP(4357), and the ITS Webmail pages.

Webmail Description

Webmail is a powerful, web-based mail client written in PHP. Webmail also includes a personal calendar, task list, memos. Webmail always runs in secure mode.

Webmail Usage

What It Does

Because Webmail is web-based, you can use Webmail to read your email where ever you have access to a web browser. Because it is an IMAP-based mail client, you can read, sort, write, and reply to your engineering mail with Webmail or any of various clients (Thunderbird, for example) from different computers.

Usage Information

Start Webmail from any browser using this URL: http://webmail.engineering.uiowa.edu. The username is your engineering account login ID; the password is that account's password.

Webmail includes the usual email client functions to compose mail, send mail to single or multiple recipients, and receive mail. You can sort mail into folders. The address book can include frequent recipients as well as mailing lists. When you compose mail you can spell check it before sending, save the message as a draft and return to it later for final composition and sending, and attach documents. Webmail can be set to search the personal, Engineering Directory, and UIowa Directory -- and in what order -- when addressing mail.

You can filter incoming messages to a specific folder, including the Trash. Messages can be sorted by sender, date, subject, or size.

Other Webmail settings include specifying: a signature file to use on each message; the number of message to appear on each screen and the default order in which they are presented; the character used to indicated quoted text from previous message; how often Webmail checks for new mail.

updated: 18 August 2008