Webmail Access 

 
   


 

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To access your webmail, open Internet Explorer and type webmail.domain name (e.g. webmail.catchcal.net) in the Address field and press Enter.

  
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All sessions start at the login screen. At the login screen, enter your username (login) and password assigned to you by your domain administrator into the appropriate boxes. You may select your preferred language from the list of available languages here if you wish.

Once you have filled in the required fields, click the Log in button to log in.

  
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After logging in, you'll be presented with your chosen initial page. By default, this is a summary page which provides a quick summary of all your important Horde groupware application information. For example, it might show how many new email messages you have in your INBOX (or other folders you select), upcoming events on your calendar, tasks from your tasks lists, headlines from selected news services, current weather, stock quotes, and so on.

 
   
 4  Horde groupware uses a simple help system to provide general as well as context sensitive help. Most pages will have a help icon in the menu bar at the top of the page. For example, the email application menu bar might look like the following.

The contents of the summary page are customizable via the Options settings. For example, you can choose which items to include on the summary page as well as in which order they are shown. You can also set a refresh interval for the summary page.

You can change which page is your initial page at login, for example setting your initial page to be your email or calendar. However, most people find the summary page useful once they have customized it to their interests.

 

Clicking on the Help icon will create a window showing all the available help topics for the current application. The window is laid out very simply, with List Help Topics located in the upper left corner of the window, and Close Help in the upper right corner. List Help Topics allows you to view all the available topics. Clicking on a topic heading in the list will show the help information for that topic.

   
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You can set a number of options -- or preferences -- in Horde groupware to customize how Horde groupware applications look or act. There are both global options, set in the Horde groupware options menu, which apply to all Horde groupware applications, as well as application specific options which apply only to an individual application.

To modify your preferences, click on the Options icon in the top menu bar. An Options menu for that application will be displayed. For global options, use the Options icon on the Horde groupware summary page.

Once in an options page, click on an option heading to change the options for that section  as shown in the image below.

  

Please visit http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~ericr/horde/index.php for more details on the Horde Webmail features.

 
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