Posts Tagged ‘webmail’

Webmail Calendars & Contacts

Monday, March 7th, 2016

Calendars and Contacts Setup

With Register4Less's email service, you can maintain your contacts and calendar within your domain-based webmail interface, and access these using your smartphone. This can also be accessed from your desktop's contacts and calendar apps.

To set this up (example given here is iOS 8 on an iPhone), follow these steps:

Tap Settings

Tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars, and then on Under Accounts, tap Add Account

Choose Other for the account type.

How to Set Up Your Calendars

Tap Add CalDav Account

Enter your email address account information:

Server will be in the form of: ahsN.R4L.com:2080 where N is a number.  

To determine your server name, go on your web browser, and type in http://webmail. plus your domain. You will be forwarded to https://ahsN.r4l.com:2096. The N of course will be the actual number of the server, so something like ahs4.R4L.com.

Username is your complete email address.

Password is of course the password you have created the account with. If you're not sure what this is, you can reset the password, but you will then need to change this on any device you use to connect to your email.

Description is optional.  It is simply a text description to differentiate different accounts if you are connecting more than one.

A Note About Port Numbers

In the URLs above, :2080 and :2096 are the port numbers on the server being connected to. 2080 is the port reserved to connect to CalDav, and 2096 is the port for encrypted webmail login.

 

How to Set Up Your Contacts

Tap Add CardDav Account

Enter your email address account information:

 

All of the settings for server, username and password will be the same as for configuring your contacts.

Webmail – Three Available Interfaces

Monday, January 4th, 2016

WEBMAILAPSIn addition to connecting to your email account via a mail client on your computer, tablet or smartphone, you have the choice of three webmail programs from the cPanel.  You can connect to the login screen for your webmail in two different ways:

  • Go to http://webmail. plus your domain, or
  • Login to manage your domain, open the cPanel, and click the Email accounts icon.  Where each email account is listed you’ll see More on the right side.  Click this and then Access Webmail.

Webmail is one of the most commonly used functions of the cPanel interface.

horde

The Horde Project is an open-source development community that is responsible for the creation of many applications.  Based on PHP, Horde developers have created not only a robust webmail interface, but also complementary widgets that range from calendars, notes, message filtering and message flagging, and powerful search tools.

roundcube

RoundCube is the world’s most popular open source Webmail interface, and is the one the R4L staff recommends setting as your default.  While not as feature rich as Horde, RoundCube features a modern drag-and-drop interface.  RoundCube also features search tools, flagging tools to easily organize your Inbox, Sent, and other folders.

squirrelmail

SquirrelMail is the most streamlined of the three available webmail applications.  SquirrelMail does provide an address book feature, mail composition can only be done in plain text, sending email with HTML formatting is not possible with SquirrelMail.