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Chapter 2 Mail Service Setup 61
Using Webmail
WebMail is a web-based mail user agent (MUA). It allows a web browser such as
Apple’s Safari to compose, read, and forward mail like any other mail client. Mac OS X
Server’s WebMail functionality is provided by a software package called SquirrelMail
at www.squirrelmail.org.
WebMail relies on your mail server to provide the Mail service. WebMail cannot provide
Mail service independent of the mail server. WebMail uses the Mail service of your
Mac OS X Server computer.
WebMail uses standard mail protocols and requires your mail server to support them.
These protocols are:
IMAP, for retrieving incoming mail Â
SMTP, for exchanging mail with other mail servers (sending outgoing mail and Â
receiving incoming mail)
WebMail doesn’t support retrieving incoming mail via POP. Even if your mail server has
POP enabled, WebMail doesn’t use it.
To use WebMail:
1 Enable and congure your mail server.
2 After the mail server is congured, enable the WebMail software.
For instructions on setting up WebMail, see Web Technologies Administration, available
at www.apple.com/server/documentation.
Vacation Notices
If you enable server-side mail rules and the Wiki Server, mail users can add vacation
notices through a web interface.
How a user modies their vacation notices:
1 Log into any wiki page they have access to.
2 Select My Page.
3 Select “settings.”
4 Select Vacation Notice.
5 To enable vacation notices, for Enabled, select On; to disable vacation notices, select O.
6 Click the date next to Vacation Begins and then select the date when notications will
start being sent.
7 Click the date next to Returning On and then select the date when notications will
stop being sent.
8 In the Email Subject eld, enter the subject line of the mail that will be sent.
9 In the Vacation Message area, enter the body of the mail that will be sent.
10 Click Save.