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Online Manual - Section 2

General Account Information
   User ID and Password
   Change Password
   Sub-login accounts In Your Domain
   Your Server Disk Space
      The html directory
      The Home Page

"WebStats" Your Access and Stat Logs
      Access Logs Via FTP
      Advanced Option
      Check Server Disk Space Usage
      Total Space Usage
      File Space Usage
      html directory Space Usage
      Anonymous FTP Space Usage
      Home Directory Space Usage

Email Management
   FTP Email Redirects
   Misaddressed Email Capture
   FTP Autoresponder

Accessing Your Email
   Setup Eudora
   Test Your Email Setup
   Other Email Programs Setup

General Account Information
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This section contains general information that will apply to most accounts and be of interest regardless of user level. Even FrontPage users should take a stroll through this section for important information that will apply to them as well.

User ID and Password
Entrance to your account is protected with both a User ID and a Password which you received in your confirmation email after you opened your account. Unless otherwise indicated, your User ID will be your domain name without an extension. For example, "yourdomain" rather than "yourdomainname.org"

Please note that your Password and User ID are not interchangeable. Also, confusion can sometimes arise when different programs use different terms to indicate User ID. For example, Telnet uses the term "login" instead of User ID. As a rule, the term Password is standard and used consistently from program to program. If something else is called for, such as User, Name, or Login, enter your User ID.

Changing Your Password
To change your password, SSH to your account. After logging in with your username and password, at the Unix prompt, type:
passwd
A script will ask you to type in your old password, then the password you want it changed to will be asked for twice to verify.

User Accounts Within Your Domain
You can have additional logins setup within your own account if you want. This is accomplished using the Web Control panel in your domain. Each additional login will have a unique User ID and Password. To access additional accounts via FTP, Telnet, and/or Email, use the following parameters to configure the appropriate programs.

Hostname: yourdomainname.org
User ID: a separate unique User ID
Password: a separate unique Password
POP Account: a separate unique username@yourdomainname.org
SMTP Server: mail.yourdomainname.org

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Server Disk Space
This is your space…the place where you will put your website. A specific amount of space on our computers reserved exclusively for your use.

The /var/www/html directory
This is where you will place your web pages, graphic files, sound files, and any other items you want your visitors to have access to on your website.

The index.html Page
It is very important that you name your home page, the first page that you want visitors to see when they visit your website, to index.htm or index.html. When a browser visits your website by typing in your domain name, i.e. www.yourdomainname.org, the browser program will automatically search for a page titled index.htm or index.html by default. If the browser does not find one, your visitor will not be able to get into your website without a specific page name to add to the domain URL.

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Email Management

Email is more than just a vital tool for an online business. It's an absolute requirement. Therefore, good email management is very important. This section covers setting up and accessing email from your POP account.

Accessing Your Email
If you want to access your email directly from your domain, we recommend using Eudora as your email client. This is an email program that runs under MS Windows and Macintosh OS. There are many good reasons for using Eudora, one of which is that it allows multiple email accounts and personalities. See your program documentation for instructions on how to set those up.

Eudora connects to the mail server over the Winsock or Macintosh TCP/IP. Mail may be composed and read offline, but make sure that you are online before attempting to send or receive email.

Please Note: Although your account exists on our server, you won't be able to receive email at yourname@yourdomainname.org until InterNIC has activated you in the domain name servers.

Setup Eudora
After Eudora has been installed, it must be configured to point to your server.

1. Install and start up the Eudora program
2.   Select "Settings" from the "Special" menu (in version 3.0 or later select Tools, then Options)
3. Select the "Getting Started" tab

Under Real Name, enter your Real Name

Under Mail server (incoming) put mail.yourdomainname.org

Leave Return Address blank unless you want people to send return email to you at a different email account

Under SMTP Server (outgoing) put mail.yourdomainname.org

4. If you use the Macintosh version, the radio button for TCP/IP connection should be highlighted

5.   Click the "Personal Information" tab

Under POP account put yourdomain@yourdomainname.org again

Fill out the "Real Name" and "Return Address" as you did before

6.    Under "Dialup User Name" enter yourdomain (do not enter .com or .net here)

7.    Click the "Hosts" tab and enter yourdomain@yourdomainname.org again under POP Account, and put yourdomainname.org under SMTP Server.
8.    Go to the "Checking Mail" tab and make sure "Save Password" is checked.
That's all the configuration Eudora needs. You will find that many of the configuration areas will be filled in for you when you go to them, for instance it will usually fill in the POP account info wherever it is called for after you enter it the first time.

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Test Your eMail Setup

Select "Check Mail" under the File menu.

Enter your password into the Password Window that pops up, then click on the Proceed button.

Eudora will check to see if you have email.

You can now send a test email message to yourself and then check to see if it gets returned to you. If you checked "Save Password" as in step 8 Eudora will not prompt you again for your password after the first time. If multiple users have access to your computer, and you don't want them to have access to your email account, do not check the "Save Password" option.

Note: Your default email address is yourdomain@yourdomainname.org This is where all of your email will be sent to, unless other configurations take priority.

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Other EMail Program Setups
The following examples assume a domain name of fred.com
Microsoft Internet mail
      Full name = fred
      Email = fred@fred.com
      Internet Mail server = mail.fred.com
      Account = fred
      Pass = xxxxxx
      Smtp = mail.fred.com
      From = anything@fred.com

Netscape
      Your Name = fred
      Email Address = fred@fred.com
      Reply to = anything@fred.com
      Mail Server user name = fred
      outgoing Smtp = mail.fred.com
      Incoming = mail.fred.com

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