Authorised
users only.
To
end the session,
be sure to use the Logout icon and then close your browser window(s) -
to prevent anyone using the Back button to read your pages or log in
again
with your password.
Right-click
to open
any number of messages in fresh windows.
Right-click
the Compose
icon to compose a new message while Control-Alt switching back to the
Inbox
(or whatever the currently viewed mailbox is).
Multiple
mailbox
or multiple composition pages should not be attempted. If you
open
one or more messages in a separate browser window, and likewise open a
Compose window in a separate browser window, then things will get
confused
when you use the Back icon from the Address book.
Postman
is open-source software from Agustin Lopez of the University
of Valencia.
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- Additional help - see Postman's built in Help pages too!
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To check for new mail
- At any time, from the last page of the Inbox, click the
Refresh link at
the bottom of the index of messages. The Inbox will automatically
refresh at a rate set in the Options page. Note that if you have
10 messages per mailbox index page, and there are 11 messages in the
mailbox,
the last page will only show you one message.
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Times in the mailbox index are the local times where and when the email
was sent - they do not reflect correction for timezone. However
when
sorted by time (as they are when you first view the mailbox), the
timezone
corrections are taken into account, so you may see that dates and times
in mailboxes do not appear to be totally sequential.
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You can sort on Date, Subject, From and on the number of the message in
the mailbox - which may reflect the order in which the messages were
received
or copied into that mailbox.
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Composition
- The Compose page is pretty straightforward. Be sure
to save your
writing every 15 minutes or so. There is a 20 minute inactivity
timeout
- and a warning dialogue box will appear at 15 minutes.
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Each time you open the Compose page, it will contain the previous
message
you sent or were working on. The "Clear Message and Text" button
clears everything.
- There is a single storage location for the Compose page,
and it is not
in any of the mailboxes - so there is no "Drafts" mailbox. To
save
a draft, email it to yourself and later view the message and use the
Forward
icon to bring it and its attachments into the Compose page.
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You can Save and then use the blue Back arrow to return to the Inbox
(or
any other mailbox) - then use the Compose icon to keep writing.
Simply
pressing your browser's Back button, or the Compose page's blue Back
arrow
will not save what you have written. If you want to compose and
keep
and eye on the Inbox at the same time, open the Compose page in a new
window
with your right trackball/mouse button - then use Alt Tab to alternate
between the two browser windows.
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Address book
- Use the "New Entry" icon at the top to add a new item to
the address book.
Use the
button to edit an entry. Enter a nickname in the first line and
then
a plain email address, or a full email address, in the third line
"Addresses". e.g.
- abc@example.org or
- Acme Bs Corp. <abc@example.org>
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To add an address to the email being composed, select To, Cc or Bcc for
the appropriate address or addresses and then click the "Add selected
addresses
to message" button. Then be sure to use the blue Back arrow icon
(not your browser's Back button) to return to Compose.
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Deleting messages
- First select one or more messages with the tick-boxes on
the far left.
The top one selects them all. Then click the Mark
- button at the lower left, with its adjacent pull-down list
set to Deleted.
(Beware the Inbox automatic refresh system which will untick your
boxes.)
Then, use the Expunge icon at the top right which really deletes the
messages.
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Mailboxes - copying and moving messages
- To view another mailbox, or to go back to the Inbox, use
the Execute button,
with the pull-down list to the left set to the mailbox you want to go
to,
and the narrower pull-down list further to the left set to "Open
mailbox".
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To copy or move messages, select the one or more messages with the
tick-boxes
at the far left, then repeat the above procedure with the narrow
pull-down
list set to Move or Copy. To copy, move or delete large numbers
of
messages, temporarily set the number of messages to view per page to a
large number, (such as 1000). This setting is in the Options
page.
Then with a tick in the top box, you can select all messages on the
page.
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The Mailboxes icon on the top row can also select another mailbox to
view,
but its main purposes are to create, rename and delete mailboxes.
There is also a button there for dumping the entire currently selected
mailbox contents to your browser window.
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Bugs
- There are inexplicable and too frequent errors when using
the Back button
or a link such as to sort the messages. These are either
"Timeout"
or a white page saying "Server error". In both cases, simply log
in again - and remember to save your Compose message regularly!
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The mailboxes appear in the pulldown list in an assorted order.
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The mailbox [Refresh] link does not show which messages in the mailbox
are tagged for deletion by other mail programs. Use Open mailbox
to properly refresh the index and show all messages which are tagged
for
deletion.
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Astounding features
- Able to list 10,000 emails on a single web page!
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Can search mailboxes for single words in the Subject, From or
Body.
Few web-mail programs do this. In a long mailbox where is it hard
to see the few flagged messages, make your Options > "Number of
messages
shown per Index Page:" very large so you can scroll through the entire
mailbox's listing.
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Damn-fast! Written in C++, it runs faster than most web-mail systems
written
in PHP or other interpreted languages.
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Can ignore the "Reply-to: " header.
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GPL open
source software,
courtesy of University of Valencia, Spain. Can be configured for
multiple languages - currently Valencian, Spanish and English.
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