Postman Web-mail
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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.

Additional help - see Postman's built in Help pages too!

 
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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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. 

 
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. 

 
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.

 
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>

 
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.

 
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.

 
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".

 
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.

 
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.

 
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!

 
The mailboxes appear in the pulldown list in an assorted order.

 
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.

 
Astounding features
Able to list 10,000 emails on a single web page!

 
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.

 
Damn-fast! Written in C++, it runs faster than most web-mail systems written in PHP or other interpreted languages.

 
Can ignore the "Reply-to: " header.

 
GPL open source software, courtesy of University of Valencia, Spain.  Can be configured for multiple languages - currently Valencian, Spanish and English.