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E-Mail
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MonsterMail
The sophisticated mailing system called MonsterMail(tm)
is included as part of your service. In addition to being able to
have nearly unlimited infobots by simply adding text files to a
directory, you can also redirect mail for everyone in your domain
by simply modifying a text file.
Email Redirects
There is a file in your home (root) directory called
.redirect. This file can be edited and reuploaded. Just make sure
that each of your redirects is on its own line, with a space between
the name and where you want it directed to. Don't add empty lines
between entries, and make sure the file is saved in text (ASCII)
format, and uploaded in text (not binary) format. When you download
it to your hard drive, you will see that it already has a one-line
entry that looks like this:
default yourdomain@yourdomain.com
This line must be left as is, otherwise your POP email
accounts could get messed up. But suppose you want all email for
your domain to go to your already existing POP account somewhere
else. You would then change your .redirect file to look like this:
default yourdomain@yourdomain.com
yourdomain existingaddress@somewhereelse.com
If you want to redirect other names in your domain
to other people, you could make the file look like this, as an example:
default yourdomain@yourdomain.com
fred 73452.452@compuserve.com
info goddess@afterlife.com
This would redirect mail for fred@yourdomain.com to
73452.452@compuserve.com, info@yourdomain.com to goddess@afterlife.com,
and all other email in your domain would go to yourdomain@yourdomain.com.
The benefit of MonsterMail redirects is that you don't
need a separate POP account for each email address you want to use
in your domain. You can put in your webpages, "Send email to help@yourdomain.com"
without the need to create a separate entry in the .redirect file
because ALL email goes by default to yourdomain@yourdomain.com,
unless "help" is specified to go somewhere else!
Multiple redirection is possible. For instance if
you want email to go to two addresses at the same time, enter the
different emails with no space and a comma to separate them. You
can have upto 4 email address to cc:...they must be listed on the
same line though. For example:
help beavis@aol.com,butthead@prodigy.net
Simple Autoresponders
An autoresponder is a simple way of setting up an
email address which will return a message automatically when someone
sends email to it. Here are the instructions for setting this up.
In your root (home) directory, there is a directory
called infobots. Set up a welcome message in this directory -- you
can name it anything you like, but for our example we'll call it
info. Don't call it info.txt -- just name it plain info with no
file extension. The text for the welcome message could say:
"Thank you for requesting more information about our
webpage design package. We have several design packages to choose
from. Here are our prices..."
Now, whenever someone sends email to: info@yourdomain.com
they will automatically receive that text email message to whatever
email address they specified as their return-to address. It's as
simple as that. Don't set up a redirect in your .redirect file for
this.
You can have as many autoresponders as you want. Just
save them all in the infobots directory and give them each a unique
name of anything with between 3-16 characters long.
Listservers / Mail Lists
MonsterMail can also be used to create simple listservers.
There is a limit of 5,000 subscribers per listserver. Here are the
instructions for setting up a listserver:
1) Set up a welcome message in the infobot directory
-- you can name it anything you like, but for our example we'll
call it welcome.
The text file could say:
"Welcome to our listserver. You are now subscribed
and any email you wish to publish for all other subscribers to see
can be sent to listserver@yourdomain.com."
This message will be automatically returned to the
sender each time someone subscribes.
2) Now you need to set up a configuration file to
tell the mail system to build a mailing list. In your infobot directory
create a file called infolist. This is used to tell the system what
to do with addresses received from each infobot response. You can
have as many lists as you want. But in keeping with the listserver
example above, we will call it listserver.
Here's what the file should look like:
welcome listserver
The first line should have a space between the two
names and be uploaded in text format, not binary.
You can have multiple listservers, such as listserver1,
listserver2, etc., but you should only have one configuration file.
It must be called infolist. To handle all three examples, you'd
make the infolist file look like this, with each listserver on its
own line, with no blank lines in-between:
welcome listserver
welcome2 listserver2
welcome3 listserver3
2A) Now when someone wants to subscribe to your list
in the above example, they would email welcome@yourdomain.com. This
would return the infobot created called "welcome" and put their
email address into the mailing list file in the maillists directory
on your server. You can go in and download the maillist file after
it has been created and people have subscribed. The mailing list
file will be created AFTER the first person subscribes, or if you
yourself send email to "welcome@yourdomain.com" to test it. Put
yourself on the mailing list to try this. People don't need to subscribe
themselves -- you can add their names for them, or remove them at
any time by modifying and uploading the file in the "maillists"
directory. People cannot automatically unsubscribe themselves. You
must go in and manually remove their email address from the list.
3) Now when you or anyone who has subscribed to the
list wants to send mail to all subscribers, you or they can send
email to listserver@yourdomain.com and the MonsterMail system will
send it to the entire list.
4) To password protect the file, add a password to
the first line of your maillists file. In order to mail to the list,
this password must be in the first line in the body of the message.
Anybody that sends to the list without the password will have their
message sent to the default address in the .redirect file. You can
then decide if you want them to mail to the list and give them the
password if you desire.
5) If you want to see who is subscribing to your listserver
without having to go and check the maillists file periodically via
FTP, you can put a line in your .redirect file. NOTE: it is important
that you have the infobot installed before entering the address
line in the .redirect. For the listserver example we used above,
the line you would add would look like this:
welcome yourdomain@yourdomain.com
The welcome document you created will be sent to the
subscriber, AND you will receive their email message.
Note: When sending email to your listserver for the
first time, you will get the autoresponder email back right away,
but you may not see the corresponding maillist file right away,
as our system takes time to build it. Wait 15 or 30 minutes or so
and it will show up. (Depending on the time of day and current traffic
conditions, our servers may be allocating it to a lower priority.)
SitePop - Adding
and Removing Your POP3 Accounts
To run sitepop, point your browser to yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/sitepop.
If you get a screen that says "Set Login Info", your password has
not been set and you must enter a username and password. This login
will be saved and you will need to use it to run sitepop again in
the future. If the screen just says "Login", your username &
password has already been defined. By default it is the same username
and password given for your domain's main login.
Once logged in, you'll have the option to either add or remove pop
accounts. To add, enter the name and password you want, and click
submit. To remove, select "remove", choose the pop account you want
to remove from the drop-down list. It will take a few minutes for
changes to take effect, so if you want to remove one right after
adding it, you'll have to wait 15 minutes or so before you will
be able to.
Change POP3 Passwords
To change a POP3 password, select the pop account
from the menu and select "change password". Then type in the new
password and retype it to confirm, then click submit.
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