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- | ====== Accessing your SDF Email ====== | + | ======= Accessing your SDF Email ======= |
//There are several ways to get and send email at SDF, but the different options depend on your membership(s) here. This guide is intended to describe the options simply and clearly, by membership level// | //There are several ways to get and send email at SDF, but the different options depend on your membership(s) here. This guide is intended to describe the options simply and clearly, by membership level// | ||
- | ===== Membership Levels and Email Access ===== | + | ====== Membership Levels and Email Access |
- | Here are the membership levels that matter for email (see [[http:// | + | Here are the membership levels that matter for email (see [[http:// |
* User | * User | ||
* Pre-validated User: This is before you are " | * Pre-validated User: This is before you are " | ||
* Validated User/ARPA | * Validated User/ARPA | ||
- | * VPM/VHOST* | + | * [[https:// |
* MetaARPA | * MetaARPA | ||
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- | ===== Ways to Get and Send Email at SDF ===== | + | ====== Ways to Get and Send Email at SDF ====== |
By default your E-mail Address is your SDF username, which by default works with a couple of domain names (you can also choose the domain you would like to use from the list of SDF domain names). | By default your E-mail Address is your SDF username, which by default works with a couple of domain names (you can also choose the domain you would like to use from the list of SDF domain names). | ||
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Ways to read and send your SDF mail include the following: | Ways to read and send your SDF mail include the following: | ||
- | ==== Email Programs from Shell (Memberships: | + | ===== Email Programs from Shell (Memberships: |
You can always access your SDF mail account through any of several email programs installed on the server. All of these emails access your "mail spool", | You can always access your SDF mail account through any of several email programs installed on the server. All of these emails access your "mail spool", | ||
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For users at the **User** level, to learn about your limited allowed space and the significance of the mail spool, see the difference between using mutt and alpine here: [[mutt and alpine and the spool]]. **This also may be useful if you use both a shell mail client and webmail interchangeably**. | For users at the **User** level, to learn about your limited allowed space and the significance of the mail spool, see the difference between using mutt and alpine here: [[mutt and alpine and the spool]]. **This also may be useful if you use both a shell mail client and webmail interchangeably**. | ||
- | ==== Webmail (Memberships: | + | ===== Webmail (Memberships: |
There are two webmail interfaces: | There are two webmail interfaces: | ||
- | * The old SquirrelMail, | + | * The old SquirrelMail, |
* Roundcube, a slicker experience, accessible by MetaARPA users from the link on the [[http:// | * Roundcube, a slicker experience, accessible by MetaARPA users from the link on the [[http:// | ||
- | ==== Local Client Email (Memberships: | + | ===== Local Client Email (Memberships: |
If you want to use an email program running on your computer or phone or tablet or other device to access your SDF mail, things get a little more complicated. At different membership levels, you have a different set of options for both getting (" | If you want to use an email program running on your computer or phone or tablet or other device to access your SDF mail, things get a little more complicated. At different membership levels, you have a different set of options for both getting (" | ||
- | Basically, While **User or ARPA can read mail on their own machines or devices**, these memberships **don' | + | Basically, While **User or ARPA can read mail on their own machines or devices**, |
- | === Local Client Email: Receiving Mail (Memberships: | + | * your ISP's mail server, or |
+ | * an SSH session to SDF that initiates '' | ||
+ | |||
+ | With the first option (local ISP), setting the " | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Local Client Email: Receiving Mail (Memberships: | ||
There are two ways to read your incoming email using a client mail program. You can choose either, except if you are using virtual mailboxes with a VPM membership, in which case your only option is POP3: | There are two ways to read your incoming email using a client mail program. You can choose either, except if you are using virtual mailboxes with a VPM membership, in which case your only option is POP3: | ||
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* **IMAP** accesses mail on the server and lets you organize it into folders on the server. IMAP keeps your mail centrally located and organized so it is all equally accessible from multiple mail programs and devices at the same time. | * **IMAP** accesses mail on the server and lets you organize it into folders on the server. IMAP keeps your mail centrally located and organized so it is all equally accessible from multiple mail programs and devices at the same time. | ||
- | == Setting up to read mail with POP3 == | + | === Setting up to read mail with POP3 === |
(from the [[http:// | (from the [[http:// | ||
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* for your main User/ | * for your main User/ | ||
* If you are accessing mail for a //VPM// account, your username should be the full email address with your VPM/VHOST domain name, ex: '' | * If you are accessing mail for a //VPM// account, your username should be the full email address with your VPM/VHOST domain name, ex: '' | ||
- | * Your password should be either your account password (for your main User/ | + | * Your password should be either your account password (for your main User/ |
- | == Setting up to read mail with IMAP == | + | === Setting up to read mail with IMAP === |
- | See this guide for [[email basics#reading| setting up IMAP]] | + | See this guide for [[email basics#reading_e-mail_on_sdf| setting up IMAP]] |
IMAP settings should be: | IMAP settings should be: | ||
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* Password: | * Password: | ||
- | === Local Client Email: Sending Email Via SMTP (Memberships: | + | ==== Local Client Email: Sending Email Via SMTP (Memberships: |
- | As mentioned above, | + | As mentioned above, there are different paths for sending SDF mail from an email client on your computer or other device, depending on your membership level. |
- | If you want to use SDF's outgoing mail server, you need to either | + | If you want to use SDF's outgoing mail server, you must either pay annual dues for any of VPM, VHOST or MetaARPA, or start an SSH session at some point in the message composition/ |
- | == Sending Mail from your client | + | === Sending Mail from your client |
- | If you are at the User or ARPA level and want to reply to email on your local client that you receive via methods above, **you need a mail client that supports having a different server for incoming and out-going mail**. Some Android default mail clients, for example, will not do this ([[K-9 Mail for Android]]--see the app store--is a client that will definitely work). | + | |
- | After you've set up your email client to receive mail (see above), | + | If you are at the User or ARPA level and have downloaded a message to your local client and want to make it look as if // |
+ | |||
+ | After you've set up your email client to receive mail (see above), the next thing you need to do is figure out the outgoing mail server that your computer or device' | ||
For example, if you are with Comcast on your computer at home, you can set up POP3 or IMAP in your favorite mail client as described above to read your SDF mail, and use your Comcast mail SMTP server (outgoing mail server) to send mail " | For example, if you are with Comcast on your computer at home, you can set up POP3 or IMAP in your favorite mail client as described above to read your SDF mail, and use your Comcast mail SMTP server (outgoing mail server) to send mail " | ||
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Next, you can follow the directions in [[setting up mail clients]], but you'll have to replace the values for the settings with those of your ISP's outgoing SMTP server. | Next, you can follow the directions in [[setting up mail clients]], but you'll have to replace the values for the settings with those of your ISP's outgoing SMTP server. | ||
- | == Sending Mail from your client through SDF (Memberships: | + | === Sending Mail from your client through SDF === |
+ | |||
+ | == Sending Mail from your client through SSH session | ||
- | If you are MetaARPA, or if you have paid for VPM or VHOST, you can use the SDF SMTP servers to send mail from your computers | + | //Validated users, ARPA, and all other memberships// |
+ | == Sending Mail from your client through SDF port 587 (SMTP with Transport Layer Security) == | ||
+ | //MetaARPA, VPM or VHOST memberships only//: At these membership levels you are allowed to use the SDF SMTP servers to send mail from your computers and devices, as you have access to the program '' | ||
+ | To set up SDF's SMTP service for your mail client, please see [[setting up mail clients]], and use the settings values there. | ||
+ | //For VHOST memberships:// |
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