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--- email_at_sdf [2024/02/13 22:10] – [Membership Levels and Email Access] peteyboy
+++ email_at_sdf [2024/02/13 22:24] (current) – update links peteyboy
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 //mutt// is available even to **Pre-validated Users**. Just type ''%%mutt%%'' at the command prompt. Here's [[How to Use mutt]]
-Other programs, including //pine, alpine, mailx and rmail// are available to any **Validated User or ARPA or MetaARPA**. //Pine and Alpine// are related programs (Pine is older, Alpine is newer) that are both frequently considered to be the easiest shell email programs to use, with on-screen help and a menu interface. Enter ''%%pine%%'' or ''%%alpine%%'' respectively to run either of these. You can find more info on how to use them at [[E-mail Beginners]].
+Other programs, including //pine, alpine, mailx and rmail// are available to any **Validated User** or **ARPA** or **MetaARPA**. //Pine and Alpine// are related programs (Pine is older, Alpine is newer) that are both considered by many to be the easiest shell email programs to use, with on-screen help and a menu interface. At the shell prompt, enter ''%%pine%%'' or ''%%alpine%%'' respectively to run either of these. You can find more info on how to use them at [[E-mail Beginners]].
 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**.
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     * for your main User/ARPA/metaARPA account, it should be the same as your login name, example: ''user1234''
     * If you are accessing mail for a //VPM// account, your username should be the full email address with your VPM/VHOST domain name, ex: ''user5678@vhost1234.org''
-  * Your password should be either your account password (for your main User/ARPA/metaARPA account), or the password you set for the VPM email address using ''[[mkvpm]]''
+  * Your password should be either your account password (for your main User/ARPA/metaARPA account), or the password you set for your [[Virtual Private Mailbox]] email address using ''[[https://sdf.org/?faq?VHOST?06|mkvpm]]''
 === Setting up to read mail with IMAP ===
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 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's ISP provides.
-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 "from" your SDF account. On your phone, you can do the same, except you would use Verizon/Sprint/T-mobile's SMTP server (you may have to look up how if you don't know it) for sending messages "from" your SDF account.
+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 "from" your SDF account. On your phone, you can do the same, except you would use Verizon/AT&T/T-mobile's SMTP server (you may have to look up how if you don't know it) for sending messages "from" your SDF account.
 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.
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 == 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 ''[[mkvpm]]''.
+//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 ''[[https://sdf.org/?faq?VHOST?06|mkvpm]]''.
 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:// if you are using email addresses on your VHOST using ''[[mkvpm]]'', you need to add a SPF record to your VHOST's ''.dns'' file so other mail services (Google, Yahoo!, AOL) won't reject your emails as spam. See [[Add SPF Record for your VPM mail]]
+//For VHOST memberships:// if you are using email addresses on your VHOST using '''[[https://sdf.org/?faq?VHOST?06|mkvpm]]'', you need to add a SPF record to your VHOST's ''.dns'' file so other mail services (Google, Yahoo!, AOL) won't reject your emails as spam. See [[Add SPF Record for your VPM mail]]