Addresses
Summary: Address
books can save a lot of time and typing. You can put the addresses
of people you write most often in them, and reuse them over and
over.
Address books are a great time saving feature. Frequently used
addresses may be stored here. LDAP servers (Often used in companies
and universities to make organization-wide addresses easily available)
are supported as well.
If your Browser supports Javascript then you might want to enable
the JavaScript based address book under the Options menu item. It
is a really nifty little pop-up thing. Pure HTML address lists are
supported so even browsers without Javascript support can use VMAiLPRO
Webmail without any loss of function.
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Nick Name
Put a familiar name here. Something to help jog your memory. Anything
that will give you an accurate idea to whom this email address belongs.
Email Address
This must be the persons' fully qualified email address. Guessing
here just won't cut it. There are three parts to an email address.
First is the recipients identifier, such as "johnq". Next
is the domain name section, which could take the form "tayloru".
Last comes the top level domain, which could be one of a ton of
things like au, cc, us, com, org, net or might look like edu. So
if we put all those together it must be in the form of johnq@tayloru.edu.
If this is not correct you are likely to get your mail back in the
form of a bounced message.
Info
This is another field where you can put something to remind you
about who this person is. This is made to be longer than the "Nick
Name". For instance, if you meet a business contact, you could
put "Met at the Tomatoe Symposium".
Edit or Delete
These two buttons allow you to select a single address and then
change any of the above fields, or delete the entry entirely. You
are only allowed to select one entry at a time for the edit button.
Add to Personal address book
Fill in the fields as they are listed. The first three (Nickname,
E-mail address, and First name) must be filled in. Both Last name
and Additional info are optional.
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LDAP
LDAP is a protocol for central unified storage and remote access
of information. For example; a university might use LDAP as the
single place where all students, staff, and faculty email addresses
are stored and made available. If configured to use the universities
LDAP server, VMAiLPRO Webmail would then be able to list all campus
email address (along with the other address book fields if available).
VMAiLPRO Webmail's LDAP use is truly powerful in that it combines
your local address book and the LDAP address server information
to present all of the information as if it was a single address
book.
The LDAP setting may be configured to use any LDAP server, or disabled
as a feature altogether. You will need to talk to your system administrator
about this feature if you have specific questions.
LDAP settings affect the entire VMAiLPRO Webmail system; as a result
they must be set up or altered by someone with administrative authority.
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