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You can read your online e-mail using NeoMail, Horde, or SquirrelMail. All of these popular web mail applications allow you to read your e-mail, save them, keep an address book, and perform all of the other basic e-mail functions that you are used to. The main difference between web mail and an offline e-mail applications, such as Eudora or Microsoft Outlook Express, is that all of these functions are performed online, rather than on your own computer, and offline applications generally provide more features.
Web mail is optional. You can still use your favorite offline e-mail applications, if you prefer. You can even use a combination of web mail applications and another tool - you can check your e-mail online, perhaps when you're at work, and download your e-mail to your computer when you get home. You can automatically configure Outlook Express, or manually configure other mail applications to read your e-mail offline.
To read your e-mail online:
Click on the Web Mail link in the Mail area to access your default e-mail account, or click on the Add/Remove accounts link and click on the Read Webmail button next to the account that you want to read.
Note: You can also save this link as a bookmark, so that you can access it without having to use CPanel.
Click on the web application that you would like to use.
You are now in the web mail window for your default e-mail address.
SquirrelMail is a full-featured e-mail application. The text below describes the main buttons in SquirrelMail and what they do. This is provided as a summary reference, and not a detailed description of how to use SquirrelMail. If you do not know how to use some of the features, have a look at the SquirrelMail home page.
SquirrelMail functions:
Compose - Write a new e-mail message. There are several options available, such as using an address book to choose the recipient(s) of your e-mail, adding attachments, and choosing a signature.
Addresses - Stores e-mail addresses of contacts. Click on any e-mail address to create a new e-mail message to that person.
Folders - Organize your mail messages into different folders. You can have as many different folder as you want.
Options - Set a large number of options on how you use SquirrelMail. Please read the description of a setting carefully before applying it.
Search - Search for a particular e-mail message. You can search by any field in the e-mail and search through any folder.
Help - Displays the SquirrelMail online help. Please read this help when you have any questions or problems.