Becoming Familiar with Your Control Panel

This section describes the items located on your Home page and gives an overview of the operations you can perform on your mail account and services you can subscribe to. When you need to perform a specific operation, we suggest that you refer to the table of contents to quickly find the instructions you need.

You can do the following with your mail account:

Now let's take a look at your Home page.

E-mail user's standard interface view

The navigation pane is located on the left. It contains the following shortcuts:

Below the Help icon there is a context help tip area, which gives you brief descriptions of operations that you can perform on the control panel screens. When you place the mouse pointer over an icon or another control panel element, the context help tip provides additional information.

The main work area is located on your right. The Info group shows the information on services currently used on your mail account. An icon shown in color indicates that the service is activated, and a grayed out icon indicates that the service is not activated. The icons in the Info group correspond to the icons located in the Tools group and they are clickable, so, for example, when you need to set up an automatic response, you can click either the Autoresponders icon in the Info group or the Autoresponders icon in the Tools group.

The Tools group provides the shortcuts to the following functions:

The Mail aliases group at the bottom of the screen shows additional e-mail addresses associated with your mail account: you can have a number of alternative e-mail addresses that will point to your mail account. These e-mail aliases can be used as disposable e-mail addresses.

For example, you have a primary e-mail address your.name@example.com and one disposable e-mail alias nickname@example.com, which points to your mailbox at the primary address your.name@example.com. When you, say, register on a forum, you specify your e-mail alias nickname@example.com, which can be used to contact you and may be visible to other users. Once you start receiving junk mail, ask your provider or server administrator to remove that alias and create a new one: this way you stop spam without losing your primary e-mail address your.name@example.com.

Note: You cannot create and remove e-mail aliases from your control panel. Refer to your provider or server administrator when you need to have an e-mail alias.