Webmail is an extremely useful tool for those of us who check our email from numerous places, but the current InfoWest webmail system has some limitations. There’s one way to get past the limits of webmail, while still keeping your infowest.com email address, and that’s webmail2.infowest.com
There’s one frequently requested feature that Webmail2 has, and standard Webmail doesn’t, and that’s the ability to attach multiple files when sending a message. Here’s how to use this feature with Webmail2:
First you need to log in to webmail2.infowest.com, click on the Mail button (there are other options, such as calendar, which we will cover in another post), and then click the Compose button. You should see a window that looks like the window to the right.
Notice that attachments section at the bottom of the window? It looks like you can only attach one file, right? Try attaching a file now. As soon as you click the attach button, another file field appears! You can attach as many files to a message as you want to using this Webmail2.
February 16, 2006 at 17:51
Question for Blog:
I know you are not supposed to open an email with an attachment when you do not know who sent it, etc., but how do you delete the email if you do not click on it? Or do you just not click on the attachment?
February 17, 2006 at 09:34
With modern email software, such as Webmail, Webmail2, and Outlook Express 6, just opening an email with an attachment will not get you infected with the virus, you have to open the attachment itself
February 18, 2006 at 11:20
If you get a blank page at:
http://webmail2.infowest.com/
this may be because you have page refreshing disabled in your browser security setup, in which case the URI that will work is:
http://webmail2.infowest.com/horde/
February 19, 2006 at 18:22
Personally I don’t care for Horde. There are however a ton of great packages out there. For example, it would be awesome if you offered AtMail for customers…or if you want to go the free route, Roundcube is a very promising project that’s in the works. That’s what I use on all my personal sites.
http://www.roundcube.net
February 20, 2006 at 08:42
We’ve looked very closely at a lot of packages, including atmail, roundcube, and laslomail. There are a few things keeping us from running a different webmail program than horde, however.
First, at least with roundcube and laslomail, these packages require IMAP, which we don’t currently support due to the way our distributed mail server works (we’re currently working on that, however).
Second, in the case of roundcube, it is beta quality software at the moment, and we try to stay away from beta software (I am testing roundcube on a cpanel server at the moment, though).
Thirdly, in the case of atmail and laslomail, they are commercial software, and we tend to gravitate more toward open-source software because we can edit the source to fit our systems better, and the fact that OSS is free is a big plus.
Of course all these things will not keep us from trying out packages in the future, and we’re not really stuck on horde, as such. We just don’t have IMAP capability at the moment, and that’s preventing us from using a lot of these webmail packages.
Thanks for letting us know about the packages you like, though. It’s good to get feedback from customers and non-customers alike, especially when they’re commenting about things we’re talking about internally.
February 20, 2006 at 09:58
I’ll add to Josh’s comment.. The current webmail interface at webmail.infowest.com is commercial software. We’re not too happy with it, and would change many things if we could, but alas, we’re stuck without source code. We hope to make better choices in the future. Can’t wait for IMAP!
March 2, 2006 at 09:49
Scottydoo,
Just wanted to let you know we are looking very closely at @mail. It looks very promising. Thanks for the lead.
March 13, 2006 at 13:50
Glad to hear you’re looking into it. I know it’s not open source, but from other admins I know running it on their servers it’s been a great package. I haven’t had the pleasure of running it on any of my personal sites as it’s commercial as well, and not to mention a pain in the butt to setup on a shared hosting package, since that’s not really what it’s meant for.
March 13, 2006 at 14:32
Another nice little package is DWMail.
http://www.dominion-web.com/products/dwmail/
May 10, 2006 at 13:47
An update - we went with DWMail. We’re looking at some higher end systems closely for custom corporate customer use.