Choose from among the following webmail packages. Please also check the
various notes following the list.
PLEASE BE SURE YOU HAVE CONFIGURED A PROFILE AS INDICATED BELOW
- SquirrelMail
- The latest stable release of the popular SquirrelMail package.
This is a fairly robust webmail package that does not require
extensive browser capabilities.
FCG users see special note below.
- MV's webmail (note, now phased out and not available;
this old note left for information purposes for a while.)
- The original MV webmail program. While this is being phased out,
you may still need to access it for various reasons
.
(There will be one more webmail package coming at at some point.)
Note to FCG users formerly using the older SquirrelMail installation
If you have been using the previous SquirrelMail installation at MV, your old profile information has not been carried forward, and you will probably have to spend a little time in the options menu to set up your addresses and preferences. One thing in particular that you'll want to configure is your email address information, so that when you send mail your address will be what you want it to be. Another is whether you want a copy of the mail you send to be automatically saved to a Sent folder - this is not enabled by default. (Those are just a couple of examples.)
Profiles
Each webmail package maintains its own profile information. If you make
use of more than one of these webmail packages, note that you need to
configure each one separately. The first time you visit any of them,
please spend some time to configure some common options including
your primary email address (which will be seen on any outgoing mail that
you sent). The webmail package will not be able to guess what email
address you want to appear as your return address -- you must tell it.
Bookmarking
If you add a bookmark (as you probably will want to do), we think it's best
if you bookmark this page rather than the specific package you choose. That
way you'll be able to see any changes that are made here.
If you do bookmark this page, we also think it's best if you use the
URL that got you here, i.e.:
rather than the page that you were redirected to, since the redirected
page may change. Likewise, if you bookmark one of the specific webmail
package, it would be better to bookmark the URL given in the list above,
rather than bookmarking the page that you land on after clicking that
URL. For many browsers, one typical way to bookmark the link is to right-click
on it and choose "bookmark" on the menu that comes up; another is to drag
the link to your bookmark bar or bookmark list.