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Printing Pages on our Website
We just added a new function on our website that makes it really easy and clean to print out information. Why did we do this and why am I blogging about it? Well for starters, I personally prefer to read information in print format and I figure I’m not the only one. And I hate when I have to spend time copying and pasting web pages into MS Word and then deleting all of the pictures and graphics so that I don’t waste a lot of printer ink. So now you can print all you want—with ease.
We’ve got a lot of information throughout our website—if you’re a customer or partner I highly recommend printing out pages in our support section. If you’re thinking about becoming a customer or partner, you may want to print different pages throughout the website. Either way, I hope this helps.
Administrator Tool: Alias Assignments
Email administrators can now manage their alias assignments for a specific mailbox, from one location. This makes it possible to assign a mailbox to any or all of the domain’s aliases, all at one time.
To access this control panel feature, select “Email Accounts” / “Mailboxes,” and then click the “Alias” link for the mailbox you want to manage. Select “All” from the “Filter” drop-down to view all of the aliases in your domain. You can then add and remove alias assignments for the mailbox, as desired.
As always, you can create and manage aliases by selecting “Email Accounts” / “Aliases.” And you can view a list of all aliases and their assigned mailboxes by selecting “Email Accounts” / “Tools” / “Export Mailbox Aliases.”
New Reseller Tool: Moving a Domain
If you’re not a reseller, disregard this post.
Resellers occasionally need to move a domain from one client to another. To make this transaction easier for resellers, we have automated the process and incorporated it into the control panel.
To access this tool, select “Reseller Tools
Administrator Tool: Allowing Simultaneous Logins
By default, an administrator cannot log in to the control panel more than once at one time (for example, an administrator cannot log in to the control panel from two separate browser windows at the same time). But, now a company can allow specific administrators to have such simultaneous logins.
To access this tool, select “Administrators,
Administrator Tool: Restricting Login Locations
Companies can now allow administrators to access the control panel only from a specific IP address (or up to 3 IP addresses). This allows companies to allow an administrator to, for example, log in to the control panel from work and home, but not from any other location.
To access this tool, select “Administrators,
Control Panel Main Page: Redesign
We’ve been making a lot of improvements to our control panel as of late. I’ll be blogging the changes as they go live over the next couple of weeks. For starters, when you log in to the control panel, you’ll see our newly re-designed Main Page. In addition to being able to view system alerts and status, you can now access the latest posts to this blog. This helps to make the Main Page a one-stop location for viewing important and timely information about our email hosting services.
Hackathon 2.0
Today is Hackathon 2.0 at Webmail.us (Hackathon 1.0 took place last August). In short, a Hackathon is a day we set aside (usually a Saturday) where all of our software developers pick a small project that they can code, test, and just about launch—all in one day. I say “just about launch
Purging the Sent Folder
After a decent amount of customer feedback, we decided to eliminate the ability to purge the sent folder in webmail (purging allows you to delete all emails within a folder with the click of a button as opposed to deleting all emails manually). We debated this for a long time internally and I think we made the right move in getting rid of it. Now you can only purge Spam and Trash. Perhaps one day we’ll bring back the ability to purge other folders—we’ll probably give you the choice inside of Account Options. I imagine that instead of a button though, you’ll be able to right-click and purge. Right clicking capabilities are right around the corner. No pun intended.
Company Directory Just Released
We have just started to release to our customers our newest feature—the webmail company directory. If you would like for us to turn this feature on for your company, please email us and we’ll enable it as quickly as we can.
The company directory is currently optimized for companies with less than 200 employees, but we will be scaling the feature to support larger numbers. If your company has more than 200 employees, and you are interested in the company directory, let us know—if the demand is there, we’ll work faster.
The company directory provides email administrators and users with the following capabilities:
• Email administrators can create multiple directories across multiple domains, and can select which users should be included in each directory
• Users included in the directory have access to the most up-to-date contact information for all users in the directory, via the webmail address book
• Users can view and manage their own contact information (if permitted by the email administrator) via their “My Profile
Webmail Address Book Import/Export Enhancements
We have added several enhancements to the import/export tool in the webmail address book. You can now do the following:
• Using the .csv file format, you can import an address book from any email application (Outlook, Yahoo, Thunderbird, Gmail, etc.)
• Since email applications use different terminology for certain fields (e.g., Cell Phone vs. Mobile Phone), we now allow you to match, or “map,” the original fields to the corresponding fields in the webmail address book. This gives you control over how your information is imported.
• In addition to creating address book export files for Outlook, Yahoo, Netscape, and Webmail, you can now export your address book for Gmail and Thunderbird.
To access the import/export tool, log in to webmail, click the “Contacts” link, and then click the “Import/Export” button. We hope these enhancements will be helpful to you!
Thanks to Huey for taking this on as his 20% project. I believe we’re the one in the industry to take this approach. Very nice innovation!