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Newer page:	version 16	Last edited on Wednesday, May 18, 2005 9:43:20 pm	by JohnMcPherson	Revert
Older page:	version 12	Last edited on Saturday, November 6, 2004 1:08:57 pm	by AristotlePagaltzis	Revert

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+* Our mail server allows you to use specify a suffix on your username when giving people your email address, and the suffix will be ignored. This means you could give out username+suffix1@wlug.org.nz as your email address to one person, and username+suffix2@wlug.org.nz to another person. The "+" and anything after it will be ignored when delivering mail, so it will all go into your inbox. This makes it easy to filter your incoming mail, and see who is giving your address to other people :)

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* You can create a file named <tt>.forward</tt> in your home directory (remember, everyone who has a mail account, also has a [Shell] account) to have [Email] automatically forwarded to another address. For example after logging in:

$ echo my_other_address@verisign.com > ~/.forward

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* [Exim] also supports specially formatted <tt>.forward</tt> files to do limited processing of incoming [Email], such as save to a certain file, or forward or drop. As currently set up on the [WLUG] MailServer, such filtering is supported. See EximFilter for hints and examples.

-* If you're using MozillaMail and [IMAP] to connect through the FireWall to the server you may need to add <tt>imap.wlug.org.nz</tt> to your "No Proxies for" list (under Preferences/Advanced/Proxies). This tells ~~you mailer~~ to connect directly to the server rather than through the proxy.

+* If you're using MozillaMail and [IMAP] to connect through the FireWall to the server you may need to add <tt>imap.wlug.org.nz</tt> to your "No Proxies for" list (under Preferences/Advanced/Proxies). This tells your MailClient to connect directly to the server rather than through the proxy.

* When you log into WebMail you may need to use <tt>username</tt> rather than <tt>username@wlug.org.nz</tt> (this differs from other SquirrelMail setups). The feedback when you make this mistake is a little obscure (i.e. several lines of the [PHP] internal error messages and then <tt>Unknown user or password incorrect</tt>.)

-* Sometimes reloading produces [PHP] error messages. This appears to be related to session TimeOut. The solution is to check for new mail by clicking on your inbox instead of reloading.

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-* There is a bug in the WebMail whereby it occasionally forgets who you are (maybe it loses the cookie?). If this bug were only present in WebMail I'd blame it on WebMail, but it also happens to long-running wiki edits, which suggests that the problem may be something more deeply rooted.

- ~~''This seems to be resolved now... I think it is [PHP]'s session handling stuff. We upped the timeout to 60 minutes, and haven't seen problems since'' --JohnMcPherson~~