WebMail(Horde) Upgrade

EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) upgraded the front end of Web Mail Service.The basic functionality remains the same. Changes are shown in the following sections Any issues should be emailed to tech@cse.yorku.ca.

• Login Screen
• Task Bar -Added Drop Down Menus
• Mail(Inbox)
• Scroll vs Page Number
• Filters
• Search
• AddressBook
• Settings
• Folders
• Subscribe

Once logged in, your view will look like

The top task bar displays drop down menu shows

1. Mail,Address Book and Settings on the left.
2. Search and Logout on the right.
3. Folder Option is located on the side bar

Your mail is now displayed as

In order to navigate pages in your mail, use the scroll bar on the right of the display. Previously, you were able to navigate via a page number setting

Filters are located on the drop down menu of Mail.

1. Vacations,Forwards and Filters

Address Book is located in the top task bar. The drop down menu includes:

1. New Contact
2. Address Book of User
3. Favorite Recipient
4. Search

Your Settings can now be updated from this link.

The drop down menu includes “Preferences” and “Help”. Under Preferences you will find your global preferences. Here you can customize the look and feel of your mail display.

Search is located on the top task bar as indicated on the second illustration.

Logout symbol is at the far right of the top task bar.

The second top bar displays the date and No of Messages in users' inbox. This is just informational.

This picture shows the option on “other” tasks

This picture shows the option on “filter” tasks

The SideBar Menu contains your Inbox, Drafts, Sent, Templates, Folder Actions as well as any other mailboxes you may have created in the past.

Folder Actions include creating new mailboxes and displaying them.

In order to subscribe to a mailbox, you can right click on the mailbox and highlight the subscribe radio button. This was located under “Folder” Choose Action under the older version of Webmail.

By default, web mail is configured to only show IMAP mailbox subscriptions. For some users this is not ideal. They may prefer to see all their mailboxes. To enable viewing all mailboxes. Please follow the steps listed below.

• Click on the Gear Icon on the Toolbar ⇒ then select Preferences ⇒ then select Mail

• Under Mailbox ⇒ select “Folder Display”

• Click “Show Advanced Preferences” (right hand side of the screen)

• Then un checkmark “Use IMAP mailbox subscriptions?”

• Finally click “Save”