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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

Login Screen


Login

Once logged in, your view will look like

First View

Task Bar(Button Bar 1)


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


3 Top Bars

Mail(Inbox)


Your mail is now displayed as
 Mail Screenshot

Scroll vs Page Number


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

Filters are located on the drop down menu of Mail.

  1. Vacations,Forwards and Filters


Filters

AddressBook

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

Settings

Your Settings can now be updated from this link.
Settings
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

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

Display Messages(Button Bar 2)

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


Tools Bar(Button Bar 3)


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.
Sidebar View

Folder Actions

Folder Actions include creating new mailboxes and displaying them.
Folder Actions

Subscribe to Mailbox

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.

Show all Mailboxes

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”
services/horde_webmail/start.txt · Last modified: 2015/04/20 11:17 by paulg