• Port - This controls the port on which incoming connections will be accepted. The default port for WebMail is 8000 to avoid conflicts with a separate web server or other application you may be running. If you are not running a web server you can use the default web port 80 and access your WebMail via... http://your-host-address-or-ip. With any other port access using... http://your-host-address-or-ip:port.

  Max Simultaneous Connections - This controls the maximum simultaneous connections. This value is normally automatically generated by the setup wizard. However, if you wish you can adjust it manually. Please note that rerunning the wizard will overwrite any changes you make to this value.
• Max Simultaneous Logins - This controls the maximum simultaneous logins. This value is normally automatically generated by the setup wizard, however if you wish you can adjust it manually. Please note that rerunning the wizard will overwrite any changes you make to this value.
• Mails Per Page - This controls the maximum number of emails displayed in the inbox and other folders.
• Listen Only on IP - This allows you to bind the listening port to a single IP address. If a host name is provided then it will be converted to an IP address which will then be used for binding.
• Base Message - When a user sends an email using the WebMail interface, this message is automatically appended to the bottom of the email. If you want to insert a line break in the message then use '\L' in place of where the line break should occur (eg. this is line 1\Lthis is line 2.). Please note that HTML tags may not always be effective.
• Default Template Folder - This controls which template should be used for the WebMail interface by default. The options listed here are simply folders located in the 'webmail' folder in the main Ability Mail Server folder (usually located at c:\program files\code-crafters\ability mail server\webmail). If you want more information on creating, modifying or removing a template then click here.
• Domain Specific Templates - If you are running multiple domains on a single computer, this feature allows you to set different templates for the different domains. For example: if you hosted www.yourdomain.com and www.yourotherdomain.com, you could add a 'Domain Specific Template' for www.yourotherdomain.com which mapped to Template3. The effect would be that if you accessed your webmail through http://www.yourotherdomain.com, Template3 would be used. Any other method of accessing would result in the 'Default Template' being used (i.e. accessing with http://www.yourdomain.com, http://your-ip, http://anyotherdomain...etc).

Automatic Sign-ups
An advanced and very useful feature of the WebMail service is the option to allow automatic sign-ups. This allows users to create their own email accounts very much like other WebMail services. This feature would enable you to give free email accounts away to friends or potential customers. You could even sell upgrades to more 'advanced' accounts, offering things such as larger mail sizes and account allocations, access via POP3...etc. This could be done by simply allocating automatic sign-up accounts into a restricted 'free' group, then upon purchase, move them into a different group.

• Enable Auto Sign-ups - This allows the WebMail facility to be used for automatic account sign-ups.
• Use Full Email Address for 'User Login' - If enabled, new accounts will have the User/Login set to the full email address of the account. This means that logging into POP3, IMAP4, WebMail and SMTP Auth would require the full email address and then the password of the account. This is useful if you want to host multiple domains and need to prevent conflicts between similar user names (ie. bob@yourdomain.com and bob@yourotherdomain.com). In each template there is an additional file called index_extra.html. This file contains an additional drop down list field which you can edit and add your own domains to. This will help speed up logging into WebMail accounts by allowing the user to select the second part of their email address from the list. To use this page you must remove the current index.html and then rename the index_extra.html to index.html.
• Send Email To Admin - This will cause an email to be sent to the admin email address when a new account is created. The email will contain all the contents of the HTML form on the sign-up page. This allows you to add extra fields to the form and so retrieve any extra information from the user that you require.
• Place In Group - If you want new accounts to be placed into a group then you can enable this.
• Allowed Domains - These are the domains which the user can choose from when signing up. The new account will be assigned to the chosen domain (i.e. user@domainfromlist). By simply entering yourdomain.com into the list, any user will be able to create an email address on that domain. If you host multiple domains and wish to adjust the list based on the domain the user is accessing the WebMail facility with, you can specify an entry in the format: www.yourotherdomain.com:yourotherdomain.com. Only users accessing WebMail by http://www.yourotherdomain.com will be able to sign-up to a yourotherdomain.com email address.