Email accounts
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## Email accounts

### Display a list of all accounts

Inside the webmail-module, click on Settings, then click on "Accounts".

To edit an account click on "edit" (if there is no edit- or delete-link contact your sysadmin)

For deleting an account, click on "delete".

If you want to verify your smtp-settings click on "Test SMTP".

### Create a new account

Inside the webmail-module, click on Settings, then click on "New Account"

New account (imap-only) , New account (fetch from imap or pop3) , Activate Account

  Create a new account for fetching emails from imap or pop3 to the database.

  Create a new account for imap-only access. Emails are downloaded by demand. The imap-folders can be found in the tree (a new node with the account name is shown).

  Activate this option to fetch mails from this account

Account Name

  Enter the name of the account, should be unique.

Fetch all E-mails to folder

  Select the folder where new E-mails are placed after downloading. (default: Inbox)

Place a copy of each E-mail in

  Use this option to place a copy in a special folder, normally public folder (the mail is only stored once on hard-disk)

Mailserver Type

  Use POP3 for fetching mails from a POP3 server or IMAP for fetching from an IMAP inbox

POP3/IMAP Host

  Specify the hostname or IP address of the server to fetch mails from

Username

  When fetching mails authenticate with this username

Password

  When fetching mails authenticate with this password

Leave messages on server

  Activate this to leave all messages on the mail server instead of deleteing them (recommended for IMAP)

From Name

  This name appears when sending mails e.g. name for "name" <email@gmx.de>

Reply-to Address

  This address appears when sending mails e.g. email@gmx.de for "name" <email@gmx.de>

Use mail-function

  PHP offers a mail() function that calls sendmail (Linux) or SMTP (Windows) as configured in php.ini

SMTP Host

  Instead of using the mail() function you can specify a SMTP-hostname for sending mails

POP before SMTP

  Some SMTP servers require a successful POP3 authentication before sending mails

SMTP needs authentication

  Instead of authenticating via POP-before-SMTP you can use an extra username and password

Username

  Specify a username for SMTP authentication

Password

  Specify a password for SMTP authentication

Authenticate with POP3-username + Password

  Instead of using an extra username/password for SMTP authentication you can use the username/password for POP3/IMAP-authentication

#### Additional options for user "admin"

As "admin" you can create accounts for other users and allow / disallow them to edit these accounts. To create a new account for another user simply choose the username above "account name". To restrict editing uncheck "User can edit this account".

When creating users as "admin":

- using $username gets automatically replaced with mgw-username.

- using $email is replaced with mgw-email

- using $fullusername is replaced with "Firstname Lastname"

For changing moregroupware username, email and fullusername take a look at the admin-module (esp. user-manager)

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