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How
Do I Change My Password?
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How
Do I Administer My Web Site Settings?
- To use all of this server appliance's email
capabilities, individual users must configure their email applications
to send and retrieve email through the web server.
Make sure the following information is entered
into the email program used on each registered user's computer:
- Email address
The format is <yourusername>@<yourdomain.com>,
(e.g., admin@mynetlink.net) where <yourusername> is the user
name assigned to you as a registered user (for example,
"admin"), <yourdomain.com> stands for the fully
qualified host name of your site (for example, "mynetlink.net"),
Obtain this information from your system administrator.
- SMTP Server
The format is <yourdomain.com> (e.g., "www.mynetlink.net").
- POP3 or IMAP Server
The format is <yourdomain.com> (e.g., "www.mynetlink.net"),
same as the SMTP server setting.
Note: Occasionally, an email application asks
for an "incoming" mail server. The incoming mail server
would be the POP3 server
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How
do I access the FTP for my site?
As a MyNetLink user, you have the privilege to
publish a user home page of your own.
Once you have created a home page and you want
to post it on the server, you can upload it by following the steps
listed below.
Note: Before uploading your home page, make sure
its file name is index.html. The uploaded page will appear at
http://<yourdomain.com>/~<yourusername>/index.html.
- Launch your FTP application, wait for the FTP
prompt.
- Type open <hostname>, press
Return or Enter. (<hostname> stands for the site name
or IP address of the site that will host your home page).
- Type your user name when asked for login
name, then press Return or Enter.
- Type your password when asked for password,
then press Return or Enter.
- Type cd web, then press Return or
Enter. This takes you to the directory for your home page.
- Type put <path>/index.html,
press Return or Enter. This uploads the file.
(<path> stands for the directory location of your
home page file on your local disk, and index.html should be the
actual name of the file containing your Home page.)
- Type quit, then press Return or Enter.
This terminates the file transfer session.
- Done!
For more information on how to use FTP services,
Click Here.
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How
do I set up my email?
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In an on-going effort
to eliminate 100% of the SPAM originating from our e-mail
servers, we are requiring customers to authenticate when sending
mail. By requiring people to authenticate while sending e-mail,
only our customers will be able to use our mail servers.
In order to make this change as painless as
possible, screen shots on how to configure Outlook
Express, Eudora Pro and Netscape
Messenger are provided below. If you need assistance
reconfiguring your e-mail client, please call ( ) - for technical
support.
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Outlook
Express:
1) Open Outlook Express, and select Tools ->
Accounts from the menu bar.
2) Select the account that you use with our services
and then click on the properties button.
3.)
Click on the “Servers” tab.
4)
At the servers tab, put a check in the “My server required
authentication” check box. Now simply click OK to close out of the
properties palette and then click “close” to close the accounts
window.
2)
In the options window, click on the “Sending Mail” button. Put a check
“Allow Authentication” check box. All done! Now just click
OK to close out of the options window.
2)
In the preferences window, select “Mail Servers” from the list of
items on the side.
3)
Where it says “Outgoing mail server user name:” enter the username you
use to access your email account. Click “OK”.
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How
Do I Access My Webmail?
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How
Do I Access My Stats?
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Who
are some of your customers?
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Are
there any scripts I am not allowed to run?
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FormMail.pl
The second most common cause for web
servers being used to send SPAM is Matt
Wright's FormMail
script.
Many people use his scripts - his FormMail.pl
script for instance was downloaded 2 million times according to his
own website.
However, please note that Matt Wright is one
of the most horrible PERL programmers under the sun and ever since
1997 FormMail.pl has had security issues which could be abused to
trick your mail server into sending emails to anyone. Nowadays automated
tools are available which scan the internet for servers and
domains which run vulnerable versions of FormMail.
If we
find a FormMail.pl script on the
server, we will remove
it.
I would not even recommend to go for the
latest FormMail.pl because Matt Wright did not manage to fix it in
the last five years, why should it finally be secure?
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I'm
an SBC user and can't send e-mail. What gives?
In
Microsoft Outlook:
Click:
Tools --> Accounts
Select your
mail account, then click Properties
Click the
Servers tab at the top, and change the
outgoing mail (smtp) settings to the one shown below.
Click the
settings button, and input your SBC account information.
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