Email Account Settings

Here is a summary of the settings you will need for your email client:

Incoming Mail Server:

Incoming mail server: mail3.codewire.com
Username: username@yourdomain.com
Password: your email password

Outgoing Email Server:

Outgoing mail server: mail3.codewire.com
Port: 587
Username: username@yourdomain.com
Password: your email password

It's important to set the port number to 587, as many ISPs try to block the default port in an effort to prevent spam.

You must also set it so that your outgoing email server requires authentication.

Webmail:

https://webmail.codewire.com:444/scripts/webmail.exe
username: your full email address
password: your email password

You can change a bunch of settings for your own account relating to spam, filtering, vacation message, forwarding, aliases, etc.

You can adjust your settings for the sender challenge-response system, which is called "Friends". You can even personalize the message that it sounds out as a challenge. This is really the ultimate weapon against spam, as it only lets through email after this challenge email is responded to. To get it started with your contacts, you can upload as many Friends as you want. If you set our mail server to your outgoing mail server, and set it to "require authentication", anyone you send email to will be automatically added to your friends list.

Even if you do not turn on "Request confirmation from unknown addresses", anyone on your friends list will never have their email marked as spam. If you find email from a newsletter you subscribe to, or any other email is consistently marked as spam, add the sender to your Friends list.

There is also a new spam prevention system called the Sender Policy Framework (SPF). Most spam and viruses these days uses a forged FROM address to try and get through spam detection systems. SPF is a way of defining what email servers are actually allowed to send email for a given domain. It triggers if a mail comes from a mail server that is not in the same netblock as one of the mail servers listed in the DNS for that domain. When it triggers, it also sends an email to the sender asking them to send email to a specific address to allow email to come through.

SPF is certainly an aggressive system, in that it will generate a lot of confirm emails like this. If you do not like this system, you can turn it off. There is an "SPF" tab on the management page for each user. Just set "Whether to block non spf compliant emails" to false.

Here is more info on how SPF works:

http://www.netwinsite.com/spf.htm

Email Domain Admin:

Login at the same Email Account Admin page above.

If you are the authorized domain administrator for your email domain, you can add/edit/delete accounts, change settings, etc.