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Each mailbox is defined as a User in the Admin Control Panel. Here you can manage all of your Users and : add new ones, remove or edit any user's settings, as well as login into the User's Control Panel to manage their preferences.
Before adding a new user please make sure you have a sufficient User quota (available mailboxes and quota), which can be checked by clicking on Home, in checked in the top menu bar of your Admin Control Panel.
Adding a User
Go to the Admin Control Panel.
- Log in using your admin Admin username and password.
- Click on Users in the top menu bar.
- Click on the New Userbutton.
- Choose the Account Type from the dropdown list.
- Choose the Domain where you want to add an account from the drop-down list.
- Enter the Username to add (only the word part before the @ sign).
- Enter the Password. Note: Password Passwords must contain at least 8 characters, including upper/lowercase, numbers, and a symbol[optional] If you have Enhanced Service, select whether you wish to add an Enhanced Account or a Basic Account.
- Enter the Name of the user to add, for your control (user´s full name, with spaces).
- Enter the Quota for the user, in Gigabytes (GB). Note that 1024 Megabytes = 1GB. In order to assign 5 gigabytes5GB, simply type 5. To specify 500 megabytes MB (Half of a gigabyte), specify 0.5.
- Optional: you can click on More Options to define the User's Language, Timezone or Localization and Date format.
- Click on the button Add New User to finish.
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If you receive the error that the User already exists, check if you already have an Alias or a Distribution List with the same name. The username must be unique on a domain level, which means you cannot have a mailbox and an Alias with the same name. |
Removing a User
Go to the Admin Control Panel.
- Log in using your admin Admin username and password.
- Click on Users in the top menu bar.
- Select your domain from the Select Domain drop-down box.
- Click on the "-" icon (minus signdelete icon (trash icon) next to the account you wish to remove.
- An alert pop-up will appear, showing the alias User that will be deleted. Click on OK to Delete to confirm.
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Deleting an account deletes all its e-mails and data. Be careful! |
Editing a User
Go to the Admin Control Panel.
- Log in using your admin Admin username and password.
- Click on Users in the top menu bar.
- Select your domain from the Select Domain drop-down box.
- Click on the pencil icon (edit) next to the user User you wish to edit
- You can update the name, password, account type (basic or enhanced), and quota.
- Click on More Options to update the language, timezone, and date format.
- Disabled - set to Yes if you want to temporarily deactivate the mailbox, without deleting the emails.
- Only local SMTP - enable this if you want to restrict the User to only send local emails (only to the same domain).
- Click on Update User to save your changes.
Logging in as a user
Admins are able to login as a userlog in as the User, making it possible to manage several aspects, such as autoresponder, forwarders, rules, black & whitelist on user level, track e-mails sent by account (in Track deliveries) and so on, which are only available on the user level. End users can login with their respective e-mail addresses directly to the user panelhttp://wiki.polarismail.com/display/Support/User+Features+-+How+ToUser Panel.
Go to the Admin Control Panel
- Log in using your admin Admin username and password.
- Click on Users in the top menu bar.
- Click on the arrow icon next to the account you wish to login as in the User Panel.
- Click on the mailbox icon next to the account you wish to login as in the Webmail.
- Click on the key icon next to the account you wish to generate One Time Password (OTPassword). This password is valid for 5 minutes and you can use it to troubleshoot the User's issue.