WebMail! Online Manual

Copyright (c) 2004 by Lorenzo Barbieri (http://www.lorenzobarbieri.info).

Portions copyright 2002-2004 The Genghis Group (http://www.genghisgroup.com/).

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Getting started

When the program starts, if there aren't configured WebMails the main form is displayed, otherwise the only the WEB! notify icon is displayed.

If you want to interact with the WEB! notify icon you can double click it with the left key or click it with the right key to display the menu.

• Check Mails Now - checks all the WebMails configured to periodical checks. This is the action also when you double click the WEB! icon.
• Configure - opens the main form
• Show License - shows the license under which the program is released
• About - shows the about dialog
• Exit - exits the program
• Open *** - opens the web page of the selected WebMail (to send mails, to check mails, etc...)

The main form

The main form allows to Add a new WebMail to the list, to Remove, to Edit or to Open the selected WebMail or to display the Help or the About box.

Adding or editing a WebMail display the settings form:

At the beginning there are WebMail data (name, type, URL of the login page, and a check to ignore errors with SSL certificates that are not trusted), Login data (username and password) and some Options:

• Periodically check unread mails - allows the program to check for unread mails on the INBOX of the WebMail
• Always show notification icon - the icon of the WebMail is displayed also if there aren't unread mails or errors
• Hide unread mails icon when doubleclicked - the icon of the WebMail goes in the normal status (or is hidden) after that the WebMail page is opened

Notification Icons

Notification Icons are displayed only when the main form is hidden (also the periodic check of unread mails is done only when main form is hidden).

The WEB! icon is always shown.

 In this case there are unread mails on the OWA WebMail, and the SQU (Squirrel) WebMail icon is always shown (selected by the user).

 In this case there is a network error and all the WebMails are in error. If other kind of errors prevent only one or more WebMails to check for unread mails, only the problematic WebMail are shown.

Settings

WebMails are automatically loaded and saved when the program starts and stops from the program current directory.

By default a WebMail! directory is created by setup under the Application Data folder of the user profile, and the program shortcut in the Start Menu refers to that directory as the current one.

You can change the settings directory simply by changing the target directory from the shortcut.

Settings are saved in XML format, and the passwords are encrypted.

Settings include the unread mails poll interval, that is 5 minutes (300000 msec) by default.