Getting the Most from Your Web Mail

Web mail may be used from any computer, even when you are traveling as long as you have a connection to the internet.  There are no long distance phone charges this way.  You are looking at your email on our server and until you download it to your computer, using Outlook Express or another mail server, it will remain on our system until you delete them.

To access your Web Mail, follow the following directions:

1. Access our web page at www.arkd.net (you may want to print this page for reference)

2. On the left side of our home page, you will find a blue box with buttons to our pages that are available to you.   The last button is Web Mail.

3. Click on this button.

4. The page that will come up will ask you for your email username and pass word.
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5. On the page that comes up, you have several options. 

•  INBOX

1.       Contains your email that is currently sitting on our mail server.

• INBOX Drafts

1.       You may draft new email messages from this box.

• INBOX Sent

1.       Contains any emails you have sent from this area.

• INBOX Trash

1.       Contains any emails you have deleted from your inbox.

2.       You must delete them from this trash box to clear them completely.  The mail server will automatically delete your trash folder on Tuesday each week.

3.       Contains any SPAM you have received if you are set up on our SPAM PROTECTION.  

6. At the top left hand corner, you will see a section called SPAM SETTINGS.

• If you subscribe to our SPAM protection, ($1 extra a month) you will need to know how to “White List” your wanted email addresses.
• Double click on SPAM SETTINGS.
• At the middle of the page, you will see “ADD RULE”.

1.       Add your own custom filter rules here. Here's how:

2.       Choose an action from the menu on the left. (Accept Mail,etc.)

3.       Type the e-mail address into the field on the right.

4.       Click on the "Add Rule" button.

• This will list the address you have given (be sure it is exact) to the system and all email in the future will be allowed to go to your INBOX.
• If you choose “Reject Mail” the server will blacklist the email address entered.

OPTIONS

Across the top of this page you will see several choices of things that you can do with Web Mail.

1.       Compose:  This is where you can write and send your outgoing email.

2.       Addresses: This is an address book for your outgoing email.

3.       Folders:  You may set up individual folders here so that you may sort your incoming mail for future use.

4.       Options:  There are several things that you can do from this page.

a.       Personal Information:  You may complete as much or as little of this information as you wish.  What you do give will appear on your outgoing email.

b.       Display Preferences:  You may leave this as a default and your page will appear each time as you see it.  You may make changes to this to allow things like your weather report to appear when you sign on.

c.       Message Highlighting: Based upon given criteria, incoming messages can have different background colors in the message list. This helps to easily distinguish who the messages are from, especially for mailing lists.  Example:  If you receive mail from your mother, you can set it to come onto your page in red.

d.       Folder Preferences: These settings change the way your folders are displayed and manipulated.

e.       Index Order: The index order is the order that the columns are arranged in the message index. You can add, remove, and move columns around to customize them to fit your needs.

f.         TWC Weather: Not available at this time   

Setup the weather displaying options. You can add all the cities you want to monitor as well as various options to display.

·         To set the area for the weather report to appear on the side of your page you should set your Display Preferences, size of your editor window to 76.

      g.   Spell Checker:  Can be used when you compose an email.

SEARCH

You can search for a particular email on your page using several different sort criteria.

Example: If you were looking an email from someone, just put in their name and click “Name” in the box on the right that gives a choice of criteria. 

You may search your inbox, sent box or your trash box in either the Body, Everywhere, Subject, From, CC (copy) or To tab.

CALENDAR

            Double Click on the date where you want to add information

            Click on add on the time line (right side)

            Enter the information as the boxes indicate

                        Title will appear on calendar as will message area

After information is completed, click on set event, Go to day view , you can edit or delete event .     

                        After editing click on update event.

            It will ask you do you really want to change this message,  Yes or no