Setting Up Additional Mail Systems
To enable users to add external POP email accounts to their Email pagelets, the portal administrator must set up a URL identifier and a URL for each POP mail system. Once these entries are stored in the URL Catalog, the POP mail system appears in the server and URL drop-down list boxes of the pagelet's Personalize Email Options - Add a Personal Email Account page.
This section discusses how to add and maintain mail system URLs.
Note: The POP mail system must have POP forwarding on a user's individual profile. Each user needs to set this with the external mail system. Some mail systems automatically activate POP forwarding; some (such as Yahoo!) require the user to change a profile setting, while others (such as Microsoft Hotmail) do not allow forwarding. Non-forwarding mail systems do not appear on the Email pagelet.
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Page Name |
Definition Name |
Usage |
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URL_TABLE |
Add a URL identifier and maintain a URL for a POP or IMAP mail server. This definition enables the selection on the Add a Personal Email Account page accessed from the Email pagelet. |
Use the URL Maintenance page (URL_TABLE) to add a URL identifier and maintain a URL for a POP or IMAP mail server.
This definition enables the selection on the Add a Personal Email Account page accessed from the Email pagelet.
Navigation:
This example illustrates the fields and controls on the URL Maintenance page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.
Field or Control |
Description |
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URL Identifier |
Enter a URL identifier. The URL identifier indicates whether the URL points to a web address or to a POP3 mail server that cannot be accessed through the web. For a webmail URL, the URL ID must start with MAIL_. For a POP3 mail server, the URL ID must start with SERVERMAIL_. Whatever follows the MAIL_ or SERVERMAIL_ prefix must be unique for each MAIL or SERVERMAIL ID. For example: MAIL_YAHOO or SERVERMAIL_YAHOO. |
Description |
This description appears in the Mail Account Server drop-down list box on the Add a Personal Email Account page. For example: Yahoo Mail Server or Yahoo Mail URL. |
URL |
Enter the URL associated with the URL identifier. |
Comments |
You may optionally enter comments. For example, you may enter your name and the date on which the URL was enabled for the Email pagelet. |