Miscellaneous

 

Changing your password

Example:

You were at a party last night and when people started talking about fish you blurted out "My password is 'I wish I could catch a fish!'" You probably don't want everyone at the party to access your account so you should change your password right away.

In fact, it's a good idea to change your password often even if you haven't told it to anyone.

It is strongly recommended to choose a password of at least 8 characters, including at least one upper case, one lower case, and one non-alphabetical character. To construct an effective password that will give you good protection, it is recommended that you create a long password (up to 64 characters including spaces) which spells out a phrase with the words slightly changed. For example: "The boy stood on the burning deck" could be changed to "The boy's stand on on the burning decks". The important point is that long passwords need to be remembered.

Note: Although Safe-mail offers a reminder feature we advise you to choose a strong password you will remember rather than using the reminder. A simple answer to a reminder question will weaken your security.

How?

  1. Click the Security button at the top of the screen.(In preferences)

  2. Click the Password tab.

  3. Type your current password in the 'Current password' field.

  4. Type your new password in the 'New password' field.

  5. Re-type your new password to confirm it.

  6. Click the 'Update' button.

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Forgot your password?

Example:

If you choose a password secret question and fill in an answer you can use this feature in case you forget your password.

Selecting a reminder question such as 'What was the name of your fish?', filling in an answer such as: 'Buble', will allow you to create a new password and get access to your account in case you forget your password.

You will be asked to fill in the answer to your reminder question and once typing the correct answer you will be able to create a new password. 

How?

  1. Click the Security button at the top of the screen.

  2. Click the Password tab.

  3. Type your current password.

  4. Go to the Setup a reminder question and answer section.

  5. Select the reminder question.

  6. Type your answer to the selected question.

  7. Click the Update button.

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Checking all your e-mails using Safe-mail

Example:

You have 3 e-mail accounts, you want to check the mails in all of them without having to access each time these 3 different accounts.

You want to read all your e-mails in one place.

You can use Safe-mail's POP option to do that.

How?

  1. Click the 'Preferences' button at the top of the screen.

  2. Click the 'POP' tab.

  3. Fill in the other mail servers properties, your other account user name and password .

  4. Click the 'Update' button to complete the POP setup. Once setup is completed, the 'Get POP' button will will appear automatically in your Inbox.

  5. Click the 'Inbox' button from the top menu.

  6. Highlight the 'Catalogue' option if you like to preview the mails before retrieving them and the 'Messages' option if you like to retrieve all messages to your inbox.

  7. Click the 'Get POP' button.

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Going away for a while? Specify an Auto Respond

Example:

The last time you went to visit Uzbekistan you came back to 45 messages from the same person. The first message was a pleasant one, "Will I see you at the town fair Monday night?" The second message, similar to the other 43, was in the form of "WHY AREN'T YOU ANSWERING ME????? Are you just ignoring me? Well, that's really obnoxious. I guess I won't be inviting you to my aunt's famous taste-the-pumpkins night." Once you returned from vacation you were able to clear it all up, but by the time you explained everything the above-mentioned pumpkin night was well over.

Now you're going back to Uzbekistan (the weather there is great) and you want to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

You can set up an Auto Respond that will tell everyone who writes you a message that you are away and won't be checking your mail. (There aren't too many Internet cafes in Uzbekistan.)

How?

  1. Click the Settings button at the top of the screen.

  2. Click the Auto Respond tab.

  3. Specify the dates you want the Auto Respond to be active.

  4. You may fill in the subject of the Auto Respond or leave it to be "Re: whatever subject they send you"

  5. Change the respond text that appears in the Content box to suit your needs.

  6. Click the Update button

$(Sender) will automatically fill in the name of the incoming mail's sender.

$(Date) will automatically fill in the date the incoming mail was sent on.

In the Subject field, $(Subject) will automatically fill in the subject of the incoming mail that will be responded to by the autorespond.

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Defining a 'Reply To' address

Example:

You send a message and the recipient answers it and clicks the 'Reply' button.

Where will his answer go?

Specify a desired destination - it may be the address of your Safe-mail account or any other e-mail address of your choice. 

How?

  1. Click the Settings button at the top of the screen.

  2. Click the Mail control tab.

  3. Go to Reply section.

  4. Fill in the desired address in the "Attach the following Reply To address to all outgoing mails" box.

  5. Click the Update button.

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