Web Based E-mail | CGI Scripts | Server Side Includes | ODBC Setup

Web Based E-mail

To reach your web based email is quite easy.  You will simply use :8383 in the URL of your domain.  For example:

http://www.yourdomain.com:8383

It is very important that you enter the http:// because it will not pull up the :8383 without it.

After the page is loaded, you will see a login screen.  Simply login with the username and password of the email account you want to use.

From the main menu you can see several things that you can do.  Send and receive email, check your email, change your password, etc.

To forward your email, click on change mail forwarding information.  Type in where you want your email to be sent to, it will need the complete address.  To disable this feature, simply make the box blank.  Either case, click on save when complete.

To setup your autoresponse, click on change vacation message.   Enter the message you want your autoresponse to send out.  Then click on save.   Note:  This will only be sent to one time per email address.  Once the response has been sent, you can see who has received them by the main menu.

View Vacation Message Recipients, this will list all those that have contacted you.  You can clear this list out so that your response will be sent out again by clicking clear vacation message recipients.

User Administration:

Only the ftp username will be able to add or remove email accounts or aliases.  When this user logs in, they will see a new link on the bottom of the main menu.  User Administration.  Be careful not to delete this account or it will have to be reinstalled by us.

Adding aliases to point to more than one email account can be accomplished by entering the email address, coma, email address.

Example:  bob@smith.com,mike@mike.com

NOTE:
You may notice that the max emails and space indicates "zero" this is default and represents an unlimited value.  We recommend leaving these as the default settings.

CGI Scripts

Extensions

.pl
 

Location

.pl files must be placed into the cgi-bin to execute.
 

Path to perl statements

This is not needed by our servers, remove it.  Our systems know to execute perl by the .pl or .cgi extensions.
 

Sendmail?

We don't use Sendmail as our email server.  If you need to use the Sendmail function in your cgi scripts we recommend you use FrontPage to create forms and have them emailed to your address.

Information:

CGI-BINs are not installed by the customer and must be requested.  We will then setup your CGI-BIN free of charge.  CGI-BINs are not setup during the account setup phase as most customers do not require them, thus saving us resources on our servers and thereby keeping costs down.  If you are starting a new account, you can make your request at the time of the order by requesting one in the comments box on your order form.

Once your cgi-bin is setup, all you need to do is to upload your Perl scripts into this folder.

Your cgi-bin is set to execute, not write.  So, if any of your scripts are trying to write to a file, you need to write to another directory.  Simply email us this directory's name and we will apply the correct permissions to it.

The .pl extension is for Perl scripts. This is the preferred method.  It is faster to execute by the system, thereby making your site faster. If you are calling a perl script from the Server Side Include command, you will need to use the .cgi extension.

The .cgi extension is for raw perl, perl.exe.  This must be used for the SSI, other than that, you should try to use the .pl first.

SSI (Server Side Includes)

Extension

.shtml
 

Location

.shtml files containing only the include command can be used anywhere and does not have to be placed into a cgi-bin.  .shtml files containing the exec command must be placed into the cgi-bin to execute.
 

Note:

To use the exec command, you must call a perl script with the .cgi extension