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Use these settings to configure your dial-up networking, email and FTP software for connecting to GreenNet’s online services.

Links to web based systems for administering databases (phpMyAdmin), ActionApps, mailing lists (mailman), and web based email (squirrelmail, horde).

There are two ways of accessing your GreenNet email account on the web.

There are a number of ways to get your emails over from a PC to a Mac (e.g. doing “The IMAP Shuffle” or using a program like Outlook2Mac), but you can also do it using an open source utility called DbxConv. Here’s how:

GreenNet has been supporting IMAP for several years and many GreenNet members have have taken to the new email protocol. IMAP allows you to synchronise email folders across multiple devices and computers, and with SquirrelMail webmail.

In order to provide additional security when you use email, we intend to enable a feature called “secure SMTP“ from Tuesday, 10 October 2006. Most people will not notice any difference. However, for people who use Eudora versions 4, 5 or 6 for Windows, it is likely that you will need to make one or two changes to your Eudora options, which are described below.
There may also be corresponding issues with one or two other e-mail or antivirus programs or mail servers.

To forward one or more emails exactly as they were sent, you can ‘forward as attachment’. Here are the methods to do this for various types of email software.

Setting up Eudora is easy if you have the right information. Everything you need is in the document we sent you, and some of it is included here on the website. Once you have it all, you are ready to set up Eudora.

Step-by-step instructions on how to set up your GreenNet email account in MS Outlook 2002/XP

GreenNet uses an effective anti-spam method called greylisting. Occasionally it is alleged to cause delays and 450 bounces emailing someone at GreenNet. However, in most cases this should be resolved at the sending server.

How to Set Up Thunderbird to Send and Receive Email

These instructions will guide you through setting up Thunderbird, as well as SeaMonkey and Netscape 7, which are very similar.

E-mail spam, also called junk email or unsolicited bulk email (UBE), is now an unfortunate fact of life for most internet users. GreenNet does more than most to remove spam. What can you do to reduce your chance of getting spam, or to deal with it if you do?

Occasionally your correspondents may tell that messages you have sent have been detected as junk mail or “phishing” by the recipient’s email program, such as Outlook 2007 or Windows Mail. This is principally a problem with the receiving software, and here we describe a few things you can do to reduce the likelihood of your email being misclassified as suspicious.

Setting up Thunderbird is easy if you have the right information. Mozilla Thunderbird gives you flexible control over how you manage mail. You can have multiple mail accounts and identities. This article helps you with account and identities management. Also see Turn Thunderbird into the Ultimate GreenNet IMAP Client for further instructions on how to customise IMAP.

If you are going away from your email for a while, you can change the way we deal with your incoming messages.

Kmail is an email client that comes as part of the KDE desktop environment on Linux, in for example Kubuntu. There are a few default options on kmail that should be changed.

What are the benefits of having a dedicated (also called ‘fixed’ or ‘static’) IP as opposed to a shared IP address when getting a broadband connection? There are plenty of advantages and here we outline a few.

You’ve received it, you don’t want it, you don’t understand who it’s from or what it’s about. So just press Delete. Or, if you want to recognise, report or block some of the offensive, fraudulent or just plain annoying email that very occasionally gets through GreenNet’s anti-spam systems (or that you’ve come across with other email providers), here is a rundown of the main types.

If you’re tired of wading through piles of spam each day, follow these instructions to set up automatic spam filters for your Microsoft Outlook 2000 inbox.

Sometimes you’ll open your email client and your email will arrive in your inbox, but when it comes to sending a message you get an error message. Below are a few steps to follow for Outlook/Thunderbird on how to fix this problem.

How to send and receive email through a BlackBerry handheld device.

Why you should let us look after your mail server

You can set your email program to move spam straight to the junk folder, either using any system the program has, or with GreenNet’s own pretty accurate markers.

The following instructions are for Eudora 5/6/7. Eudora 3 looks slightly different

If you have received an email this morning claiming to be from “gn.apc.org System Team” (Admin), please just delete it and do not attempt to reply or forward it. We are aware of this “ phishing “ scam and are taking appropriate action with other ISPs/institutions. We generally mark such fraudulent emails as spam, but unfortunately this one slipped through. Needless to say, we never ask for passwords via email.