Manage Settings in Enom Webmail

The Settings component lets you configure general settings for each mailbox component, including display and language preferences, mail settings (setup, autoresponders, signatures, allow and block lists, and forwarding), and spam settings. This guide provides a reference to all available settings and step-by-step instructions for the most common tasks, such as autoresponders, signatures, filters, and IMAP syncing.

Settings reference

The tables below describe the top-level settings options and the preference options available under Preferences.

Settings map

Preferences map

Setting automatic alerts

To enable a vacation or out-of-office alert, set up an autoresponder message.

Enabling an autoresponder

1. In the Settings tab, click Autoresponder.
2. Under Change autoresponder, fill out the text.
3. Click the Enabled checkbox.
4. In the Interval field, enter the number of days before the same recipient receives the auto-response again. If not specified, the interval defaults to one day.
5. Click in the End date field and select the date when you want to stop the autoresponse message from being sent.
6. Click Save.

Disabling an autoresponder

1. In the Settings tab, click Autoresponder.
2. Remove the checkmark from the Enabled checkbox.
3. Click Save.

Adding an email signature

Adding a signature

1. In the Settings tab, click Identities, then select your email account or click Create.
2. In the Signature field, enter the signature details to appear at the end of all outgoing email messages.
3. Click Save.

Disabling a signature

1. In the Settings window, click Identities.
2. Select your account.
3. Delete the text in the Signature text field.
4. Click Save.

Mail filters

A filter is a set of conditions that you define to handle incoming emails automatically. You can set filters to sort incoming emails into folders, delete unwanted messages, or forward messages to other email accounts. Webmail can analyze the following fields in the message header:

• Subject
• From
• To
• Message size
• By a wildcard that you define

The fields can be evaluated according to the following conditions: does or does not contain, is or is not equal to, does or does not exist, and does or does not match expression. You define the value of the condition.

Plus sign tagging

Plus sign tagging lets you identify and filter incoming emails according to a tag that you add to your email address when you give it to an individual, group, or business.

To use plus sign tagging, enhance your email address by adding a plus sign (+) after your name—but before the @ symbol—followed by some identifying text. You can set up filtering rules that recognize incoming mail sent to the tagged address and move it to a specific folder.

Plus tagging also lets you know whether your email address has been sold to a third party. If you start receiving unwanted or spam emails addressed to your plus-sign-tagged email address, you will know that your address was sold, and you can easily create a filtering rule that deletes any future email sent to that tagged address.

Adding a filter

1. In the Settings tab, click Filters.
2. Click Create from the toolbar.
3. In the Filter name field, enter a name for your filter.
4. Under Scope, select when you want the filter to act: matching all of the following rules, matching any of the following rules, or all messages.
5. Specify the Rules: from the first drop-down select the message area to evaluate (From, Subject, To, etc.), select a condition (contains, does not contain, etc.), and type a value.
6. Click the Plus sign to add rules, the Gear to set modifiers, or the Trash to remove a rule.
7. In the Actions section, choose how to handle matching messages: Move message to, Redirect message to, Discard with message, Delete message, Keep message in Inbox, or Stop evaluating rules.
8. Click the Plus sign to add additional actions or the Trash to delete an action.
9. Click Save.

Removing a filter

1. Click Settings and select Filters.
2. Under the existing Filters list, select the filter you want to remove.
3. Click the Actions icon and then choose Delete.
4. The filter is removed from the Filters list.

Disabling a filter

1. Click Settings and select Filters.
2. Under the existing Filters list, click the filter to select it.
3. Click the Actions gear icon, choose Enable/disable filter, and click Save.
4. The filter is greyed out in the Filters list and will not execute, but it can be re-enabled later.

Syncing folders across all devices

You may notice that when you make a change to a folder in Webmail, it doesn't change on your other devices, such as your phone. With an IMAP subscription, your folders stay in sync across all of your devices.

1. In the Settings tab, select Preferences, then Server settings.
2. Turn on the toggle for Use IMAP subscriptions.
3. Select Submit.

Adding or removing email accounts

1. In the Settings tab, select Other accounts.
2. Click Add.
3. Fill in the email, username, password, server address, server port, and whether SSL should be used, based on the information provided by your email provider.
4. Select the Leave a copy of the message on the server checkbox if you want to leave your read email messages on the other server.
5. From the Default folder drop-down, choose the folder to save the email messages retrieved from the other account.
6. Select Test connection on save if you want to test the connection to this account when you save the configuration.
7. Select Import old messages if you want to import all existing messages from the account. If you don't select this option, only new, unread messages are imported.
8. Click Submit.

Editing the allowed and blocked senders lists

The allowed and blocked senders lists let you create a list of senders that either bypass your spam filter automatically or are automatically blocked from your inbox.

Addresses in your Contacts are considered to be in your allowed senders list, even though the contact entries are not displayed in the list. If you add an address to the blocked senders list that is also in your Contacts, the address is blocked, as the list takes precedence over your Contacts.

The allowed and blocked senders lists use the star (*) as a wildcard, which lets you block or allow any emails from a specific domain. You can add up to 1,000 entries each in the allowed and blocked lists.

1. In the Settings tab, click Spam settings.
2. Add or remove an email address, one per line, in the Allowed senders list or the Blocked senders list text field. To block an entire domain, use the star (*) as a wildcard before the @ symbol.
3. Select Save.

Adjusting the subject line or sender emphasis

You can choose to have either the subject of the email or the sender emphasized for better visibility.

1. In the Settings tab, click Preferences, then Mailbox View.
2. Click the drop-down menu next to List field emphasis.
3. Set a preference to either Subject or From/To.

Next steps

• Using Webmail — manage your inbox, spam, and folders
• The complete Webmail guide — explore the other Webmail components

Questions? Contact Enom Support.