WebMail - Table of Contents

WebMail is an e-mail program specific to your BCPL.NET e-mail address, capable of allowing you to view and send e-mail through your web browser. Rather than being a program installed on your own hard drive, WebMail runs off of BCPL.NET's web site. This means that you don't have to set up an e-mail program to use WebMail. You simply visit the WebMail web site, provide your username and password to WebMail, and you are granted access without the need for any special "mail program" software.

Advantages

• Easy - No setup is required to use WebMail. Just log in and go!
• Versatile - Because your e-mail stays on the WebMail server, you can log in to WebMail from any Internet connection from anywhere in the world and have access to the same e-mail.
• Safer - Messages are never downloaded to your PC; they are only shown to you via your web browser. This keeps malicious e-mails from ever touching your computer.
• Inbox Maintenance - If you use a program other than WebMail primarily and find that your inbox is often "clogged" from spam or large file attachments, you can use WebMail to delete individual problematic messages. For example, if somebody sends you a large picture or movie that you can never finish downloading with a program like Netscape or Outlook Express, you can use WebMail to view and/or delete the message so that the rest can come through to your main e-mail program after you have finished using WebMail.

Disadvantages

• Problems displaying image attachments in the BODY of the e-mail (regular attachments are fine).
• E-mail messages are never stored on your own PC; you must be connected to the Internet to browse them via WebMail.
• Address book and e-mail messages can not be exported to another mail program.
• WebMail does not allow you to block messages or run filters on the messages that come into your inbox. In this sense, you are limited to the filtering that the Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall provides.
• If you use WebMail in addition to other e-mail programs for your BCPL.NET address, these other mail programs will frequently take e-mail away from WebMail, storing it on your local computer, instead of on BCPL.NET's server. Once this happens, the mail no longer exists within WebMail and can only be found in the particular e-mail program that downloaded it.