📩Email guide
This is a brief guide to email settings.
First a word on security
The most common ways of phishing for passwords is the suggestion in an email that you need to upgrade, clean out, confirm or otherwise login to page to access your emails. You will get *a lot* of these but unless Mat specifically tells you (probably on slack) to change any thing then just don't. And if you are ever ever unsure pick up the phone and ask Mat or another colleague.
Krystal's webmail server
TLDR;
https://thebristolcable.org:2096/ type you're email and password in there.
if its another mail client that asks for an imap/smtp its mail.thebristolcable.org
Full webmail description
The page to access webmail interface is at: https://thebristolcable.org/webmail
You want to press the left one and if that don't work press the right one, the firewall one is basically only useful in hotels and on public wifi's when the first doesn't work.
You then will have various options for showing you setup info, setting up autoresponders for holidays etc.
you probably 97% of the time wanna click the blue open button
Exporting/importing your address book
If you have made use of the address book then you can export that by going to the old round cube and click contacts:
then press this green down arrow and save the contacts vcf file.
Open your brand new krystal emails and go to contacts on the left then import at the top
Then you get a dialogue box that has a few options but you can just click browse then import
Then hopefully you have email addresses.
Adding your name and signature to emails
To change what in the jargon is called your identity first click here:
Then click your email address on the left:
You can then add in a display name and organisation, this can be anything you like but probably useful to make it your name.
You can add in your signature into the box below. then once you press save you have your emails set up.
Password change
On krystal to change your password go to this page here.
Login with your email address like usual then you have an option to set a password.
If you get stuck Mat can change your password too.
Other guides
or for a specific mail client
General (i.e. on your phone or in mac mail)
Incoming Server Settings
Server name : mail.thebristolcable.org
Server type: IMAP
Connection security: SSL/TLS
Authentication method: Encrypted password (plain and Cram MD5 also supported)
Port: 993
User: full email address
Password: Your email password
Outgoing (SMTP) server settings
Server name : mail.thebristolcable.org
Connection security: SSL/TLS
Authentication method: Encrypted password (plain and Cram MD5 also supported)
Port: 587
User: full email address
Password: Your email password
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