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<h1> Accessing your SDF Email</h1>

<i><b>under construction</i></b>

<p><i>There are several ways to get and send email at SDF, but the 
different options depend on your membership(s) here. This guide is 
intended to describe the options simply and clearly, by membership 
level</i></p>

<h2>Membership Levels and Email Access</h2>
<p>Here are the membership levels that matter for email (see <a 
href=http://sdf.org/?join>SDF join page</a> for more details):</p>

<ul><li>User
<ul><li>Pre-validated User: This is before you are "validated" by 
either sending a nominal amount of money to SDF(enter 
<code>validate</code> at shell) or by finding a 
MetaARPA member to validate 
you</li>
<li>Validated User/ARPA</li>
</ul>
<li>VPM/VHOST*</li>
<li>MetaARPA</li>
</ul>
<small>*VHOST includes VPM</small>

<p>
The differences of the above accounts, besides the cost, is that VPM, 
VHOST and MetaARPA are annual memberships, so require continuing support 
of SDF, while User and ARPA are lifetime memberships, and only require 
payment once.

</p>
<h2>Ways to Get and Send Email at SDF</h2> <p>By default your E-mail 
Address is your SDF username, which by default works with a couple of 
domain names (you can also choose the domain you would like to use 
from the list of SDF domain names).</p>

<p>So if your username is "coffee" you can try sending yourself a mail 
with your existing E-mail account to:</p>
<p><em>coffee@sdf.lonestar.org</em> or 
<em>coffee@freeshell.org</em>.  Then you can try to read it.</p> 

<p>Ways to read and send your SDF mail include the following:</p>

<p></p>

<h3>Email Programs from Shell <em>(Memberships: User or ARPA or 
MetaARPA)</em></h3>

<p>You can always access your SDF mail account through any of several 
email programs installed on the server. All of these emails access your 
"mail spool", where your email is put by the mail server.</p>
<ul> 
<li><em>mutt</em> is available even to <b>Pre-validated Users</b>. 
Just type <code>mutt</code> at the command prompt. Here's a <ahref= 
"sdt.org/?tutorials/mutt">mutt 
tutorial</a></li> 

<li>Other programs, including <em>pine, alpine, mailx and rmail</em> are 
available to any <b>Validated User or ARPA or MetaARPA</b>. <em>Pine and 
Alpine</em> are related programs (Pine is older, Alpine is newer) that 
are both frequently considered to be the easiest shell email programs to 
use, with on-screen help and a menu interface. Enter <code>pine</code> 
or <code>alpine</code> respectively to run either of these. You can find 
more info on how to use them at <a 
href="http://sdf.org/?tutorials/e-mail-beginners">E-mail 
Beginners</a>.</li>

<p>(For users at the <b>User</b> level, to learn about your limited 
allowed space and the significance of the mail spool, see the <a 
href="">difference between using mutt and alpine for Users vs ARPA</a>)


<h3> Webmail <em>(Memberships: Validated User or ARPA or MetaARPA)</em></h3>
<p>
There are two webmail interfaces:
<ul><li> The old SquirrelMail, accessible for Validated Users or above, 
accessible from the <code>webmail</code> link at the top of the <a 
href="/">SDF home page</a></li>
<li> Roundcube, a slicker experience, accessible by MetaARPA users from 
the link on the <a href ="http://ma.sdf.org">metaaaray home 
page</a></li>
</ul>
</p>

<h3> Client Email: POP3 and IMAP <em>(Memberships: User or ARPA or VPM 
or VHOST 
or MetaARPA)</em></h3> 

<p>This section and the next include a small 
distinction. While <b>User or ARPA can read mail on their own machines 
or devices</b>, these memberships <b>don't allow you to send email</b> 
from your account <b>through SDF</b>. </p>


<b>You can, however, use your ISP 
to send mail from your SDF account</b>. For example, if you are with 
Comcast on your computer at home, you can set up POP3 or IMAP in your 
favorite mail client as described below to read your SDF mail, and use 
your Comcast mail SMTP server (outgoing mail server) to send mail "from" 
your SDF account.  On your phone, you can do the same, except you would 
use Verizon/Sprint/T-mobile's SMTP server (you may have to look up how 
if you don't know it) for sending messages "from" your SDF account. If 
you want to use SDF's outgoing mail server, you need to either use an 
email client from your shell account, or pay annual dues for any of VPM, 
VHOST or MetaArray, and follow the direction in the next section. That 
said, here's how to set up your favorite mail client to <i>read</i> your 
SDF mail:</p>

<p>
</p>

<h4> Reading Incoming email in your computer or device client if you are User or ARPA or VPM 
or VHOST 
or MetaARPA</h4> 

<p>There are two ways to read your incoming email using a client mail program. You can 
choose either, except if you are using virtual mailboxes with a VPM membership, in which case 
your only option is POP3: 

<ul><li><b>POP3</b> fetches a copy of your mail from the mail spool to your local machine, and 
optionally deletes it from the spool. POP3 works with most any email program, and you can keep 
the messages on the server to be able to access mail equally from multiple machine/mail 
programs. However if you are accessing a POP3 server from multiple machines, having to deal 
with synchronizing and multiple copies and deleting mail from the server can be a 
problem;</li>

<li><b>IMAP</b> accesses mail on the server and lets you organize it into 
folders on the server. IMAP keeps your mail centrally located and organized so it is all 
equally accessible from multiple mail programs and devices at the same time.</li> </ul>
</pdussin>

<h4>Setting up to read mail with POP3</h4>
<p>(from the <a href="http://sdf.org/?faq?EMAIL?03">POP3/IMAP email 
faq</a>)
</p>
<p>The mail server to connect to for POP3 is <code>wm.sdf.org</code>
</p>
<p>The rest of the POP3 settings should be:
<ul><li>Your security should be set to None</li>
<li> Your Port should be 110</li>
<li> Your user name depends on the account:
	<ul><li>for your main User/ARPA/metaARPA account, it should be the same as your login 
name, example: <code>user1234</code></li>
	<li>If you are accessing mail for a <em>VPM</em> account, your username should be the 
full email address with your VPM/VHOST domain name, ex: 
<code>user5678@vhost1234.org</code></li>
	</ul>
</li>
<li>your password should be either your account password (for your main User/ARPA/metaARPA 
account), or the password you set for the VPM email address using <code>mkvpm</code></li>
</ul>
</p>

<h4>Setting up to read mail with IMAP</h4>
Port 587 SSL Enabled Authentication NTLM Username: YOUR DOMAIN NAME (ex. 
alan8r.sdf.org) Click Re-Test and ate Account You will be prompted for 
your passwords when you first send/receive email. Click Add (right side) 
Description: SDF Server Name: mx.sdf.org Port: 587 Connection security: 
none Authentication Method: NTLM
User Name: YOUR DOMAIN NAME (ex. alan8r.sdf.org)

You have to refer to the 143 or 993 for the incoming email server and 
then 
use the 587 for the outgoing I think?  If I am wrong can someone correct 
me. No matter what I do I cannot log in it says password failure.

connectivity security: STARTTLS
Authentication method: Normal Password



<p>The rest of the IMAP settings should be: <ul><li>Your security should 
be set to None</li> <li> Your Port should be 110</li> <li> Your user 
name depends on the account:
	<ul><li>for your main User/ARPA/metaARPA account, it 
should be 
the same as your login


<h4> Sending Mail from your client if you are User or ARPA</h4>

<h3> Sending Mail from your client through SDF<em>(Memberships: 
VPM/VHOST or MetaARPA)</em></h3>

<h3> Advanced Mail Topics</h3>


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