CAMEX VI
provides eight different e-mail options which satisfy a wide
range of needs. You may add, change, and delete e-mail options
by using CAMEX VI's e-mail management system, available from
CAMEX VI's customer control panel:
E-mail account
An e-mail account is the most common e-mail option. E-mail sent
to an address such as
your choice@yourdomain.com is stored
at CAMEX VI until it is checked using an e-mail program such as
Eudora Pro, Netscape Mail, Microsoft Internet Explorer, or any
of the hundreds of other POP3-compliant e-mail programs.
Use this option if you are interested in keeping your CAMEX VI
mail account separate from other e-mail addresses you have (i.e.
to separate your personal e-mail from your work e-mail), or if
you wish to receive e-mail and do not currently have an e-mail
account at home or work.
CAMEX VI provides step-by-step instructions on how to configure
your current e-mail software to check e-mail from your CAMEX VI
e-mail accounts.
Many users choose to create more than one e-mail account on an
existing domain. For example, you may wish to create e-mail accounts
for each of your employees, of the form
ann@yourdomain.com,
bob@yourdomain.com, etc. Each e-mail account is its own
mailbox, with its own username and password, so that Ann (in the
above example) can not read Bob's e-mail, and vice versa.
E-mail alias
An e-mail alias is also known as an e-mail forward. E-mail which
arrives to an alias such as
yourchoice@yourdomain.com is
instantly forwarded to a destination of your choice. This destination
can be any valid e-mail address, whether it be an account at CAMEX
VI, an account at your ISP, etc. The sender will not know that
the e-mail is being forwarded. For example:
someone@yourdomain.com ->
youremail@yourisp.com
another@yourdomain.com ->
youremail@yourdomain.com
This option is often used to create several e-mail address which
ultimately forward to the same destination. A company might use
e-mail aliases such as
sales@yourdomain.com,
support@yourdomain.com,
and
info@yourdomain.com, all of which would forward to
the appropriate employee's e-mail account.
Global e-mail alias
A global e-mail alias, or "star" e-mail forward, is the "catch
all" of e-mail options. It forwards
all e-mail addressed
to your domain (i.e.
***@yourdomain.com) to a single e-mail
account, whether it be an e-mail account at CAMEX VI, or your
dial-up e-mail account.
Normally, if someone sends e-mail to an e-mail address which doesn't
exist (perhaps due to a misspelling), the message is returned
to the sender with a "User Unknown" error message. A global e-mail
alias allows you to receive such e-mail, even if the "to" address
does not exist at your domain.
You can use a global e-mail alias in conjunction with other CAMEX
VI e-mail options. In this case, all other e-mail options take
precedence, such that the global e-mail alias in used only when
necessary.
Advanced users can use a global e-mail alias, in conjunction with
3rd party software, to collect all mail addressed to a given domain,
and then redistribute it to several employees on an intranet.
Autoresponder
Autoresponders send a preformatted reply when mail is sent to
a certain address.
Multiple e-mail alias
The multiple e-mail alias is an e-mail alias which forwards mail
to small groups of up to 5 people, i.e.:
sales@yourname.com -> user@yourname.com,
-> user2@yourname.com,
-> user@yourisp.com,
-> user@anotherisp.com,
-> user2@anotherisp.com
All mail sent
to the multiple e-mail alias is forwarded to all recipients.
Email-to-fax gateway
CAMEX VI's email-to-fax gateway allows users to receive e-mail
via their fax machine. This option is commonly used to distribute
orders to a fulfillment center, notify sales representatives of
an information request, or for businesses which desire a web and
e-mail presence without the commitment of regularly checking e-mail
For example:
yourchoice@yourdomain.com ->
(905) 627-8728
The email-to-fax gateway can be used in conjunction with CAMEX
VI's form and order processing scripts, as well as custom CGI
scripts which you install.
Toll charges may apply.
Email-to-cgi gateway
This advanced option allows users to forward incoming e-mail to
a Perl script, enabling you to completely customize and/or automate
the processing of incoming e-mail E-mail which arrives to a particular
address will be sent to a Perl script using the POST method. The
option is only available to CGI-enabled accounts. For example:
yourchoice@yourdomain.com ->
http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/parse_email.pl
The email-to-cgi gateway is commonly used to create custom autoresponders,
to create e-mail tracking systems, or in any other situation in
which a custom action must be taken when e-mail is received.
Mailing list
CAMEX VI uses
Majordomo 1.94.4 to offer a full-featured
virtual mailing list system. Majordomo is one of the most popular
mailing list systems, and has the capability of handling hundreds
of thousands of messages per month. CAMEX VI's mailing list system
allows broad customization of most of Majordomo's features including
various subscription and unsubscription policies, custom message
headers and footers, various notification options, garbage message
detection, maximum message length, etc.
Customizable features include:
- Administrative
password
- E-mail
address of mailing list owner
- Subscribe
policy (auto, open, open+confirm, closed, closed+confirm)
- Unsubscribe
policy (auto, open, closed)
- Garbage
message detection (yes, no)
- Notification
of new subscribers (yes, no)
- Maximum
message length
- Moderated
list (yes, no)
- E-mail
address of moderator
- Moderator
password
- Message
header/footer
- New subscriber
welcome message
Mailing
lists can be optionally public or private, moderated or unmoderated.
Digest support is not available. Mailing lists are billed $10.00
per block of 50,000 messages (or fraction thereof).
