This page will help you:

• Log in to your Webmail account.
• Set your preferences.
• Alter your junk mail settings.

Log in

1. To log in to Webmail, go to http://mail.udel.edu.
2. Type your UDelNet ID (e.g., maryqq).
3. Type your UDelNet password in the Password box.
4. Click Login to go to your inbox.

Set preferences

Webmail allows you to set preferences for managing your email. You don't have to set preferences to be able to use Webmail, but you may wish to customize how your messages appear to your recipients as well as on your screen. To see the preferences page, on the Webmail menu bar, click Preferences. You will see a window that looks like the one below:

You can customize your email in the following ways:

• Full Name; E-mail Address: Include your full name and email address as you want them to appear in the message header.
• Reply-To: Include a "reply-to" email address if you wish to receive replies at an address different from the one you are using to send your mail.
• Message Count: Defines how many message headers will appear on a page. The default is 20. Fast internet connections should handle 40 messages well.
• Display Most Recent Arrival: Changes whether new message headers will appear first or last in your list of messages. Select First to have new messages appear first and Last to have new messages appear last.
• Compose Width; Compose Height: Define how many characters appear on a line in the Compose window and how many rows of text high the Compose window will be.
• Sent Folder: Type the name of the folder where Sent messages are stored. Sent is the name of the default system folder.
• Save Sent Messages: If you don't want to save your sent messages, click the option button next to No.
• Draft Folder, Junk Mail Folder, Trash Folder: These are default system folders. You may type the names of other folders to handle these functions if you wish.
• Delete to Trash: By default, Delete to Trash is set to Yes.
  • If you leave this setting as is, you will see a Delete button at the left of the bar above the message list and a Trash [Empty] link on the Webmail menu bar. When you click Delete, mail you have selected goes immediately to the Trash folder where it stays until you click Empty.
    

    NOTE

    Messages will be automatically deleted from the Trash folder after 14 days.

  • If you change the setting to No, to delete a message, you must select the message then select the Deleted option next to the Mark button and click the button. The message is then marked as deleted. To remove the message from your Inbox, you must click Compact on the Webmail menu bar.
• Compose: By default, this is set to Plain Text, which is the recommended setting.
• Request Receipt: By default, this is set so that receipts are not generated. You can choose to receive two types of receipts for your messages:
  • Delivery Receipt: If you change the setting to Yes, you will receive a receipt from the system that says whether your message was successfully delivered to your recipient's mailbox.
  • Read Receipt: If you change the setting to Yes, your recipient receives a notice at the top of the mail message that says you have requested confirmation that the message has been have read and asks if the person wishes to return the receipt. The recipient can choose yes or no
• Read Receipt: You can choose never to send a read receipt or to have the system ask you before sending a read receipt.
• Signature: You can include a signature by clicking the Yes option button and typing your signature message in the box.
• Reply: By default, this is set so that the original message is not included in your reply. You can choose to include original messages within your message (inline) or as attachments.
• Signature: You can include a signature by clicking the Yes option button and typing your signature message in the box.
• Mode: You can choose to view Webmail with frames (the default), no frames, or frames with JavaScript.
• Leave the Time Zone and Message Charset as is unless you have a specific reason for changing them.

Once you have made your changes, click OK at the bottom of the page to save your settings.

Junk mail/SPAM filter control

In Webmail, SPAM messages will be placed in the Junk Mail folder rather than in your Inbox.

You can further control SPAM and Junk mail by using an Allowed Senders list and/or a Blocked Senders list.

Turn off junk mail/SPAM filter

If, for some reason, you wish to turn off your Junk Mail filter, follow the directions below. If you do turn off the filter, SPAM messages will show in your Inbox rather than in the Junk Mail folder.

1. On the menu bar, click Options.
2. On the Options Access Control menu bar, click Junk Mail Control. You will see a window like the one below:
   
   
    
3. On the menu bar that begins with Allowed Senders, click Junk Mail Filter. 
4. By default, the junk mail filter is on. To turn it off, in the Edit the Junk Mail Filter box, click the button next to Off (no Mail gets this filter action).
5. Click OK.