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E-mail allows you to send and receive messages to anyone else in
the world with E-mail access, transferring information reliably
and quickly. You can also transfer documents and participate in
mailing list discussions.
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To access E-mail, you need an E-mail client. There
are several different E-mail clients available. We recommend using
Outlook Express, freely available from Microsoft
with Internet Explorer or included with Windows 98
and above.
Netscape
also handles sending and receiving E-mail.
There are some general settings common to all E-mail
clients. Other settings vary from client to client, so specifics
are left up to the documentation for whichever client you choose
to use.
Mail/POP Server
For geeksnet.com mail use mail.geeksnet.com
For cgxonline.com mail use mail.cgxonline.com
geeksnet's POP (Post Office Protocol) mail server allows you to
receive your E-mail from our network using an E-mail client.
Mail/SMTP Server
For geeksnet.com mail use mail.geeksnet.com
For cgxonline.com mail use mail.cgxonline.com
geeksnet's SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol) mail server allows
you to send E-mail through our network using an E-mail client. To
use geeksnet.com's SMTP server, you must be dialed up or directly
connected to our network. We do not relay E-mail for other networks.
POP Account
username@geeksnet.com
E-mail Address, Reply-to Address
username@geeksnet.com
Setting Up Microsoft Outlook
Express to receive your E-mail:
You can view your geeksnet e-mail with Outlook Express.
- Click on this link to see instructions.
Setting Up Microsoft Outlook to receive your
E-mail:
You can view your geeksnet e-mail with Outlook.
- Click on this link to see instructions.
Using the Web Interface
You can view your geeksnet e-mail from anywhere in the world that
has an Internet connection.
- Go to http://mail.geeksnet.com:8383
- Type in your User ID and Password
- Follow the instructions on the page
Some E-mail clients support E-mail attachments, which is a way of
encoding a document or file and attaching it to an E-mail message
in such a way that the recipient can process it and extract the file.
Sending
Procedures vary from client to client, so specifics are left up to
the documentation for whichever client you choose to use.
E-mail attachments are useful for sending small
documents, typically up to a hundred kilobytes of information or
so. Since the documents are encoded, the amount of data actually
sent is approximately one and a quarter (1.25) times the original
size of the document. Sending multi-megabyte attachments is strongly
discouraged. Many E-mail gateways are incapable of handling such
large messages, they quickly fill mail server hard drives, and downloading
and processing them isn't much fun either. FTP
is a much better way to transfer large files.
Receiving
Since different E-mail clients support different sets of encoding
methods, it's not too unlikely that you'll eventually receive an attachment
which your mail client can't process automatically. In order to process
the attachment yourself, you'll need to recognize how the attachment
is encoded, and use the appropriate decoding software.
Usually, you can't. Internet E-mail provides no
common standard of return receipts or tracking systems to verify
that a message you sent was received successfully.
However, you will be notified if the mail server
cannot deliver your message. When you send an E-mail message, it
is first transferred from your E-mail program to geeksnet.com's
mail server (assuming your mail or SMTP server is properly set to
mail.geeksnet.com. geeksnet.com's mail server looks up the mail
server for the recipient address, and attempts to transfer it there.
If geeksnet.com's mail server cannot find a mail
server for the address or encounters any other error which absolutely
prohibits delivery, then it returns the message to your incoming
mailbox marked undeliverable. If geeksnet.com's mail server cannot
connect to the remote mail server or encounters any other error
which is possibly temporary, then it puts the message into a mail
queue. You will be notified that the mail cannot be delivered immediately,
and geeksnet.com's mail server will continue to try to deliver the
message for several days. If geeksnet.com's mail server still cannot
deliver the message after several days, it returns the message to
your incoming mailbox marked undeliverable.
Once the message has been delivered to the remote
mail server, final delivery to the recipient is up to that system.
Spam is, simply, the same thing lots and lots of
times. Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE, junk mail) and massive
Usenet cross-posts and multiple-posts are the most common examples
of spam. Spam is an abuse of resources at worst, an annoying waste
of time at best.
geeksnet.com does not allow spamming from its servers
or network, without exception. Sending spam from a geeksnet.com
account is grounds for account suspension or termination.
The easiest way to deal with spam is to ignore or
filter it. NEVER respond to it. As long as there's freedom of speech,
there will be spam.
Our SPAM filtering system, gee-Sentry, analyzes each
e-mail with a series of weight tests. If an e-mail fails 15-19 of
these tests, it is considered potential SPAM and is sent with "**SPAM
ALERT FROM GEE-SENTRY AT GEEKSNET**" added to the Subject line.
If an e-mail fails 20 or more of these tests, it will be rejected
and returned to the sender.
Sometimes legitimate e-mail addresses are blocked
(blacklisted) by our SPAM filters because their web host appears
on a list of known SPAMmers. The person with the blocked e-mail
address will receive a returned e-mail, usually stating that it
failed the "Weight 20" test. If you have someone attempting
to send you e-mail that has a blacklisted e-mail address you can
whitelist that address by using the following procedure:
- Open our webmail
interface by going to http://mail.geeksnet.com:8383
or by clicking on a gee-mail
link on our website.
- Login by using your userid and
password.
- Click on "Edit Address Book" from
the drop down box in the upper right-hand corner.
- In the "Add An Entry" box, enter
the e-mail address you wish to whitelist.
- Click "Add" to finish.
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