Plesk 8.3 for Linux/Unix E-Mail User’s Guide

Logging in to Your Control Panel
To log in to your Plesk control panel:

1. Open your web browser, and type the URL your provider gave you into the address bar.
2. Press ENTER. Plesk login screen will open.
3. Type your e-mail address into the Login box, and type the password your provider gave you into the Password box.
4. If you log in for the first time, select the language for your control panel from the Interface language drop-down list. If you had previously specified the interface language and saved it in your interface preferences, leave the User default value selected.
5. Click Log in. Your Home page will open giving access to the administrative functions available for your e-mail account.

Becoming Familiar with Your Control Panel
This section describes the items located on your Home page and gives an overview of the operations you can perform on your mail account and services you can subscribe to. When you need to perform a specific operation, we suggest that you refer to the table of contents to quickly find the instructions you need.
You can do the following with your mail account:

• Use it as a standard mailbox, protect it against spam and viruses, and send/receive mail through a mail client program installed on your computer (via SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols), and access your mail through a Web interface.
• Use it as a mail forwarder to one or several recipients.
• Use a vacation notice when you are away and will not be able to check your mail.
• Use a number of automatic responses that will activate under certain conditions.
• Use any combination of mail services, for example, have a mailbox that will keep your mail and forward the message copies to other addresses.

Now let’s take a look at your Home page.

The navigation pane is located on the left. It contains the following shortcuts:

• Home. Click this shortcut to get to the main screen from which your control panel session starts.
• Sessions. Click this shortcut to view the list of users currently connected to your control panel and have a chance to disconnect them. The control panel allows concurrent sessions, and if you are collaborating with someone on managing your mail account, you can see if that user is currently logged in to the control panel, how long he or she has been there, and how much time the user spent in the control panel without performing any actions.
• Log out. Click this shortcut to log out of control panel when finished working.
• Help Desk. This is where you can report your problems to your provider.
• Help. Click this shortcut to open the online help.

Below the Help icon there is a context help tip area, which gives you brief descriptions of operations that you can perform on the control panel screens. When you place the mouse pointer over an icon or another control panel element, the context help tip provides additional information.

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