An advanced mailbox provides the following powerful advanced features:

• 1 Gb / 500 messages mailbox capacity!
• Virus scanning of mail before delivery updated automatically
• Your own mailbox remote control panel to configure settings ie change mailbox password
• Spam filtering, configured from your remote control panel
• Roaming SMTP server - send mail via your domain smtp server from almost any Internet connection!

Login to your control panel as follows, just replace the www in your domain name with mcp ie: if your domain is ngresources.net then

http://mcp.ngresources.co.uk - substitute the ngresources.co.uk part of the URL with your own companys domain name

log in with full email address and mailbox password

Once logged in there are 4 tabs with sub-menus, the main sections of interest are Administration and Spam Filtering

In the tabs shown above, administration allows you to:

• Mailbox useage - at a glance mailbox use, capacity for 500 mails or 1Gb maximum this can be used to remove old or large emails
• Autoreply message - return an out of office notice on receipt of mail
• Email forwarding - automatically forward mail to another mailbox or mailboxes - you can set multiple forwarder addresses
• Change mailbox password - remember to use the same password on your PCs POP3 mail account as well!

The click Save changes to update to new settings when finished

Set the Filter level between 1 - strongest and 15 - weakest but generally 3 to 5 is the recommended setting

Actions to take on spam can be delete email or Indicate in subject line - you still recieve the mail and have to filter it by header

Dont apply spam rules to email - enter address of friends to pass without filtering, use *@ for all addresses then click Add

Treat all email received as spam - unwanted mail, use the *@ wildcard to reject mail from any addresses in that domain, click Add

Finally, Save changes when finished & on completion - log out at top right

Just displays information on mail & smtp servers & has no editable settings

POP3 server - generally 213.171.216.110 for your incoming domain mail

SMTP server - generally 213.171.216.21 take care with smtp server settings

Change your mailbox password

Guide to set up with Outlook Express

For more information on roaming SMTP server and see the section on roaming smtp