setting up your account - changing your password - other commands

NOTICE: popmonkey.net, and all the domains that i host email for, are subscribed to the Spamhaus Black List, a blacklist of known spam hosts. what this means if you use a mailbox that i provide, including mailboxes that simply forward email, some email will be rejected based on this blacklist. the SBL is used by many major ISPs and mail servers out there and is built into software such as sendmail and services such as hotmail.

setting up your account:

your mail server is: mail.<your domain> (you can also use mail.popmonkey.net, it don't make a difference)
your account name was given to you by the person who set this up. Note that your account name isn't necesserily the part before the @ in your email address!
your email address is <your email>@<your domain>

here's an example:
mike has a mail account at popmonkey. his email address is [email protected]. his account name is dude_mike. his password is mikey
he enters:
mail server: mail.mikedomain.com
user account: dude_mike
password: mikey
anything that is sent to [email protected] ends up in the dude_mike mailbox

changing your password:

this is done via email. you send mail to [email protected]. it has to be a plain-text email (so you outlook users beware, by default outlook sends html mail). include only the following statements (no sigs or v-card attachments!):

OPEN MAILBOX <your account>,<current password>
SET PASSWORD <new password>

so for example, if mike in the above example wants to change his password, he sends the following email to [email protected]:

OPEN MAILBOX dude_mike,mikey
SET PASSWORD mikey2

get it?

other commands:

the following commands are available. simple send any number of these commands to [email protected]. the email must be plain-text and contain no signatures or v-card attachments

OPEN MAILBOX name,password
opens a mailbox for modification.

SET PASSWORD newpassword
sets the opened mailbox password to a new password.

USE AUTOREPLY TRUE | FALSE
sets the use auto-reply flag on or off
e.g: USE AUTOREPLY TRUE - sets the use auto-reply flag on

SET AUTOREPLY SUBJECT subject
sets the auto-reply subject to the new subject line

SET AUTOREPLY BODY
sets the auto-reply body text to the text following the command message. to end the auto-reply body before the end of the message, enter a '.' (a period) on a line by itself.
e.g. SET AUTOREPLY BODY
This is Autoreply body text. It should be on the line following the SET AUTOREPLY BODY command.

SET FORWARD ADDRESS email@domain
sets the forward address to email@domain.

USE FORWARD TRUE | FALSE
sets the use forward flag on or off
e.g: USE FORWARD TRUE - Turns the use forward flag on

SET DELETE ON FORWARD TRUE | FALSE
sets the delete on forward flag on or off for the open mailbox.
e.g: SET DELETE ON FORWARD TRUE - Sets the delete of forward flag on