Setting up your site's email services

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If your service provider enables email services for your site, you and your users can send and receive email over the Internet.

# Set-up tasks

To set up your organization's email service, complete these tasks:

- Add user accounts for yourself and other users. User accounts enable users to access email and other services from the User Administrator control panel. If you are using the quick-start guide, these tasks are steps 3 and 4.

- Set up mailing lists (if available). Mailing lists are lists of email recipients that can receive email as a group. They are useful when you want to send messages, such as system updates, to a group of users.

- Add aliases. An email alias is a method of mapping a nickname to an actual email address. They are useful when you want to map a nickname, such as "sales," to one or more email addresses.

- Add responders. Responders are a method of automatically replying to incoming email messages. Responders can be set up only for aliases. Whenever anyone sends email to the alias, a prepared reply is automatically returned to the sender.

- Add spam filters. Spam filters block unwanted email that originates from outside your site's mail server.

# About your own personal email accounts

As the Site Administrator, you can immediately send and receive email using your Site Administrator email account.

You can use message forwarding to forward email sent to your Site Administrator account to another email account. This prevents your Site Administrator email from taking up disk space on your site and makes it possible for you to access messages from another account.

However, to take advantage of other email management features and the User Administrator control panel, you need to create a user account for yourself. You cannot manage your System Administrator email account through the User Administrator control panel.

After you have created your account, you can log in to the User Administrator control panel to set your personal preferences, such as aliases and responders, you want to use for your User Administrator email account.

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