MCP Administration Manual

This is a comprehensive guide to the Mailbox Control Panel, an interface for administering advanced mailboxes.

Go to: http://mcp.mydomain.co.uk. This is where you can login to your Mailbox Control Panel.

Login to your Mailbox Control Panel using your mailbox name for User; and your Password.

Once logged in, you will see the tabs Personal Details, Administration, SMS Alerts, Spam filtering, Access details, available to edit information and modify your settings. The tabs are not necessarily the same for all mailboxes, as the administrator of your domain will have chosen which of these to make available to you.

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Personal details

Complete the form by typing in your Personal details, and click the Save changes button. Your details will be saved on the server.

Administration

Click the Administration tab.

This will display the Resource usage, indicating how many emails there are in your mailbox and what percentage of the mailbox space is being used.

You can reduce the space used, by deleting email from the mailbox.

Delete mail

Select one of the three criteria to delete mail, then click Delete mail.

Change password

Note: It can take up to ten minutes for your password change to become effective.

Click the Change password link.

This will display the Change password form.

To change your password, type in the New password and Confirm new password in the box below; then click Save Changes.

SMS alerts

Click the SMS alerts tab.

Here you can modify the various criteria for receiving SMS alerts. Please note that SMS alerts are not available on advanced mailboxes. This option can be upgraded by contacting Biz-hosting by email or using the support form.

You can specify that an SMS alert be sent to your mobile phone, on receipt of an email from any one of the three criteria.

Spam filtering

Click the Spam filtering tab.

Here you can modify the various criteria for filtering your email for (unsolicited) Spam email.

Specify the Spam filtering level that you want to apply to your mailbox. The higher (descending order) the level is, the more legitimate email is likely to be filtered.

Five (5) is recommended as the optimal setting, but you should vary this to find the best level for your personal use.

Specify the action you want to apply to the filtered email. This can be automatically deleted without notification, or it can be marked in the subject line of incoming mail, so that it can be immediately identified.

Specify exceptions to the Spam filtering, by specifying email addresses which will never be filtered.

Type in the email address to be excluded from the Spam filtering, then click Add.

To remove, select the email address from the list and click Delete.

Specify inclusions to the Spam filtering, by specifying email addresses which will always be filtered.

Type in the email address which you want to always be filtered, then click Add.

To remove, select the email address from the list and click Delete.

Access details

Click the Access details tab.

This page simply contains information and downloadable configuration files to help you getting started with your mailbox.