Quick Notification

When you send out an email, other servers take up to 10 hours to notify you that you accidentally typed in the wrong email address.
1USA Mail notifies you IMMEDIATELY that an oubound email is having problems getting through to its destination - and will continue trying periodically for up to 96 hours - just to make sure that the recipient's email server isn't 'down' permanently. (Some company's email servers go down for 2 or 3 days at a time.)(but not 1USA!!)

Mail Retrieval

Users can use POP3 and IMAP4 clients to retrieve their Email.
Also supports encrypted mail retrieval authentication protocols like APOP and NTLM (Microsoft's SPA). This is used to help prevent corporate spying. It can prevent your competitors from learning much about your company. Commercial Intelligence is a business. If you want to learn more about Commercial Intelligence in your business, contact the 1USA Webmasters.

Message Lifetime

If the messages in an individual's mailbox are older than a specified number of days, they will get deleted. The current setting is 45 days. Most ISPs save only 14 days.

Mailbox Lifetime

A primary email account is provided to you when you sign up. Primary email accounts only expire if you'd cancel your 1USA subscription..
2ndEmail accounts are additional accounts for other family members. If a 2ndEmail mailbox hasn't been used for the last 6 months, the mailbox gets deleted because it's not being used.
To open a 2ndEmail account contact the 1USA Webmasters.

Mailbox
Auto-Forwarding

Forwarding: A forwarding address or alias can be set to forward mail to another mailbox. You can also specify if a copy is to be kept or not in the current mailbox. In addition, this is accessible via the easy-to-use web management interface.

Spooling

Most email servers notify you only after 8 hours that the email address that you typed in wasn't correct, or wasn't delivered for some reason. Some company email servers go down for 2 or 3 days at a time.
1USA Mail will now notify you (a) immediately that a message is reporting as Undeliverable, and (b) will continue to retry to send the message according to a schedule - lasting up to 96 hours.

Auto-Replies

If a person goes on a vacation or is going to be inaccessible otherwise, an auto-reply function can be activated where a user-specified message will be sent in reply to a message received.

LDAP Server

1USA Mail can act as an LDAP server, making it possible for LDAP-compliant applications to query the mail server for information. Basically, 1USA Mail can act as a Directory Service.

Email Hosting for corporations

Supports both IP-based and IP-less virtual domains when a corporation chooses 1USA as their outsourced Email Service. Each virtual domain can be managed as totally independent entities, allowing multiple domains containing the same mailbox names (such as "webmaster", "sales" or "info") Clients may choose to delegate self-management of domains to customers or departments.
The Mailbox control system is simple enough for administrators with basic technical experience, while more advanced controls are available to manage virtual domains, system quotas and security.

Web interfaces for administrators

The Web access allows for convenient remote management. Administrators can get to the server from any Internet connection with the Web Mail Manager, Java Console, and List Moderator interfaces.

Security & Security Timer

The web mail server includes User ID and Password login system, automatic browser cache clearing, and password encryption.

WebMail has a 20-minute timer on it. Once you log out, don't log on again for at least 20 minutes.

Address Book

The WebMail interface has an Address Book to save your most-used email addresses. Very handy feature.

Worldwide Multi-lingual Access

Based around HTML, 1USA WebMail supports most popular browsers, so users can easily access their mailboxes on the road, at home or in the office. 1USA WebMail supports all national character sets for full mobility and multi-lingual access.

Safe & Secure Email

1USA WebMail includes several preventive security features including a User ID and Password login control system, an automated cache clearing system that wipes the browser cache when you log out, and password encryption. If you don't log out, you won't be able to log on again for 20 minutes.

Java Console

Similar to the Web Mail Manager, the Java Console offers some of the the same functionality. However, the Java Console also lets you manage your mailing lists as well.

Web Mail Manager

The Web Mail Manager is a utility used by users, domain owners and system administrators to manage individual mailboxes and domains. All the setting for a mailbox or a domain in the conventional windows interface are available in the Web Mail Manager. You can also put limits on what can be changed by a domain admin or a user via the security key system in VOP Mail.

Java Console

Similar to the Web Mail Manager, the Java Console offers some of the the same functionality. However, the Java Console also lets you manage mailing lists as well. The Java Console can be restricted using the same security keys as the Web Mail Manager.

List Moderator

A Web-Based utility is provided that allows you to moderate mailing lists remotely via the web. Only the list moderator of a particular list can moderate it using this utility.

List Moderator

A Web-Based utility is provided that allows you to moderate mailing lists via the easy-to-use web interface.
Do not use this to send unsolicited commercial emails.

Text File Lists

1USA Mail uses a text file that you provide for the membership list. This lets you write programs that can update that list periodically or import the list from other list-server software.

Email List Processor

Mailing lists can be controlled via an Email using the list command processor. This way, any subscription can be accepted or denied remotely by the designated moderators.

Web-based Moderation

This is our web-based mailing list moderation tool. It's useful for lists with relatively heavy traffic where moderation via Email becomes less practical.

Automated Subscriptions

SUBSCRIBE and UNSUBSCRIBE commands are processed either automatically or manually, depending on the security level you want with your mailing list. The designated moderators can approve/deny access to the list using the Email list processor.
(If you allow all List Members to mail out to the list, and if you also allow Automated Subscription approvals, it is possible for a 3rd party Spammer to have access to your whole list. Be careful how you set up your list.)

Customizable Messages

Each list can have it's own customized Welcome, Goodbye and Help message. You can also add a prologue and a suffix to each message posted to the list. Each message can also include tags that correspond to certain variables like the user's username, the mailing list name, the date, etc ...

Flexible Error Handling

Mailing list bounce messages can be sent to the person who wrote the original message or to the mailing list moderators.

Header Processing

Using programming, Dynamic Headers let you customize the look of the mailing list header. Especially useful if you want a mailing list "tag" identifying the mailing list in the subject line for instance.

Hooks for external processing

An mail agent can be executed right before the message gets processed by the list processor. That lets you use your own C/C++ program to modify the content of the message to suit your needs.

Security & Quotas

There is a security system operating at 4 levels. The Moderator, the member, the new member and nonmembers. You can control who can post to the list, who can control the list, who can join/leave the list using this system. You can also set mailing list quotas in terms of list size and the total number of lists in a given domain.

Digest Lists

If you have high-traffic lists, some people would prefer to receive a digest. You can create a mailing list that is linked to another list where messages are accumulated for say, a week, and then sent in digest format to the members of the digest list.

Mailing List Pricing

Price: $0.00 - Free
Great for informal groups and associations.
This is comparable to other Mail List Servers on the internet.
Features: Contains advertising. A 1USA.Com sponsored footer is placed on the bottom. Equal to MSN, Hotmail, Yahoo footers.

Price:
$25.00/mo - 1 - 5,000 names on the list
$35.00/mo - 5,001 - 25,000 names on the list
$55.00/mo - 25,001 - 99,999 names on the list
$75.00/mo - 100,000 - 999,999 names on the list
$150.00/mo - per million names on the list
Features: You control the advertising, if any.

Limit relaying by IP

By listing the IPs or blocks of IPs (Classes) that can route mail through the server, preventing most of the relaying abuses. Used in conjunction with SMTP Authentication.
If an IP address gets on the list accidentally, 1USA Subscribers can ask to have it removed.

Disable Relay for
Non-local users

Disable relay from non-local users will prevent relaying by checking the "From:" field of the Email. If the sender does not belong to one of our hosted domains, the message is discarded. If a person gets on the list accidentally, 1USA Subscribers can ask to have it removed.

Real Time Blacklist

Prevents incoming SPAMs by looking up the sender address in the MAPS Real Time Blacklist. It automatically blocks messages from known relaying gateways.

Reverse DNS lookup

Checks the validity of the sender's address against the IP address they connected from. Since most spammers forge their address, it's a good way of bouncing inbound SPAMs and preventing them from filling up your mailbox. If a person gets on the list accidentally, 1USA Subscribers can ask to have it removed.

Filter by Hostname

Checks the source of the Email against a local blacklist of hostnames. If the source is on the list, we reject the message altogether. If a person gets on the list accidentally, 1USA Subscribers can ask to have it removed.

Filter by IP address

Prevents messages from being processed originating from certain IP Addresses, a more effective method of filtering. If an IP address gets on the list accidentally, 1USA Subscribers can ask to have it removed.

Filter by Content

Prevents messages from being imported and processed if they contain certain content in the header field. We can filter out those "Make Money Fast!" messages using this feature.

Bulk-Mail Blocking

Some bulk-mailers try to SPAM our server by trying hundreds of names from a standard name dictionary list. Since we can detect this by the number of invalid recipients, we can use this feature to block their attempts.

SMTP Authentication

If a 1USA Subscriber is connected to the internet from outside our "local" network and you still want to send emails through the 1USA Email Server, you can enable this feature in your email software.

SMTP Authentication
and
Setting up various Emailing Software

With Outlook, Outlook Express, Pegasus and most other mail clients

In the sections where one defines the POP3 or IMAP4 username and password, instead of using the following: Username: jimbob Password: SecretWord You would use: Username: jimbob@virtualdomain.com Password: SecretWord

With Netscape Mail

Netscape Mail unfortunately strips anything after an @ sign. So to fool it, you have to use jimbob%1USA.Com. We will interpret the percentage (%) sign the same way as an (@) sign, but Netscape Mail will consider it as part of the whole username, thus fooling it. Note that you can use the (%) sign with all the other mail clients mentioned above, and it will still work. So you can use the user%1USA.Com at all times if you like. The only exception is Eudora.

With Eudora & Eudora Light

Eudora Light is a special case because it asks for the "POP3 Account" and wants the whole POP3 address right away. Example: Eudora wants the jimbob@domain.com . Here is the solution: Put jimbob%virtualdomain.com@server.com instead. What happens is Eudora will use what's after the (@) sign and use it as the reference to access the POP3 server. Then, it'll pass the whole jimbob%virtualdomain.com as the username.

Deleting Messages

To delete a message in the WebMail window:
- click on the Checkbox to the left of a message.
- Click on Delete on the Top Menu.
This will cross-out the message. Click on the LogOff menu option when leaving the web page. Messages are physically deleted (a) when you click to LogOff AND after 1 hour's time.

If you come back into WebMail and see crossed-off messages that you deleted on your previous session, don't worry about it. They will be deleted when you don't use WebMail for a minimum of 1 hour.

2NDEmail Account not working -
SMTP Authentication

If you are a subscriber and have a mailbox here, you should be having no problems.
If your Primary email account works, but a 2ndEmail account doesn't work, then it probably has expired after 6 months of not being used. Contact the webmaster to re-open the 2ndEmail account.
1USA offers all subscribers the ability to have multiple email accounts - for each family member, if you wish.
Your Primary account should be accessed through your Outlook Express or Netscape Mail software. 2ndEmail accounts, to maintain privacy, should be accessed via the web interface.
If you don't care about privacy, or if the 2ndEmail account is for a youngster, then add the email identity into your Outlook Express or Netscape Mail software. Instructions are here.

Cannot retrieve new emails -
SMTP Authentication

If your software asks for a Logon Name and a Password to retrieve your emails,
the solution is to enter your full email address and your password.
If you are coming from outside our "local" network and you still want to send emails through the server, you can enable this feature in your email software OR you can use the web interface.

Retrieving or sending emails from another location -
POP3 or IMAP Authentication

If your software asks for a Logon Name and a Password to retrieve your emails, enter your full email address and your password.
If you are coming from outside our "local" network and you still want to send emails through the server, you can enable this feature in your email software or simply use the web interface from any computer in the world.

Spam-Blocking

If you are not receiving emails from a particular person,
Here is some background information.

If a person gets on the blocking list accidentally, 1USA Subscribers can ask to have it removed.