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PSMail Quick Tip: Encrypt your Wi-Fi? When you install a wireless network, it's tempting to keep the vendor's default network name and leave the network unencrypted. But doing so is an open invitation...
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PSMail Help

Help for PSMailbox subscribers: How to setup email clients, use webmail, use VPN client, and other answers.




PSVPN: Quick Answers Print E-mail

What is PSVPN, do I need it? 

PSVPN is a type of a VPN (Virtual Private Network) system service provided by PSMail.

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PSLists: Overview Print E-mail
What is PSLists?
PSLists is a secure email lists that is provided as part of PSMailbox service 

What are the different type of lists in PSMail system?
  •     Broadcast for sending newsletter - Not threaded meant for one way communication.  Only the list owner or list administrator can send to this list
  •     Threaded discussion for group discussions - threaded and a copy of the threads maintained onlne for all subscribers. All subscribers can post and keep a discussion alive or start a new discussion.  Whatever you send (reply or new topic) goes to the whole group.  An archived copy is available online in a threaded discussion for every subscriber through a list password.  Non PSMail subscribers can also access this online setup.
  •     Ad-hoc discussions. Similar to group discussions, whatever is sent to the list is broadcasted to all subscribers, but replies are sent to the original initiator of the topic.  When you hit reply you are writing only to the sender and not the whole group.
  •     Anonymous : In this group there is a set of approved senders and subscribers.  Approved senders can send email to this list; the email is then forwarded to subscribers.  Ideal for office group.  The reply or response is not expected in these groups.
 

How secure is PSLists?
    It uses encrypted communications for authorized users and internal PSMail users even in different domains.  Non PSMaill subscribers who are part of the group may not get fully encrypted communication, we use opportunistic encryption when reaching non PSMail   users

How many groups can I have?

10 lists are allowed for each user and each list can have only 300 subscribers
- I sent email to three groups that I manage only one group got the message, why?
You can send a email to one group only at a time.  Multiple lists cannot be sent the same message with multiple To:  fields.

I sent an email to a PSLists list and it bounced back?
Note that only subscribers can post to lists.  Only the owner or the list administrator can send emails to a Broadcast.  If you have followed the instructions, but cannot understand an error message, please forward the bounce error message with error code number to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it


Can I send the email group as a BCC recipient?
You should use the To: field in sending the email to lists.  There is no need to use Bcc: field when sending to a list email address.   It is required that you send to only one lists at a time and do not copy yourself or other people the same email.  The recipients of the email cannot see or find the email address of the other subscribers, they can only see the email address of the sender and the list email address.

Is there a size and recipient limit for PSLists, can I increase it?
PSLists are allowed a maximum number of 300 recipients.  The maximum message size for lists is 1 MBytes.  Messages that are larger than this limit, up to 10 MBytes will be stored on the server.  Users can collect these messages through a unique URL that will be emailed to them.  This is designed to avoid routing very large messages to many recipients that can clog their mailbox. Note, that you can set the limit on the list to be smaller than 1 MBytes to ensure the lists is useful for users with slow network access.

Can I use "Send Large Files" to send messages of 500 Mbytes to PSLists ?
This is NOT recommended or supported by our system. "Send Large Files" is File share utility that is for sending movies, documents securely to other people and is best designed for sharing large documents. PSLists is not designed to work with File share.
 
Reporting Abuse or SPAM Print E-mail

Below are the various popular email client software packages and the instructions for viewing headers in each. 

AOL Email, Compuserve, Eudora Pro, Excite Webmail, Free Agent/Agent, Hotmail, Juno Version 4+, Lotus Notes 4.6 (Win 9x client), Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet News, Microsoft Outlook 98 and Outlook 2000, Microsoft Outlook 2007, Microsoft Outlook Express 5, Mozilla Thunderbird, Netscape Messenger, Netscape News, Newswatcher, Operamail, Pegasus, Pine, Unix, and WebTV.

 

 

AOL Email The email files are in an html format. The objective is to save the file in html format. This can be done as follows:

Open the email message you want to save, as if you were reading it  - Near the top, at the bottom of the To: / From: section, click on "Details" to reveal the header.  (you could simply copy and paste this information also)
Move mouse cursor to the top tool bar, click on "File" 
Move mouse cursor to "Save as..." and click. 
Identify which directory you would like to save the file in. This is done using the normal save function of Windows. If you are not real comfortable with directories, save the file in "Desktop". This will have the file icon visible on you regular desktop screen and very easy to find later on. 
Provide a name of the file in the "file name" box. 
Select the "type" as "html" if possible. If your browser does not show "html" type, just select the type as "All Files" and add ".html" to the file name generated in step 6, such as email.html. The "dot" before the html extension is important. The objective of this step is to have the extension of the file as an "html" type file. 
Press "Save". 
To forward the file to someone else (law enforcement, lawyer, ISP):

Move cursor to the top tool bar and click on "Write" 
Insert the email address you want to forward the file to 
Type any info in the body of the message, if needed 
To add the html file you just generated in the above steps, click on "Attachments" 
When the "Attachments Window" opens, click on "Attach" 
Find the file in the directory window and highlight the file name. If you followed the "Desktop" instructions, the directory name is "c:\desktop". If there are too many files that appear, type "*.html" in the file name. The use of the asterisk (also called a star by some) lists all files that are html. 
Click on "open" 
Click on "OK" 
Click on "Send now" 
The message and attached file have now been sent. 
Please be aware that AOL only keeps messages in your INBOX for two weeks, unless you save it as NEW or save it in a separate folder in your AOL directory on your computer. 

Additionally, a screen name of TOSEMAIL1 has been identified as a source of help for unacceptable email in the AOL system. Just enter tosemail1 in the "send to" screen. If you are outside of the AOL environment, the address is This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it
Compuserve The default option is that full headers appear at the BOTTOM of each received message.
Eudora Pro When reading an email message, look at the toolbar just above the message itself. There should be a button that reads
BLAH
BLAH
BLAH
in black and white. Click on this and the full headers will appear. Then select all, copy and paste into a new message to send to the offender's ISP, or click on the forward button and the full headers will automatically be placed in the new email message.
Excite Webmail View the message
Use the "save to disk" option
Open the message's text file with your favorite text editor (notepad)
Copy the message from the text editor 
Free Agent/Agent Click on MESSAGE, then "Show Full Headers." Go to the message, click inside the message pane, COPY, then PASTE to a text file or forward the message to yourself or to the appropriate ISP.
Hotmail Go to Options
Go to Preferences
Scroll down to Headers, then click on Advanced Headers
Juno Version 4+ On the drop down menu "Options", choose "Email Options.." (press ctrl-E) Under "Show Message Headers", select the "full" option. Click the OK button to save the setting.
Juno version 4+ can display MIME and HTML email, but does not provide a way of Viewing the HTML Source for the message within Juno.
To get the full source, including HTML codes:
In the Juno mail client, click "file" and then "Save Message as Text File.." (ctrl-T).
Give the file a name which you will remember (many people save temporary files to the desktop).
Double-click on the resulting file. 
Lotus Notes 4.6 (Win 9x client) Open the properties box on the message (in the default installation of the Notes Client, it will be the first smart icon on the left, but you can also right-click on the document and choose properties from that menu) 
Choose the second tab on the properties box, which is a list of fields and their contents 
Scroll down to the field "$additionalheaders." 
Select the contents of the field and hit Ctrl+C to copy them to your clipboard 
Open a new email message, put your cursor in the body of the message, and hit Ctrl+V to paste the headers there 
If Notes will not permit you to select the contents of the field, you'll have to manually copy them to a new message - please be very careful in doing so. 
Microsoft Exchange To read (and copy) the header using Microsoft Exchange, do the following:
Open the message in Exchange to view it. Choose "File," then "Properties," then "Internet." The header will be visible and will be highlighted. Simply right click and copy it. Then paste on the front of the message and forward it to your abuse department.
Microsoft Internet Explorer I just stumbled onto a way to attach the full header to a message.
Choose "Properties" under "File". Click on the "Details" tab. This will show the full header. 
Now right click and choose "Select All". Right click again and choose "Copy". Start a new message, right click again, and choose "Paste". This will paste the entire header into this new (and temporary) message. Copy the header from the new message and paste it back onto the original. The paste command doesn't work directly on the original message. 
This isn't elegant, but it seems to work.
Microsoft Internet News
For those people who use Microsoft's Internet News, simply (while viewing the message) click on File, Properties, then click on the Details tab. Sending complaints to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it will also work. Some other addresses are support@, webmaster@, and newsmaster@
Microsoft Outlook 98, Outlook 2000, Outlook 2003 Open the message and select View, then Options from the drop-down menus. 
Near the bottom of the screen you'll see a section titled INTERNET HEADERS. 
You can copy the headers and paste them into an email elsewhere to get them to the proper people.
Microsoft Outlook 2007 Double click on the email message so that it is open in its own window.  Outlook 2007 uses a watered-down version of Word 2007 as the email editor and with it comes the new ribbon user interface.  Thus, the "Options" feature is no longer under "View", as with previous versions of Outlook, and takes some hunting to find it, but it is there.  It is on the "Message" tab, in the "Options" block, which is the fourth block over.  To the right of "Options", there is a little button with an arrow in it.  Click on it and you have the message options menu with the internet headers in the bottom section.  Select this information and copy/paste it as needed.

If you don't have the message yet open, which is better yet, and you wish to see the header, right click on the message in your inbox and choose "Message Options".  You will be looking at the headers at this point.

Microsoft Outlook Express 5 There's an even easier solution to expanding Microsoft's Outlook Express 5 headers so that you can copy and paste it to another window:

Right click on the message and select Properties. 
Choose the Details tab and select the Message Source Button. 
Select All (CTRL + A) and Copy (CTRL + C). 
Close the Message Source window and the Properties window. 
Select New Mail and position your cursor in the body of the email. 
Paste (CTRL + V) the copied information. 
Send the email to the ISP where the SPAM/UCE originated from. 
Additional Method

Here's a tip to simplify the process of getting full headers when using Outlook Express 5 and Windows 98 (don't know about other versions of OE)

Instead of selecting the message, right-clicking properties, clicking details, then message source, simply select the message and press Ctrl-F3. Then press Ctrl-A followed by Ctrl-C. (Ctrl-F3 takes care of all the steps necessary to get to the full header. Ctrl-A selects all the text and Ctrl-C copies it to the clipboard.)

Now start a new message or just forward the original message (which takes less time than opening a new one) to the originating ISP.
Mozilla Thunderbird To read the email headers in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client, simply open the email.  On the menu bar, go to View | Headers and select "All".  The headers are immediately displayed.  The menu choices and the results are shown in this hyperlinked image.
Netscape Messenger To read the email header in Netscape Messenger (the email reader supplied with Netscape communicator) press Ctrl-U. A new window will open with the full message including the complete header. To copy this to a email message press Ctrl-A to highlight the entire message then Ctrl-C to copy it. Open the email message you want to send. Using the mouse, place the cursor in the body of the message, select edit / paste as quoted, from the menu bar. 
Netscape News I found a simple way to view the headers of news spam in Netscape. Simply click View-> document source when you're looking at the offending item. The full headers are then visible.
Newswatcher If you want the full headers on Newswatcher, go to File, choose Preferences, and check the Show Article Headers box.
Operamail Choose Options and enable [x] Show Message Headers in Body of Message 
Pegasus In Pegasus, just hit Ctrl-H (or the backspace key) while reading a message. You will see the full headers.
Do this *before* hitting "F" (for Forward), and the full headers will be forwarded, too.
(True for Pegasus 2.53, at least)
Pine You must configure Pine to allow showing message headers. You may skip steps 1-3 below if you have performed this configuration.

>From the main Pine menu, type S for Setup, then C for Config. 
Use the space bar and down arrow to scroll until you reach the option [ ] enable-full-header-cmd, then type X in the box to toggle the option on. 
Type E to exit Config, and Y to save changes. 
The next time you read a message, type H and the full headers will be displayed at the top of the message. Type H again to hide the headers. 
Unix I think I've figured out one way of of getting the full headers on Unix. We received a spam and the message had just the usual "from," "to," "date," "subject" headers. But when I saved the message in a directory, then used the "type" command or printed it out, full headers magically appeared, showing where they were really posting from. 

Another Tip:
Some more header info for some Unix mail programs. 
Nearly nobody uses mail and mailx any more, but they're available on almost all UNIX systems, so let's start with those. You can exit your current mail program without changing the mailbox and then look at the mail message using mail or mailx. 
Showing a mail message with the Print or P command displays all of the header lines. Note capital P -- it's important. 
Saving the current mail message with the saveretain command saves all of the header lines. (On some systems, Save or S -- note the capitals! -- does this too). 
There are lots of other mail readers; the one I use is ELM. In ELM, you display the headers for the current message with the H command.
WebTV While viewing the email, hit "Forward" on the sidebar. Address the document to yourself. Completely erase the subject line.
Put your cursor on the first line of the "body" (text area); Hit "Return" (enter) twice. Your cursor should now be on the 3rd line of the text area.
Type any "Alt" character on this line; DO NOT HIT "RETURN"
Cut and Paste the "Alt" character onto the subject line: (CMD+"A"), (CMD+"X"), (CMD +"V") The "Alt" character should "jump" down to the message text-area.
Hit "Send"; open the received mail. 
 
 
SETUP: IMAP Client Settings Print E-mail
Our Secure IMAP supports allows email clients to connect to our systems using IMAP instead of traditional POP protocol.
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SETUP: What are settings for Email client software Print E-mail
Instructions for email clients software such as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, MAC OS X Mail, Entourage, Mozilla Thunderbird instructions for use with PSMailbox.

The settings detailed in this document help ensure that you are able to use email client software and it secruity SSL/STARTTLS features to download email from PSMail
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ERROR: MS Internet Explorer Error MS R6025 Print E-mail

Question/Incident:

When I use the web based email I get an error MS Visual C++ Runtime Error R6025? Full Error: as seen in Microsoft IE

  • Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
  • Runtime Error!
  • ProgramC;\Program file\intertnet explorer\iexplorer.exe R6025
  • -pure virtual function call
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ERROR:Data decryption error Macintosh Print E-mail
I get a "Security failure. Data decryption error" when I try to login to psmail with Internet Explorer on a Macintosh OS 9 computer.
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RENEW: How do I renew my PSMAIL Account? Print E-mail

If you received your PSMailbox subscription directly from PSMail, your payment is due yearly at the beginning of the month that you registered.

If you are part of a group, please contact your group administrator.

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ERROR: Lost Addressbook Print E-mail
I lost my address book when I was trying to edit it online. Please help! This happens rarely when there is interruption in your connection. You can restore the backup address book. Here are the steps, Login at https://mail.psmail.net/ Expand the Address book by clicking the + sign next to the address book on the left menu bar. Click on EDIT on the left menu bar. On the top side of the page, you will see an option called "Restore Backup", click on this to restore your last well known backup of addresses in the address book.
 
SETUP: Eudora SSL setup information Print E-mail

Setup and troubleshooting information for Eudora.

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SPAM: All questions related to managing unwanted mail Print E-mail

Below is our complete information list on SPAM and how to control it with your PSMailBox.

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SETUP: iPod IMAP setup. Print E-mail
How to setup email access on iPod/iPhone
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PROBLEM: Norton Anti-Virus - Trouble with Setup Print E-mail

There is a known conflict with Norton Antivirus when setting up SSL Secure POP3 or SMTP Service with psmail.  Quote from Symantec Website : Symantec Support Center

Norton AntiVirus email scanning is not compatible with Internet service providers using Secured Socket Layer protocol (SSL and TLS)

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LOGIN: Forgotten Password Print E-mail

We do not give out passwords.  Instead, we reset them for you.  But first, we want to make sure the request to reset your password is valid.

 

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ERROR: Unable To Verify Your Session Integrity Print E-mail

When I try to login from my browser, get this error message: 
   UNABLE TO VERIFY YOUR SESSION INTEGRITY
Why does this happen is something wrong with your server?

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ALIAS : What is it and how do I use it? Print E-mail

Alias is a like a nickname that points to your primary PSMailbox. Your account may have two alias names.

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PROBLEM: Outlook and winmail.dat file Print E-mail
Dealing with the winmail.dat file: The problem and solutions
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SETUP: How do I use Stunnel? Print E-mail
Stunnel program is an alternate method for using SSL when reaching PSMail to provide server-side encrypted email service. Stunnel Installer for psmail is available at Download; Please note the product is an opensource software from http://www.stunnel.org
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SETUP:PDA Palm trusted certificate. Print E-mail
My PDA Windows Mobile or Pocket PC complains that the certificate provided by mail.psmail.net is not trusted. What should I do?
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SETUP: Versamail email setup Print E-mail
  • Launch the Versamail program on your Palm device.
  • Click the Application Menu button. On Treo 650 smartphones this button is located above the Mail icon.
  • Select the Accounts menu and then Account Setup from the menu.
  • Click the New button.
  • For Account Name enter PSMail.
  • For Mail Service select Other from the drop-down menu.
  • For Protocol select IMAP.
  • Click the Next button.
  • Enter your PSMail username* and password and click the Next button. (* Your psmail username is username-psmail.net if your email is username@psmail.net)
  • Enter your full PSMail e-mail address: (username@psmail.net)  and for Incoming and Outgoing Mail Server enter mail.psmail.net and click then Next button.
  • Once the account setup wizard has completed, choose Advanced or Next to configure additional mail options.
  • You will be taken through a number of screens to configure your additional mail settings.  Choose the options that best suit your needs.  Make sure to select the following options in these screens:
    • In the Incoming Mail Options screen, check the box that says Use Secure Connection (SSL).
    • For the Outgoing Server Settings (or Advanced Outgoing Options) screen, selectMy Server Requires Authentication (ESMTP).  Also, if available, check the option Use Secure Connection (SSL).  Click Done to complete the wizard.
  • Finally, click the Get or Get Mail button to download your e-mail. 
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