The I-Mail Interface consists of several types of HTML pages that you can access using the controls - links and buttons.
Folders page
This page lists all folders in your account and allows you to create, rename, and remove folders, and to open folders so you can browse the messages stored in your folders. See the Folders section for more details.
Folder page
This page lists all messages stored in the selected folder. You can copy, move, redirect, forward and delete listed messages. You can open and read messages listed on the Folder page. See the Folders section for more details.
Message page
This page presents the content of the selected message. You can read the message, copy, move, delete, redirect, and forward the open message, and you can reply to it. See the Messages section for more details.
Compose page
This page allows you to compose a new message and send it. See the Composing section for more details.
Settings page
This page allows you to customize your I-Mail Interface.
Contacts/Address Book pages
These pages allow you to browse your Contact-type (AddressBook-type) mailboxes ("folders"), and to edit your Contact and Contact Group items. See the Contacts section for more details.
I-Mail Interface Login
The Login page allows you to log into the I-Mail Interface by prompting and submitting your user name and password.
Your Account I-Mail Preferences (Settings) may enable some security mechanisms, such as the Fixed IP Address mechanism and/or the Cookies mechanism.
When you connect using a network with multi-home proxies (such as the AOL network), your requests come to the IUP E-mail server from different network addresses, even when you continue to use the same browser on the same network. If you have to connect to the Server from such a network, you may want to disable the Network Address feature for this session, otherwise you will get disconnected very quickly.
Some browsers do not support "cookies". If you have to connect to the Server from such a browser, you may want to disable the Cookie check for this session.
If you always connect from a proxied network or always use a browser that does not support cookies, you may want to disable this security options in your Account I-Mail settings, so you won't have to disable them manually every time you try to log in.
I-Mail Account Settings
You can tune the I-Mail Interface by modifying settings on the Settings page.
The I-Mail Interface Settings page allows you to modify the account password:
Password Modification
Old Password:
New Password:
Reenter New Password:
To update your password, enter your current password, then enter your new password twice, and click the Modify button.
Automated Rules
The I-Mail interface provides access to the account Automated Mail Processing Rules. If the Can Modify Account Rules account option is not enabled, then you can view the account Rules, but you cannot modify them.
You can turn the Auto-Reply option on and you can modify the Auto-Reply message text even if the Can Modify Account Rules option is not enabled for your account.
The I-Mail Interface Settings allow you to specify how the delete operations are handled:
Trash Management
Message Delete Method:
Trash Mailbox:
Keep Message Received Time:
On Logout Remove from Trash if Older than:
Message Delete Method
Set this option to Immediately if you want to permanently remove a message when you click the Delete link or button. Set this option to Move To Trash if you want to move deleted messages to the special Trash mailbox, so they can be recovered from there. Set this option to Mark if you the Delete operation to mark messages as "deleted", without actually removing them. Then you can use the Purge Deleted operation to remove all mailbox messages marked as Deleted. The remaining options can be used when the Move To Trash method is selected.
Trash Mailbox
This setting allows you to specify the mailbox to be used as Trash. If you access your account with some other mailer that uses a Trash mailbox, too, you may want to configure the I-Mail Interface to use the same mailbox as Trash. For example, the Microsoft Outlook client uses the Deleted Items mailbox as a Trash mailbox.
Keep Message Received Time
If this option is enabled, then messages moved to Trash keep the Received ("Internal") time attribute, it shows the time when the message was received. If this option is disabled, the Received time attribute for messages moved to Trash is changed to the time when they were moved. This option has an effect on the next option.
On Logout Remove from Trash if Older than
When you logout of the I-Mail Interface, the system checks the Received date of the messages in the Trash mailbox, and removes all messages older that the specified period of time. Depending on the Keep Message Received Time option value, it allows you to keep only recent messages in the Trash, or to keep only recently deleted messages in the Trash.
I-Mail Account Settings 
Password Modification 
Automated Rules