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The E-Mail module has been improved in Feng Office 1.5.
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E-Mails

Feng Office can act as an web mail client for its users. You can send and receive e-mails by any POP3 or IMAP mail account you have. Feng Office supports encryption by SSL/TSL.

List view

Toolbar

  • New: Creates a new e-mail message.

  • Inbox: Shows e-mail messages that have been received.
  • Sent: Shows e-mail messages that have been sent.
  • Draft: Shows e-mail messages that have been saved as a draft (and not sent yet).
  • Unread: Shows only e-mail messages that have not been read. This is a filter that can be used in combination with the three buttons described above (i.e. you can see just unread e-mail messages from the inbox).

  • View all: Use this command to reset all filters and see all e-mail messages.
  • Unread emails: Clicking directly on this command shows only unread e-mail messages, but from all accounts. Using the submenu you can narrow your filter to a specific account.
  • All emails: Clicking directly on this command shows all e-mail messages from all accounts. Using the submenu you can show only e-mails from a specific account.
  • Unclassified emails: Shows all e-mail messages that have not been assigned to a workspace (classified), in other words all e-mail messages that only the account owner can see. (As soon as you assign an e-mail message to a workspace, all users who can view e-mails in that workspace will be able to read that message.)

  • Mark as read: Marks the selected e-mail messages as read.
  • Mark as unread: Marks the selected e-mail messages as unread.
  • Add Email account: Lets you add an e-mail account (see below for details). Please note that you need at least one e-mail account configured to use the Email module of Feng Office.
  • Edit account: Lets you edit an existing e-mail accounts (see below for details).

  • In the upper part of the dropdown menu you see existing tags. Choose one to assign it to the currently selected e-mail messages.
  • Add tag: Lets you create a new tag and assign it to the currently selected e-mail messages.

  • Move to trash: Moves the currently selected e-mail messages to the trash.

  • Check mail accounts: Checks all configured e-mail accounts for new messages.

Detail view

To be written...

Edit view

To be written...

Adding or editing e-mail accounts

Adding an e-mail account to Feng Office is similar to adding an e-mail account to your desktop mail client (i.e. Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail). You basically enter your e-mail address, the mail server addresses (POP3/IMAP and SMTP), your login details, plus encryption settings.

Deleting e-mail accounts

If you wish you can delete an existing e-mail account at any time. To do so, open the account settings form and click the “Delete mail account” button:

An alert dialogue will then ask you to confirm this action and gives you the option to delete any existing e-mails of that account as well:

E-mail and workspaces

E-mail accounts are independent of workspaces - they are personal to each user. This means that your e-mail messages are visible only to you by default. Only when you assign one or more e-mail messages to a workspace then every user with permissions to read e-mails on that workspace will be able to access those e-mails.

E-mail and documents

Moving e-mails with attachments into a workspace will place these attachments into the document area.

FAQ

Encryption

Does Feng Office support SSL/TLS encryption?

Yes, for incoming (POP3/IMAP) and for outgoing (SMTP) mails.1)

Does Feng Office support GPG encryption?

Not at this time (Feng Office 1.5).

Protocols

Does Feng Office support POP3?

Yes.

Does Feng Office support IMAP?

Yes.2)

3rd party webmail services

Does Feng Office support Gmail?

Yes. To set up Feng Office with your Gmail account please make sure that the desired protocol (POP3 or IMAP) is activated in your Gmail account's settings. On the same page you will find a link that brings you to a page in Gmail help with information about how to configure your email client.

Does Feng Office support Hotmail?

This section has not been reviewed for Feng Office 1.5.

At this time (Feng Office 1.0) there is no support for importing email from Hotmail. To our knowledge this service doesn't support POP3/SMTP or other popular mail protocols (unless they offer it with some type of premium account).

Possible Workaround: If you have access to a Windows XP computer, download the Windows Live Desktop Mail Program. This will give you an email client that connects to Hotmail and allows you to download your email to your local machine by clicking and dragging. Once on your machine, you can either back up your mail, or connect to your mail server using IMAP then reupload the messages.

1) , 2) Since Feng Office 1.2

Discussion

PLEASE NOTE: Comments to the wiki should only contain suggestions and questions that help us to improve the manual (and not the software). These comments will be deleted as soon as the information has been integrated into the manual. To ask questions about OpenGoo and propose new features, please use our forum.

Chad Tomlinson, 2009-08-29 14:34

I have added and deleted users from my opengoo account. When I go to put them back in and add their email to the module, it says the email address already exists. How do I remove it in order to set their account back up? Thanks for the help.

Martin Sauter, 2009-08-29 14:50

Sounds like a bug to me. Please post it in our forum (see the PLEASE NOTE section above).

Zoltan Bornemissza, 2009-09-05 14:07

Hi,

Is it possible to assign an email account to a specific workspace? Currently all emails go to the root workspace and I have to classify them one by one to my workspace.

Cheers,

Zoltan


http://zoltanb.co.uk

Martin Sauter, 2009-09-06 02:18

@Zoltan: There is no reason to assign your e-mail messages to YOUR (personal) workspace: Since e-mail accounts (and their containing e-mail messages) are personal to each user, you are the only user who can see them anyway, so assigning them to your workspace does not change this. The only reason to assign e-mail messages to workspaces is making an e-mail message (and it's attachments) available for other users by assigning the message to some OTHER workspace.

pinakin, 2009-09-08 04:13

Hi…

i have configured my Co. account on opengoo and when i send mail it is given me ” Error while sending mail. Possibly wrong SMTP settings”

Regards,

Pinakin

Martin Sauter, 2009-09-08 12:04

PLEASE NOTE: Comments to the wiki should only contain suggestions and questions that help us to improve the manual (and not the software). These comments will be deleted as soon as the information has been integrated into the manual. To ask questions about OpenGoo and propose new features, please use our forum.

Ronald Allan V. Tomimbang, 2009-10-12 09:03

Hi,

I have opengoo 1.5.2 installed and configured everything is working as expected. however, email notification seems not working. i was successful in including POP3 accounts but notifications simple doesn't work. Any Idea to ease my suffering?

Another thing…I have just included a new email in my account at opengoo, now I tried to delete the old email account and opengoo doesn't just keeps looping for a couple of minutes and them ERROR.. message displayed on top of the screen. Again, any idea on this one?

Martin Sauter, 2009-10-12 09:17

PLEASE NOTE: Comments to the wiki should only contain suggestions and questions that help us to improve the manual (and not the software). These comments will be deleted as soon as the information has been integrated into the manual. To ask questions about OpenGoo and propose new features, please use our forum.

Salvatore Ponticelli, 2009-10-21 11:23

Dear sirs, I have added my gmail account and setted all the parameters but, it is unexplained, email seems not working. When i send mail opengoo given me ” Error while sending mail. Possibly wrong SMTP settings” Please help me asap THX BEST REGARD Salvi

Martin Sauter, 2009-10-21 18:26

Please see my answer above.

Meguelito Febrero, 2009-10-24 08:15

Is it possible to allow employees to email each other on the intranet network only with no access external email function? Some employees are allowed to email external and some are not. Those who are not allowed to email external, I would still want them to have access to email function but internal mail (between employees only). Is it possible? How can I do this configuration?

Martin Sauter, 2009-10-24 08:19

PLEASE NOTE: To ask questions about OpenGoo and propose new features, please use our forum.

Marek Schmidt, 2009-11-01 10:15

Please add a note in this wiki that the IMAP client of opengoo (1.6beta) does not copy sent and draft to the IMAP server. They are stored opengoo-internally. This can have serious implications in case one wants to access the email account with a different client.

Francois van Lille, 2009-11-09 21:47

Further to Marek Schmidt's comment above, I have found that the IMAP client (1.5.3) does not “sync” with the server in the true sense but only downloads new mails. Therefore if mails were trashed in OpenGoo they are still downloaded as new mail when connecting from a different mail client, and vice versa (i.e. deleting a mail from a different mail client does not cause the OpenGoo mail client to also reflect the removed email). Haven't had a chance to upgrade to the new beta versions, but the release notes don't indicate any change in this regard…

Francois van Lille, 2009-11-09 21:51

…meant to add that I have found with GMail (IMAP) your sent messages DO show up (contrary to Marek's more general finding above) when using other mail clients, provided you send your mail through the GMail SMTP servers…

alec, 2009-11-11 13:57

No chapter regarding the attachments in email.

It seems that you cannot send an attached document when sending an email from opengoo. Indeed, the document is not sent and only a link to the document is provided to the recipient.

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