Use Webmail

Webmail is a web-based email reader that can be accessed from any computer with internet access and a web browser. It never downloads your email to the local hard drive of the machine from which you access it.

It has a graphical interface and can also handle attachments and images. Because it is web-based, however, it tends to take longer to access your email, and it can only show you a certain number of messages at any given time.

IMP Webmail is a web-based electronic messaging program created and maintained by The Horde Project

Get help choosing an email browser

How to use email filters on Webmail

A. To Login to Bates Webmail:

1. https://webmail.bates.edu
2. Type in your Bates username and password
3. Click the Login button

B. To Access your INBOX to read or delete a message:

1. Click on the name or subject of the message to read/view it
2. To delete a message:
3. Click the checkbox in the left margin
4. Click:
   

C. To compose a message:

1. To: fill in the recipient's email address
2. CC: carbon copy other recipients
3. Subject: give a brief description of message
4. Type the body of  your message

D. To send your message

1. Click:  Send Message
2. Click:
   
3. Press the tab key on the keyboard to move between fields in the composition window
4. Press any of the ? icons to get help

E. To add an attachment:

1. Find your file,
2. Click: Browse...
3. Using the pop-up, locate your file, and double click it
4. The filename should now be listed
5. Attach the file to your message: Click Attach...
   

F. To send your message

1. Click: Send Message Only from the message composition screen

G. To save an attachment:

1. From the message window,
2. Click  Use the dialog box to name the file, and save it
3. BE SURE TO SAVE IT WHERE YOU CAN FIND IT LATER!

H. To retrieve a saved attachment:

1. Find the previously saved filename
2. Drag it to Paris to save it permanently
3. All files are removed from Campus Lab computers frequently. Use Paris to store files you wish to keep!

I. To Quit the Webmail program:

1. Click Logout
   
2. Logout

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