Help & Info
Please see below for some basic information on how to use the MorphOS User email service either via web browser or dedicated email clients.
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How do I set up my email client to receive messages via POP3?
- First, POP3 must be enabled on MorphOS-User.com using the webmail interface. To do this, log in at MorphOS-User.com and select the settings tab from the upper right-hand corner of the page. On this page, select "Enable POP for all mail."
- In your email client's configuration menu, select pop.morphos-user.com as your POP3 server.
- For increased security, the MorphOS-User.com mail system uses SSL with POP3 mail. Please take great care to ensure that your email client is configured to receive POP3 via SSL. Furthermore, set up your local email client to use port number 995.
- The username, which is required for login purposes, is identical to your personal MorphOS-User.com email address. So, if your email address were johnsmith@morphos-user.com, you would have to enter the same as your user name.
- Passwords are freely chosen by every owner of an email account. Upon finishing the sign up procedure, a temporary password will be sent to your provided email address. After logging in for the first time, you will be able to enter a password of your choice. Once you have completed this step, you can use the same password to log in via POP3.
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How do I set up my email client to send messages via SMTP?
- First, POP3 must be enabled on MorphOS-User.com. To do this, log in at MorphOS-User.com and select the settings tab from the upper right-hand corner of the page. From this page, select "Enable POP for all mail."
- Please set the SMTP server address in your email client as smtp.morphos-user.com.
- Due to the mandatory usage of SSL, your email client must support SSL for SMTP transfers. Please make sure that your email client is configured to use the SSL protocol and either port number 587 or 465.
- As with POP3, the username used for SMTP authentication is your MorphOS-User.com email address.
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How do I set up my email client for IMAP?
- Before you can use IMAP, you must enable this feature from the settings tab after you log into the webmail interface of MorphOS-User.com. Check the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" option in the Settings page of MorphOS-User.com.
- To set up IMAP on your local email client, use imap.morphos-user.com as your IMAP server.
- As with POP3 and SMTP, IMAP is secured via the SSL protocol. Select "Use SSL" from your local email client settings, and ensure that the port number is listed as 993. Note that some email clients refer to SSL as TLS, which needs to be chosen instead.
- Set the username in your email client to reflect your personal email address, i.e., johnsmith@morphos-user.com
- Passwords are freely chosen by every owner of an email account. Upon finishing the sign up procedure, a temporary password will be sent to your provided email address. After logging in for the first time, you will be able to enter a password of your choice. Once you have completed this step, you can use the same password to log in via IMAP.
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How do I use the webmail interface?
- How do I access my emails via web browser? You can access your new MorphOS-User.com email account with any modern web browser by going to webmail.morphos-user.com and logging in with your username and password.
- How do I read an email? Clicking on the title of an email will take you to the body of the email for reading, and tabbed subject lines will indicate other emails in the same topic-based thread.
- How do I compose a new email? Clicking the links "Compose Mail" from the left column or "Reply" from the body of an email will bring you to the compose email window.
- How do I add attachments to my emails? You may add attachments by clicking the paperclip icon or the text "Attach a file" located next to the previously mentioned icon.
- How do I add a new entry to my contact list? Contacts can be added to your list by using the link "Add Contact" found in the box beneath your email folder list in the left column of the MorphOS-User.com webmail interface.
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What software do I need to access my email account on MorphOS?
As an alternative to accessing your email via web browser, you may use a dedicated email client such as SimpleMail or YAM.
Please note that MorphOS-User.com requires the usage of SSL. Therefore, you should download AmiSSL. AmiSSL is available as a direct download or from the AmiSSL home page.
The aforementioned applications are available for download as either LHA or LZX archives. MorphOS 2.0 and above allows you to unpack files of these types by right-clicking on them and using the context menu that appears.
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How do I install SimpleMail?
After downloading and unpacking the SimpleMail archive, simply copy the directory to your hard disk and manually add the MCC files as indicated by the program's manual. Note: SimpleMail requires AmiSSL to work with the morphos-user.com system. SimpleMail can be found on SourceForge, and for your convenience, a direct file link. SimpleMail must have AmiSSLv3 and AmiSSLv1.1 installed to operate with MorphOS-User.com. AmiSSLv3 must be installed prior to v1.1, and both can be located from the page link given above. Contrary to the included documentation, only three MCCs are missing from a default MorphOS 2.0 installation:
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How do I install YAM?
YAM includes components that are required to run the main applications. It is available for download here: YAM download file. More information on YAM can be found on the YAM homepage. Special note: due to a possible bug in YAM's installation script, you may want to copy the MUI directory from the archive's installation directory to the root of the newly installed YAM directory. It has been noted that the included Betterstring.mcc may have problems, so it is better to download the Aminet version:
- Betterstring.mcc, found on Aminet
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I have trouble installing software because of a missing "Installer" component. What do I do?
Installer 43.3 is a legacy component that is still required by some applications. You can download it via the following link: file link. Unpack the file, then use the command line to copy the file "Installer" to "C:", or copy it to the C drawer of your system partition via simple drag & drop.
If you encounter any problems that are not discussed on this page, please use the MorphZone forums to ask for assistance.