WEB MAIL INSTRUCTIONS
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Web mail allows you to manage all of your emails without having to waste time downloading them to your computer.  We suggest that you use web mail instead of a client based email program like Outlook Express, Windows Mail, or Microsoft Outlook.  Here are a few reasons why web mail is the best method for managing your emails.

A FEW GOOD REASONS TO USE WEB MAIL

  • Web mail is much faster because you don't waste time downloading emails to your computer
  • You can manage your email from any computer, anywhere, as long as it has an internet connection
  • You no longer have to be at your 1 computer to see your email.  It's available from any computer
  • You can easily and quickly delete any unwanted emails.  It only takes a few seconds
  • You will never be blocked from getting your emails because of a HUGE email someone sent
  • You have access to many features to customize your email experience
  • You can easily put selected email addresses on either your "Blocked" or "Trusted" lists
  • You can easily add addresses into your contact list, and add contacts from an email with 1 click

HERE'S HOW EASY IT IS TO USE
Just Click the "Check Your Web Mail" link from our home page to check your web mail.  We suggest you set your home page to http://www.rivnet.net.  Click here for instructions on how to make RiverNet your home page.   The web mail login screen will ask for your "Email Address" and "Password". 


WEB MAIL LOGIN SCREEN



After entering your Email Address and Password, click the "Login" button.  You will see a screen similar to the one below.


SAMPLE WEB MAIL SCREEN SHOWING INBOX WITH 1 MESSAGE
 
 


SAMPLE WEB MAIL SCREEN SHOWING CONTENTS OF MESSAGE 
and arrow showing where to click to add the sender to your contacts




To view an email, click on the subject of the email. 

To add the sender of the email you are viewing to your contacts, put your mouse on the picture of the open book to the right of their email address in the blue header of the message and click to add that sender to your contacts. 

To delete an email, click the checkbox to the left of the email(s) subject to select it, then click the "Delete/Undelete" button.  A line will appear through the message to verify that you really want to delete the message(s).  To physically delete the message(s), click the "Purge Deleted" button at the top next to the delete/undelete button and they will be physically deleted.

You can create folders to manage your mail by clicking on the word "Folders", change your settings by clicking on the word "Settings", and manage your contacts by clicking on the word "Contacts" at the top of the screen.  Enjoy our webmail system.

** IMPORTANT NOTE **

If you use web mail, do not use your old client based email (Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Microsoft Office Outlook, etc.) when you are online, because, depending on your settings in your email program, it very likely will automatically download all of your web mail onto your computer, and then you've lost your web mail.  If you're online and in your old email program and send a message, remember it not only Sends, but also it Receives (moves email from your web mail "Inbox" to your computer). 

Remember, Outlook Express and other client based email programs download the contents of your web mail "Inbox" and delete those emails from the server (which is your web mail "Inbox").  We suggest that if you use web mail, then never go to your old email program when you are connected to the internet.  You can view your old emails stored in Outlook Experss, etc. without being online.


Your can check your web mail by clicking this button

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Last Updated November 20, 2009