Overview
The Grid provides the Mail by (mt) webmail application, built off of @Mail, by default. This can be reached by simply navigating to http://webmail.example.com/.
There are many other options available for a webmail interface. We offer two methods to install an alternate webmail application. Method 1 will show you how to prepare the folders for a local webmail installation and Method 2 will show you how to re-direct the URL to a third-party webmail service such as Google's Hosted Email, or an off-site Microsoft Exchange Server's Outlook Web Access (OWA) page.
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This article is provided as a courtesy. Installing, configuring, and troubleshooting third-party applications is outside the scope of support provided by (mt) Media Temple. Please take a moment to review the Statement of Support.
METHOD 1 - Local webmail:
- Connect to your site through FTP, File Manager, or SSH.
- Go to the domains folder.
- Create a directory called webmail.example.com, navigate into that directory and create a folder called html.
- Install your own custom webmail application of your choosing in this html folder, following the steps outlined by the software publisher.
METHOD 2 - Redirect URL to third-party webmail service:
- Connect to your site through FTP, File Manager, or SSH.
- Go to the domains folder.
- Create a directory called webmail.example.com, navigate into that directory and create a folder called html.
Create a .htaccess file with the following directive:
redirect 301 / http://external_email_host_address.com/For example, to have http://webmail.mt-example.com/ redirect to your Google-hosted email login:
redirect 301 / http://mail.google.com/hosted/example.com/Or to use the alternative to @mail that we've set up (SquirrelMail):
redirect 301 / http://example.com/.mtapps/squirrelmail
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