Getting started¶
This page covers signing in and out, and the few things worth knowing before you start. Most of INBUXA Webmail works the way you would expect webmail to work, so these pages only cover what might surprise you.
- Mail — images, spam, read receipts, undo, filters and phones.
- Calendar, Contacts and Files.
- Sharing and Settings.
- Administration, if your account manages the server.
Screenshots are taken against the built-in mock server with sample data. No real mailbox is involved, and every address in them is invented.
Learn a few shortcuts¶
Press ? anywhere to see every keyboard shortcut, or read the full list. These are worth learning first:
| Press | To |
|---|---|
| C | compose |
| / | search |
| J / K | move down and up the list |
| E | archive |
| G then I | go to the inbox |
| Ctrl+Enter | send |
Signing in¶
Tick "This is my own device" only on your own computer¶
The sign-in page has a tickbox called This is my own device. It decides what INBUXA Webmail may leave on the computer you are using.
| Left unticked | Ticked | |
|---|---|---|
| Staying signed in | until the browser closes | up to 30 days |
| Signed out when idle | after 5 minutes | never |
| Kept on the computer | nothing | settings cache, recent addresses, your username |
| Notifications in the background | not available | available |
| Administration | not available | available, if your role allows it |
Leave it unticked on a shared, borrowed or public computer. It is unticked to start with, because wrongly assuming a computer is yours is the mistake that costs something.
While you are signed in, everything you use day to day works the same either way. The difference is what stays behind when you leave, and whether you can use Administration from here.
Why a timer instead of a warning
The 5-minute idle sign-out is a timer rather than a reminder, because a browser cannot reliably warn you. No event fires at all when you walk away from a signed-in screen — and that is the case that matters.
Sign out when you are done¶
Closing the tab does not sign you out. Use Sign out.
Signing out clears this computer, whichever way you answered the tickbox:
- the settings cache and your recently used addresses are removed from the browser;
- notifications to this browser are switched off.
Your username is kept to fill in next time — but only if you said the device was yours.
What INBUXA Webmail does not do¶
- Snooze. Nothing in INBUXA Server supports it. INBUXA Webmail never stores your password, so nothing could act on your mailbox while you are away.
- Checked translations. Nine translations ship alongside English, and none has been read by a native speaker yet. The app says so. See Interface language.
- Right-to-left languages. Arabic, Hebrew and Persian are held back on purpose. Right-to-left needs layout work throughout the app, not just another translation, and a translated page you cannot use is worse than an English one.
- "This and all future dates" for a recurring event. You can change one date, or the whole series, but INBUXA Server refuses a change from one date onwards. See Change one date of a recurring event.
- Sharing a mail folder. INBUXA Server stores the share but never delivers it, so INBUXA Webmail stopped offering something that only looked like it worked. Sharing files, calendars and address books works.
- Public links. You can only share with accounts on the same server, and INBUXA Webmail keeps no storage of its own, so it cannot make a link for someone without an account.
How it works
INBUXA Webmail talks to INBUXA Server using JMAP, a standard for mail, calendars and contacts. Snooze has no support in JMAP or INBUXA Server. Sharing is JMAP sharing, which only reaches accounts on the same server.