Overview of the GetMail Module / Email Interface

Video Transcript

Welcome to the overview of PageGate's GetMail module. In this tutorial, we'll be going over what the GetMail module is and touching on how it does what it does. PageGate has a fully functional mail server engine as a core part of the program but without the GetMail module, you only ever access the outbound functions of this mail server. The GetMail module unlocks the inbound portion of our mail server engine as well as a few features associated with the mail server in general.

This allows you to receive SMTP/Email traffic and translate it in to outbound messages in a different format. For example, you could email a message to recipients and/or groups in PageGate to deliver as a message to cell phones, pagers, updates to social media and/or other email addresses. In short, the GetMail module allows you to receive email to translate in to messages to your recipients and groups and there are two ways this can be done.

First, we have the most efficient method of email transport: domain or subdomain hosting. Since PageGate's mail server engine allows the program to function like a mail server, it can host a domain or sub-domain. To have PageGate host that domain or sub-domain, you'll first need to create it, then have the MX record for that domain redirected to the IP address of the PageGate server. As soon as you do, all recipients and groups in the PageGate Admin become valid email addresses on that domain.

Next, we have the POP mail collection method of receiving email. If you can have a POP mailbox, or series of POP mailboxes, created on a mail server, you can tie each POP mailbox to a recipient or group in PageGate. Every minute, PageGate checks the email address to see if there are any messages in the mailbox. If there are, those messages are read in and delivered to whatever recipient or group this mailbox has been tied to.

The Local Domain field configures the domain name PageGate will use when receiving traffic. The 'Mailbox Name' field controls the name of the mailbox that PageGate will accept email for on behalf of this recipient or group. The 'Email Aliases' section allows you to specify multiple mailbox names that should be associated with this recipient or group. The 'Forward Copy To' field allows you to forward a copy of any message sent to this recipient or group to a specified email address. The 'Enable POP Access to Messages' option allows email clients to check the mailbox stored on the PageGate server for messages. This concludes the overview of PageGate's GetMail module.