User Functions

User functions are accessed by selecting “User” in the navigation bar.

Bookmarks

The bookmarks function provides a method of creating bookmarks on Vybe. This could be useful if you are often away from your own computer but need to look up sites that you need.

First, you need to create at least one new header. This can be things like “Music”, “Painting”, “Suppliers”, etc.

Once you have at least one header you can select the menu button to add bookmarks to it. Enter a description and the URL.

Once you have any bookmarks you will see them in a list under the header. Click on the decription to edit the bookmark or click on the URL to go to the site.

VybeWallet

VybeWallet is a handy place to store information. You can create any number items and view them from this page. Since the information might be too big for the listing, you just click on the preview and a box will pop up with the enered information.

The first field on the edit page is a password. This field is optional but if you do fill it in, the text is used to encrypt the entry. This means that any time you want to access the information, you have to enter this password. Note that if you forget this password your data is lost. Even we cannot access it without the password.

The record name field is simply used on the listing to identify the entry.

To understand group and global access, you need to understand the way that permissions work on a Unix type system. If your account has more than one account then all of them are in the same group. The access that you give the group allows everyone in the group to see the data. Global access works the same except that it applies to any user on Vex.Net. If you don’t fully understand this scheme, just set it all to “No access”.

The data field is just the information that you want to store. If you have opted to password protect this entry you will need to enter it in order to access this information for viewing or editing.

You can also grant access to anyone on the Vex.Net system by adding their user ID to the record. You can use their account_id, login or, if they are in a virtual domain account, their email address in the Vex.Net system.

Spam control

The spam control page lets you configure how incoming email is screened for spam. The following options are available:

Skip duplicates

If enabled, duplicate copies of the same message are discarded, keeping only the first one. This is useful when you are subscribed to a mailing list and someone sends a message both to the list and directly to you.

Spamassassin

Enables SpamAssassin processing on all incoming email. Messages identified as spam are delivered to your Spam/sure folder (unless “Delete spam” is also checked). SpamAssassin respects your whitelist and blacklist, both of which are configured in the control panel.

Bogofilter

Enables Bogofilter, a trainable spam filter. You train it by moving email:

• into Spam/ham to indicate messages that are not spam, and

• into Spam/spam to indicate messages that are spam.

The system processes both folders automatically. Messages identified as definite spam go to Spam/sure; borderline cases go to Spam/unsure. You should periodically check Spam/sure for false positives and move them to Spam/ham. Everything in Spam/unsure should always be sorted into Spam/ham or Spam/spam to continue training the filter.

Running SpamAssassin and Bogofilter at the same time is fine. Whitelisted addresses bypass both filters.

Delete spam

When checked, messages that land in Spam/sure are permanently deleted rather than saved. Only enable this once you are confident that your whitelist and filter training are working well and nothing legitimate is ending up there.

Spamassassin score

SpamAssassin assigns a numeric score to each message based on various characteristics. Messages scoring above this threshold are classified as spam. The default is 5; decimal values are accepted (one decimal place is stored).

Spamassassin delete

Messages scoring above this value are discarded outright rather than filed as spam. The default of 0 means no messages are discarded by score alone. Leave at 0 unless you are comfortable that very high-scoring messages are never legitimate.

Email filters

Email filters (also called rules) let you automatically act on incoming messages based on their headers. They are processed by procmail before the message is delivered to your inbox.

Each filter has three parts:

Header

The email header field to examine, such as From, Subject, or To.

Match

A pattern to look for in that header. For example:

• support@ to catch all mail sent to your support alias

• *.*@clientname.com to match all mail from a particular domain

• Lottery to catch a keyword in the subject

Action

What to do with a matching message. This is usually the name of a mail folder (e.g. Support, Trash) or an email address to forward the message to. Use $NULL to discard the message silently.

Filters are applied in the order they appear in the list. You can reorder them using the up and down arrows. Each filter can also be set to run before or after spam checking; running before spam checking means the filter takes priority over your spam settings.

Features

Features gives you control over many different aspects of Vex.Net such as creating TXT records, managing white and black lists, vacation messages and more. We have tried to add help messages for each feature available. Note that some features can only be defined once while some can be defined multiple times.