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Feng Office can act as a web mail client for its users, and this is really useful as you will then be able to share your emails with your colleagues without actually having to forward them.
What happens in case you are not available in your office, but your colleagues need to make sure of certain emails? In case you have classified your incoming and outgoing emails into the right Project, Client, Folder or Workspace - as long as your colleagues have reading access over the emails there - they will be able to read it and know what is going on.
Another useful thing to have along this module are the Email Rules, which are real time saver!
Note: E-mail integration module relies on the users mail server. The service provided is for downloading e-mail into Feng Office, classifying it, and integrating it within Feng Office system and DataBase. This means you need to possess an email account before setting it up within Feng Office.
The following picture will show the toolbar used to manage emails within Feng Office, and you may find further information about its actions below.
Most used actions:
Note:In case you are subscribed to Feng Sky or Feng OnSite services, the emails will be automatically checked every certain amount of minutes.
Accounts:
Email boxes:
Deleting & Archiving:
Mark as:
Email Rules
Filter By State:
Filter By Classification:
Filter By Account:
In order to send a new email within Feng Office, you have to make sure that the logged user has at least one e-mail account of his own or permissions within other e-mail account.
In case the user has multiple email accounts, the user can select from which account sending the email message through the From option. By default, the selected email account will be the one he set as default account.
Adding an e-mail account to Feng Office is similar to adding an e-mail account to your desktop mail client (i.e. Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail). You basically have to enter your e-mail address, the mail server addresses (POP3/IMAP and SMTP), your login details, and encryption settings.
If you are going to set up a Gmail account, please have a look at these instructions first.
You have two options for adding an e-mail account:
1 - Go to the e-mail module and click on “Accounts” - “Add E-mail Account”
2 - (For SuperAdministrators only) Go to “Settings” - “Configuration” - “Email Module” - “Email Accounts”. You will be redirected to the following screen where you can add, edit and delete e-mail accounts:
Lets see how to do this step by step:
Account name: Name used to identify the email account within Feng Office.
Email Address: Your email address.
Account ID: Your email address or username for the server.
Password: Your email account password.
Server address: The address to your POP3/IMAP email server.
Connection Method:
Use SSL for incoming e-mail connection: If you email server requires SSL encryption, please enable this option.
Delete emails from server: In case you would like to delete the emails from your Mail Server and keep them exclusively within Feng Office, you should enable this option, and select an amount of days. For instance, if you select 5, emails older than 5 days ago will be automatically deleted from your email server.
Mark e-mails as read in the e-mail server when receiving them in Feng Office
Preserve e-mails state (read, unread) when receiving them in Feng Office
Autoclassify to workspace: You may select a client, project, folder, workspace, or even a tag, where to classify the emails by default if you wish to. In case you do this, any other user with access to the client, project, folder or workspace in question will be able to read all of your incoming emails. If you wish not to do this, you may select nothing and emails will be unclassified, and only you will be able to read them until you reclassify them. Otherwise, you may select a specific folder or workspace for you where to keep the emails.
SMTP Server: The address to your SMTP email server.
SMTP Server Port: The port required to connect to the SMTP server.
SMTP Server Authentication:
Secure Connection:
NOTE: If you are unsure of the incoming and/or outgoing settings for your e-mail account, please take a look at this article on the most common mail account settings (gmail, outlook, office365, yahoo, etc)
Sender Name: The name that will appear when you send emails.
Default Account: Enable this option if this is going to be the main account for the logged user.
Signature: Signature to be used by default for the logged user and this email account.
When enabling the Account Permissions section above (like in the screenshot from this section), you will be able to manage the permissions for this email account. This means you can share it with other users in different ways:
You can delete an existing e-mail account at any time. To do so, open the account settings form and click the “Delete mail account” button:
An alert dialogue will then ask you to confirm this action and gives you the option to delete any existing e-mails of that account as well:
In case you choose to delete all of the emails, it may take a while to process depending on the amount of emails you have there, so please be patient.
This section will help you organize better your files, explaining how to choose what to do with the documents attached to your incoming mails.
If you go to: settings (top on the right clicking your user name) → edit preferences → email options You will find the following configurations:
“Automatically classify email attachments when receiving emails”: When new emails arrive, and they are automatically classified to certain spaces, if they have attachments they will be classified with them, helping you keep all related information in the same spaces automatically.
“Action to take with attachments when classifying emails manually”: this configuration applies when classifying emails by drag and drop or by clicking in the classify button. If the option selected is “prompt user for an action” there are two possible ways of choosing whether to classify the attachments or not:
Note: images within the mail body are not considered as attachments to prevent saving unnecessary documents (as it is the case of images included in signatures).
When composing an email, you may send any of the following:
Feng Office also provides with the possibility of sending a link to the file instead of actually sending it over, which makes it faster, but in that case the other user needs to log in to Feng Office to see the file in question (and have permissions wherever it is classified at). By default this option is disabled. If you would like to make use of this, you have to disable the Attach contents option, right next to the attachment.
Feng Office offers the possibility to send e-mails to a group of contacts from the “Contacts” tab.
Steps:
The notifications and newsletters module allows the creation of e-mails and to select a set of contacts for sending the same message to all of them. The selection of contacts can be made through all of your data base relevant attributes. It also counts with the option to include recipients on the field “To”, “CC” or “BCC”. Users will also be able to track the delivery status of their newsletter.
For more information on how to work with the Newsletters Module, please access this article.
Note: this module is only available in the Professional (optional) and Enterprise (included) editions of Feng Office.
By default the spam filter is rather high, so many emails may get into the Junk or Spam folder.
In order to decrease this level, you should do the following:
Does Feng Office support SSL/TLS encryption?
Yes, for incoming (POP3/IMAP) and for outgoing (SMTP) mails.1)
Does Feng Office support GPG encryption?
Not at this time (Feng Office 1.5).
Does Feng Office support POP3?
Yes.
Does Feng Office support IMAP?
Yes.(Since Feng Office 1.2)
Feng Office IMAP offers a basic sync feature for the Community Edition. Full IMAP sync is included in Feng Office´s Professional and Enteprise editions. For more information, please refer to this article.
Does Feng Office support Gmail?
Yes. Feng Office auto-detects and auto-adjusts Gmail settings, though it might be a bit tricky sometimes to get it all running, so make sure you check out the Gmail configuration and troubleshooting guidelines.
Does Feng Office support Hotmail?
Yes. You may receive your Hotmail account e-mails, however, you will not be able to send any e-mail message at all unless you subscribe to their services to enable this option.
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Please add a note in this wiki that the IMAP client of opengoo (1.6beta) does not copy sent and draft to the IMAP server. They are stored opengoo-internally. This can have serious implications in case one wants to access the email account with a different client.
1.7.1 copies sent emails to IMAP server
Further to Marek Schmidt's comment above, I have found that the IMAP client (1.5.3) does not “sync” with the server in the true sense but only downloads new mails. Therefore if mails were trashed in OpenGoo they are still downloaded as new mail when connecting from a different mail client, and vice versa (i.e. deleting a mail from a different mail client does not cause the OpenGoo mail client to also reflect the removed email). Haven't had a chance to upgrade to the new beta versions, but the release notes don't indicate any change in this regard…
…meant to add that I have found with GMail (IMAP) your sent messages DO show up (contrary to Marek's more general finding above) when using other mail clients, provided you send your mail through the GMail SMTP servers…
No chapter regarding the attachments in email.
It seems that you cannot send an attached document when sending an email from opengoo. Indeed, the document is not sent and only a link to the document is provided to the recipient.
This has changed and works as described in the content.
How can you forward an email; I do not see a forward button.
Please specify if there is a way to create a shared (e.g. company`s) account.
To create a shared company account (i.e. sales@myCo.com ) you should configure it as a regular account and auto-classify all incoming email to a given workspace (i.e. “Sales Email” Workspace). All users with permissions on the “Sales Email” workspace will be able to see all emails received from that account.
This is correct, however all users with permission to that workspace can not use that email address for outgoing emails. They can view, however there is no permission setting for them to respond.
hi!
I wonder how I put an automatic signature in email.
I can only put text. How do I place an image (logo )????
Hello Manuel,you would have to use html code in order to do that
how do i create additional folders to assign various emails to?
Right now you can do that by classifying emails to the different workspaces as we still do not count with such feature. However, if you would like to have it soon and would like to sponsor it, please contact sales@fengoffice.com
what is the reason why you do not support hotmail?
That is because of how their system is designed to be used, which cannot be set up anywhere just like that.
Hi Guys,
fisrt I would like to say CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU TEAM for this Suite .. very simple & helpfull Good Job !
My issue right now is , that I have a teamwork with 10 members and it needs to centralize the email comunication trhought only an email account using the email TAB/funcionality, e.g.: team1@fg.com . But in the system any email account must be alocated to one member..
How Could We config that account for all without to do it for each member manually ?
Thanks in advance
Hi Lino, it is great to know you have liked Feng Office!
In order to do what you mention, when you set up an email account you may notice there is a tab named 'Account permissions'.. In there you may choose which users are able to use that email account and if they also are able to edit it or not
Best regards!
Greetings, Awesome software!
I have everything working except for the automatic classification of email attachments to the Documents section of a given workspace. I don't see info on how to turn on or off this features in the above docs. Currently it doesn't work for me. (version 1.7.3.1)
My understanding from the stated email feature “E-mail attachments are automatically stored as Documents” was that “out-of-the-box” Feng Office would automatically process all incoming emails for a given workspace and place attachments into the workspace Documents tab.
Perhaps info on how to turn on or off this feature could be added to the docs above – unless I misunderstand somehow.
Thanks again for a great program (and Open Source too)! –Neil
My small architecture firm has been using Feng office for about 6 months. On the plus side, we really like the filing system and how you can link any item and have it filed to a project. On the downside, we have been struggling with the imap email client. We have been getting use to make sure we tell feng to check for new messages, but if someone hasn't been on in some time and has not check their mail. Feng will only retrieve 10 messages. You have to keep clicking on check mail to get it to update properly. Has anyone else come across this problem?
If you are a Feng Office subscriber, feel free to contact support@fengoffice.com for further details, otherwise, do read this thread completely: http://forums.fengoffice.com/index.php?topic=4760.0