The User Administrator control panel is a graphical user interface (GUI), or control panel, designed to help you and your site's other users manage contact information and email services.

Tour the User Administrator control panel

• Note: The User Administrator control panel is designed to work with Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher and Netscape 6.2 and higher. Accessing this control panel with other browsers might produce unpredictable results.

Using this control panel, you and your users can:

• View or change account contact information

• Set personal email preferences, such as vacation messages

• Send and receive email messages over the Internet

• Back up and restore files

As Site Administrator, you add users to your domain. This provides each user with a unique user name and password which they use to log on to the User Administrator control panel.

In addition, you can add a user account for yourself so you can log in to the User Administrator control panel to manage your own email. You can access the Site Administrator email account using the link to SquirrelMail on the Configuration page of the Site Administrator control panel, but you cannot log on to the User Administrator control panel to manage your email account until you add yourself as a user.

You can access the User Administrator control panel through a link on the default home page your service provider sets up for you when you register your domain name. However, after you replace the default home page with your own, this link is no longer available unless you place it on your home page.

To access the User Administrator control panel from any computer connected to the Internet, enter the following URL in a browser window:

http://<example.com>/user

where <example.com> is the domain name of your site.

• Note: You can also access the User Administrator control panel through a link on the default home page your service provider sets up for your domain on the Internet. However, after you replace the default home page with your own, this link is no longer available to you.

After you add a user to your site, you need to let them know the user name and password you assigned to their account as well as instructions for logging on to the User Administrator control panel and using the services, such as email, available to them. All of this information is provided in the Help topic that describes how to add users.