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**The advantage to using an email address as a login name is your users will not have to remember a different login name for this service.
**The advantage to using an email address as a login name is your users will not have to remember a different login name for this service.
*Set the Password
*Set the Password
**You can set the password to be the same as the user's email password, butt updating the email password will not update this password
**You can set the password to be the same as the user's email password, but updating the email password will not update this password
*Enter the user's Full Name
*Enter the user's Full Name
*Enter the user's Email Address
*Enter the user's Email Address

Revision as of 17:54, 16 July 2012

  • The Computerisms mail server will reject any mails larger than 10 MB, this utility will let you send those files with ease
  • This application maintains its own independent database of users and passwords.

Setting up the Computerisms Large File Transfer Utility for the first time

  • Go to https://fetch.domain.tld and accept the Security Certificate
  • Enter the Administrative Email address as User name, the associated email password, and click Login
    • The Administrative Email address and its password will be supplied to you when we contact you to let you know your domain is set up
  • In the next window, click the Administration link
  • Select the Users icon
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  • Click the Add User icon
  • Set the login name
    • Note this does not have to be in the format of an email address
    • The advantage to using an email address as a login name is your users will not have to remember a different login name for this service.
  • Set the Password
    • You can set the password to be the same as the user's email password, but updating the email password will not update this password
  • Enter the user's Full Name
  • Enter the user's Email Address
  • Set the Group for this user:
    • Administrator's Group will allow this user to add new users and modify the system
    • Registered Users Group will allow the user to log in and upload files to be delivered to other users
    • Unregistered Users are not used by default
  • If the user's preferred language is not English, set it here
  • Ensure the Active setting is selected, and press the Add button
  • Rinse and Repeat for every user on your network that will need to send large files