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1. Introduction

Welcome to the CryptoMail Service, CryptoMail.org would like to present you with the most reliable and trustable Email service on the Internet, hopefully the last Email account you ever need to sign up to. Using our service, you will able to send and receive Email from a web browser, and you are also protected by the highest security implementation of an Email system. You should never be afraid to keep your encrypted Email messages on our account.

Best of all, you will find using the CryptoMail Service as easy as running other Email applications on your personal computers. If you already compose Email as a day-to-day activity in programs like MS Outlook^TM! (affectionately called LookOut! here at CryptoMail), you should consider signing up to the CryptoMail Service which allows you to access your Email account anytime and anywhere with any Internet universe.

1.1 About The CryptoMail Users Manual

The CryptoMail Users Manual is an informative user guide to the CryptoMail Service, with the main purpose of getting new users acquainted to using the key features of our Email client, the CryptoMail Client. By providing comprehensive information and helpful examples, we will place you in the driver seat of the most secure web based Email system on the Internet with minimum reading and instruction.

In this manual, you will learn to do the following:

• Sign up to an Email account in all the CryptoMail System or other CryptoMail system,
• Login to your Email account
• Compose, send, read and reply to your Email messages by using the client,
• Manage your Email account by organizing your Email messages into folders.

1.2 The CryptoMail Email System and The CryptoMail Service

The CryptoMail Email System and the CryptoMail Service are the results of the commitment in CryptoMail.org, maintaining a community where programmers who share our vision, give the most accessible, reliable and secure communication tools to people.

The CryptoMail Email System is a client and server Email application with security at the transport level and end-to-end message encryption to ensure the highest security implementation of an Email system, while the CryptoMail Service is a name given to any secure web based Email services that use our Email system to host and to maintain your Email account.

1.3 Application Features

The key feature of the CryptoMail Service is its web based Email client application that provides a ubiquitous user interface for users to conduct and manage their Email business over the Internet with a Java enabled web browser

Most often, you will use the Email client to read and write your Email. Luckily, the Email client provides plenty of Email features for you to finish your Email fast and easily. Here are the key features of the Email client:

• Compose a new message.
• Send and receive messages within the same servers or over the Internet.
• Send messages to single or multiple addresses.
• Read, edit, send and receive attachments in a message.
• Maintain a copy of sent items and message into a folder automatically.
• Forward messages to a single or multiple addresses.
• Reply to messages to a sender or all senders.
• Read, edit, save, delete, copy and move any message..
• Automatically recycle deleted messages in the trash bin.
• View the encrypted form of messages.

After a few months of Emailing, you might find your mail box filled with Email messages. Thus, we designed many features of our Email client to help you managing your Email account effectively and effortlessly. Here are the key features:

• Default Inbox, Trash, Drafts and Sent-items folders.
• Create new folders with long folder name.
• Rename and delete folders.

1.4 System Requirements

The CryptoMail Service is able to provide its service to users with very little computing resources. Basically, you will need a Java enabled web browser and an Internet (TCP/IP) connection. However, you should have a system that meets the minimum system requirements, and you will find better experiences with our services.

Minimum System Requirements

• i586 100MHz or equivalent computing power.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 with 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (Windows 95, 98 and NT).
• Netscape Communicator 4.0 with 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (Linux, Windows 95, 98 and NT).
• 16-colors display adapter at 800x600 resolution.
• TCP/IP connection over 56Kbps connection

Recommended System Requirements

• i586 200MHz and better computing power.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and later with 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (Windows 95, 98 and NT).
• Netscape Communicator 4.06 and later with 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (Linux, Windows 95, 98 and NT).
• 256-colors display adapter at 800x600 resolution or better.
• TCP/IP connection over DSL or faster connection.

1.5 Documentation Conventions

Occasionally, the CryptoMail Users Manual will point to information outside this document, or this manual will use different vocabularies to refer to the same terminology. Generally, conventions are used to keep readers aware of some important information..

CryptoMail Users Manual, Version 0.10, 9/25/2000

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