KEIN webmail
You can use KEIN webmail service regardless of whether you use POP or IMAP in your day to day E-Mail client. The messages will remain in your inbox, such that your regular E-Mail client will find them the next time it is used.
You can access the KEIN webmail interface on
There is a new webmail client we are currently testing available at:
https://bunker.kein.org/roundcube
Please try this installation and give us your feedback. It is much more convenient and much easier to use than the old one.
Because the webmail interface requires you to login with your regular password, you should preferably use a secure connection. In this case, the secure connection is established using SSL. In this way, any web browser supporting SSL (most recent browsers do) can be used to access this service, from anywhere in the world.
SSL uses certificates to check and secure connections. The first time you visit the webmail pages, you might have to accept and import the certificate this server uses. On subsequent connections, the browser is able to verify the certificate and re-use it, or to warn you if something unexpected happened.
You might want to install the KEIN.ORG certificate with which the web server certificate is signed. By doing so, you can use this web server without having to worry about certificates and such. Import KEIN.ORG certificate in:
Netscape 4.x Accept this Certificate Authority for Certifying network sites and E-Mail users and give an appropriate nickname (e.g. 'KEIN.ORG')
Internet Explorer 4.x/5.x The first versions of IE5 give errors ... upgrade to a recent one before trying this. Open this file from its current location. More info about this KEIN.ORG certificate can be found here.
On the login page, you must login with your regular login name and password. Some browsers offer to remember passwords you type in on web pages or in E-Mail clients for you. You should never allow them to do so. Such programs invariably store passwords in an unsafe way... otherwise the program itself would not be able to use it again the next time, would it? E-Mail clients and web browsers (and most other programs) always store passwords using a reversible algorithm. Passwords should never be stored in such a way.
One of the first things you should do when logging in the first time, is visit the Options page and configure your personal identification details and setup your preferences.
You should at least fill in the Personal Information.
On the Compose page, you can compose (and of course send ;-) an E-Mail message. You can even attach files from your local computer (i.e. the computer on which the browser you are using, is executed). Attaching files however, depends on the capability and protocol your browser uses to transfer this file to the webmail interface. Not all browsers do this in the way the webmail interface expects. Netscape Communicator and Microsoft Internet Explorer seem to be able to do this correctly. Some versions of Opera seem not to be able to communicate with the webmail interface correctly. Some versions of Lynx seem not to support uploading local files at all. Your mileage may vary.
