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DragNet's main email servers are as follows :
Type - POP3
Incoming Mail - mail.dragnet.com.au
Outgoing Mail - relay.dragnet.com.au
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- From the Outlook™ main menu, select Tools and select Accounts
- In the Internet Accounts window make sure that the mail tab is selected
- Click on Add and select Mail
- The Internet Connection Wizard screen will appear. Enter your full name (e.g. John Smith). That name will be seen by e-mail recipients in all the messages you send
- After entering your name click on Next
- Enter your e-mail address. That address will be used in all mail messages and click on next
- Mail server type: POP3
- Incoming mail server: mail.dragnet.com.au
- Outgoing mail server: relay.dragnet.com.au
- Enter your Mail Login information. In the Account name field, enter your Dragnet User Name(e.g. jsmith)
- To finish setting up Outlook™, click on Next
- Click on Finish to complete the account setup
- Click on Close to complete the account setup.
- Start Outlook Express
- From the Outlook Express main menu, select Tools and select Accounts
- In the Internet Accounts window make sure that the mail tab is selected
- Click on Add and select Mail
- The Internet Connection Wizard screen will appear. Enter your full name (e.g. John Smith). That name will be seen by e-mail recipients in all the messages you send
- After entering your name click on Next
- Enter your e-mail address. That address will be used in all mail messages and click on next
- Mail server type: POP3
- Incoming mail server: mail.dragnet.com.au
- Outgoing mail server: relay.dragnet.com.au
- Enter your Mail Login information. In the Account name field, enter your Dragnet User Name(e.g. jsmith)
- To finish setting up Outlook Express™, click on Next
- Click on Finish to complete the account setup
- Click on Close to complete the account setup.
- Start Mail
- Click on the Mail menu, then choose Preferences.
- Click on the Accounts icon.
- Highlight your DragNet account (or press + in the bottom left to add a new account)
- Click on Account Information
- Type in your account name in the description box. You will notice this will also change the account name in the box on the left hand side of the screen.
- Set Email Address to your email address.
- Type in your Full Name into the Full Name box.
- Set Incoming Mail Server to mail.dragnet.com.au
- Set your User Name to your DragNet username.
- Enter your password into the password box.
- Under Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) click Server Settings
- Make sure the Outgoing Mail Server is set to relay.dragnet.com.au
- Click OK to return to the mail preferences screen.
- Next click on the Advanced button
- Make sure you have a tick in the boxes next to "Remove copy from server after retrieving a message".
- Make sure you also have the drop down box below this set to "Right Away"
- Now your mail should be set up. Click the little red dot in the top left hand corner of the mail accounts window to finish.
- Click on "Get Mail" button in the mail window to test your settings.
If you have had an email blocked for being spam or virus related, it will be flagged as such and sent to you as an attachment from "
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". Users who receive a lot of spam may not wish to receive the many notifications. There are several options for handling this .
1. Adding
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to Outlook Express Blocked Senders List.
In this case you can add "
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" a mail rule, or block sender list so they go straight into your deleted items instead of the INBOX.
- Click once on an email from "
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" in your INBOX
- Click on the Message menu
- Click on Block Sender and click OK
2. Request to be added to the Digest group.
In this case you can request to not recieve email from
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for the spam censor rule. Instead of getting flagged emails you will not recieve the email at all and once a day you will recieve a report with all emailed blocked that day. NOTE - These emails cannot be released so we only recommend this option to users with a high volume of blocked email who would rather lose legitimate email than see flagged spam emails. To have this enabled send the request to
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3. Opt Out of filtering.
As the filtering service is optional, if you do not wish to have your email filtered please send the opt-out request to
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Legitimate Mail Flagged.
If you have an email blocked which is legitimate, check the text of the email you receive from us to find out why it was blocked. If you would like the sender to be added to our friendly sender list forward the noreply flagged email message to
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. As messages are only flagged, and not destroyed you should still have the original email text attached to the DragNet notification.
Due to issues with the Optus DNS server, satellite customers will need to add the IP address of the DragNet mail servers to their email clients.
DragNet's main email servers for Satellite customers are as follows :
Type - POP3
Incoming Mail - mail.dragnet.com.au
Outgoing Mail - relay.dragnet.com.au
Customers using the DragNet Plesk based hosting servers will need to use the following settings to check mail. Be sure to replace example.com.au with your particular top level domain name.
Type - POP3
Incoming Mail - mail.example.com.au
Outgoing Mail - relay.dragnet.com.au
Account / Username-
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(full email address)
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