SiteKiosk allows your users to write e-mails and use gateways to
receive e-mails. SiteKiosk's
Webcam plugin even makes it possible to send video, photo, and voice mail messages.
SiteKiosk's e-mail client is based entirely on HTML and JavaScript. It is, therefore, completely customizable because you can change the HTML pages, images, and scripts included in the source directory.
For example, you can find the SiteKiosk e-mail client of IE and IE7 skin under:
SiteKiosk installation folder\skins\public\ieskin\center.html
Allow Integrated E-Mail Functions
Check this box to make the e-mail server information stored in the SiteKiosk configuration file available to the SiteKiosk browser. You must enable this setting if you want to send e-mails using a SiteKiosk e-mail client or use the
SiteKiosk Object Model to send e-mails.
Configuring the SMTP server / E-mail server settings
Please pay attention to the EXAMPLE further down!
Outgoing mail server (SMTP)
Specify the SMTP server settings your e-mail provider gave you. The SMTP is the server your provider uses for outgoing mail (usually mail.name-of-your-provider.de). You will also need your SMTP server settings to set up your e-mail client, e.g. Outlook Express.
Sender's e-mail address
Every e-mail user account needs an e-mail address because many mail servers will only accept sender's addresses submitted from a domain matching the SMTP server (to prevent spamming). However, SiteKiosk will specify the reply address as the e-mail address entered by the sender.
Displayed sender's text
An e-mail client (e.g. Outlook Express) will usually display the sender's name in the "FROM" field, which hides the actual e-mail address. Use this section to enter this NAME. This name will be displayed to every recipient receiving e-mail from your terminal.
The default value is "SiteKiosk terminal." The name is independent of the sender's e-mail address, i.e. when the recipient clicks on "Reply", SiteKiosk automatically enters the sender's address the user entered at your terminal as the recipient's address. You can also use this function to differentiate between different terminals. Take this example: 1 terminal is located in Munich, the other one in Frankfurt. When you receive e-mail from your users, you will be able tell from which terminal the messages were sent (e.g. if you call terminal 1 "Terminal Munich" and the other one "Terminal Frankfurt").
Text encoding (character set)
Use this section to specify the character encoding to be used for outgoing e-mail. If you, for instance, composed an e-mail message using Cyrillic encoding even though you set Western European in this section, the person receiving your message will not be able to read it. Your e-mail will then only contain a great number of ????.
For this reason, select the encoding that is most commonly used by the users of your terminal. If your terminals are set up in Western Europe or the United States, you should select the default "Western European."
If you decide to allow the use of different language encodings in SiteKiosk (e.g. English and Russian), you can also select the UTF-8 character set as an alternative. If you select UTF-8, your e-mail message will always be encoded in UTF-8 and can be read with any e-mail client capable of decoding UTF-8 messages. Unfortunately, you cannot always be sure that the recipient of your messages uses an UTF-8 capable e-mail client (e.g. Outlook Express).
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Many public e-mail servers, such as hotmail.com, will always verify authorized usage to prevent, for example, spamming. In this case, enable this option. You will also have to enter the access information under SETTINGS. A relatively new authentication procedure is SMTP AUTH, which is also supported by SiteKiosk.
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Access information
Please pay attention to the EXAMPLE further down!
POP3 server
Specify the POP3 server settings your e-mail provider gave you. The POP3 server is the server your provider uses for incoming mail (usually pop.name-of-your-provider.de). You will also need your POP3 server settings to set up your e-mail client, e.g. Outlook Express.
User name
Basically, you are providing your users with an (your) e-mail account so that they can send e-mail messages. Every e-mail account comes with a user name that you need to enter here.
Password
Every e-mail account comes with an access password that you need to enter here. Don't worry, this password will not be displayed to anyone and can also not be used to receive e-mail. It is only used for authentication purposes.
General information
At www.aol.com you can sign up for a free e-mail account. This account can be used to send e-mails from within SiteKiosk.
Signing up for an AOL account
Go to the web site www.aol.com and sign up for an AOL account. Fill out the forms. Accept the license agreement. Having done so, you will receive all the information necessary for the configuration. Please sign up with a name that does NOT contain a "." such as firstname.lastname@aol.com.
Configuration in SiteKiosk
- SMTP Server:
smtp.aol.com
- Sender's E-Mail address:
Youraccountname@aol.com, e.g. mike@aol.com
- Check the box "SMTP Server requires authentication!"
- Logon Method:
SMTP Authentication
- User name:
Your AOL account name (your AOL address without the "@aol.com")
- Password:
Your AOL password
Please test your settings by clicking on the Test button.
E-Mail Button in the Browser
If you turn on the checkbox "Show button and assign the following functions", SiteKiosk will display an e-mail button. If you are using the
Payment Module, this button will be inactive until credit is available.
Show Web links to public e-mail gateways
Most users have an e-mail account with a public e-mail provider. SiteKiosk allows users to access their e-mail directly on the provider's Web site (gmx.de, t-online, yahoo, hotmail, aol, and web.de). The main benefit to the users is that they will NOT have to submit their account information to the SiteKiosk application, which most users are hesitant to do and rightfully so.
If selected, this option allows your users to check their e-mail via the HTTP protocol. SiteKiosk will then display a "GET E-MAIL" button. You can use this button to access a local HTML page containing links to various providers. You can, of course, alter this HTML page to fit your needs and add your own gateways.
If a user has an e-mail account with a different provider, he or she will still be able to check e-mail (for free) using the "Mail2Web" gateway.
Open the specified Web site
If enabled, this option allows you to surf to the Web site specified here by clicking on the e-mail button in SiteKiosk.
Open integrated e-mail submission form
The e-mail button in SiteKiosk links to the e-mail client belonging to the selected skin.
Open integrated e-mail submission form with a default recipient
The e-mail button in SiteKiosk links to the SiteKiosk e-mail client belonging to the selected skin. When a user launches the client, SiteKiosk will enter the specified address in the recipient field.
Advanced button
The advanced settings will only take effect if the user uses SiteKiosk's integrated submission form, i.e. the SiteKiosk e-mail client.
E-mail links to Web sites
Use this section to specify if e-mail links (mailto:) on Web sites are supposed to open the SiteKiosk e-mail client.
E-mail signature
The following standard signature is automatically attached to every e-mail message sent with SiteKiosk:
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NOTE:
This E-Mail was sent from a public access SiteKiosk Internet terminal. The administrator did not create this E-mail and is therefore not responsible for the content of this message. http://www.sitekiosk.es |
You can alter the text to your requirements. To do so, you can proceed in one of two ways.
You can either define your own signature using the configuration dialog. This signature will then be attached to every e-mail message independent of the language selected in SiteKiosk. HTML tags are permitted:
My <b>signature</b> text
<img src="file://c:/program files/sitekiosk/html/myimage.jpg" />
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Or, you can specify a signature that is dependent of the selected language and edit the existing standard signature. To do so, go to the subfolder Language/Browser skins/default-ieskin located in the SiteKiosk installation folder and open the XML file of the languages you want to edit. Find the following sections in these files:
<!-- E-Mail Signature -->
<!-- HTML -->
<string id='400'>
<!-- Plaintext -->
<string id='401'>
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Leave all special characters such as "<" (stands for <) and ">" (stands for >) as they are. You can compose the entire signature in HTML.
If you want to insert an image into the signature, simply add an image tag to the signature. MAKE SURE to specify the absolute path to your image and NOT the relative path.
Example:
<img src='file://c:\img\companylogo.gif'
width=128 height=109 border=0>
or
<img src='http://www.sitekiosk.de/img/companylogo.gif'
width=128 height=109 border=0>
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Notes and tips:
- Before you can use the Webcam plugin, you need to enable and properly configure the integrated SiteKiosk e-mail client as you will otherwise not be able to send any videos.
- If you are unable to send e-mail messages, you probably did not configure the e-mail client properly. Please pay attention to our Example.
- Some services have problems handling e-mail addresses containing a "." Use an e-mail address that does not contain a "." (NameFirstName@email.com rather than Name.FirstName@email.com)
- The settings you define here apply to all e-mail options in SiteKiosk, e.g. also to sending the information stored in the Payment Module administration dialog.
- SMTP error: WinSock Error code:11001
If you receive this error message, the Microsoft PROXY server is probably blocking the outgoing mail sent with SiteKiosk. To correct this error, edit the ini file of the MS proxy server.
- You can set up a different rate for sending e-mail messages. To do so, go to Payment Devices / Zone Rates to create a new zone containing the page assigned to the e-mail client. For instance, you will find the IE skin in SiteKiosk's installation folder under skins\public\ieskin\center.html.
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