All users have an email account, where they can receive mail at username@domain.example.com. domain.example.com is whatever domain you have set up with, or staticfree.info or wyrde.com if you are don't have a domain of your own.
To prevent spam, we filter all our messages through SpamAssassin. We don't defaultly do anything about spam, however, just filter and tag it. You can set up a filter by creating a folder called "spam" and then putting procmailrc.sa in your ~/.procmailrc file. You can do this from the command line by doing:
maildirmake -f spam ~/Maildir; curl -o ~/.procmailrc http://warehaus.staticfree.info/procmailrc.sa
note: If you have a virtual host (your own domain) on this server, see below.
Each user has their own personal web space. You can put up a web page that's available publicly from http://staticfree.info/~username/ or http://wyrde.com/~username/ where username is your username.
In order to use this webspace, as is common on many sites, you simply create a directory called public_html in your home directory, make it world-readable/executable, and put your files in it.
You can attempt to use a GUI tool for this, such as WinSCP (Windows) or Fugu (OS X). Just connect to staticfree.info using your login/password.
If you are having trouble, the hard-core, no-fail way is to SSH in using PuTTY (Windows) or Terminal (OS X). Connect to staticfree.info using your login/password. When you are in (you get a command prompt that looks like username@warehaus:~$), you can use the following commands to create the directory:
mkdir public_html chmod +rx public_html
Please do not host media that you do not have permission from the copyright holder in your webspace. This is a touchy subject for everyone and we would like to avoid getting people frustrated with us in the process.
Every user of warehaus has a photo gallery. They are accessible through http://photos.staticfree.info/~username/. To add photos to your gallery, simply do the above things for your personal web space and make a directory for your photos. All images in your public_html directory are available through the gallery.
The gallery will automatically provide multiple sizes of the photos for you as well as a slideshow and index mode.
If your camera supports rotation detection, the gallery will automatically rotate images for you (this is stored in the photo's EXIF information).
If you would like to add a comment to a photo, use an EXIF-aware photo editor and put the comment in the jpeg comment header. (Frequently, this is done by going to the images 'properties' and looking for a 'comments' field.)
If you would like to embed photos (using an <img> tag, for example) in your weblog, livejournal or website, please follow the below suggestions:
We offer a few different blog engines and content management systems to users who would like to use them. Our CMS of choice is Drupal, so we can set you up with that if you'd like. Drupal allows you to manage a website from a friendly web-based user interface, creating blogs, pages, photo galleries, and any number of other things one commonly finds on websites.
For a more stripped-down blog engine, we offer Blosxom.
We offer virtual hosting of domains for users who request such. On your virtual host, you can run a wide variety of website software. You will need to talk with us directly to set this up.