The steps for setting up regular pop3 e-mail accounts for your
domain are:
1. Go to your siteadmin email control panel at http://your-actual-domain.com/siteadmin/
The username and password to access it are in your original web site
settings email.
Once in the siteadmin:
a.) Click on "Add User" button. [screenshot]
b.) From the Add user screen [screenshot]
if you wanted to add the email address "orders", you would
type in e.g. "orders456" with no quote marks in both the
Full Name and the User Name fields. (Then in the alias field you
would type "orders".)
Note: The email username does not have to correspond to the
email address you will be using it with. For example you
could have the username "orders456" and have the orders
and webmaster aliases pointing to it. Then in your email software
you'd just specify orders@your-actual-domain.com or
webmaster@your-actual-domain.com as the email address and
"orders456" as the username/account name. So, no one needs
to see your actual email username; it is actually safer to have a
username that is different than the email address that you use as a
"from" address since would be hackers would need to guess
both your email username and your password.
c.) Type in the password you want to use. E.g.
"secret224" [No quote marks]
d.) Set the "Max. Allowed Disk Space" to the amount of
space you'd like to allow for this email account. You would normally
leave "Site Administrator" and Enable FrontPage User
Web" unchecked.
e.) Fill in the email aliases [addresses] that you would like to
point to this pop account. Type one per line. For example freddy,
fredeerick, sales, and orders could all be aliases pointing to the
"orders456" pop account. If you would like this pop
account to catch all email that is not addressed to another pop
account, then add the alias @www.your-actual-domain.com as an alias
[substitute your actual domain name for your-actual-domain.com]
f.) Click the "Confirm New User" button. That's it. You
have now set up the email address "orders" with the
username/account name "orders456" with the for your
domain. The e-mail address for that username is orders@your-actual-domain.com
g.) To change the password for this user in the future, click on
the Pencil icon next to the username
[screenshot].
The change the aliases or forwarding for this user, click on the
envelope icon. To delete this user, click on the trash can icon. To
adjust the Spam filter settings, click the X-Envelope icon.
To access the mail sent to orders@your-actual-domain.com, you
could use Netscape mail, Outlook
Express, Eudora, or any
major email software, you would use settings similar to the example
settings below. Click
here for specific instructions on setting up Outlook Express.
E-mail address: orders@your-actual-domain.com
Username: orders456
Incoming mail server: mail.your-actual-domain.com
Outgoing mail server: your local ISP settings or
mail.your-actual-domain.com
In most email software there is a setting, "Leave copy of
messages on server". This should normally not be
selected since it will result in your pop account on the server
getting larger and larger. This will degrade your email performance.
Other mail settings can be left at the default settings.
Outlook Express: In Outlook Express you can change your mail
settings or add multiple email accounts by selecting
"Tools" then sub menu item "Accounts".
Netscape Messenger/Mail: If you use Netscape mail, you can change
your mail settings by selecting "Edit" then submenu item
"Preferences" then select "Mail and Newsgroups"
from the list and expand it by clicking the +. Then you would just
change the settings under the "Identity" and "Mail
Server" items.
If you want to retrieve mail from separate pop email accounts
using Netscape, this can be done by setting up separate profiles. To
set up a Netscape profile on a Windows 98/Me PC using running
Netscape Messenger you would:
1.) Click the "Start Button" at the lower left hand side
of your screen.
2.) Go to "Programs", then submenu folder "Netscape
Communicator", then submenu folder "Utilities", then
submenu item "User Profile Manager". Follow the on-screen
instructions from there.
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