How
can I set up a new "email persona"? |
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Let's say your
domain name is neatthings.com, and you'd like to be able to send
email so that it looks like it's coming from don@neatthings.com
(Don Smith). Here's how to do it.
If your mail
program is Microsoft's Outlook
Express:
- Get into
Outlook Express.
- Press the
"Tools" option at the top of the Outlook Express window, and select
Accounts.
- Select the
"Mail" tab.
- You may
already have a "mail account" set up there; what you want to do
is add another. But you need to write down info from your current
account first. So select your current account, and press the Properties
option. Then select the Servers tab and write down the following
info: -- Incoming mail (POP3) -- Outgoing mail (SMTP) -- Incoming
Mail server account name -- Incoming Mail server password.
- Then press
ok to exit the Properties Window.
- Now add
your new account by pressing the Add button and select "Mail.
. .", which will pass you to the Internet Connection Wizard.
- In the "Your
Name" window that pops up, enter your name (e.g., "Don Smith"),
then press "Next".
- In the "Internet
E-mail Address" window, select the "I already have an email address"
option, and type in the desired email address (e.g., don@neatthings.com);
then press "Next".
- You can
leave "My incoming mail server is a POP3 server" set that way,
then fill in the other 2 fields with the same info you had written
down from your first account. Press "Next".
- Again fill
in Account and Password with the info you wrote down from the
first account. Press "Finish".
- Now press
the "Set as Default" button to make this new account your default
account (which means that, by default, your email messages will
now read as though they are from don@neatthings.com).
If your mail
program is Netscape
Messenger -- This program currently only supports
just one email persona. Thus, you can't just switch among different
personas (as in Outlook Express); if you want the message to appear
as though it's coming from a different source, you have to go in
and change your "email identity" everytime. Fortunately,
this isn't very difficult. (Don't forgot to change back to your
default, after you send a message from a different persona.)
- Get into
Netscape. Under "Edit", select "Preferences". Double click on
"Mail & Newsgroups", and then click on "Identity".
- Type in
your name (e.g., "Don Smith") and your email address
(e.g., "don@neatthings.com"). You may have to replace
your current information. If the current information is your default
"reply" address, don't forget to set this back after
you send your message.
- Press OK.
- Send your
email message. On the receiving end, it will look like it came
from the person and address you just typed in.
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