Setting up Your Email

Setting up accounts & aliases

Setting up your email software

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Setting up accounts & aliases

Your Control Center comes with a powerful tool for configuring email accounts, aliases, and autoresponders. It's called Mail Manager and here's how it works:

From your site's Control Center, choose "Mail Manager"

This is what you will see on entering the Mail Manager screen. There are 2 entries in the example above, 'tester' and 'Default'. To set up a new address, click 'New Address' and follow instructions in the next screen:

Enter the name of the mailbox (it will become 'mailbox'@yourdomain.com) and the password you choose. When you click 'add' you're done!

To work with an existing email account, click its name on the left side of the main Mail Manager screen:

Here we are working with the account named 'tester'. As you see, there are 3 choices for how to handle mail sent to 'tester' - send it to a POP account with the same name, send it to a different POP account on your server, or send it off-site to a different email address (sometimes referred to as an 'alias' or 'forwarding'). In addition, you can choose the text for an autoresponder in this screen. If you enable the autoresponder, whenever anyone sends mail to this address they will receive the text you enter here.

The 'Default' entry is slightly different:

The 'Default' comes into play when there is mail sent to your domain and there is no corresponding POP account or alias name that matches. You can choose the behavior for the Default alias - Bounce (return) all mail that does not match an account name on your server, forward it to a POP account on your server, or forward it off-site to a different email address (for example, your local ISP email address). The Default alias can also have an autoresponse set up.

NOTE: many people find it easiest to set up no email accounts at all, and let the Default alias funnel all mail to wherever they get mail now. This way, anything at all that gets sent to the domain goes to an account they already check. For example, if your ISP email account is yourname@aol.com, setting up the Default alias to forward there will result in all email sent to yourdomain.com ending up in your AOL account.

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Setting up your Email Software

Outlook Express

(These instructions are accurate, as of Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0.

1. When Outlook Express Starts click Tools -> Accounts.
2. Inside the "Internet Accounts Windows" click Add -> Mail.
3. Fill in your name. Click Next.
4. Click "I already have an e-mail address that I'd like to use" and fill in your email address. Click Next.
5. On the "Email Servers Name" page, fill in the server information. "My incoming mail server is a POP3 server." The incoming and outgoing mail servers should be 'yourdomain.com' without the 'www'. Click Next
6. Put in your mailbox username in the account name field, and the password below. Click Next.
7. Click Finish.

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Microsoft Outlook 2000 and above

Follow same instructions for Outlook Express above. Make sure that Internet Email service is enabled in Outlook.

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Eudora

1. Select Tools...Personalities.
2. Right click the left-hand side of the screen. Select 'New'.
3. The 'New Account Wizard' will appear. Type in a name for this account and select 'Next>'.
4. Select 'Create a brand new email account' and select 'Next>'.
5. Type in your actual name (not your email address) and select 'Next>'.
6. Type in the email address you wish for people to send email to (this can be an alias or a true POP box). Select 'Next>'.
7. Type in the true user for this POP box (this is NOT an alias). Select 'Next>'.
8. Select 'POP' for type of incoming mail server. Then type in 'yourdomain.com' without the 'www' in 'Incoming Mail Server' field. Select 'Next>'.
9. Select 'Finish'.
10. Right-click on the new personality created, and select 'Modify'.
11. In the 'SMTP Server' field, type in 'yourdomain.com' without the 'www'. Select 'OK', and you are ready to go!

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Netscape Communicator

1. After loading Netscape Composer, choose Edit -> Preferences
2. Click on Identity
3. Add your personal information.
4. Click on Mail Server.
5. Enter 'yourdomain.com' without the 'www' for incoming and outgoing mail servers.
6. Put your username in the Mail server user name box.

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Claris

1. After loading Claris, choose Setup --> Internet Setup
2. The Outgoing Mail SMTP server should be 'yourdomain.com' withouth the 'www'.
3. Enter 'yourdomain.com' without the 'www' for 'Account Name'.
4. Put your username and domain name in the Email Account box.

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