The steps for setting up regular pop3 e-mail accounts for your domain
are:
1. Go to your siteadmin email control panel at http://yourdomain.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]
Type in the email username you want to use. E.g. "fred" with
no quote marks in both the Full Name and the User Name fields.
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 "fred" and have the frederick and webmaster aliases
pointing to it. Then in your email software you'd just specify fred@yourdomain.com
or webmaster@yourdomain.com as the email address and "fred" as
the username/account name. So, no one needs to see your actual email username;
it is 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 aliasses [addresses] that you would like to point
to this pop account. Type one per line. For example freddy, fredeerick,
sales, and info could all be aaliases pointing to the fred pop account.
If you could like this pop account to catch all email that is not addressed
to another pop account, then add the alias @www.yourdomain.com as an alias
[substitute your actual domain name for yourdomain.com]
f.) Click the "Confirm New User" button. That's it. You have
now set up the e-mail username "fred" for your domain. The e-mail
address for that username is fred@yourdomain.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 trach can icon.
To access the mail sent to fred@yourdomain.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 instrucitons on setting up Outlook Express.
E-mail address: webmaster@yourdomain.com
Username: fred
Incoming mail server: mail.yourdomain.com
Outgoing mail server: your local ISP settings or mail.yourdomain.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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