Accessing Your Email
If you want to access your email directly from your domain
rather than setup Email Forwarding to your existing email account, we
recommend using Eudora as your email client. This is an email program that runs
under MS Windows and Macintosh OS. There are many good reasons for using Eudora,
one of which is that it allows multiple email accounts and personalities. See
your program documentation for instructions on how to set those up.
Eudora connects to the mail server over the Winsock or Macintosh TCP/IP. Mail may be composed and read offline, but make sure that you are online before attempting to send or receive email.
Setup Eudora
After Eudora has been installed, it must be configured to point to your server.1. Install and start up the Eudora program
2. Select "Settings" from the "Special" menu (in version 3.0 or later select Tools, then Options)
3. Select the "Getting Started" tab
4. If you use the Macintosh version, the radio button for TCP/IP connection should be highlighted
- Under Real Name, enter your Real Name
- Under Mail Server (incoming) put your-domain-name.org
- Leave Return Address blank unless you want people to send return email to you at a different email account
- Under SMTP Server (outgoing) put your-domain-name.org
5. Click the "Personal Information" tab
6. Under "Dialup User Name" enter <your-name>.
- Under POP account put your-name@your-domain-name.org again
- Fill out the "Real Name" and "Return Address" as you did before
7. Click the "Hosts" tab and enter your-name@your-domain-name.org again under POP Account, and put your-domain-name.org under SMTP Server.
8. Go to the "Checking Mail" tab and make sure "Save Password" is checked.
That's all the configuration Eudora needs. You will find that many of the configuration areas will be filled in for you when you go to them, for instance it will usually fill in the POP account info wherever it is called for after you enter it the first time.
Test Your Email Setup
You can now send a test email message to yourself and then check to see if it gets returned to you. If you checked "Save Password" as in step 8 Eudora will not prompt you again for your password after the first time. If multiple users have access to your computer, and you don't want them to have access to your email account, do not check the "Save Password" option.
- Select "Check Mail" under the File menu.
- Enter your password into the Password Window that pops up, then click on the Proceed button.
- Eudora will check to see if you have email.
Note: Your default email address is your-domain-name@your-domain-name.org This is where all of your email will be sent to, unless other configurations take priority (such as autoresponders and redirects ).
Other EMail Program Setups
The following examples assume a domain name of fred.com.
Microsoft Outlook Express
Full name = fred
Email = fred@fred.com
Internet Mail server = fred.com
Account = fred
Pass = xxxxxx
SMTP = fred.com
From = anything@fred.com
NetscapeAdditional POP Accounts
Your Name = fred
Email Address = fred@fred.com
Reply to = anything@fred.com
Mail Server user name = fred
outgoing SMTP = fred.com
Incoming = fred.com
If you would like additional POP email accounts, ask us and we'll set it up for you. Remember there may be an additional one-time charge for each POP account depending on your account. To check numerous POP accounts, read the manual or help files that come with Eudora or your email client software for configuration.If you are familiar with the shell (Unix) programs, "pine" and "mail", you can use either of these to check and send email as well.
Last Updated August 02, 2001.