| General Instructions for Setting Up Email Programs The following are quick outlines of the setups in each program. Follow the links in each setup to see step-by-step instructions with screenshots. Contact your Internet Service Provider (ISP) for specific names and values to be used in these setups. Each program has settings for the From address that will appear in your emails (usually called just "Email Address"), and either the Return Address, or the Reply-To address. The Return Address is used by the mail-transport system. It is like the Return Address on an envelope, but it is not normally seen by recipients. The Reply-To address is added to the headers on your outgoing mail, and is a bit more visible to recipients. Either one works to set the To address when the recipient hits the Reply button. Incoming and outgoing servers are set up separately, although they can be the same. Usually the name of the server indicates its function, e.g. pop.mail.yahoo.com is the general name for any one of several POP mail servers at yahoo. POP is short for Post Office Protocol, a widely used method on servers from which you retrieve your incoming mail. Authentication is required to keep strangers out of your mailbox. Your incoming mail server will require a login name and a password. This login name is often not the same as your email name. Outgoing mail is handled usually by SMTP servers, like smtp.mail.yahoo.com. Authentication is required to keep spammers from sending mail using your name. Most ISPs set things up so that one login and password works for both POP and SMTP. Some setups are a little confusing on the difference between authentication of your identity and security of the communications link between your computer and your ISP. Authentication proves your identity, assuming your password hasn't been stolen. SSL and other security protocols encrypt everything going out of your computer, including your password, thus protecting you from wiretaps, "packet sniffers", "war drivers", and various other Internet criminals. Check with your ISP, and use whatever method they offer. |
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| Outlook Express Addresses: Tools -> Accounts -> Mail -> Properties... This setup uses a Repy-To address, but not the Return Address. Sorting: Tools -> Message Rules -> Mail... Reporting: To see all headers on a displayed message, select File -> Properties -> Details -> Message Source... Use cut and paste to forward a copy of the headers. Step by step |
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| Eudora This setup uses a Return Address, but not the Reply-To address. To see all headers, click the BLAH BLAH button at the top of the message display window. |
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| Evolution Edit -> Preferences -> Mail Accounts - Add Email Address: {username}@box67.com Reply-To: POP Server: pop.mail.yahoo.com Authentication: password SMTP Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com Authentication: login |
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