One using Outlook Express, one using Outlook. Account is with freeserve.
Working OK with Outlook and one PC. Now adding a second PC and email address with requirement to separate the emails so that each PC receives those for its email address.
The Orange website has 'How to set up multiple email addresses' suggesting how one might setup a PC with an admin account, and individual accounts for each email address, with a message rule.
Has anyone set this up and did you manage to follow and understand the Help pages? Presumably you had similar setup on each PC?
I think the admin account with rule would only need to be set up on 1 PC. It is just used to download (junk) mail which is not sent to the normal addresses.
The rule prevents it downloading the normal addresses mixed in with this (junk) mail and therefore allowing the individual accounts to then pick up their mail correctly.
Thanks for the prompt reply and my apologies for the delay. I need to set this up for one of our society members about 30 miles away so want to get it right before I travel again.
The Orange help page 'how to set up multiple email addresses with Orange (part 1)' says set up an Orange Admin account, a My account, and then one for each possible email address. So the four account names on the Server tabs might be
Orange Admin - horshamxxx.freeserve.co.uk
My account - mine@horshamxxx.freeserve.co.uk
mine - mine@
his - his@
I don't know OE's logic but speculate below.
All traffic is passed by the Orange Admin account and the message rule rejects all but junk, because 'mine@' and 'his@' are named 'people'. Junk is accepted because the account name on the Server tab is horshamxxx.freeserve.co.uk without any qualifying 'prefix@'.
All traffic is passed by My account. It accepts emails where the email address exactly matches the account name on the server tab. 'mine@horshamxxx.freeserve.co.uk'.
All traffic is passed by the other accounts, 'mine@' and 'his@' but as they don't have 'horshamxxx.freeserve.co.uk' as part of the account name on the Server tab, they keep nothing.
If that were the case it seems to me that I would need a matching set of accounts on the other PC with My Account there being his@horshamxxx.freeserve.co.uk. I can't tell which PC will see the traffic first.
The other thought that has just occurred to me is that if second PC has the account name on the Server tab as the email address in full his@horshamxxx.freeserve.co.uk, (setting up multiple addresses part 2), it will only receive messages specifically for that email address. Does IE feed back to the ISP server that his@ has received the message so it can be deleted - unless others such as mine@ are also in the list of destinations?
The admin account only has to be set up on 1 computer. You can do it on several if you like, it wont harm it just depends who you want dealing with the junk or incorrectly addressed mail. The rule has to bet set up where ever the admin account is set-up. When the mail from the admin account is downloaded the rule blocks the downloading of person1 and person2 mails as you have told the rule to not download their addresses when checking only the admin's account mail. Otherwise the admin account would download all mail as you have not specified a prefix in the login for horshamxxx.freeserve.co.uk. All mail would include horshamxxx.freeserve.co.uk address and therefore be downloaded without the rule.
When checking person1's account only their mail will be downloaded as you have put in the full address for the login credentials so only mail matching this address will be downloaded and no other (person1@horshamxxx.freeserve.co.uk). This account is unaffected by the rule when downloading from this account.
The same goes for person2's account.
The admin account with rule downloads all mail which is not specifically addressed to person1 or person2. In theory you could do without the admin account and rule, but Orange servers would get clogged up with junkmail over time and you would have problems later. Orange also often send mail to member@horshamxxx.freeserve.co.uk, the admin account would be used to pick this up.
If you want only you dealing with the junk mail and incorrectly addressed mail stick the Admin account and rule on your PC, making sure the rule includes not to download his mail person2@horshamxxx.freeserve.co.uk and also include not to download yours person1@horshamxxx.freeserve.co.uk for tidyness..
You do not need your account on his PC and or his account on your PC. Also if you have the admin account he does not need this or the rule on his PC. You just need to make sure that the rule for the admin account includes not to download mail addressed to him or you.
I hope this makes sense.
PS This is obviously not a very secure setup as others people's mail can be accessed by manipulating the login credentials of an account.
I have managed to get this working as a member of my family needed an E-Mail address when switching to broadband, however I have a slight problem.
I set up their e-mail address for Outlook and it all works fine and they only receive the e-mail they are meant to but as I usually just use the Webmail Orange provide I didn't set it up for mine, but on the webmail I receive all of their mail as well eventhough I am logged in using my prefix on the account name, any way to stop this happening?
I have managed to get this working as a member of my family needed an E-Mail address when switching to broadband, however I have a slight problem.
I set up their e-mail address for Outlook and it all works fine and they only receive the e-mail they are meant to but as I usually just use the Webmail Orange provide I didn't set it up for mine, but on the webmail I receive all of their mail as well eventhough I am logged in using my prefix on the account name, any way to stop this happening?
As far as I am aware no. The webmail seams to log you into the main account no matter what you use as a prefix.
I suppose you could set up a filter in webmail to move mail addressed to you to a particular folder you create, to organise the mail better.
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