Setting up Outlook Express for Multiple Email Addresses
If you have arranged to have more than one email address at
Chesapeake.Net
, one way of
setting up
Outlook Express
to retrieve your
email is to use
the built-in
"message rules"
feature of your
Outlook Express
program. In
order to do this
you must first
make sure that
you have
Microsoft Outlook
Express version
5.0 or greater
installed on your
machine.
Microsoft Outlook
Express 5.0 can
be downloaded for
free from
www.microsoft.com
Once Outlook
Express 5.0 is
installed, use
the following
instructions to
setup your email
accounts on your
PC. These
instructions are
only
for those customers that wish to retrieve multiple email addresses on a single PC. Customers that have more than one PC my setup each PC with a single email name using our
regular email setup instructions
SETUP INSTRUCTIONS
This method will place email messages addressed to each email address into its own folder in Outlook
Express. Although this will provide a convienient method of separating your various email accounts, this
will NOT prevent other users of your PC in your household from viewing your email..
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Once you have opened Outlook Express 5.0, Select
Tools
,
Message Rules
and then
Mail
. The
picture below shows the steps
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Check the box that has: "Where the message is from the specified account."
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Check the box that has: "Move it to the specified folder."
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Set the name of the rule. You can call this whatever you want.
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Click the first blue text, "Specified." This is the one before the word, "account."
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Select the account that you would like in the separate folder, and then click OK.
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Click on the second blue text, "Specified." This is the one before the word, "folder."
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Click on "Inbox."
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Click on "New Folder."
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Enter what you want the folder to be called. In the example since its Bob's account, we call it
"Bob's Mail."
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Keep clicking on OK until you are back to the beggining of the Outlook screen.
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Make sure the folder you specified appears on the left. In the example the folder is called "Bob's
Mail."
From now on, all mail sent to Bob's account will go to the "Bob's Mail" folder. To Read Mail for this user,
click once on the "Bob's Mail" folder and the list of messages recieved for this account will be display to
the right.
Repeat Steps 1-13 for each email account
Please contact us at
support@chesapeake.net
if you require further information or assistance
with your
Chesapeake.Net
e-mail service, or call our Technical Support staff at
1-877-764-4638
.
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