What is a new mailbox? or What is a POP account?
A new POP Account is not a mail-alias
A new mailbox is a new POP account, not a new dial-up account
Setting up your email client
Can I check my additional POP accounts with WebMail?
Caveat: Consider whether you really need another mailbox
Setting up and using additional mailboxes not only costs an extra $5.00 per month for each new mailbox you create, but requires an understanding of how POP works, and how to teach your email client new tricks.
For many users, simple email aliases and filtering techniques employed by most email clients will meet all of your needs at no extra cost.
If you have any questions about email aliases, you can consult our FAQ on the subject.
When you connect to Vineyard.NET with a telephone and a modem,
you are most often using the Point-to-Point Protocol, or PPP.
Once you've established a connection, email is sent and received using
the Post Office Protocol, or POP. When you first signed up with
Vineyard.NET we created a POP account with your username, yourname@vineyard.net
Vineyard.NET allows you to have multiple mailboxes attached to the same dial-up
account.
A new mailbox is really a new POP account that resides within the scope of your overall Vineyard.NET account. It allows you to create and use distinct email addresses and have the mail for that address stored sperately from other email addresses.
For consistency's sake, we have used the term POP account throughtout this document.
This can help to avoid confusion for people who have been sharing a
single account, or for people who have been using the same email
addresses for both business and personal needs.
It affords individuals greater privacy for their email, as each POP account is protected with it's own password.
This is not the same thing as a mail-alias. On the surface
they may appear similar, but each acts very differently from the
other.
Please remember the distinction between an email
account and a more general dial-up account.
To access any new POP account you have created, you will have to
dial-in to the Vineyard.NET server using the name and password that
you chose when you set up your account. They are the only
name&password pair that will validate for all the various internet
protocols we support.
You must already be online before you can access any new mailboxes you create.
If your email client is not already set up to send and receive
messages, you should contact your reseller or consult the Basic Email &
News Configurations table before proceeding any further.
To use an additional POP account, you need to change to email address
and user identification settings in your mail client.
At the moment, the easiest applications to configure are Microsoft's Outlook
Express, Qualcomm's
Eudora Pro, and Netscape's
Communicator package.
All three applications support the notion of different user accounts, each with specific user information. Each application implements these features in their own unique fashion.
Microsoft has allowed for multiple 'Accounts' in the most
recent version of Outlook Express. To begin setting up, select the
Accounts option under the Tools menu.
Eudora also has multiple accounts, but chose to call them
'Personalities'. Personalities are only availible in commercial
versions of Eudora 3.1 and higher, and are accessed by selecting the
Settings option from the Special menu item.
Netscape maintains profiles of different users and their
preferences with a seperate application called the 'User
Profile Manager'. Once the 'User Profile Manager' has been
configured, Communicator will prompt you to choose a profile
everytime you launch your web browser.
Each profile needs to have it's mail settings configured by
selecting the Mail and Groups option under the
Preferences menu item.
Communicator does not allow you to switch profiles while the application is still running, which means you have to quit and restart to check different mailboxes.
The passwords for any additional POP accounts you may
have created will be different from the password you use to connect to
Vineyard.NET.
When your mail client prompts you for a password,
make sure you are providing the correct password for the POP account
you are accessing.
If you do not have one of the email clients mentioned above, it wouldn't be impossible to administer multiple POP accounts, but you will need to have even more patience and understanding of how your operating system works. For some time now, Macintosh users have been keeping multiple preferences files for Netscape and Eudora, and this approach would likely work for multiple POP accounts.
If the preceding paragraph makes you scratch your head and wonder,
we would again strongly recommend that you use email aliases instead.
Currently, no. Any additional POP accounts you set up can not be
checked or read using WebMail.
WebMail will only allow you to read mail sent to the username under
which your Vineyard.NET account was first created. We are
working to configure WebMail so that any POP account on Vineyard.NET
can be accessed from our web-based interface.
Back to the FAQ
Each profile needs to have it's mail settings configured by
selecting the Mail and Groups option under the
Preferences menu item.
Communicator does not allow you to switch profiles while the application is still running, which means you have to quit and restart to check different mailboxes.
What is a new mailbox? or What is a POP account?
A new POP account is not a mail-alias
A new mailbox is a new POP account, not a new dial-up account.
Setting up your mail client
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Can I check my additional POP accounts using WebMail?
Microsoft Outlook Express 4.0
Microsoft has allowed for multiple 'Accounts' in the most
recent version of Outlook Express. To begin setting up, select the
Accounts option under the Tools menu.
Qualcomm Eudora Pro 3.1 or higher
Eudora also has multiple accounts, but chose to call them
'Personalities'. Personalities are only availible in commercial
versions of Eudora 3.1 and higher, and are accessed by selecting the
Settings option from the Special menu item.
Netscape Navigator 4.0 and higher
Netscape maintains profiles of different users and their
preferences with a seperate application called the 'User
Profile Manager'. Once the 'User Profile Manager' has been
configured, Communicator will prompt you to choose a profile
everytime you launch your web browser.
