[X Newbies] Help: 2nd E-Mail Account in mac.mail.com

[birgit rhoads]

Albert I have 5 different email accounts.  Only one of those accounts 
is a .mac account.  When you configure your OS, Apple asks you for 
information about your .mac membership and it shows up in your Apple 
Mail. If you need an additional .mac email account I think you might 
have to pay Apple for another account.  The other 4 accounts are set up 
using my cable server, adelphia.net.  You can have as many email 
accounts as your ISP will allow.  Find out from your ISP how they want 
you to set up mail accounts.  They do differ and you can probably go to 
your ISP online/help.  Birgit


On Feb 13, 2004, at 9:04 AM, Scott wrote:

>
> On Feb 13, 2004, at 5:44 AM, Albert D'Amanda wrote:
>
>>
>> On Feb 12, 2004, at 4:51 PM, birgit rhoads wrote:
>>
>>> Albert, I am confused (not unusual).  Is the second e-mail account 
>>> another .mac account other than your own?  If not, you have to enter 
>>> the name of your POP server for send and receive.  .Mac is just for 
>>> your .Mac account.  Birgit
>>
>> Using Mail Preferences and Accounts, I successfully setup my primary  
>> e-mail account
>>
>> Using Mail Preferences -Accounts; I generated  a second e-mail 
>> account  with a new address and new password but using  the SAME 
>> Server mac.mail.com
>>
>> I now have installed two separate e-mail accounts ( ?) , using mac 
>> Mail Application with the ONE server , mac.mail.com
>>
>> The second e-mail account does list in the In Mailbox Panel.
>>
>> The problem:
>>
>> When I try to send mail to the address in the second account, I get 
>> an error graphic telling me that the second e-mail account does not 
>> recognize my assigned password and to type in the password.. I then 
>> type in the assigned password but the same error graphic displays
>>
>> Is this telling me that with the Mac Mail Application I cannot use 
>> two different e-mail addresses  using the SAME Mac Mail Server?
>
> You can. I do. However, this particular bit may be the problem:
>>
>
>> Using Mail Preferences -Accounts; I generated  a second e-mail 
>> account  with a new address and new password but using  the SAME 
>> Server mac.mail.com
>
>
> You cannot 'generate' an account in mail prefs. You can only enter the 
> acct name and pwd for a pre-existing account. Did you sign up for 
> address-number-two at mac.com on  the mac.com web site? Think of it like 
> online banking - you can enter as many account numbers as you like, 
> but until you *open* an account, you ain't getting any cash.
>
> If it worked as you describe, I could just enter "stevejobs at mac.com" 
> in mail prefs. Come to think of it, just for kicks, I might also grab 
> "president at whitehouse.gov" .
>
> To setup a second mail account :
> 1. Order it, or otherwise sign up for it with the service provider 
> (mac.com, or yourisp.com, or free-email-if-you-signup-for-spam.com )
> 2. Enter the username / password / server addresses in 
> Mail-->Preferences.
>
> Apologies if you knew this already. I'm addressing what I see in your 
> post, and also assuming a certain level of newbieness, given the 
> forum.
>
> -- 
> Scott
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