07-20-2006, 11:40 AM

Is it possible to make identities (like Outlook Express for Windows) using mac mail for OSX 10.4.6 ? If not is using user accounts the only way to make it work ?

07-20-2006, 11:41 AM

You mean like using different email addresses?

12-20-2006, 10:52 PM

I am currently switching from Entourage to Mac Mail (due to the "news" an Apple store employee told me: MS will no longer support email programs like its Entourage and Outlook...)
Anyway, I am trying to set up mutiple email accounts with the same mail server (use them mostly as "return addresses") but unable to. It keeps telling me that this server has already been used... What am I doing wrong? This option is no problem with Entourage.

12-20-2006, 11:03 PM

I don't understand what you are trying to do. How many e-mail addresses are you wanting to use with Mail?

12-20-2006, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by Ice Cream Man

I don't understand what you are trying to do. How many e-mail addresses are you wanting to use with Mail?

Five, and all run through the same server (Earthlink)

12-20-2006, 11:17 PM

hmmm, do they all have the same login information?

12-20-2006, 11:25 PM

Yes - any ideas?

12-20-2006, 11:28 PM

Just go to Preferences > accounts and click the + sign at the bottom and add as many as you need! (I think that is how it works).

12-20-2006, 11:33 PM

that's a tough one. because based on what you are saying, the actual e-mail address doesn't define the account as separate. Which I hadn't anticipated. And having the same login info seams a little odd, and risky to me also.

Would it be possible to change the login info for the other accounts. I know that sounds like allot. But I don't know what else you could do. I would have thought that the different e-mail addresses would have been enough to illustrate a disparity.

12-21-2006, 12:07 AM

What gets me is, that this is not a problem with Entourage...

12-21-2006, 12:10 AM

I don't know, I don't know why you would use the same login info for different accounts on the same server. I would have thought the login name would be different on each at least.

I just tested my theory and I was right, if you use a different "username" in each they will all work. I would have thought that the User name would be related to the email address, and thus different. I mean usually the username is correlated with the email address.

12-21-2006, 12:20 AM

See, I have a couple of different web sites for biz, each have an info@ plus a name@ address. All four get forwarded by my web host to my earthlink account.

12-21-2006, 12:55 AM

well if they all get forwarded to your earthlink account, can't you just use the earthlink account. I have a website hosted thru at&t, the email for which is linked to my yahoo email, and my ISP email is link to the same yahoo account. So I just use the ISP pop info, and i get all three in the same inbox. But i can access the website separately also as they provide a different server for the web hosting email. mine come out to be

pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com
and
pop.biznet.yahoo.com

but if i had different sites username comes out differnet.

so all on the biznet server I would have
x@sitename.org
y@sitename.org
x@sitename2.com
y@sitename2.com
etc
etc

And so it would all be different, and only the server info would be the same. Which would work with mail.

I'm going to bed I sound like Tonto, if no body else can figure it, I'll be back.

12-21-2006, 01:39 AM

Thanks a bunch, it worked!!! At first, this message below threw me off, but then I realized I don't need to receive any mails this way (actually, I don't want to receive any mail through each of the accounts;-)

"Trying to log into the POP server “pop.mindspring.com” has failed. Please make sure the username and password are correct. If you continue, you may not be able to receive any email."

12-21-2006, 11:35 PM

Now that I have solved the previous issue (thanks to Ice Cream Man!) I have another Mac Mail question: How can I sync my "sent" mails?