[thelist] Creating email aliases (client-side)

[Tyme]

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From: .jeff <jeff at members.evolt.org>
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Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 12:51 AM
Subject: RE: [thelist] 24caratdesign.com critique (was: Swish... >
Critiques)


> 11) you've got a domain name, but you're using your msn mail
>     account for contact throughout the site.  i'd at least
>     set up an alias from your domain.

I have many email accounts, which include webmaster addresses for various
clients.  Rather than have all of these accounts _forward_ to one account
(say
tyme at no-pun.com), I set up individual email accounts in Outlook Express.

This has several advantages:

1. Appropriate "From:" email address in the reply.
    * See below for setting up a forwarded address...if you'd like.
2. Appropriate "Name", "Organization" name, etc. in message header.
3. Can set unique signatures for each account.
4. Flexibility for downloading messages.  (Could choose to download manually
or automatically on an account-to-account basic)
        For example: I set my discussion list email to _not_ download
automatically. This way, when I hear the email bell ding, I
know that it is specific email that I want to read/answer as it
comes in. (Unless it is spam.)  I download discussion list
email when I have time to read.
5. Can have more important email addresses download first.
    (Helpful if you get lots of email.)
6. Straight-forward means of filtering and moving messages to appropriate
folders.
    (In know, there are several options here.)


*For email that is forwarded onto another account, you can set up a kinda
duplicate account, so that you can customize the "From:" field.  Example:

Set up another account with the Incoming/Outgoing mail server for
tyme at no-pun.com, where the company email was being forwarded.  But, in the
set up for this second account tyme at no-pun.com account, for Organization, I
put the client's name,
and for reply address, I put the company-assigned email address.  That way,
when I responded to email, it would be coming from tyme at thecompany.com
rather than a confusing-to-customers tyme at no-pun.com -- as was the bad
example case noted above.