e-mail addresses

[joshd]

what happens if you change the start of ur e-mail address?

eg,

xxxxx@xxxxxx.freeserve.co.uk

to

joshd@xxxxxx.freeserve.co.uk

 

[Osiris]

Using what? Outlook or what?

 

[joshd]

yea outlook

 

[Scire]

I must be missing the question, the two examples you gave are the same..

 

[daappleby]

if you change it in outlook your displayed e-mail address would change I beleive. Just don't change the username for the server...give it a try and see what happens.

 

[Osiris]

I must be missing the question, the two examples you gave are the same..

look at the first part:

xxxxx

Joshd

 

[joshd]

nah, it didnt work. oh well... i got the filter thing that makes mail from certain addresses filter out into a josh folder anyway. message rules i think its called.

edit: nah ive decided i do want to make this work. when i go to set up the account, type josh, and a password, the do the pop3 and smtp stuff exactly the same as dads, so i have and address which is exactly the same apart from before the @. when i go to log on it says that the username and password have been rejected by the server. what is wrong?

 

[fitzjj]

i seem to remember when i was with freeserver i could replace the xxxx with whatever i wanted in the following address xxxx@something.freeserve.co.uk effectively having as many email addresses as i wanted as long as they were all xxxx@something.freeserve.co.uk - give it another try!

 

[joshd]

so do i not need to create another account then?

edit: i sent one to josh@xxxxxx.freeserve.co.uk from my hotmail account (rubbish, outlook is much more the buisness, it doesnt take years to load) and it never arrived. maybe i do need to set up a new account

 

[fitzjj]

so do i not need to create another account then?

Perhaps you do now then!. I was with freeserve probably around 5 years ago so things may well have changed since then... well they have changed they are now called wanadoo!!

i sent one to josh@xxxxxx.freeserve.co.uk

As long as the xxxxxx was your username then if it didnt work it probably never will. You could always email freeserve - it isn't hard for an ISP to create you more email addresses