From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: Re: wsfa.org email addresses
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 01:42:55 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elspeth Kovar" <ekovar at wsfa.org>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 1:05 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: wsfa.org email addresses

> At 06:47 PM 4/3/04, Ted White wrote:
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
> >To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
> >Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 5:32 PM
> >Subject: [WSFA] wsfa.org email addresses
> >
> > > > Can we link to the POP3 server directly?  If so, please let me know
> > > > the particulars so I can add it to my mail client.
> > >
> > > Sorry if I wasn't clear.  Email addresses on wsfa.org are
*forwarding*
> > > addresses only.  You have to already have an email address.  You'd
> > > read email on that address the same way you always do.
> > >
> > > So if your address is SomeGuy at aol.com, and you also want to be
> > > James.Q.Fahn at wsfa.org, I would set it up so that any email sent to
> > > James.Q.Fahn at wsfa.org would show up in your SomeGuy at aol.com mailbox.
> > >
> > > (Actually, we also get up to ten "real" addresses, but I don't see
> > > any need for them.  I'm not sure they'd be readable by POP3 anyway.
> > > Or readable at all to anyone who doesn't have the central wsfa.org
> > > password which only Sam Lubell and I have.)
> >
> >Thanks for explaining this -- but how does one *send* email via the
> >wsfa.org account, if one has one?  (If I had TedWhite at wsfa.org, how
would I
> >send mail with this as my apparent return address?)   I'm mildly
> >interested, although I can't immediately think of any use for such an
> >address....
>
> The actual process depends on what mail client you're using.  When I need
> replies to my email to go to a different address -- for example,
> suites at genericworldcon.org, I go to 'options' and click on 'sending
> mail'.  Since Keith has said that he's set things so that all mail from
> anything with ekovar in it is accepted, I've temporarily set mine on this
> one to ekovar at wsfa.org.  (No, Keith, I don't need that address,
> thanks!)  The trick is to remember to change it back afterwards.
>
> Let's see how this shows up . . .

Seems to have worked.

--Ted White