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