Multilpe Internet Email Accounts

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I am a new Notes user who is attempting to use Notes in place of Netscape & Outlook. I have about 5 internet email accounts I want to open, simultaneously, if possible. I have a client version of Notes 6 running on a stand alone system.

I understand Notes isn’t really designed to do what I want. I have set up individuaal location documents, mail files, account documents (in & out) and databases setup for each email account, and the only drawback is that I need to change locations to switch email addresses.

Each set of location, account & database docs reference the appropriate data regarding email address, mailfile name, server name, etc.

I am able to receive email OK, but when I send email, they are not actually send, but appear to be pending in the Mail Router Mailbox. There is no failure reason listed, and repeated attempts to resend fail.

When I first set up the second email location & account, I sent an email to the original (main) account, and it worked fine. I thereafter setup 3 more accounts, and am unable to get outgoing mail out of the Mail Router Mailbox.

I can see that my next step is to delete the 3rd thru 5th email accounts, going back to see if it will still work with 2, and moving on from there.

Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks much.

Buster

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Subject: Re: Multilpe Internet Email Accounts

Buster,

SMTP (Outbound Mail):

I would guess that you only need to route your mail through one server not a different server for each of you five locations. So only configure one SMTP Account document. Make sure ‘Only for location(s)’ is set to ‘*’, so all locations can see it.

Now i am not sure if you are using five mail files or one mail file. So I am asuming that you want to use one mail file. Also i am guessing that you are using POP3 mail for you inbound accounts.

POP3 (Inbound Mail):

Using a location document for each mail account can be a huge pain as you need to change locations every time you wish to check an account. My sugesstion would be to use a single location document. You can achieve a single location by using different hosts for each POP3 account.

Lets assume your POP3 accounts are hosted by at ‘mail.acme.com’ at ‘10.0.0.1’. Now if I were to enter ‘mail.acme.com’ as the server name for all the accounts Notes would not download any mail. If you edit the hosts file ‘%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts’ we can trick Notes into thinking it is dling it mail from different servers. So if you set up 5 different alias that point to the ip address of the mail server.

#Example setup for multiple pop accounts on

#single host

10.0.0.1 mail1.remotemail

10.0.0.1 mail2.remotemail

10.0.0.1 mail3.remotemail

10.0.0.1 mail4.remotemail

10.0.0.1 mail5.remotemail

Now for each of the 5 POP3 accounts you have configured use a different alias. Now from the one location when you download your mail you can get all five accounts without changing location.

REPLYTO:

Now if you are sending a message to a person and want them to reply to a specific addresss you could use the ReptyTo option when sending your message so that if a person replies it will be sent to the correct address.

I hope i have given you some ideas as to how you can setup notes differently. Feel free to contact me if you need further assistance.

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Regards,

Anthony Lee

anthonyl@bluepoint.net.au

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Subject: RE: Re: Multilpe Internet Email Accounts

Thank you Anthony. Right now I have 5 mail files, 5 locations, 5 sets of (in & out) accounts, and 5 databases. That is OK, but I do have to switch locations to get mail from all the accounts.

So far, all accounts are from the same ISP, meaning the pop3 & smtp servers are the same for all. I was thinking about setting up email from my web hosting also, but that is for later.

I went with multiple locations since a location document has a field for an email address, and I did not think I could use the same location for another address (or 2 or 3 . . .).

I am downloading messages fine, just not uploading new messages - stuck pending abd won’t let go. So the pop3 is working ok, just not yhe smtp. Bizarre, heh?

The incomming server is pop3.linkline.com - 64.30.215.40. The outgoing is smtp.linkline.com - 66.59.235.4. The numbers come from pinging, which I assume should suffice.

I did not envinsion a common mail file, but I reckon it would work. I can setup folders for each address to hold keeper emails.

One thing I want is that if I send an email from email #2, I want email2’s address to show in the ‘from’ field, not email #1 address, which is the main.

I am new to Notes, so this is all new to me. Also, I hope my typing is ok - I just had my left hand worked on today, so I’m making do with one hand for a couple of days.

Thanks again for your help. I will try your suggestions tomorrow, and I may email you later.

Thanks again,

Buster

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