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| Wazoo |
Sep 23 2005, 09:49 AM
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Developed from a newsgroup exchange - a few edits, much snipping ...
QUOTE If I sign up, would the SC Email be able to be configured to connect to all of my email accounts (I have 3) at the same time, or would I need one SC Email account for each of my email accounts? Borgholio Three accounts can easily be handled via a single account, whether they are forwarded or POP'd depends on your Host capabilities and your desires. See SpamCop Email Account Setup QUOTE QUOTE Here's a different take on the question, which may or may not be what Borgholio meant. Other people might wonder, though. It depends on whether those 3 different email accounts ultimately end up in the same inbox. If, for example, you do as I do and use the same Eudora reader to fetch mail from all your accounts and read them in the same inbox, then no, you only need one SC email filtering account. On the other hand, if the messages sent to those 3 email accounts end up in different inboxes, such as a home PC and a work PC, or 3 different family members sharing a home PC with individual user logins, then maybe you need separate SC email filtering accounts. Or maybe you don't, depending on how tricky you want to get with handling your email. It could be possible to funnel several different email addresses into a single SC email filtering account, and then when SC forwards the filtered ham to the single delivery email address, have that delivery address fan out the ham to multiple individual recipient accounts. Procmail could probably do it, but it would take a small bit of work. A Unix hacker would rub his/her hands together and enjoy the challenge. A home PC user most likely would not :-) If your email ends up on a host with Procmail installed, such as a Unix or Linux box, you might have the building blocks needed to assemble a way to do it. It's not built-in. If you are using a typical home PC running Windows, and reading your email with Outlook Express, then you probably won't be able to combine the 3 email sources into one SC email filter, and then separate it back out into 3 separate destination inboxes. SUMMARY: if all those 3 email accounts ultimately end up in the same place, then sure, send them all to your SC email filtering account, and have it forward the filtered ham to your single central destination. But if you want to use a single SC filtering account to filter and deliver email to multiple separate email recipients (such as different family members or different employees), it's not straightforward. Best to get a separate SC email account for each. Don Wannit QUOTE You can use IMAP and have SC filter the email which will make it easier to keep the different accounts sorted. -- Brian |
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