Accessing Other Email Accounts

One caveat, to retrieve messages from an external account, the account must allow POP3 access (such as att.net Mail or Netscape Mail). Even if it doesn’t have POP access, you can still send messages.

Sending and retrieving email messages from an external account while working in your att.net Mail account requires the following:

• Adding the external account information to your att.net Mail account.

  To allow att.net Mail to send messages from the external account, you need to provide the account’s email address. Optionally, if you want att.net Mail to be able to retrieve messages from this account, you need to provide information about the account’s mail server and how to sign in to the account.

• Verifying ownership of the other account.

  This important step—part of setting up the account—protects the privacy of your external account by making it difficult for anyone else to gain unauthorized access to it.

• Editing the account information.

  This optional task gives you the opportunity to add a few more options, such as having all mail from the external account delivered to a specific folder in your att.net Mail account and retrieving new messages only.

• Sending email messages using the other account’s address.

  Once you set up the account in att.net Mail, you’ll be able to send messages from that account’s email address by choosing it in the From box on the compose page. When your recipients receive the email, they’ll see the address you selected and their replies will be sent to that email address.

• Retrieving the account’s email into your att.net Mail account.

  If you set up att.net Mail to retrieve messages from another account, you can simply click a button to pull email into your Yahoo! mailbox. You can decide if copies of the messages remain in the external account or are automatically deleted when you "pop" them into att.net Mail.

 

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Adding Another Account

What’s Next

When you add an account to att.net Mail, you are setting att.net Mail up to send messages from that account. You have the option of allowing att.net Mail to also retrieve messages from that account.