Modify Your Return E-Mail Address


 


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Your outgoing e-mail contains your return address. You can set your return address to your new CounselWeb address in your e-mail program. Virtually all e-mail programs allow the user to modify the return e-mail address.

Listed below are detailed instruction for many of the more popular e-mail browsers. Click on your e-mail program, or scroll down the page to find your program

If you cannot find your e-mail program in the list below, here are some general instructions.

  • Look for an 'options'or 'preferences' menu in your mail program. It is often in the 'file', 'edit', or 'tools' pull down menu. Click on it once you find it.
  • Find an input box that lists your current e-mail name (this may called your "reply to" address). Change the name to your new CounselWeb e-mail address.

If your e-mail program won't allow you to set your e-mail name you can use a program like Netscape's mailer, Eudora, or Pegasus Mail. Many of these programs are freeware.

Windows 3.1, 95/98 Programs

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Microsoft Internet Mail

Netscape Navigator 2.0 and 3.0

Netscape Communicator 4.0

Quarterdeck Message Center

MacIntosh Programs

 Internet Configuration Utility


Netscape Navigator 2.0 or 3.0

From Netscape Navigator, go to the 'Options' Pull Down Menu.

  • Select 'Mail & News Preferences'
  • Select the 'Identity ' Tab
  • Enter your CounselWeb e-mail address in 2 places: 'Your E-Mail' and 'Reply-to-Address'

Netscape Communicator 4

From Netscape Communicator, go to the 'Edit' Pull Down Menu.

  • Select 'Preferences'
  • Click the + next to 'Mail & Groups'
  • Click the the 'Identity' Field
  • Enter your CounselWeb under 'Your E-mail Address' in the right panel.
  • Click the 'OK' button to complete the change.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0

Microsoft Internet Explorer does not contain its own e-mail reader. Instread, it runs other e-mail programs. To find out what e-mail program it is running,

  • Select 'View' on the pull-down menu
  • Select 'Options'
  • Select the 'Programs' Tab

The program you are running is in the box titled 'Mail'.

Even though you can select any e-mail program here, a program that Microsoft Internet Explorer often uses is Microsoft Internet Mail. If your Microsoft Internet Explorer uses that program, click on the link. If it uses a different e-mail program, return to the list of programs at the top of the page and find your program.

Microsoft Internet Mail

This program is commonly used by Microsoft Internet Explorer. To change the return e-mail address, first be sure the e-mail program is running. (From Microsoft Internet Explorer, first click the 'Mail' icon or select the 'Go' pull-down menu, then select 'Read Mail'.)

  • Select 'Mail' from the pull down menu.
  • Select 'Options'
  • Select the 'Server' Tab
  • Enter your CounselWeb e-mail address in 'E-Mail Address'

Quarterdeck Message Center

Go to the Location Manager. The Location Manager is an icon in the Quarterdeck window. Alternatively, from the Quarterdeck Message Center, select the pull-down menu 'Tools' and then select 'Edit Locations and Providers'.

From the Location Manager,

  • Press the 'Edit Locations and Providers' button
  • Select the 'Providers' tab
  • Highlight your internet provider and press the 'Settings' button
  • Select the 'Mail/News' tab
  • Enter your CounselWeb e-mail address in 'E-Mail Address'

MacIntosh Programs 

Internet Config Utiliuty

Many MacIntosh Intenet applications, like Cyberdog, Netscape Naviigator, and Internet Explorer can get their preferences from the Internet Config Utility, a freeware application. To set the return address in Internet Config 1.2:

  • Run Internet Config.
  • From the Internet Preferences window, select Email.
  • In the dialog box fields, enter the following information:
    • E-mailAddress: your new CounselWeb E-mail address (including your domain name)
    • E-mail Account: your pop mail account, including domain (you should not change this setting)
    • E-mail Password: your pop mail account password (you should not change this setting.)
    • SMTP Host: the domain name where your mail account resides (you should not change this setting)
  • Exit the Internet Config application.
  • If asked whether you want to update your preferences, click on "Save".

Applications which use Internet Config will automatically update their information.