using more than one E-MAIL ACCOUNT IN YOUR MAIL PROGRAM
Many people have more than one e-mail account and/or want to be able to send mail out from different e-mail addresses. You can easily set up a desktop e-mail program to allow you to both receive and/or send mail from more than one e-mail account. Do this as follows:
1. If you have not already done so, configure your e-mail program to use your BU e-mail settings. If your account is on ACS, those settings are described at www.bu.edu/pcsc/email/configure. If your account is on an Exchange server, you have probably received the settings from your network administrator.
2. Similarly, set up any additional "Accounts" that you would like to use to receive and send e-mail. For example, you can read your Gmail through a desktop client and you might have other accounts for work, your ISP, etc.
3. Next, set up (inactive dummy) Accounts for any e-mail addresses that you only want to send from. To do that, use the correct filler information as needed, but make sure to define the settings in such a way that the inactive account is not checking for new mail. For example, the two accounts shown below are dummy accounts set up within my e-mail program (along with my own, active, e-mail account). Because I have these two dummy accounts set up, I can, as needed, reply from either of these two IT e-mail addresses, rather than my own.
4. Once you've set up the various Accounts you'll need (both active and dummy) you can send out from any of them. To do that, when you are sending an e-mail message, choose which "Account"
you want to use from the "From" pull-down menu (or in
Outlook from the Account button).
