If your email address ends in @blueyonder.co.uk, this section is for you.
Your email address is stored in a mailbox, which is a storage area on our email servers.
Your mailbox works a bit like a letterbox. So if you take the example of the Smith family, there is one letterbox in the front door. Any letters addressed to Mr Smith, Mrs Smith, or their son John Smith, all come through the same letterbox, and end up in a pile on the floor. Having a single mailbox works like this:
The Smith family would then sort through the pile of letters and give each letter to the person that it was addressed to.
You can leave this set up as it is. Or, if you’d prefer to have your own emails delivered to your own separate mailbox, you can set up extra mailboxes for other people to use. Read on to find out more.
Creating new mailboxes and email addresses
You can create up to five mailboxes (including your start up mailbox). Plus, within each mailbox, you can have up to three email addresses.In other words, Mr Smith can have his own mailbox with up to 3 email addresses, Mrs Smith can have her own mailbox with up to three email addresses, and their son John can also have a mailbox with up to three email addresses.
Any emails sent to one of Mr Smith's three email addresses would be stored in a separate place to emails sent to Mrs Smith's email addresses or John Smith's email addresses.
Thinking of the letterbox example, this would be like putting extra letterboxes in the front door of the Smith's house, with letters addressed to each family member going through a separate letterbox and ending up in a separate pile. This use of multiple mailboxes is shown below:
To create additional mailboxes and email addresses for your account using Selfcare, click here
If you want to use a newly created email address with email software like Outlook Express or Mail for Mac, you can. Just follow the set up instructions for your software below:
- Setting up Outlook Express 6
- Setting up Windows Mail for Vista
- Setting up Mail for Mac OS 10.3
- Setting up Mail for Mac OS 10.1 and 10.2
An alternative to using email software, like the ones above, is to use webmail. Webmail does not require email software – you simply need a web browser. Sign in to webmail here for more details.
