Email Settings for Legacy (Older) Email Clients
Netscape Communicator for Macintosh: Settings
- Open Communicator
- Click Edit and select Preferences
- In the Preferences screen select Identity under Mail & Newsgroups
- Fill in the correct fields
- Click on Mail Servers so it becomes highlighted
- Click on Edit next to the Incoming Mail Server list box and change the server name to mail2.planetmagpie.com
- Change your User Name to your full e-mail address replacing the normal @ sign with a %
- Click on OK and this should take you back to the main Mail Servers config screen
- Change your outgoing mail server to smtp2.planetmagpie.com and change the userid to the same one you used for your incoming mail using the % in place of the @
- Click on OK.
- Occasionally using Netscape you will be prompted for your password when sending e-mail, this is simply SMTP Authentication on our server, which helps us to prevent SPAM and mail outages.
For additional support contact
support@planetmagpie.com Eudora for Macintosh: Settings
Setting up Eudora is easy if you have the right information. You will need to look through the information you got from your PlanetMagpie or give them a call and find out the following information. Once you have it, you are ready to set up Eudora. If you are running a Windows machine, click here.
Use this form to fill in what you need and save it for future reference.
- Your POP or mail server: mail.planetmagpie.com
- Your SMTP or outgoing mail server: smtp.planetmagpie.com
- Your e-mail login name: see above for list of email addresses
- Your e-mail address: see above for list of passwords
Now you are ready to get started!
In Eudora, go to the SPECIAL menu and select SETTINGS.
Step 1.
In the Options window, you will see several icons on the left. Select GETTING STARTED.
Step 2.
In the USERNAME field, enter the login name given to you by your internet service provider.
Step 3.
In the MAIL SERVER field, enter the POP or mail server that was given to you by your internet service provider. For example: pop-server.eudoramail.com.
Step 4.
In the REAL NAME field, type your name the way you would like people to see it when they get e-mail from you. For example, John Doe.
Step 5.
In the SMTP SERVER field, enter the SMTP or Outgoing mail server that was given to you by your internet service provider. For example: smtp-server.eudoramail.com.
Step 6.
In the RETURN ADDRESS field, enter your e-mail address.
For example:
eudora-user@eudoramail.com.
Step 7.
Click OK. This completes the basic setup - you should now be able to send and receive email in Eudora.
SMTP Relay (Macintosh): Settings
Many Internet Service Providers (ISP's) require that you send your username and password before you are allowed to send email. This is called "Authentication" or "SMTP Auth".
If your ISP requires SMTP Relay, follow the instructions below.
To set up your Eudora to send a separate login name for sending and receiving mail, you will need to create multiple personalities in Eudora. One of those personalities will be used to send mail. Follow these steps:
- Go to the Window menu, select Personalities. A window will appear listing your Personalities.
- Click on the New button.
- Create a personality which will use your login name and password as required by your ISP to send mail. Enter:
- your sending mail login name in the Username field
- your name in the Real Name field
- your outgoing mail server in the SMTP Server field
- your email address in the Return Address field
Make sure the two checkboxes - "Check Mail every __ minutes" and "Check mail on manual checks" - are unchecked if you do not wish to check mail on this email account. If you do plan on using this personality to check mail, enter the incoming mail server as provided by your ISP in the Mail Server field. Click "OK" when you are finished.
- Go to the Special menu, Settings, click Sending Mail. The window above will appear.
In the "SMTP Relay Personality" field choose the personality previously set up for the STMP relay from the menu. (None is the default.) Click "OK".
Note: All messages sent from each of your personalities will use the email address for that selected personality. It will not use the email address for the specified "SMTP Relay Personality".
For example, if you bring your computer to work, you can easily change your SMTP relay to a personality which uses a different ISP to send mail through your work connection. Or you can set the SMTP relay personality to "None" so that you can send mail using the settings specified for each personality.
For additional support contact
support@planetmagpie.com
