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Domain E-mail Mailboxes

If you have a domain account with SVN, you may have received local mailbox names that are different than your e-mail addresses. This is because mailbox names are unique on our mail server and we want to make available any possible name at your domain. Only you and SVN will ever know about these local mailbox names. Here's an example of how it works:
John, Steve, Bill, and Mike all want to use their first names as addresses in the domain we're hosting for them, exampledomain.com.

Their local mailboxes are created on SVN following a common convention, like ed- something (ed stands for exampledomain). Their local mailboxes are ed-john, ed-steve, ed-bill, and ed-mike.

If somebody were to send e-mail to steve@exampledomain.com it would end up in the mailbox of ed-steve@svn.net on mailserver. When Steve sends outgoing e-mail, he specifies steve@exampledomain.com as his return address. When Steve checks his incoming mail, he checks ed-steve@svn.net.

Steve's e-mail program would be configured like the following. You won't have all of these settings, it depends on which mail program you use.

Username (or POP Username): ed-steve
E-mail address: ed-steve@svn.net
POP Account: ed-steve@svn.net
Real Name: Steve's Real Name as he wants it to appear
Incoming Mail (POP) Server: mail.svn.net
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server: mail.svn.net
Return Address: steve@exampledomain.com

For program specific settings, see:


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