How to Forward Email Addresses to Earthlink

As time goes by, many people end up with several different email addresses with different companies. Some people have ten or more email accounts they manage on a regular basis. Even if you only have two or three additional accounts, you have to spend time logging into and out of each one. You can save time when you forward email from various outside email addresses to your Earthlink account. All you do is sign into your Earthlink email to read email from all of your accounts without using another interface.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Get the email address, password, type of incoming server (probably POP3), incoming server name and outgoing server name for email you want to forward to your Earthlink email address. You also need to know whether you need "Secure Password Authentication (SPA)" for the email addresses from which you want to forward mail.

2. Open the Earthlink MailBox on your computer by clicking (or double clicking) its icon on your desktop or under the start menu.

3. Look for the "Tools" menu at the top of the Earthlink MailBox window and click it.

4. Scan down the list to find "Settings" and click it.

5. Find the "Accounts" tab at the top of the window and click it.

6. Look for the "New" button under the white box in the window and click it.

7. Choose the option "I want to add an email address from a third-party provider (e.g., AOL, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo!) to this identity" to add new email addresses to your Earthlink account. Click the white circle, and then click the "Next" button.

8. Fill out the form in Earthlink's "Email Account Wizard." Use the information gathered from your existing email account to provide the account name, password and other information in the box to the right of each category. Next to "Type of server your account will work with," select "POP3" from the drop down menu unless you know for sure the email server is a different option on the list.

9. Use Earthlink's server to send email by typing "smtpauth.earthlink.net" in the box beside "Outgoing Server (SMTP)." Click the "Next" button.

10. Review the information for the existing email account on the last page of the "Email Account Wizard." Click the "Finish" button to forward email to your Earthlink email address.

Tips & Warnings

• Keep your Earthlink email account clean by deleting all messages when you are done with them. The storage space in your Earthlink email account that can disappear fast when checking five or more email addresses with the one Earthlink address.