Adding another mailbox to Mail

Martin Kaarsberg wrote:
I have my own company inbox, but I also need access to other in-house mail boxes, but haven't found out how I can add them.

If you mean e-mail accounts, open Mail's preferences and look at the Accounts tab. Click on the "+" sigh at the bottom of the list on the left.

Martin Kaarsberg wrote:
I don't mean extra email accounts. I mean how to add other inboxes inside my email account. I have my own inbox, but I also have access to other inboxes in the company, that I need to add.

If those "other inboxes" are for other e-mail addresses, then they really are "extra email accounts".

If all you're trying to do is add additional folders for your mail, you can do that with the "+" sign at the bottom of the column on the left.

I have the same problem. I am authorized to send and receive email for someone elses account. In entourage I added them just fine. on Apple mail I cant figure out how. Its not another email account. It just assigning me permission to access someone elses account.

kjchipmunk wrote:
I have the same problem. I am authorized to send and receive email for someone elses account. In entourage I added them just fine. on Apple mail I cant figure out how. Its not another email account. It just assigning me permission to access someone elses account.

Argue all you want about terminology, but for you to access that other person's e-mail account, you really do have to add "an account" in Apple's Mail application using the "Account" pane of Mail's preferences.

William,
I dont have the password for that account I'm trying to add. I didn't need it when setting up in entourage. I found the instructions for entourage and it's called a delegate. They authorize me as a delegate, then I type their username in and I'm can then send email on their behalf. I see in iCal there is a tab for delegation, however there isn't in mail.app. I think maybe they left it off? I hope not.

So now with that bit of news, no password is required, what now?

kjchipmunk wrote:
William,
I dont have the password for that account I'm trying to add. I didn't need it when setting up in entourage. I found the instructions for entourage and it's called a delegate. They authorize me as a delegate, then I type their username in and I'm can then send email on their behalf. I see in iCal there is a tab for delegation, however there isn't in mail.app. I think maybe they left it off? I hope not.

So now with that bit of news, no password is required, what now?

I don't believe that Apple's Mail application has a "delegate" function.

If it's true that other mail applications will allow someone to "impersonate" another with no password, that sounds dangerous to me.

It looks like Mail doesn't support delegation. http://tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/20090827/tc_infoworld/89230

The user has to authorize the delegates and usually in companies they have such email accounts as quote requests where a group of people use it to pull mail out of it and respond. Thats what we do. I guess I'm stuck with Entourage which *****.

If you only need to send, then typically you can simply enter the other email address in your account -- type a comma after your address, and then enter the other persons address. You will have it as a choice to use as a From. Works the same as with an alias address.

Be aware that not every SMTP will permit sending with an address not of its domain, but many do.

Ernie