Adding Mailboxes

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Adding Mailboxes

You should only be following these directions after you have contacted Goldrush and arranged for a login/password for a new e-mail box.

IMPORTANT NOTE: You cannot dial into Goldrush with the login/password of an extra mailbox! This is probably the most common error we see here. You must use your existing login/password combination to dial in, and follow the directions below to configure a mail client (program) to access your new mailbox. At the risk of sounding redundant: if you are configuring your system to access an additional mailbox (not a whole new dial-up account), please DO NOT change any dialup settings.

There are several ways to access more than one mailbox on the same computer. Assuming that you already have an e-mail client functioning on your system, you can reconfigure the settings each time you want to access a different mailbox (not exactly convenient!), use an e-mail client that supports multiple mailboxes, add copies of your existing e-mail client, or add a new e-mail client.

Outlook Express is the best free e-mail client we have used that is really designed for multiple accounts. If you'd like to give it a go, see:

Outlook Express

Pegasus Mail is another free client that can handle multiple accounts. Last we checked, the documentation costs about $40, so you're at the mercy of the help files to figure the thing out. Very powerful, though:

Pegasus Mail for Windows & Mac

Eudora Pro does well with multiple mailboxes:

Eudora Pro

Installing a new client or re-installing an existing one is a very simple way to access multiple accounts. Here's how I did it at home in Windows 95: For each new account, I created a folder in the root directory of a hard drive. I then installed Eudora Light into each new folder that I created and made a shortcut to the individual copies of eudora.exe. It was then simply a matter of using the shortcut to access the client and then configuring them for the individual accounts. (See the next paragraph.)

Configuring the e-mail clients is pretty straight-forward. Use the following as guidlines:

The pop3 or user account is the new login that you have arranged with us. Eudora likes to see this followed by @goldrush.com, but most other clients do not. When in doubt, leave @goldrush.com off. This should also be all lower case.
The password is the one that goes with the new login. It is case sensitive.
The incoming or POP3 mail server is: mail.goldrush.com.
The outgoing or SMTP mail server is: smtp.goldrush.com.
The reply to address should either be left blank, or set as the new login followed by @ goldrush.com.*

*An exception to this would be for virtual domain users that have had us point a domain address to an extra mailbox. Example: you own domain.com and you have set up a second mailbox with us called box2, which you would like to receive mail addressed to sales@domain.com. Set up the account name as box2, but make the reply to address sales@domain.com. Please note that you must tell Goldrush to what boxes you wish what mail to be delivered.

Finally, here are links to several mail programs: