Too many email accounts already - Deer Lake Association



Too many email accounts already? Well here’s another one!

It might seem like the new DLA email service will be just one more unneeded computer place to keep track of or get lost. But this need not be the case. You can easily integrate the DLA account into your existing email inbox so you will automatically receive DLA email with no extra effort. This way you can easily receive the DLA Newsletters electronically, together with Deer Lake specific news and information. The DLA email service will save our Association a great deal of the cost of snail-mail postage, our single biggest expense. Best of all, the DLA email works like any other and is free to members. The DLA email access will work with your favorite web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla-Firefox, Apple Safari, Google Chrome, etc.), just like the website.

How to get started with your DLA Email account management:

If you are reading this you are already on line and in the DLA website’s Email page. The first step to get set up is to click on the link (found both on the Homepage and the Email page) called “DLA Email.”

When you click on DLA Email you will be prompted for your username:

(firstname_lastname@) (that’s an underline connecting first_and_second_names);

and then enter your Password.

Both Username and Password were provided in DLA Newsletters in 2008. If you do not have this information you can call our Email Master, Doug Widen (246-2708, lake or 763-559-4417, city).

This takes you to the screen called “C-Panel X”, as show below, so you can log into your account management (change passwords, forwarding options, Auto Responder, etc.). You can select any one of the three web mailer readers (Horde, Squirrel-Mail, or Round-Cube) to view your current email on the system. Each reader has your DLA email inbox. Squirrel is the simplest and most direct access to your DLA email.

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Please Note: Space on the email server is limited, so once you have read an email on Hoard/Squirrel/Cube please delete it or forward it to your other email account for saving. We will automatically delete emails on the DLA server after 60 days to save space.

There are two ways to integrate your DLA email into your established computer life:

A) Simply as an automatic “forward” of the email addressed to your DLA account into any existing account you already are using. This way all the DLA messages will arrive immediately in your present inbox without having to log-in to the DLA server. Nor need you delete old messages since this will be done automatically.

B) A full integration allows you to send as well as receive from your DLA account using such platforms as the popular “Outlook” or “Outlook Express.” If you already are using Outlook, this is the better choice.

All it takes is a few minutes getting set up, and you won’t miss any DLA e-mailings.

You’ll be glad you did!!

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How to Forward your DLA Email to an existing account:

1) Log into your DLA email account:

a) Go to the DLA Website Homepage or DLA Email page and click on the link called

DLA Email

b) Enter your User Name and Password (these were provided in the April 2008 Newsletter, or you can call Doug Widen (246-2708, lake or 763-559-4417, city);

2) If another log-in screen appears, click on the blue “Log In” button;

3) Now you are in the inner sanctum of email options and settings, called “C-Panel X” as illustrated above. Here you can select “Change Password” (which you can do if you wish to personalize), and our goal of “Forwarding Options”;

4) Click on Forwarding Options and then on the “Add Forwarder” button at the bottom of the next screen;

5) Fill in the address to which your DLA email will be forwarded, and click the “Add Forwarder” button.

6) Congratulations! All mail sent to the DLA account will be forwarded—pretty easy, wasn’t it!

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Print out these instructions for easy access:

How to set up your DLA Email Account within Outlook or Outlook Express

Nearly every PC comes with Microsoft programming these days, and will include the Email platform called Outlook. This is a program with which you can receive and send email from several different accounts, such as those you may have received from work or school, or have set up with Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL or other internet providers. Apple has a similar email program.

Many folks who get their email from service providers such as Hotmail or AOL use the email inbox provided by these servers and may not even realize that Outlook is already on their computers. While it is easy to have your DLA email Forwarded to those inboxes (see above how to do this), getting the DLA email fully integrated as a second account is more difficult. Thus we recommend Outlook as the platform if you wish to use your DLA account to its fullest capacity. Additionally, there is the non-Microsoft alternative browser called “Firefox/Mozilla” which also supplies an email program called “Thunderbird.” It is almost identical to Outlook and can be found on the web as a FREE download (unlike Outlook).

First, here are the codes and programming specifics you will enter in the appropriate places:

Your Email Address: firstname_lastname@

(Every DLA member has been assigned an email address based on how your name appears in the DLA directory, together with a Password. That’s a single underline joining first and last names. This was provided on a special individual label inside your copy of the April 2008 Newsletter.)

Your User Name: firstname_lastname@

(THIS IS IMPORTANT: During the Outlook set-up your User Name might be automatically entered with only your first and last names; you must enter your full email address (with the “@”) as your User Name for the password to work.)

Your Email Password: dla###

(The April Newsletter also provided your secret password; call Doug Widen if you cannot locate it, 246-2708)

Type of server: Pop or Pop3

Incoming mail server (Pop): mail.

Outgoing mail server (SMTP): mail.

Incoming server port number: 110 (this number is usually automatically entered)

Outgoing server port number: 26 (this number is usually automatically entered)

Steps to set up your DLA account in Microsoft Outlook (Thunderbird is very similar).

1) Open Outlook and find the “Tools” tab on the top line; chose either “Email Accounts” or “Options” within the Tools tab.

2) If looking under “Options” find the “Mail Setup” and within it the “Email Accounts” button.

3) Selecting the “Email Account” will bring up a “wizard” that will lead you through the setup.

4) First page of wizard: select or put dot in the box for “add a new email account” and push Next below.

5) Next page of wizard, select “Pop3” and push “Next.”

6) On third page put in the codes and programming in the appropriate boxes that are supplied above.

7) The first box, “Your Name,” can be however you wish your name to appear to your correspondents.

8) The “User name” box might be filled automatically with the first half of you email address; you will need to be sure that your entire email address is here, including the “@.”

9) Check box “Remember Password.”

10) Leave the box “Log on using Secure Password Authentication SPA” UNCHECKED.

11) Push the “More Settings” button, and find the “Connection” tab; select phone line for dialup or LAN for high-speed DSL from Paul Bunyan.

12) Find the “Advanced” tab next to the Connection tab and be sure the numbers are 110 and 26 for in- and out-going ports; no other boxes checked. You do NOT want to leave messages on the server.

13) The other 2 tabs (“General” and “Outgoing server”) should already be correct, with no boxes checked.

14) Push OK and return to previous page of wizard with POP3 settings; push “Test Account Settings.”

15) If successful you can close this box and the “Finish.”

16) Congratulations! All your DLA email will now arrive in your Outlook inbox. Any email account(s) you had previously coming to Outlook will be unaffected.

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