Highlight the new account and select "properties"as above. change the name to "France". Find the line just below this where it gives the email address. This should give your main (U.K?) email address, not the new French one. If it doesn't then change it. Click on "O.K" to close the box.
Highlight the entry for the country that you are in and click on the "set as default" button at the right of the window. You should always change the default setting to suit the country that you are in. From now on whenever you create an outgoing message you will find that the top line where it says "From" has a drop-down box attached to it at the far right of the line. You MUST ensure that all outgoing messages are selected to show the country that you are in on this line. Any other setting will cause the message not to be sent. Remember this and you should have no trouble at all and both your mailboxes will be checked whenever you click on "Send and Receive All". If you have an existing e-mail address but want the new one to become your main one, then carry out the procedure described above, but insert your new French e-mail address in the properties page of both accounts, and set the French account as the default. Always check that “France” is listed in the drop-down “From” box of all outgoing mail when you are in France. When in the UK check that “UK” is listed in that box.If this is to be your only e-mail address, then just add the new account as above, and delete any old ones that may be listed.There are also many free Internet based e-mail facilities available if you prefer. Yahoo, Hotmail and Google’s contribution, Gmail are all popular and obviously don’t need you to make configuration changes depending on your geographical location. Nowadays they are very generous with storage space which means you can be pretty slack on emptying out your inbox !
(Updated by Cat, September 2007)
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