Mail Help

Personalities and Signatures

• What are personalities?
• What is a signature?
• How do I create a personality or signature?
• How can I edit a personality or signature?
• How can I delete a personality or signature?

What arepersonalities?

Personalities allow you to customize how your name and return email address appear in the From: field on messages you send. For instance, you may wish to send messages from your personal Web Mail account but need to have these messages appear to have been sent from your work email address.

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What is a signature?

A signature is a block of text which appears at the bottom of every message you send out. It's common for signatures to include information such as your full name, telephone number, and other contact information. You can set up a different signature for each personality you configure. Web Mail makes it easy to create and switch personalities and signatures.

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How do I create a personality or signature?

To set up a new personality configuration:

 

1. Click Settings from the navigation bar.
2. Click the Set personalities and signature link, under Personal Information.
3. You will see your current personalities and signatures displayed on the top of the page. Click the Create Personality button on the bottom half of the page.
4. In the Personality Name box, enter the name you want Web Mail to use to refer to this personality.
5. In the Email address box, enter the email address you want to appear in the From: field of outgoing messages.
6. In the Handle box, enter your name as you want it to appear before your email address in the From: field.
7. If you wish, you may include a signature. Enter the text you'd like to appear at the bottom of each message in the Signature text box. You may enter up to 2000 characters.
8. Click the Create Personality button at the bottom of the page to save the new personality. To cancel, click the Abandon Changes button. To clear the form, click Restore Original Text.

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How can I edit a personality or signature?

To make changes to a personality or signature you have already created:

 

1. Click Settings fromthe navigation bar.
2. Click the Set personalities and signatures link.
3. Select the personality you wish to edit from the Edit Personality pulldown menu.
4. Click the DO IT! button.
5. Make the changes to the personality and signature.
6. Click the Change Personality button at the bottom of the page to save the new personality. To cancel, click the Abandon Changes button. To undo your changes, click the Restore Original Text button.

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How canI delete a personality or signature?

1. Click Settings from the navigation bar.
2. Click the Set personalities and signatures link.
3. Select the personality you wish to delete from the Delete Personality pulldown menu. You must always have at least one personality, so the Delete Personality pulldown menu will only appear if you have configured more than one Web Mail personality.
4. Click the DO IT! button.

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