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Adding Groups in your EarthLink WebMail

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EarthLink WebMail is a great way to connect with loved ones, coworkers, and really anyone with an email address!  But sometimes you may find yourself wanting to contact an entire group of people (like relatives who are invited to a reunion), and it can get annoying to type everyone’s email address into each message you send.  This is why EarthLink provides “Groups.”  These are groupings of contacts that let you speedily send messages to the groups you want!  Here’s how you do it:

FIRST

Once you are logged into to your email, click the “Create Mailing List” option.

SECOND

Name your group. (For example, if you are creating a group of your relatives, you could call it “Family,” or “Work” if making a group of colleagues. NOTE: The group name can only include letters and numbers, so “My FR13ND$” would not be an accepted name (“My FRIENDS” would).

FINALLY

Click on the “Add People to Group” tab. Your current email contact list will appear, and you can check the box next to the names you would like to add to this group. When you are finished, click “done.”  Your group is now ready to be used!

Managing Your Email: Freeing Up More Email Storage Space

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If you are an EarthLink Internet access member with either dial-up Internet , cable internet, high-speed DSL, freestanding DSL (that’s DSL without a phone line), or high-speed satellite internet access, here are some things you should know about your EarthLink email:

  • you can create up to 8 email addresses (just click the Add a new email profile link in My Account)
  • you can access your email with an email client like Outlook or Outlook express, or on the Web using EarthLink Web Mail
  • spam and email  virus protection are active automatically but you can change your spam settings here
  • you get 100 MB of email storage for each email address

The rest of this post will help you with that last bullet point: email storage space.

While 100 MB is plenty of storage for most people, depending on how you use your email, your email box may get filled up, especially if you often receive large attachments or haven’t deleted old mail recently.

If your email storage space is maxed out (or close to it), people may have email messages they send to you bounce back to them and you may receive an error message about reaching your storage limit.

To avoid this problem (or deal with it now that you’re aware of it), here’s what you should do to clear out some email storage space:

  1. Manage your email storage space in Web Mail.Sign into EarthLink Web Mail with your email address & password.
  2. Check what percentage of your 100 MB of email store space you are using (you’ll see it in the upper-left corner of Web Mail).
  3. In your Inbox, put checkmarks next to messages you want to delete and then click the Delete button. TIP: to quickly clear the most space, click the Date link in the header twice to sort your messages from oldest to newest (you may want to start by deleting all the oldest ones), or click the Size link and start deleting the messages that are taking up the most space (which probably have large attachments).
  4. Click the Empty link next to the Trash folder to the left of your Inbox.
  5. Click OK to confirm you want to delete all the messages in your Trash (if you are not sure, click the Trash link and make sure there’s nothing in the Trash you want to save).

That’s it.

Just remember to log out and then sign back in (with your other EarthLink email addresses and passwords) if you want to repeat these simple steps to clear storage space in your other email inboxes.

How to Get Your EarthLink Email on Your iPhone

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iPhone Settings Icon: Add your EarthLink email account hereWhether you use EarthLink as your Internet service provider for high-speed access or dial-up Internet access, you get 8 EarthLink.net email addresses with 100MB of storage space each, automatic spam and virus protection, and Web Mail for easy access from any online computer.

But if you have an iPhone and want to check your EarthLink email on the go with your phone, what do you do?

It’s actually very simple to set your iPhone’s built-in Mail app to check one or all of your EarthLink email accounts. Here’s how:

iPhone Settings for EarthLInk Email

1. Click the Settings icon (looks like gears, shown above)

2. Click Mail, Contacts, Calendars

3. Click Add Account… (below any other email accounts already on your phone)

4. Click Other (bottom of the screen)

5. Click Add Mail Account (top of the screen)

6. Enter your Name, Email (full EarthLink email address), Password, and a Description (such as “EarthLink Email” or “Primary EarthLink Email”)

7. Click Next (upper right) to verify your account and complete the setup automatically

Typically, that’s all there is to it. Your iPhone will automatically determine the rest of your settings. So, you should be ready to go. Repeat for any other EarthLink email addresses you want to add.

But if your iPhone can’t determine your settings automatically, you’ll need to do these extra steps manually:

1. Select the POP option on the Enter Your Account Information screen

2. Scroll past your name, email, and description (which you entered above) to the Incoming Mail Server section

3. Under Incoming Mail Server, enter:

• Host Name: pop.earthlink.net
• User Name: your full email address
• Password: your EarthLink email password (remember, it’s case-sensitive)

4. Under Outgoing Mail Server, enter:

• Host Name: smtpauth.earthlink.net
• User Name: your full email address
• Password: your EarthLink email password (remember, it’s case-sensitive)

5. Click Save.

6. Click Yes if you see this message: Cannot Connect Using SSL – Do you want to try setting up the account without SSL?

That’s it. Now enjoy your EarthLink email on your iPhone.

If you need any more information, see this iPhone email article in the EarthLink Support