[icibaqu]

Hey,

I recently got a .mac account. I know you have the ability to get several aliases with it.

my girlfriend asked me if i could designate one of the aliases to her computer so she could check it through her Mail on her ibook (basically b/c she needs a new email address).

i'm fine with that, but have a few questions about aliases generally.

first, i obviously don't want her email coming into my Mail (y'know privacy), so is it possible to block Mail from receiving email from one of your .mac aliases? (i.e. do you need to configure the alias as a seperate email account in your Mail account settings?)

second, can you create seperate passwords for these aliases, or do they all just fall under your original .mac username/password?

third, when i log into my .mac via the website, does it also show emails from the aliases, or only from the primary .mac account? is there a way to make it now show aliases?

i suppose basically i'm asking if using my .mac account I can give one of the aliases to my girlfriend and then sort of cut myself off from the alias account.

last, i did a search and one of the threads mentioned something about people maybe being able to retain their @mac.com email addresses after the .mac trial period, but with limited storage online, etc. etc. is that truth or fiction? b/c if the answer to all my questions above are basically "nope", then maybe that would be the best route to go. but how much online storage space do you get?

oh, and also - is there a way to automatically remove mail from the .mac server but retain it in your Mail account?

thanks in advance for any help/guidance y'all can provide on this.

[wataru]

Aliases are just that--aliases. She'll have to be fetching your mail, and you'll also be fetching her mail, and the only thing you can do about that is set up a rule to delete items not addressed to you, and vice versa for her. It sounds like you'd be better off paying $10/year for an extra email address on your .Mac account.

[icibaqu]

bump... anyone else have input?

[analogika]

Points 1 to 3 have been answered by wataru.

Point 4 - I can't imagine that being the case, no.

Point 5 - create a new LOCAL mailbox on your machine and move your emails there. That will remove them from the .Mac account but retain them on your machine. .mac mail is IMAP, whose whole point is that you can access it from multiple places, and it will always be synchronized.

[Randman]

Better to buy her an email-only account. Cheaper than regular .Mac and totally separate from your stuff.

[Randman]

$10 a year.

[icibaqu]

yeah - looked around and the $10 option is probably the best (although you get sort of a small amount of space). maybe then that would be a good candidate for the local mail folder...hm..

anyway - thanks a lot everyone.