AIS Group eMail
Via the AIS server, you can arrange that different groups of eMails are downloaded to different machines, while still using the same AIS account. For instance, you could arrange that your home machine downloads only eMail for your family, while your portable downloads only sales-related eMails, and your fixed work machine downloads all other eMail. While this is possible using some eMail client programs, the AIS group eMail facility allows you to do this with almost any eMail client program, such as Microsoft Outlook Express,
Taking the above example (asuming that you are myname.a-i-s.co.uk), suppose that on your machines you would like to download just eMail as follows:
| Home machine | Portable | Work machine |
| andy@myname.a-i-s.co.uk becky@myname.a-i-s.co.uk charlie@myname.a-i-s.co.uk thedog@myname.a-i-s.co.uk | sales@myname.a-i-s.co.uk complaints@myname.a-i-s.co.uk | all other eMails |
First, set up two groups, say home and portable. Then, add names to these groups as below. Note that you do not need to specify a third catch-all group.
| home | portable |
| andy becky charlie thedog | sales complaints |
Exactly how this is done depends on the particular program, however for Microsoft Outlook Express go to the Tools menu and select Accounts, then pick the Mail tab on the dialog box that appears. Select the required account and click the Properties button; the POP server address and account name are set under the Servers tab, the POP server port under the Advanced tab,
You will first need to contact AIS to have this facility set up for you. The AIS group eMail facility can then be controlled by a set of web pages. Click here to access these pages. You will need to provide the name and password that you use when uploading pages by FTP, plus your AIS login name; this is to stop anyone else from altering your settings.