The Email dilemma - solved!

Do you have all of your personal, business and prospect contacts sitting within MS Outlook, Outlook express or another mail client?

Not too happy with the thought that you now have to recreate that list within the Photomax site contact list? Well, the truth is, that you don't have to.

Heres a plan, using the words immotatlised by Black Adder, "so cunning that you can pin a tail on it and call it a weasal".

You only need to have in fact one contact in your Photomax address book - that is your own.

You can simply send the albumn share message, to your self and then using the Message Forward function from your mail client to send the message and its content onto your distribution group, or list of email recepients - we all use use distribution groups right?

For instance say you have an xtra mail account as your default mail address, heres what to do;

First of all I'd suggest setting your photomax email account to forward to your primary mail address - do this within the GWP Webmail / Options / Settings / Mail forwarding section of The Business Centre (access to this is described on page 8 of the Getting Setup Manual). I know this is exactly the opposite to what is also then stated on the bottom of page 8 about forwarding your mail TO your photomax account, but bear with me people - my logic will soon be apparent.. :-)

Then depending on the mail client you use and how you get to your email (but pretty much all of them that I am aware of adopt the same principal) you need to find and set the Reply Email address - set this to your yourname@myphotomax.com - So for instance your xtra email address may be johndoe@xtra.co.nz, but if you set your Reply Email address as the photomax address, in MS Outlook this is under Tools / Email Accounts / Change / More Settings / Reply Email - if you are using xtra web mail it's under Settings / Preferences / Reply-To

And now because you've done the step in step one, you can send mail from any mail client and have it appear that it came from your photomax account, have it returned to your photomax account and then passed onto your normal email account.

And why would we do this all again - so we can make easy use of the contacts that we already have within our mail programs, moreover you CAN be smart about setting up Ditsribution lists and using these for different parts of your business. For instance, you might have one for Prospects, you might have one for Instructors, you might have one for Execs - it just make it so much easier to communicate with groups of people using the tool tha you are most familiar with.

I myself, use a gmail account that has a couple identieties associated with it - because I travel a lot this gives me some options in terms of mail collection - from my phone, anyone's pc via the web, whatever.....

Points to note: you can appear to be still sending the message from your photomax account by setting up the mail client to Send As - not all will allow this to happen, however gmail does this famously. It allows you to select who you want to send as for each message, or by default.

If anyone would like some advice on you to get this setup and operational feel free to contact me - either via email or via skype, my ID is networxnz.