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Creating and Managing Identities

A Webmail identity is a way for you to identify yourself through e-mail. The identity profile stores your name, e-mail address, reply-to address, and signature preferences. Webmail can store multiple identities in your profile.

You can store and modify multiple identities, and send e-mail from any identity. You can also set up any "From" address, making an e-mail appear as though it comes from a club – for example, pingpongclub@utexas.edu. Be aware that your real e-mail identity still appears in the e-mail headers, and that abusive use of this feature is prohibited. See the university's Acceptable Use Policy.

Note: Avoid using "From" and "Reply-to" addresses that are not at utexas.edu, as this could cause your messages to be classified as spam.

Complete the following steps to create a Webmail identity.

  1. Click the Mail icon in the left sidebar to access the Mail application.
  2. Click the Options icon at the top of the screen to display the configuration options for Mail.
  3. Click Personal Information in the General Options column.
  4. From the Select the identity you want to change pull-down menu, select Create a new one.
  5. Enter information into the following fields:
    • Identity's Name is a Webmail name for this account. It does not appear in any e-mails that you send.
    • Your Name is the name that will display in e-mails from this account.
    • Your From: address is the e-mail address that you want to appear in the "From" field whenever you send an e-mail under this identity.
    • Your Reply-to: address is the e-mail address to which replies will be sent. This can be different than the From address.
    • Your signature is the signature you want to associate with this file. You can use a different signature for each identity. You do not have to create a signature for an identity.
  6. Click the Save Options button. Your new identity now appears in the list of identities.

You can edit any identity after it is saved. Select the identity from the pull-down menu as described in Step 4, edit the information, then click Save Options to save the identity.

When you are composing a new e-mail message, you can use the Identity pull-down menu to select the Webmail identity from which the e-mail will appear to be sent.