{"id":2425,"date":"2021-01-22T14:14:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T14:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backup.act.stringerhj.co.uk\/WW\/?page_id=2425"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:58:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T12:58:23","slug":"setting-up-act-email","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/backup.act.stringerhj.co.uk\/WW\/setting-up-act-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up ACT Email"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have been given an ACT email address, this page gives some details of how to set it up with various common email clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will have been sent an email which gives your new email address and a password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an alternative you can also access ACT Email&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/members.actionclimateteignbridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/SettingUpWebmail.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">via webmail<\/a>, this can be simpler than setting up in some email clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adding an ACT email account<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first thing you will have to do is add an email account to your email client. This is quite straightforward with more advanced email clients, but seems to be more complicated with simpler more standard ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For most email clients you need to specify the following settings when adding an account:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Username:\u00a0<\/strong>youraccount@ww.actionclimateteignbridge.org<\/li><li><strong>Password:\u00a0<\/strong>Use the email account\u2019s password.<\/li><li><strong>Incoming Server:\u00a0<\/strong>actionclimateteignbridge.org<\/li><li><strong>IMAP Port:\u00a0<\/strong>993<\/li><li><strong>POP3 Port:\u00a0<\/strong>995<\/li><li><strong>Outgoing Server:\u00a0<\/strong>actionclimateteignbridge.org<\/li><li><strong>SMTP Port:\u00a0<\/strong>465<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Setting up specific email clients<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are gaining experience of setting up email using a number of clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Specific help has been written for the following clients:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/members.actionclimateteignbridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/UsingACTEmailWithMSMail.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Mail for Windows 10<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/members.actionclimateteignbridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/SettingUpWebmail.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ACT webmail<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following table contains brief recommendations for other clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Email Client<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Notes<\/strong>                          <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Outlook (from Office)<\/td><td>Use POP or IMAP under advanced settings<br>Port 465 does not work for SMTP, use 587<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Outlook\/Mail (free with Windows)<\/td><td>See instructions for <a href=\"https:\/\/members.actionclimateteignbridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/UsingACTEmailWithMSMail.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mail for Windows 10<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Gmail (PC version)<\/td><td>Does not work as it only allows setting up gmail accounts<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Gmail (Android)<\/td><td>Use Other route and then select IMAP to synchronise with server.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Thunderbird<\/td><td>Use manual setup. Main issue is that automated setup from email address sets server to mail.actionclimateteignbridge.org, when it should be actionclimateteignbridge.org<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>ipad, iphone<\/td><td>We have not yet had success with this, though it looks like it should work. I have found <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lindagarrould.co.uk\/how-to-setup-siteground-email-account-on-iphone-or-ipad-ios-device\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>, which contains some instructions. I don&#8217;t know that these work.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Your Email Signature<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your email should have an email signature which looks like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<table style=\"border:none;background-color:white;\" >\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:none;width:90px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/actionclimateteignbridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/logo1.png\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border:none;\">Your Name, ACTion on Climate in Teignbridge<\/br>\n<span style=\"font-size:12px;\" >\nWebsite: <a href=\"https:\/\/actionclimateteignbridge.org\" >https:\/\/actionclimateteignbridge.org<\/a><\/br>\nACTion on Climate in Teignbridge is a CIC, registered in England, with registration number 12278894. \nIts registered address is Wessenden, Thornley Drive, Teignmouth TQ14 9JH.<\/br>\nACT supports Teignbridge District Council, and town and parish councils, community groups and residents to make the district carbon neutral, sustainable, resilient and healthy.<\/span>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">To set this up<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note that there are separate instructions for some email clients that do not support html signatures, such as Windows Mail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your email client does support email signatures, you will need to download these 2 files to your machine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/members.actionclimateteignbridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ACTLogo.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ACT Logo<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/members.actionclimateteignbridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/htmlsignature.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Html Signature (linked logo)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/members.actionclimateteignbridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/htmlsignature_saved_logo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Html Signature (saved logo)<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can either download:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Html Signature (linked logo)<\/li><li>Html Signature (saved logo) and ACT Logo<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">HTML SIGNATURE (LINKED LOGO)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you choose to use this one you should download the file and edit it with an editor such as notepad. Find the text \u2018Your Name\u2019 and change it to your actual name, then save the file. Take care when you save the file that it is saved with a .html suffix, as opposed to .html.txt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you have saved the file, make a note of where it has been saved, and change the signature for you ACT account in your email client to use html, and use the file you just saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">HTML SIGNATURE (SAVED LOGO)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this option the logo is saved somewhere on your machine, this means that the logo is sent with the email, rather than downloaded separately when the recipient opens the email. This can avoid problems for some recipients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First download the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/members.actionclimateteignbridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ACTLogo.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ACT Logo<\/a>&nbsp;and note where you saved it on your machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then download&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/members.actionclimateteignbridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/htmlsignature_saved_logo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Html Signature (saved logo)<\/a>&nbsp;and note where you saved it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edit the ACTSignature_saved.html file, this time as well as changing \u2018Your name\u2019 to your actual name, you need to change the bold bit of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">src=\u201dfile:\/\/\/<strong>C:\/Assets\/ACT\/website\/logos\/ACTlogo.png<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to the location were you saved ACTlogo.png<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then saved the signature as an html file, and add it to your ACT email account as an html signature, as described in the previous section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been given an ACT email address, this page gives some details of how to set it up with various common email clients. You will have been sent an email which gives your new email address and a password. As an alternative you can also access ACT Email&nbsp;via webmail, this can be simpler&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/backup.act.stringerhj.co.uk\/WW\/setting-up-act-email\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Setting up ACT Email<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2425","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backup.act.stringerhj.co.uk\/WW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backup.act.stringerhj.co.uk\/WW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backup.act.stringerhj.co.uk\/WW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backup.act.stringerhj.co.uk\/WW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backup.act.stringerhj.co.uk\/WW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/backup.act.stringerhj.co.uk\/WW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2833,"href":"https:\/\/backup.act.stringerhj.co.uk\/WW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2425\/revisions\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backup.act.stringerhj.co.uk\/WW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}