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All About "Targets"
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What is a Target?
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A target is your personal email address where you receive email. Email that is
sent to an emailias re-routes to your target address. Your target (personal email
address) should never be provided directly to other web sites - use an emailias instead.
Every emailias has a target associated with it. This is necessary since an emailias
is not a personal email account and therefore does not store incoming email.
There are two types of targets:
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Personal Target: your personal email address that you check to receive your email.
Personal targets must be "validated" to ensure that they have been entered correctly and belong to you.
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Friend Target: an email address of a friend of yours. Friend Targets require no validation, but
may only be used with one-time-use "Friend Emailiases". A Friend Emailias is used to protect
the personal address of a friend (i.e. when sending e-cards or using "send-a-link" features on web pages).
A Friend Target can be specified temporarily when the emailias is created, or may be added as a
"long-term friend" so that their address is easily selectable from a list.
Targets may be any number of email addresses such as: work accounts,
home accounts, free webmail accounts such as Yahoo! or Hotmail, or any
accounts provided to you by your ISP. Targets may also be specialized email
accounts such as a pager or cell phone email address. Any personal email address
that you might give out on the Internet should be a target (so that you can use an
emailias instead).
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What do I do with targets?
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You don't really need to do much with targets other than create them (and
validate them in the case of Personal Targets), and perhaps change
the target for an emailias.
Once you create an emailias, your "default target" will be linked with
that emailias. This default target is customizable by you, but is typically
the first email address that you specified when you created your membership
account. Any email sent to that emailias will go to your target (personal
email address).
You can change the target for an emailias in several ways:
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New Emailias Pop-Up Window: The pop-up window that appears when you click
on the "New Emailias" button contains a list of targets that you can link
with the emailias. If you don't change the target, then the default will be
used.
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Emailias Properties: When you are logged in to the main website, you
can view the properties for an emailias (which is similar to the properties
shown in the pop-up window for a new emailias). Here, you can choose a different
target for the emailias being viewed.
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Target Properties: The Target Properties Page lists the properties
for a target, including its nickname, status, type, and the number of emailiases linked to
the target. Also on this page, you can "re-target" all of the emailiases that
are linked to a target.
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How are targets created?
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Initially, you have the one target--the email address you specified when you first registered.
If this is the only email account you use then there is nothing more to do. If you use other
email accounts then you can set them up by clicking on the "Targets" tab on the top menu when
you are logged-in to the main website. After clicking on "New Target" on the left hand menu
you will be prompted to enter the new target email address as well as a nickname. The nickname
is optional but provides a way for you to easily identify an email in a more meaningful way.
(i.e. "Home" or "Work"). If you specify a nickname, it will appear in a list of available targets
in the New Emailias Pop-Up Window (instead of the long email address).
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