Consolidate protected addresses under one vqME profile

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This article complements an explanation of Profiles and Protected
Addresses. An understanding of this "address tree" is assumed.

If you used the Windows Install Wizard and Tray Assistant, you will see a red 'V' on your task bar. The installer creates a separate vqME profile address for each protected address. But if two or more of your protected addresses are intended for a single person, this configuraiton places a much bigger burden on your email program and consumes unnecessary bandwidth.

You can significantly improve the performance of your email program by retrieving mail from a single vqME profile address. This will not interefere with your ability to send from any of your identities, or to filter incoming mail into pre-defined mailboxes. While there are several steps to reconfigure your account, each step is quick and simple and the results are worthwhile!

Check your mail from all of your protected accounts before beginning. If your email program is not yet configured to fetch mail for all protected addresses, log in and out of www.vqme.com with each of your vqME profile addresses, and check your IN Box and Held Mail. This is important, because the steps below will consolidate into one IN box. These mail boxes will be deleted.
Click here to visit your tree of Profiles & Protected Addresses.
Beginning at the very bottom, click the Properties button to the right of a protected address (not the Properties button next to the vqME address). Then delete the protected address. But write down the POP server information if directed.
When the profile has no more protected addresses, a new page will ask if you want to delete the profile istelf. If you do not give people the vqME profile address delete the it now.
Repeat the last 2 steps for each profile other than your primary vqME profile (the one at the top that matches your Account ID). Work your way from the bottom up.
RE-create the protected addresses(es) that you deleted. But this time, place them under the primary profile by clicking "Protect another address" (do not click "Create another profile"). If a protected address was configured to POP mail from an outside service, you will need the same POP server information that you recorded above. (We recommend that you change from POP to Forward when you have an opportunity to do so). Skip the step which ask you to choose your email program. We will cover it below.
Disable the mail checking that you had previously done with your separate email program identites. [details]
While you are in your email program, verify the server login name. Even if you have previously sent and received mail with vqME, you must now ensure that the SMTP and POP user name matches your single vqME Profile Address. Typically, this means removing the -02, -03, etc at the end of the user name for each account that you disabled. Also, if any of these email program accounts were not already sending mail through vqme, you may need to enable SMTP authentication and SMTP port 587. Click here for Outlook or Outlook Express, or this wizard for detailed screen-by-screen images for most email programs.