Advice needed on email

Hi, first time poster here, but long time PC user.
I avoid all MS programs I can, and use Eudora for my own email from 2 Domains as well as my ISP email.
I need to set up email for work. Bless em, I am my firm's IT specialist...

I got the 2 main PCs made by a friend, and I set em up for me and the Office manager, then I networked them, then just a week ago I set em up on DSL. Now I need to set up the email so that I can get mail sent only to me and another member of staff on my machine, and the business manager gets the mail sent to the Firm - ie our main email address - and personal email for our boss.

We're a small Orchid and other exotic indoor plant and plant maintenance firm, with only 3 PC users all told - bookkeeper whose machine is not networked, and our 2.

The only way I know to set up our email through Eudora seems to need me logging into the main email account then adding as Personalities the sub accounts. But that leaves me getting all the mail which is not what I want.

I tried to log onto only a sub account the first time, but I couldn't get logged in. I uninstalled Eudora and reinstalled it with the main account addy to login first, then to pick up my email sub-account, and that worked.

So can anyone help me with this, please? We don't have a server pc cos we are too small to need that. We really only use a word processor most of the time, and I use art packages to edit the pix I take of the plants or decorative containers for our web site or customers.
I'm interested in any suggestions, hopefully ones that don't involve using MS Outlook.

 

Welcome to Major Geeks Kitts not a Eudora user so cannot respond to that part, but others here might. I do know that Mozilla's(the folks who gave us FireFox) Thunderbird Email program can do what you want. You set-up a "Master" account, then as many sub accounts as you want with seperate account pick-ups sites. You can then "Password" protect each account so only that person can access their own mail. You will still see their accounts in your account folder, but will not be able to download their mail. Hope that Helps

 

Thanks for thr links.
No, security is not an issue, only 2 of us use our PCs.

I really don't know what I am looking at, sorry to seem so dumb, on those links.

I don't use Thunderbird because I find it clunky and confusing to use - I have tried it 2 or 3 times over the years since it first came out, and never stuck with it for more than a few days because of that.
Recently Updated to Eudora 8 only to find out it was basically Thunderbird. I couldn't read half my emails with attachments cos it didn't show them, I couldn't find anywhere a way to change that, and the files, .jpgs or .gifs were not recognized by PPPro as valid files of that type, so I had no other way to view em. I removed it and reinstalled the last Eudora version but lost all mail I had collected in the last 2 days trying it out. No point in me using a mail program that does not let me read all my mail, is there?

So All I am needing is a way my friend and I can get 2 different sub account emails downloading to our pcs when we only have the one main account with AT & T.
I need to logon to get Mine and the Sales Person's sub-accounts, she needs to logon to get Main address and the Boss's sub-account. Security is not an issue, just being able to get the mail to the right PC is.
If I have to use another email program, so be it, but can someone tell me what it is I am trying to do cos none of the programs tell me how to do what I need to do cos I don't know how to ask the question.
I have just now spent 30 mins looking at Thunderbird and SeaMonkey, and I can find nothing simple explaining fior SeaMonkey what it does apart from being an integrated suite... This is so confusing. One site calls programs Eudora 8, or Thunderbird or SeaMonkey, and you follow a link and find it is all the same program. Sheesh! I am not PC illiterate as I've been online since the days of dos only mainl and news, but I can';t understand any of these issues at all.

Thanks again for any clearer help anyone can give me.