.mac and multiple email accounts

I know this stuff has been posted before but I have not been able to get any of the solutions to work.
I have 1 .mac account that works fine. I have four email addresses registered under this one account. I have set up five accounts on my computer. One master/admin and then one each for myself, my wife and my two children.
First I would like them to be able to send emails from their own email addresses and not from the 'master'. It was suggested that I enter the email addresses when setting up the mail account in mail. However I am not able to do so, even with a new account. It works for POP and IMAP account types but not for .mac where that crucial field is blanked out.
If I use POP even though it is .mac then the incoming mail works fine but not the outgoing mail. I do get an option as to which address I would like to use on the outgoing mail... but since it does not go anywhere that is little use.
Actually I am not sure the outgoing will work anyway and I am not sure why. It appears to be identical to the one computer account that does work and that I have been using as a template....
I have been struggling with this for hours and I am going gently mad. Any/all help would be much appreciated.
Thanks, Clarke Pitts.

Clarke,
Welcome to the Discussions.
This is easily accomplished in Tiger and Mail 2.0, but harder in Mail 1.3.11. Do you have any plans to upgrade? See:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/2.0/en/ml1114.html
With Mail 1.3.11, you can set your main .mac address up as an IMAP account, and add each of the other addresses to the email address field in preferences, but you must then use the SMTP of your ISP, and not smtp.mac.com.
You also can set each one of the .mac aliases up as POP account, and both check to never check for new mail, AND take the account Offline to prevent constant failure message if Mail were try and receive mail for that address. As you set up these alias accounts, you must push ahead, even after Mail tells you that you cannot connect -- you are not trying to connect, since it will be offline. But even tho' Offline, you can still send from each address (but only by using the SMTP of the ISP), and in this mode can have separate Full Name entries for each, and rules can be used to move emails from the .mac Inbox to each Inbox of these alias accounts.
If your ISP would be one the rare ones to limit From addresses to its own Domain, then this would not work.
Ask any questions needed.
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