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Configuring email in Outlook EXPRESS |
Candi Best |
Open up your Outlook Express.
Once your Outlook Express software opens up, you should see a toolbar menu at the very top left of the page: (File, Edit, View, Tools, Message, Help).
With your mouse or keyboard click on Tools and within the Tools menu click on Accounts.
Once you click on Accounts, an Internet Accounts window will open up.
To the right of this window you will see an "Add" button. Click this button. To the right of this button you will see another window pop up with the option to select "Mail". Select the Mail button.
Once you select Mail, the Internet Connection Wizard will display. This wizard will take you through a series of steps that will assist you in creating your new internet email account.
The first field that you will be asked to fill in will be your "Display Name". When you send mail, the name you enter in the space provided will appear in the "From" field of the outgoing message. Type the name as you would like it to appear. Then click Next.
You will now be prompted to enter an email address. In the space provided, enter the email address you would like to set up. The email address you enter in the space provided should be an email account you have created through the Control Panel. Example: If the domain we host for you is domain.com, the email address should be name@domain.com. In this example, you would replace name with the valid pop account (email account) you have created, ie. john@domain.com sales@domain.com etc.. Once you enter the email address, click Next.
You will now be prompted to enter the Email Server Names. Where it says "My incoming Server is a _server" it should say, "My incoming Server is a POP3 server".
You will then see "incoming mail (POP3, IMAP, HTTP) server". In the space provided enter yourdomain.com. Example: If your domain is domain.com, in the space provided you would enter domain.com. You will also enter this for the "Outgoing mail (SMTP) server. Once you enter this in both boxes, click Next.
You will now be prompted to enter your Internet Mail Logon. You will see that there is a space provided to enter the Account Name. In this space, enter the name of the email account (pop account) you are trying to receive email for. Example: If your email address is john@domain.com, then the Account Name you enter in this example would be john@domain.com
Now you will be prompted to enter a password. In the password field provided, enter the password you gave the user when you created this email account. Once you have entered the correct password. Click Next. ( YOU DO NOT NEED TO CLICK THE BOX STATING "Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)" ).
Congratulations! The congratulations screen should pop up telling you that you have successfully set up your account. To save these settings click Finish.
You should now be able to check your mail!
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