These
instructions show how to configure Microsoft Outlook Express to access
your hosting account. Note that there are two different email programs
offered by Microsoft: Outlook and Outlook Express. Look on the title bar
of your Outlook program to ensure it is Outlook Express and not Outlook.
Outlook Express is the email program that comes bundled with Windows and
the easiest to use.
If you like, you can print
out these instructions and check off the boxes on the paper copy as you
proceed.
Configuring Outlook Express:
Launch Outlook Express from
the Start-Programs menu, the shortcut on the taskbar,
or from an icon on your desktop.
Select the Tools
then Accounts... menu item.
The Internet Accounts
window will appear and looks like this:
Click the Add
button and choose the Mail... option.
The Internet Connection
Wizard will start. The first panel of the Wizard is titled 'Your Name'
and looks like:
In the box labeled
Display name:, enter your name as you wish it to appear on your
outgoing email. (This entry may already be correct.)
*This is the name that you want to show up in the "from" section of
emails you send.
Click the Next >
button.
The next panel of the
Wizard is titled 'Internet e-mail address' and looks like:
Enter your Incoming Email
Address into the E-mail address box. This is what
you setup already as a POP3 account in your control panel.
Click the Next >
button.
The next panel of the
Wizard is titled 'E-mail Server Names' and looks like:
Enter mail.YOURDOMAIN.com
in the Incoming mail (POP3) server: box.
If your ISP (Internet
Service Provider) allows outgoing then enter: mail.YOURDOMAIN.comin the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: box
too.
If your ISP doesn't not allow other outgoing SMTP
servers, then use the one that they issued you. AOL does not allow any
outgoing SMTP servers except their own.
Click the Next >
button.
The next panel of the
Wizard is titled 'Internet Mail Logon' and looks like:
Enter your
email@YOURDOMAIN.com
in the Account name: box.
This is the same user name that you setup as a POP3 account in your
control panel. You must put the full username and domain name.
Not just the user name.
Enter your
password in the
Password: box.
Leave the Remember
password box checked unless you want to enter your Sort Once
password every time you run Outlook.
Click the Next >
button.
The next panel
congratulates you.
Click the Finish
button.
Click the Close
button on the Internet Accounts window.
Now you are done. Test it out.
Send an email to yourself.
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