Outlook Express Setup

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To set up your new email account in Outlook Express, please follow the instructions below:

1. Open Outlook Express.

2. Click on the Tools menu and select Accounts.

3. You should now see the Accounts area. Click on the Mail tab and you should see the following window:

4. Click on Add, and select Mail.

5. The setup wizard should now appear. In the field labeled Display Name please enter your Full Name or Business Name as you would like it to appear on your emails.

Click Next

6. On the next window, you should see an area for your email address. Make sure that you select "I already have an e-mail address that I’d like to use."

In Email Address, enter <username>@yourdomain.com where <username>is your login id.

Click Next

7. You should now be on the server area of the setup. Please enter the following settings.

Incoming mail: mail.yourdomainname.com (or .net, .biz, etc.)
Outgoing mail: ASK YOUR ISP about the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server, or call me and I will try to help you figure it out.

Examples of common outgoing mail servers:
Bellsouth: mail.bellsouth.net
Charter: smtp.charter.net
Earthlink: mail.earthlink.net
AT&T: mailhost.worldnet.att.net
MCI: mailrelay.mciworldcom.net
MSN: smtp.email.msn.com
Mindspring: mail.mindspring.com
NetZero: smtp.netzero.net

If you are using AOL, you will not be able to use your internet service as your outgoing server. Instead, use mail.yourdomainname.com (same as your incoming server) and when you are finished with all of this, you will need to do an extra step. You WILL NOT be able to send emails if you forget this extra step (it is at the bottom of this page.)

Click Next

8. The Internet Mail Logon screen should now be on the screen. Please enter the following settings:

Account Name: <username@yourdomain.com>
Password: password
Where <username@yourdomain.com> is your login id and password is your logon password.

If your website is running on a Unix server, as opposed to a Windows server, your username will be <username>. If you do not know whether your site is running on Unix or Windows, then you are on Windows. You must ask specifically for Unix if you want it.

Click Next

9. Click Finish. Your email setup should now be complete.

10. Click Close on the Accounts Screen.

To check for new mail, click on the Send/Recv button at the top.

To compose a new message, click on the New Mail button.

Extra step for those who used mail.yourdomain.com as your outgoing server:
Go to Tools, Accounts, click the Mail tab, click Properties, click the Servers tab, check the box at the bottom that says "My server requires authentication." (Do NOT accidentally click the one that says "Log on Using Secure Password Authentication.") Click OK and Close. Click Send/Receive to make sure you don't get any errors.