Knowledgebase: Email
Setting up Outlook Express
Posted by - NA - on 31 May 2006 01:13 PM

 Microsoft Outlook Express:
If you don’t have an email account setup you may skip ahead to the ‘New Outlook Express Account’ section below.
Open Outlook Express and on the Menu, Click ‘Tools’ and then ‘Accounts’
Outlook Express Main Window
You’ll get the Internet Accounts Dialog and select the ‘Mail’ tab.
Internet Accounts Dialog
If you already have an account setup for your domain email, then please highlight it in the list on the Internet Accounts Mail tab and press the ‘Properties’ button.
Properties Page

Click the Servers tab and fill out the boxes following the example above.

Note that you must now use your Internet Service Provider (ISP)  for the ‘Outgoing mail server (SMTP):’ setting. In this example, we’ve called it smtp.YOUR-ISP.com. While most ISPs use the convention of ‘smtp’ or ‘mail’ in front of the ISP domain name,  you may need to contact the ISP and ask them for the name of your Outgoing SMTP server. Some Outgoing SMTP servers require authentication (a special password) so you may need to ask them for the authentication information as well as the name of their SMTP Server.  Sorry, we can’t tell you the settings for your ISP’s SMTP Outgoing Mail Server but your ISP can.

You can now test the email setup by addressing a new Email to yourself and press send. You should see the message come into your email box within a reasonable amount of time. The time it takes may depend on your ISP’s SMTP mail server load at the time that you send your test message.

New Outlook Express Account

From the ‘Tools’ menu select ‘Accounts’ and you should see the following on the ‘Mail’ tab.
Accounts

Press the ‘Add’ button for a Mail Account which will start the Internet Connection Wizard.
Internet Connection Wizard
Enter ‘Your Name’ and click the ‘Next’ button
email address
Enter your Internet E-Mail Address and click the ‘Next’ button.
e-mail servers

Enter your POP3 Incoming mail server where in the format of mail.yourdomain.com where your yourdomain.com is your domain name.

Note that you must now use your Internet Service Provider (ISP)  for the ‘Outgoing mail server (SMTP):’ setting. In this example, we’ve called it smtp.YOUR-ISP.com. While most ISPs use the convention of ‘smtp’ or ‘mail’ in front of the ISP domain name,  you may need to contact the ISP and ask them for the name of your Outgoing SMTP server. Some Outgoing SMTP servers require authentication (a special password) so you may need to ask them for the authentication information as well as the name of their SMTP Server.  Sorry, we can’t tell you the settings for your ISP’s SMTP Outgoing Mail Server but your ISP can.
login

Enter your POP3 login name and password, then click the ‘Next’ button.

Your email account is now setup. You can now test the email setup by addressing a new Email to you@yourdomain.com and press send. You should see the message come into your email box within a reasonable amount of time. The time it takes may depend on your ISP’s SMTP mail server load at the time that you send your test message.



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