Advanced - Outlook Express
How to configure your MS Outlook Express email settings.
This tutorial will show you how to setup your MS Outlook Express so that you can connect to a pop3 server and start sending and receiving email.
Please note that you will first need to create a pop3 account on the server.
Open your Outlook Express and click on TOOLS / ACCOUNTS ...
Click on ADD / MAIL ...
In the next window insert a name for this email account ...
In the next window, insert your email address ...
In the next window, insert your incoming and outgoing mailservers. These will be mentioned in your Welcome Mail however, for an Advanced Hosting Plan these will both be: mail.XXX (where XXX is your domain name) ...
In the next window, enter your email address as the 'account name' or 'username' and your password. Make sure you use the same password that you entered when setting up this pop3 email on the server. The password is unique to this email account and is NOT the same as your Control Panel password ...
When the above steps have completed, you will return to the mail email account window and your new email account will be listed. You now need to check the settings and make a final change.
Highlight the email to edit and click PROPERTIES ...
The next window will provide the user information for this email. You can edit these as you want ...
Then click on the SERVER tab and from the next window, check your settings.
Important! Make sure the option for 'my server requires authentication' is turned ON.
When done, click APPLY and then OK to save the settings.
Your local email plan is now setup and you can return to the main Outlook Express application and begin sending and receiving email.
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