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.
