Configuring Outlook Express E-mail Client
To configure your Outlook Express or any other e-mail client, you need
to know your POP3 and SMTP servers. To find them out:
- Log into your control panel;
- Select Mail Info in the Mail Info menu.
Configuring Outlook Express
To configure this email client with the POP before SMTP relay:
- Open Outlook Express.
- In the menu bar, go to the Tools drop-down
menu and select Accounts.
- On the page that shows, click Add and select
Mail.
- On the wizard page that shows, enter your name in
the field and click Next to proceed.
Note: this email will appear when you send out emails.
- On the page that shows, enter your Email Address
and click Next to proceed.
- In the form that shows:
- in the drop-down box, choose POP3 as your incoming server;
- enter the Mail Server Name for both Incoming Mail and
Outgoing Mail;
- click Next to proceed.
- On the page that appears:
- make sure to enter full email address in the Account Name
field;
- enter mailbox password in the Password field;
- check the Remember Password box to avoid entering it every
time you check or send email;
- click Next to proceed.
- On the page that shows, click Finish to save
settings and get back to the list of email accounts
- Now that email account is created, select Accounts
from the Tools drop-down menu in the menu bar.
- On the Internet Accounts window, select the
newly created mail account and click Properties to edit the settings
for your email account.
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On the Properties page that appears, choose the General
tab and check the settings of your email account.
Here you can:
- set the name that will show in your letters
- set reply email (should be the same as email )
- Click Apply and OK to save settings.
Now that Outlook Express is configured, you can send and receive emails.