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Email Setup with Outlook Express
If you have an email account set up on the server, you may want to configure Outlook or Outlook Express to send/receive email from this email address. To configure Outlook to connect to your account, please do the following:
If the 'Internet Connection Wizard' starts up automatically, skip ahead to step four.
- 'Start' Outlook Express, and on the 'Tools' menu, click 'Accounts'.
- Click 'Add', and then click 'Mail' to open the 'Internet Connection Wizard'.
- On the 'Your Name' page of the wizard, type your name as you want it to appear to everyone who gets e-mail from you in the E-mail Address box, then click 'Next'.
- On the 'Internet Explorer Address 'page, type your e-mail address, and then click 'Next'.
- On the 'E-mail Server Names' page, fill in the following:
- Enter 'mail.example.com' (replace example.com with your domain) in the 'Incoming Mail Server' (POP3) field.
- Enter 'mail.example.com' (replace example.com with your domain) in the 'Outgoing Mail Server' (SMTP) field.
- Click 'Next'.
- On the 'Internet Mail Logon' page, type your account name and password.
- Click 'Next', and then click 'Finish'.
- Now to configure the ports and mail servers by clicking the "Properties" page.
- Click on the "Advanced" tab to arrange setup your Incoming and outgoing Ports.
- Once completed, click "Apply".
- Click on the "Servers" tab.
- Under "Outgoing Mail Server", ensure that "My server requires authentication" is checked.
- Click "Apply" then "OK".
- Click "Close" .
Congratulations! You've fully configured the account setup of Outlook Express.
If you have trouble sending mail, please visit our article on How to Change Email SMTP Port from 25 to 26.
If you are using another version of Outlook or another webmail client, please see our related article on General Email Client Settings.
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