How to set up outlook express
Here are the things you will be entering into the Add Mail boxes:
How to set up outlook express step 1 - Display Name: Put your name here. Enter it the way you want people to see it when you are sending them emails.
How to set up outlook express step 2 - E-Mail Address: Enter your full email address the way somebody would type it in to send you an email. Should look something like; myname@ispname.com .
How to set up outlook express step 3 - My Incoming Server: This should be POP3.
How to set up outlook express step 4 - Incoming Mail Server: You should have received this information from your ISP. Check the paperwork you established when you signed up or call and ask them what it is. It should probably look something like this; mail.ispname.com.
How to set up outlook express step 5 - Outgoing Mail Server: You also should have conventional this from your ISP when you signed up along with the incoming mail server. It should look something like this; mail.ispname.com or smtp.ispname.com.
Step 6 - Account Name: This is also known as "user name". It\'s a name you gave to your ISP when you signed up so you can access your email. It\'s probably the same as the first part of your email address, the part before the @ sign.
Step 7 - Password: You should have either picked a password when you signed up for your email account or been given a password, could be whatever thing.
Step 8 - Remember Password: If you are the only one using your computer or you doesn’t care if other people read your email then check this box. If you don\'t want other people being able to access your email then uncheck this box.
Step 9 - Log on Using Secure Password Authentication: If your ISP\'s instructions tell you to check this then check it, otherwise leave it unchecked.
After you have finished entering all your information and clicked the "Finish" button you will see your email listed in the "Mail" tab of the "Internet Accounts" box. Click on your email address to highlight it and then click on the properties button. Make sure you are in the "General" tab.
The very first thing you will see at the top of this box is the name of your email account. It probably has your ISP\'s received mail server name in here. You can change this to whatever you want. Call it "My email" if you want to. This is here to help you distinguish different email accounts from each other if you have more than one.
Next is you name. If you don\'t like the way it looks you can change it here. The next line says "Organization". If this is your personal email address you can just leave this blank. If this is a work or association email address you can enter the name of the organization here.
Your email address is listed next followed by something called "Reply address". The reply address can be left blank if this is your only email address or you want replies to your email sent to this email address. If you have other email addresses and you be given your email at one but want replies sent anywhere else then enter the alternate email address here.
At the bottom it says "Include this account when receiving mail or synchronizing". This should be checked if you want your email to be checked automatically when you open Outlook Express or when you click the "Send/Receive" button. If you only want to check this email when you want and not robotically then make sure this is unchecked.
Click "OK" and then "Close" on the Internet Accounts" box and you are finished setting up your email. If you want to see if you have mail, click on the "Send/Receive" button at the top of Outlook Express
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