Setting up your email through Microsoft Outlook Express
This tutorial will show you how to set up your email account through Microsoft Outlook Express on a standard internet connection.
NOTE: If you are connecting to the Internet through a DSL connection, or otherwise know that your ISP requires you to authenticate (confirm your identity) prior to sending email out, please follow the “Configuring Your Email in Microsoft Outlook Express on a DSL Connection” tutorial.
Before you begin, be sure that you have the following:
- Your email account name and password.
- The name of your outgoing mail (SMTP) server provided by your ISP (Internet Service Provider).
- Open up Outlook Express
- In the upper-left hand corner, click on the Tools menu, and then find and select Accounts. This will open the Internet Accounts dialogue box. Once the Internet Accounts dialogue box pops up, go ahead and click on the Mail tab.
- In the upper right hand corner of the box, click the Add button, and select Mail. This will pop up the Internet Connection Wizard.
- In the Internet Connection Wizard, type the name that will be displayed on all outgoing email messages. People who you send email to will see this as your name when receiving email from you. Click the Next button when finished.
Type in your name as you would like email recipients to see it. We'll be using "Ron Weasley" as our sample user.
- In the Email Address field, type the complete email address. Click the Next button when finished.
Ron Weasley's email address is sampleaddress@yourdomain.com
- In the Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP, or HTTP) server field, type in your incoming mail server name. Unless we’ve told you specifically otherwise, this will always be mail.[insert your domain here]. For instance, if your domains was widgets.com, your incoming mail server would be mail.widgets.com.
In our example, Ron's domain name is yourdomain.com, so his incoming mailserver is mail.yourdomain.com
- In the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server field, place the name of your outgoing mail (SMTP) server provided to you by your ISP. Click the Next button when finished.
- In the Account name field, type in your full email address. In the Password field, type in your email account’s password. The password is case sensitive, so be sure that it’s typed in correctly. Click the Next button when finished.
Password are case sensitive, so make sure that the case is correct. If your password is 'Lollipop', entering in 'lollipop' will create a password error.
- Click the Finish button, which will cause the Internet Accounts window to be displayed again.
Click Finish.
- Click the Close button, and you test everything out. You should be able to both receive and send email.
Just click the Close button, and you're all set!
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