Setting up MS Outlook Express to receive e-mail
Written by Nicholas Salls of WGC Designs
To setup your Outlook Express to handle your new POP3 e-mail account, please follow the instruction below :
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Select Tools --> Accounts... to open the Internet Accounts dialog box.
Click button Add and select Mail... to start the Internet Connection Wizard.
Enter Your Name in the display name field. This name will appear in the From field of the outgoing message. Type your name as it would you like to appear. Click Next > button.
Enter your e-mail address in the E-mail address field. For example sales@yourdomain.com
Click Next > button to fill out the Incoming mail (POP3 or IMAP) server and Outgoing mail (SMTP) server field with your domain name. If you domain name is xyz.com then fill in mail.xyz.com for both fields.
Click Next > button to enter your Internet Mail Logon information. Enter your fulle-mail address in the POP account name field and enter your password in the Password field.
Click Next > button and Finish button.
Double click the email account you just created.
Click on the check box on the bottom on the dialog box that says "My server requires authentication". Then click OK and your done.
