Setting up Outlook Express:

Email Address:
 
youremail@yourdomain

Account Name: unique login username you created when setting up email account.  This can be found in your control panel under Pop3, then the dropdown menu for the email addresses and your username can be found on the right hand side if you don't remember it.

SMTP and POP3 Server Settings:  your domain name (no www or anything else.  Example: nethost.ws)
**Check Remember Password and do not check any other boxes.
 
So to review:
 
Email Address:  youremail@yourdomain

Account Name:  yourusername  (this is not your email address but your username)
Password:  Password you created for that particular email
Server Settings both SMTP and Pop3:  yourdomain.com  (No www or http) -- simply yourdomain.com OR   mail.yourdomain.com
 
**Check Remember Password and do not check any other boxes.

 

 

 

 

Outlook Express Setup

To configure Microsoft Outlook Express to receive email, follow these steps:

Open Outlook Express, click on Tools and then choose Accounts. The following box will appear:




Click on the Mail tab and then click on Add --> Mail. The following box appears:




Under Display name, type in the name that you would like to appear in the from field of your outgoing messages.

Click Next. The following box appears:




Leave the button "I already have an e-mail address that I'd like to use" checked and enter the full address of your email account. For example, youremail@yourdomain.com

Click Next. The following box appears:




In the "Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) server" field enter yourdomain.com. For example, if your domain is abc.com enter abc.com (do not enter www.yourdomain.com or mail.yourdomain.com) In the "Outgoing mail (SMTP) server" field enter your local ISP SMTP server. For example, mail.yourISP.com or yourdomain.com, for example, if your domain is abc.com enter abc.com (do not enter www.yourdomain.com or mail.yourdomain.com)

Click Next. The following box appears:




In the "Account name" field enter your hosting account username if you want to check the email for the "default email account", or enter the full email address of an email account you created in your control panel (See Email Options.) In the "Password" field enter the password.

Click Next. The following box appears:




Click Finish.

Your Outlook Express email configuration is now complete.


You will need to restart Outlook Express before you can start sending and receiving email.

 

 
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