Microsoft Outlook Express Set up
If you wish to send and receive e-mail on your domain's server (for example yourname@yourdomain.com) rather than through your service provider (for example name123@myisp.services.net), you will need to configure your e-mail software to do this.
The instructions below are for the later versions of Outlook Express, older versions generally require the same procedure and information although the exact menu positions and button names may vary slightly.
First you must open Microsoft Outlook Express and click on the Tools > Accounts... option from the toolbar.
This will usually bring up a list of any existing accounts you may have.
You then need to select Add > Mail... from the options on the right hand side.
The first stage is to provide your friendly name. On modern systems when you receive an email it will appear to be from John Smith (for example) rather than johnsmith@virgin.net.
Enter your name as you would like others to see it: i.e. John Smith or Mr J Smith, then click on Next. You will then be prompted to enter your new email address:
You now need to tell Outlook Express how to collect your email. Firstly, make sure the option for the incoming mail server is set to POP3 server. Then enter the Incoming mail server and outgoing mail server information provided in your accounts details or welcome email.
Once entered, click on Next where you will then need to give your Account name and Password, normally you will also want to ensure that the remember password option is ticked so that you don't have to type it every time you Send & Receive. Please remember though that then any user of your PC will be able to collect your emails, if you don't want this you will normally have to uncheck the box.
Check that your enter your Account name and Password carefully, they are normally case sensitive and Passwords will often contain numbers too. Particularly watch out for 0 (zeros) and O (ooo's). Click on Next.
To allow you to send emails as yourdomain.com you must no enter some additional information. After clicking on Finish you should still be in the Internet Account management window. Select the new account which you have just created (which will probably be called mail.yourdomain.com) then select Properties from the right hand panel.
When that panel comes up, click the "Servers" tab at the top of the screen and tick the box at the bottom of the screen under "Outgoing Mail Server" that says "My server requires authentification" as shown in the image below.
In Settings... check that the default selection for Logon information is "Use the same settings as my incoming mail server" (If not make that the current selection), then finish up by OK, OK then Close.
You should now be setup to collect and use your new email account.
Sending Mail
AOL Users: first close the AOL message center/mail tool program as this will conflict with the use of Outlook Express
Start to create a new mail message as normal. If your new account is not the default account then select the down arrow on the right hand side of the "From:" line and pick which account you want to send from:
