| First of all, but of course, you have to
launch Microsoft's Outlook Express (being lazy, from now onwards I'll call it OE), if you
haven't already launched it.
From your main OE window, click on Tools and then on
Accounts...
[1] Click on Add
[2] Click on Mail...
[3] For "Display Name" enter what you want to
enter. Click Next.
[4] For "Email Address" enter
"you@yourwebsite.com". This is mostly what you enter but your ISP or your web
hosting provider may have something else for you to enter. But in more than 90% cases, it
is the email that you enter.
[5] After choosing the account type as "POP3",
for "incoming mail" enter "mail.yourwebsite.com". This is mostly what
you enter but your ISP or your web hosting provider may have something else for you to
enter. But in more than 90% cases, it is "mail.yourwebsite.com".
[6] For "outgoing mail" enter
"mail.yourwebsite.com". This is mostly what you enter but your ISP or your web
hosting provider may have something else for you to enter. But in more than 90% cases, it
is "mail.yourwebsite.com". Click Next.
[7] For "Account Name" enter
"you@yourwebsite.com". Again, this is mostly what you enter but your ISP or your
web hosting provider may have something else for you to enter. But in more than 90% cases,
it is "you@yourwebsite.com".
[8] For password enter your password
[9] Click Finish
Done.
This is the basic set up and most set ups are happy with
these settings. If you didn't close the first most window (the one you got after clicking
Tools -> Accounts...), click on the email account you created just now (you should be
able to see it as "mail.yourwebsite.com" or
"something.yourwebsite.com") and then click Properties.
The first tab you encounter is the General Tab. Here you
can first of all assign a name to the email account you just created. This is going to
come handy if you plan to manage multiple email accounts using OE installed on the same
machine. After this you enter "Name". This "Name" is the one you'll
see under "From" if I send an email to you (in my case it'd probably be
"Amrit Hallan"). So if you want people to know that they have received an email
from "Jack the Ripper", you write "Jack the Ripper" in this box.
After this you enter "Organization". "E-mail
address" should be the one you are currently using and "Reply address" is
the one where you should get a reply if your receiver simply clicks the "Reply"
button and send you a reply without entering any other email address.
The next important tab is the Servers Tab. Most of the
information appearing here you must have already entered, for instance incoming and
outgoing mail servers. There is an important check box at the bottom that says something
like, "My server requires authentication". Some email and hosting providers
require you to check this box so that unauthorized people cannot use your email account to
spam the others.
By the side of this check box there is a button labeled as
"Settings". If you click it, you can decide whether you want to use the same
login and password that you use for your incoming mails for authentication or some other.
Mostly you don't have to bother with all these intricacies but just in case.
Click the consecutive OK buttons and finally the Close
button, and you through with setting up your email account in OE.
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