Setting Up Your E-mail in Microsoft Outlook

This tutorial shows you how to set up Microsoft Outlook to work with your e-mail account. This tutorial focuses on setting up Microsoft Outlook 2003, but these settings are similar in other versions of Microsoft Outlook. You can set up previous versions of Microsoft Outlook by using the settings in this tutorial.

To Set Up Your E-mail Account in Microsoft Outlook

1. In Microsoft Outlook, select Tools > E-mail Accounts.
   
   
2. On the E-mail Accounts wizard window, select "Add a new e-mail account"
   and click Next.
   
   
3. For your server type, select "POP3" and click Next.
   
   
4. On the Internet E-mail Settings (POP3) window, enter your information as follows:

Your Name
Enter your first and last name.

E-mail Address
Enter your e-mail address.

User Name
Enter your e-mail address, again.

Password
Enter the password you set up for your e-mail account.

Incoming mail server (POP3)
Your incoming server is mail.coolexample.com, where "coolexample.com" is the name of your domain.

Outgoing mail server (SMTP)
Enter mail.coolexample.com for your outgoing mail server,where "coolexample.com" is the name of your domain.




5. Select "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication."
   
   Click Finish.
   
   

Outlook Express  Email (top)

1. Open Outlook Express.

2. Click on Tools.

3. Click on Accounts.

4. Click on Mail  tab.

5. If no account is listed, click on  Add.  Click on Mail.
If account is listed, skip to  step 13.

6. Type in your name, click Next.

7.Type in your email address (example:  john@abc.com), click Next.

8. Incoming  mail server:   mail.YourDomain.com

9. Outgoing mail server:   mail.YourDomain.com

10. Click Next.

11. Type  in Account name (username) & password.   Click Next.

12. Click Finish.

13. Click one time on the account listed to highlight  it, click on Properties.

14. In the  General folder, fill in your information.  Next click on the Servers  tab.

15. In the Servers  folder:

16. Incoming mail server (pop3):   mail.YourDomain.com

17. Outgoing mail  server (smtp):  mail.YourDomain.com

18. Type in Account name (username)

19. Click  on OK at the bottom.

20.  You are now ready to use Outlook Express.  Please refer to the  HELP option in Outlook Express for answers to additional questions you may  have.

NETSCAPE COMMUNICATOR  4.5(top) 

1. Open Netscape Communicator 4.5

2. Click on EDIT

3. Click on PREFERENCES

4. In the CATEGORY screen, double click on MAIL and NEWSGROUPS

5. In the CATEGORY screen, click on  IDENTITY

6. On the right, fill in your  name and email address (example: john@abc.com)

7. In the CATEGORY screen, click on MAIL SERVERS

8. INCOMING MAIL SERVER:  mail.YourDomain.com (If no  mail server is listed, click on ADD) 

9. Enter the mail server: mail.YourDomain.com,  server type: POP3, enter your user name. 
Next click on the folder tab POP,  uncheck leave messages on server.  Click OK.

12. You are now ready to use Netscape Communicator 4.5 for sending  and receiving email.  Please refer to the HELP option in Netscape for answers to  additional questions you may  have.

EUDORA  LIGHT(top)

Eudora is  pretty easy to understand. If you are using Eudora Light, you can only have one  email account per instance of the software. Eudora Pro, the retail version of  Eudora (available at your local retailer), supports several "Personalities"  which allow several account names to be added to the software. It is easy to  operate as well. This will show you how to add your own account to Eudora. In  both the Light and Pro versions, this is how it would be  done. 

Start up  Eudora. Go to the Tools menu and select Options. Then just follow the easy  screen shots to configure your email account!

Once you configure this,  all you have to change then are the Hosts settings. Check all others to make  sure that you don’t need to change/add anything else.
This last screen is what  will make sure your mail sends out to your domain.  Please note this change, for the SMTP type in:mail.YourDomain.com (top)