To
configure your Outlook Express or any other e-mail
client, you need to know your POP3 and SMTP servers.
To find them out:
Your provider's mail server may use different SMTP
relays for sending mail - POP before SMTP or
SMTP AUTH. In POP before SMTP, the relay system
collects your IP address when you authenticate yourself
with the POP server, and then permits SMTP relaying
from that IP address for a short period of time. In
other words, if your server uses POP before SMTP,
you need to check your mail first, only then you can
send your messages. If your mail servers uses SMTP
AUTH, you must configure your Outlook Express
to send a login and password not only when you receive
mail, but also when you send it. Ask your provider
which relay the server uses.
-
Configuring Outlook Express (POP before
SMTP relay).
- Configuring with SMTP Auth relay.
Configuring
Outlook Express
To
configure this email client with the POP before
SMTP relay:
- Open
Outlook Express.
- In
the menu bar, go to the Tools drop-down
menu and select Accounts.
- On
the page that shows, click Add and select
Mail.
- On
the wizard page that shows, enter your name in
the field and click Next to proceed.
Note: this email will appear when you send
out emails.
- On
the page that shows, enter your Email Address
and click Next to proceed.
- In
the form that shows:
- in the drop-down box, choose POP3 as
your incoming server;
- enter the Mail Server Name for both Incoming
Mail and Outgoing Mail;
- click Next to proceed.
- On
the page that appears:
- make sure to enter full email address
in the Account Name field;
- enter mailbox password in the Password
field;
- check the Remember Password box to avoid
entering it every time you check or send email;
- click Next to proceed.
- On
the page that shows, click Finish to save
settings and get back to the list of email accounts
- Now
that email account is created, select Accounts
from the Tools drop-down menu in the menu
bar.
- On
the Internet Accounts window, select the
newly created mail account and click Properties
to edit the settings for your email account.
- On
the Properties page that appears, choose
the General tab and check the settings
of your email account.
Here
you can:
- set the name that will show in your letters
- set reply email (should be the same as email
)
- Click
Apply and OK to save settings.
Configuring
Outlook Express with SMTP Auth Relay
You
can set SMTP Auth relay right after your
email account is created (steps 1- 8) as it is described
above. To set SMTP Auth,
do the following:
- Select
Accounts from the Tools drop-down
menu in the menu bar.
- On
the Internet Accounts window, select the
newly created mail account and click Properties
to edit the email settings.
- On
the Properties page that appears, choose
the Servers tab.
- Check
My server requires authentication box and
click Settings on the right.
- On
the Outgoing Mail Server window that shows
you can:
- use the same settings as incoming server;
- enter account name and input another password
for outgoing email.
Note: make sure to check Remember password
if you don't want to enter password each time
you send out email.
- Click
OK.
- Back
on the Properties page, click Apply
and OK to save settings and then close
all dialog boxes.
Now
that Outlook Express is configured, you can send
and receive emails.
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