Configuring Outlook Express For Your Account

Full name = your name
Email = me@mydomain.com
Internet Mail server = mail.mydomain.com
Account = me@mydomain.com
Pass = xxxxxx
Smtp = mail.mydomain.com
From = me@mydomain.com - (this can be set to any email account you have setup for your domain.

1. Open Outlook Express

2. Move to the "Tools" drop down menu and select "Accounts." 

3. Select "Add Mail" from the "Right" menu option. 

4. In the "account name box", enter a name for your mail account, and click "Next."

My Name

5. In the "Email Box", enter the email address for this account and click "Next."

me@mydomain.com

6. Set "Mail Server Names"

POP3: mail.yourdomain.com

STMP: mail.yourdomain.com

7. Enter the "Login and Password" for this email account.  Use the "full email address" as the login name of the account you're configuring, as illustrated in the following "example."

8. Click "Finish." and you'll see a message like this:

9. Do not exit your account settings yet!    Highlight your "New Account" and select "Properties." as illustrated in the following example:

10. In the properties dialog box, select "Servers", then select the "My Server Requires Authentication" option as shown below:

That's it!  

Close your account settings and test out your new address by sending a message to it. 

If you're able to send a message, and receive that same message in your new account, then congratulations! - you've successfully setup your first email account on our servers.  

You can configure as many email accounts as your like in Outlook Express using the same above process.

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