Today I am going to teach you how to set up an email Account using Outlook Express the most popular Email software.
Your Internet Service Provider has probably
given you the option to set up more than one
email address. Most come with at least five. So
you're not limited to just the one. So if someone want you to configure his/her own after reading this post you should be able to do it.
To set up an email address, make sure you are
looking at an Outlook Express screen and not a
New email screen. Then do the following.
1. From the menu bar, click on Tools
2. From the drop down menu that appears, click
on Accounts (one click, left mouse button)
When you click on Accounts, you get the
3. Internet Accounts dialogue box popping up.
4. Click the Mail tab at the top to see the
following:
The Mail tab shows you all the email accounts
that you have set up. In above, there
are no email accounts set up yet. To set up an
email account, do the following:
1. Click on the Add button in the top right hand
corner
2. A popup menu appears
3. Click Mail with your left mouse button
4. When you click on Mail, you get an Account
5. Wizard popping up, which will ask you a series
of question.
When the Wizard start:
1. Type in a name you want for display purposes.
You can type in anything you like here. It
doesn't really matter because Outlook Express
will completely ignore the name you pick!
2. Click the "Next" button when you're done. The
screen will change:
You need to type in an email address. Type in
the email address you got from your Internet
Service Provider.
- Once you have entered the email address, click Next.
You'll get the another screen let me break it
down.
Your Incoming mail server is probably a POP3
one, so leave the drop down box as it is. The
first text box is Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or
HTTP) server . You can usually get these details
from your Service Provider's homepage. But
yours will probably be a POP or POP3 address.
This is a method used to receive emails. The
format to type into the text box is this
pop.provider.com
So if your Service Provider was Home and
Learn, you'd enter this
pop.go4techblog.blogspot.com
The next text box to fill in is "Outgoing mail
(SMTP) server". SMTP is the method used for
sending emails. The format to use is
smtp.provider.com
So if your Service Provider was Home and
Learn, you'd enter this
smtp.go4techblog.blogspot.com
we have entered some
fake POP and SMTP details
- Click the "Next" button at the bottom when you
are finished
- The next screen will appear:
- The Account name is the one you got from your
Service Provider. They might have given you a
password, too. If they did, enter your Password
in the text box. Unless your Service Provider
has told you otherwise, DON'T put a tick in the
box for Log on using Secure Password
Authentication .
- When you're done, click the "Next" button
- There's nothing left to fill in, and you are invited
to click the Finish button. Click the Finish
button and you'll return to the Internet Accounts dialogue box
Your new Account will be there:
The Account name is a bit messy. Outlook
Express has simply taken the name of the
Incoming Server -
pop.type_your_isp_here.com . To change this
to something more memorable, click the
Properties button to the right, or simply double
click the name of your account. You'll see a
dialogue box:
Delete the text at the top, the one the one in the first field of dialog box Then type something of your
own:
Click OK and you'll get back to the Internet
Accounts screen. You should see your new
name appear, under Account:
When you're done, click the Close button on the
Internet Accounts dialogue box. You'll be taken
back to the main Outlook Express screen. To
check if the account has been set up, we can
click on the Send/Recv icon in the main Outlook Express screen.
As you can see, your new account has been
added at the bottom. It was a success!
I hope you enjoy this tutorial if you have any questions don't forget to leave me a comment.
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