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."
4. In the
"Email Box", enter the email address for this account
and click "Next."
5. Set
"Mail Server Names"
6. 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."
7. Click
"Finish." and you'll see a
message like this:
8. Do not
exit your account settings yet! Highlight your
"New Account" and select
"Properties."
as illustrated in the following example:
9. In the properties dialog box, select
"Servers", then select the "My
Server Requires Authentication" option as shown below:
That's pretty
well 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.
Potential
problems with sending mail:
Due the the mass amount of abuse from a few problem souls, an
increasing number of ISP's are disabling ability to "send
mail" through someone else's SMTP server. If you receive an
error message when attempting to use our
"Outgoing SMTP" server, it probably means your ISP has denied
access to (what is otherwise known) as 'third party
relaying." To solve this problem, simply go back to your
account properties, and select the "server settings" tab.
Then, there are two things you must do:
1. Change the
"SMTP Outgoing Mail Server"
settings to the same ones as you're using on your ISP's email
account. To do this, have a look at "Step 8" just a few above
this one. In this case, select the properties of your ISP
mail account, then go to properties, and select
"Servers." Copy those
"SMTP Outgoing Mail Server"
settings to your new account, or write them down and enter
them in manually.
2. Deselect the
"My Server Requires Authentication"
option.
DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE! You can now
receive mail from your domain account, while sending mail will
be accomplished through your ISP's SMTP servers. This will in
no way effect the performance or look of your email messages
coming from your domain.
Note:
PLEASE… DO NOT send large volumes of mailings through our
SMTP Relay server. It's really provided as a courtesy to our
users, and not something to be used for mass mailing list
purposes. If you're sending large emails, or are running a
mailing list, PLEASE use your ISP's mail server for this
purpose. They are better setup for this sort of heavy duty
usage, and you won't clog our SMTP server, which also needs to
provide resources to other users.