How to set up your email account in Outlook Express 6

  • Launch Microsoft Outlook/Express.
  • Select “Tools” from the top menu bar.
  • Select “Accounts”.
  • Select the “Mail” tab.
  • Click the “Add” button, and then select the “Mail” option.
    The Internet Connection Wizard will now appear.
  • Under “Display name”, enter your full name (to appear in all your emails) and click “Next”.
  • Enter “youremail@yourdomain.com” and click “Next”.
  • Under “Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) server”, enter “mail.yourdomain.com”.
  • Under “Outgoing mail (SMTP) server”, enter “mail.yourdomain.com”, and click “Next”.
  • Under “Account Name”, enter “youremail@yourdomain.com”.
  • Under “Password”, enter your email address password.
  • Make sure the “Remember password” checkbox is checked, and click on “Next”.
  • Click on “Finish”.
  • Under the “Mail” tab of the still open “Internet Accounts” window, double click on the email address you just set up – it will be listed as “mail.yourdomain.com”.
  • Select the “General” tab.
  • Under “Mail Account”, enter “youremail@yourdomain.com”, and click on the “Servers” tab.
  • Under the “Outgoing Mail Server” section, check the “My server requires authentication” checkbox, and click on the “Settings” button.
  • Make sure the “Use same settings as my incoming mail server” radio button is selected, and then click on the “OK” button.
  • Click on the “OK” button, and then click on the “Close” button.

Your Outlook/Express mail program should now be set up to send and receive mail.

Article ID: 2, Created On: 7/24/2008, Modified: 6/18/2009