- 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