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HOW TO SET UP OUTLOOK /OUTLOOK EXPRESS

1.                Double-click on the Outlook Express icon on your desktop.

2.                Select “Tools” from the choices at the very top of the window, then choose “accounts”.  

3.                Go to the “Mail” tab at the top. Click on the “add” button on the right, then select “Mail” This will start the internet connection wizard.

4.                Type in your name as you would like it to appear in the box next to Display name. This can be anything you want. Then click “next”.

5.                In the box labeled email address, type in the email address assigned to you exactly as it was given to you Then click “next.

6.                The next window is called email server names. Make sure POP3 is selected at the top, type in the part of your email address that comes after the @ symbol in the box marked incoming mail server AND in the outgoing mail server boxes. (For example, if your email address is johndoe@somewhere.com, you would type mail.somewhere.com in this space). Then click “next”.

7.                The next window is the Internet mail logon window. In the first box, put the part of your email address that comes BEFORE the @ symbol (in the above example it would be the johndoe part). In the second box, type in the password that was provided to you. If you do not want to have to type in this password every time you check your mail, make sure the little box marked “remember password” is checked. Make sure the other little box marked “log on using Secure Password Authentication” is NOT checked. Then click “next”.

8.                Click “finish” on the Congratulations window.  

9.                You are now back to the internet accounts window. Make sure the email account you are setting up is selected (if there is more than one there) and click on “properties” on the right side.

10.           Click on the “servers” tab at the top. At the bottom of this window is a section called Outgoing Mail Server. Put a check in the little box that says “My server requires authentication” and click on the settings button next to it.

11.           In the log on information, select “Log on using” and type in the user name from step 7 above in the “account name” box and the same password you used in step 7 above in the password box. Again, you have the option to save the password so you don’t have to type it in every time. VERY IMPORTANT!!! Place a check in the little box marked “Log on using Secure Password Authentication”. Click OK, then OK again, then CLOSE, and you are done.

Congratulations, you have just set up your new email account.