Setting up your email in Outlook

Once an email has been set up for you, you need to set it up as an account in your outlook or outlook express in order to be able to use it. You can have more than one account, each one needs to be set up seperatly. Instructions are below. These are instructions for Outlook, Outlook Express is very similar.

Setting up your email account. These are the steps in Outlook.

Step #1: From the tool bar choose TOOLS/ACCOUNTS. A wizzard will pop up, choose POP 3

then next. On the next page choose manually set up account, withouth putting any information in

click next, and again choose POP email, and next

then on this screen below, fill in all the information. the information you may be missing is in the document Imaginations Everything would have sent you about your account. Make sure the user name is the complete email address.

Now click MORE SETTINGS, and hit the advanced tab. Change the outgoing server port to 26, and hit ok. Test settings

If you have trouble getting the email to send, go back to advanced settings and the outgoing server and check my outgoing server requires authentication

You can actually have several email accounts all being pulled into your outlook. There's one that's the default, it's the one that is automatically used when you hit new email.

When you want to send an email to someone regarding from other than the default, write the email, and when ready to send, click to the right of the send button (there's an arrow there) and choose the appropriate account.

If you reply to somone who's emailed you at that account, it's automatically chosen for the reply.

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