Configuring New E-mail Accounts in Outlook Express
Many people have found that it helps to print this page out and use it as a step-by-step reference while setting up their email account.
If you prefer for someone to help you set up your email account please feel free to call. Generally in less than 5 minutes you will be
checking your email.
1. Open
Outlook Express by double-clicking
your Outlook Express icon on your desktop
or click on your Start button, then
go to Programs, then to the Internet
Explorer folder and select Outlook
Express.
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2.
If the Connect screen comes up you can press connect and allow it to connect or you can press cancel. Once this is
done you should be able to click on Tools
at the top. Then click on Accounts in the
menu that drops down.
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3.
The Internet Accounts window will
pop up. Click on the Add button,
and then click Mail.
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4.
All of the email you send will show it is sent from whatever you type
in the Display name space. Most people simply enter their name here. Once you
have typed in what you would like, click Next.
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5. Make
sure a dot is next to I already have an e-mail
address that I'd like to use. Then type in your VisionSix Internet
e-mail address and click Next. Your e-mail address would be your
username@visionsix.com. E-mail addresses
never have spaces between words.
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6. Your
incoming mail server is a POP3 server.
Incoming and outgoing mail server names will both be mail.visionsix.com
in lower-case letters. Click Next.
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7. Next
to Account name, type the first part
of your e-mail address. Then type in your password. Putting a check
next to Remember password will allow
you to check your e-mail without entering your password every time.
Then click Next.
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8. Click
Finish and the close the Internet
Accounts window. You're now set to use your email account in Outlook Express.
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