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Step 2: Setting up email accounts in Outlook Express™

Open Outlook Express
(Click on this icon on your desktop)

Select: Tools
Select: Accounts

Select: Add
Select: Mail

Then you will go through a series of windows:

1. Display name: John Smith (type in your name or business name the way you would like it to appear when people are receiving your email)

2. Email address: (your actual email address - bob@blank.com)

3. My incoming mail server is a : POP3
        incoming mail server: mail.YOUR DOMAIN.com
       *outgoing mail server: mail.YOUR DOMAIN.com
*(note: if you use a slow dial-up connection, your outgoing mail server could be different, click here to find your outgoing mail server)

4. Account name: XXXXX - specified in control panel
(example "bob")
5. Password: XXXXX - specified in control panel

6. Highlight the mail account you just created
7. Select: Properties

8. Select the Servers Tab
9. Check "My servers requires authentication" box

10. Select: Apply
11. Select: OK
12. Select: Close
13. Select: Tools > Send / Receive > Send / Receive All
*if it is a new account you may not have any email yet...

Finished! Go through steps 1 - 11 for each account you set up.