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How to setup Outlook Express email

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To Setup Outlook Express email follow these steps:

To setup Outlook Express to work with your [name] mail account please follow these instructions.

Start Outlook Express and select the Tools menu. From here select 'Accounts'

Setting up email in Outlook Express step 1

In the window that appears press the 'Add' button and then select 'Mail...'

Setting up email in Outlook Express step 2

Enter your name as you would like it to appear to people who receive emails from you. Then click 'Next'.

Setting up email in Outlook Express step 3

Enter the email address that you want to use and that you have setup with [name]. Then click 'Next'.

Setting up email in Outlook Express step 4

Now you need to enter your incoming and outgoing servers. For the incoming server you should enter mail.'yourdomain.com' – substituting your own domain name for yourdomain.com. For the outgoing mail server we have a server called 'outitgoes.com' you should enter smtp.outitgoes.com or you can use mail.'yourdomain.com' as before. Then click Next.

Setting up email in Outlook Express step 5

To finish you need to enter your username (which is your full email address) and password for your mail account. You can view your username and password in [cpname]. Once entered please click Next and then Finish.

Setting up email in Outlook Express step 6

To allow you to send mail through our mail server you now need to make a small change to the properties of the account. Select 'properties from the Accounts' window:

Setting up email in Outlook Express step 7

You need to click the tick-box that says 'My server requires authentication' and then click the 'OK' and 'Close'.

Setting up email in Outlook Express step 8

You can now send and receive emails!