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Outlook Express 5 POP3
email account set-up instructions |
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If you currently are
running Microsoft Outlook Express 5 on your computer, you are eligible
to receive your browser-based email through it. At the current time,
you have to access the website to send and receive your email, but
with these few easy steps, you will be set up to receive all your
emails from one convenient location. |
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 Start
Outlook express.
In the buttons at the top there is one labeled "Tools". Click on it
and a list should drop down, allowing you many other choices. Towards
the bottom there should be a button called "Accounts". Click on it.
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When you click on this, a new window should appear like the one
above. This window is labeled "Internet Accounts". It displays the
list of all internet accounts and newsgroups you already subscribe to
in the main area. In the top right corner there is a button labeled
"Add". Click on this button and a short list should appear to the
right. Click on the choice labeled "Mail" as that is what you are
adding at the current time. |
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In this window which now appears, please enter a name for the account
to which all email sent from this account will carry. You probably
want this to be similar to or the same as the actual account name to
avoid confusion in replies.
After this click the
"Next" button. |
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Select that you already have an e-mail address that you would like to
use. Type the full email address we provided you with into the
appropriate field. You have to have the Account Name, "@" Symbol, and
website name, followed by the domain extension (usually ".com") all in
there or it will not work.
When this is done, click the "Next" button. |
Now you come to the server configuration for the account. If it is
not pre-selected, please select "POP3" from the drop down menu towards
the top. The first field is the server for incoming
emails at CSN1, so the next field must be the same as your website's
name.
Type "mail.", making sure to include the period. The next part should
be the same as the domain server that you wish to access email from.
We used "MiddletownUSA.com" as an example for retrieving eMail from
the website
www.MiddletownUSA.com . Just replace
the "http://www." with "mail." and you should be fine.
The next part
involves (Outgoing email) involves figuring out your Internet Service
Provider's (ISP) mail server. CSN1 does not relay outgoing
eMail. If you already have an eMail account on your computer,
you can open it and copy the server's address from there. Most
ISP's have their server clearly listed on their website.
When you are finished click on the "Next" button. |
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At this screen you are asked to provide the Account Name and
Password. The "Account Name" refers to the part before the "@" sign
in the e-mail address. Type it into the first blank. The password is
another field which we have given to you prior to this. It is the
same username and password that you use to log-on to your browser
based email.
Click the "Next" button. |
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If everything went fine, click the "Finish" button to add the account
to your list.
Close the "Internet Accounts" window, if it still remains open by
clicking on the "Close" button in the bottom right corner. |
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 If
all went well, when you click on the "Send/Receive" button in the top
left corner of Outlook Express you should see it retrieve all the
emails from your browser based account. |
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