Verifying your website email in Outlook Express

Verifying Your Email | Setup Your Email

Before you begin you should have the following information ready to use:

• your email address, password, and your domain name (your domain name is the part of your email address that comes after the @ sign. If your email address is bob@mediaservices1.com, then your domain name is mediaservices1.com)
• your incoming (POP3) mail server, this will be mail.mywebsite.com (replace mywebsite.com with your domain name)
• your outgoing (SMTP) mail server. You can use mail.mywebsite.com here also, but if it does not work you will need to check with your ISP or your office's Network Administrator

1. In Outlook Express click Tools > Accounts... and double-click on the email account you want to verify. In the Email Properties window check the following, though they will probably already be correct:

• any label you like in the top box
• your name in the Name field
• your email address in the Email Address field
• Reply address can be empty
• the checkbox at the bottom is a personal preference

Make any changes you'd like to, then click the Servers tab.

2. My incoming server is a POP3 server should be at the top. Change your incoming (POP3) server and outgoing (SMTP) server if you need to using the information you collected before beginning.

The Account name should be your full email addresss. You can choose to enter your password and save it here, but it is better to leave the password field empty and the Remember Password checkbox will be unchecked. This will require you to enter your email password when you check mail.

Make sure My server requires authentication is checked, but Log on using Secure Password Authentication above it , should not be checked.

3. Now send yourself a test email. When you have sent and received your email, you know your account is set up correclty.