configuring email in Microsoft Outlook

The following instructions are for setting up your new POP3 email account in Microsoft Outlook 2000. Setting up Outlook Express or other versions of Microsoft's Office suite may feature different wizard dialogues, however the information required from you will remain the same.

Step 1:

Select Tools >>> Accounts
Click on Add >>> Mail…
(you may already have one or more accounts listed… that's OK)

Step 2:

Enter in your Display Name - This is how your emails will be identified to people when you send them out (I like to put both my name and company name here). Click Next.

Step 3:

Enter in your full email address. Click Next

Step 4:

Enter in your mail server information. There are two types of mail servers: incoming (usually called a POP3 mail server) and outgoing (usually known as a SMTP server). Here we need to input the values required for both.

Incoming server: yourdomain.com (or .ca, .net, etc.)
Outgoing mail: yourdomain.com (or .ca, .net, etc.) – NOTE: some ISP’s (sympatico for example) do not allow relaying, in this case you will need to use your ISP’s mail server. Contact us for more details.

Step 5:

Now your personal logon information. Enter your full email address and password as supplied to you in the fields required.

Step 6:

Connecting to the Internet. Indicate how you connect to the web.

Step 7:

You are now finished providng the required information. Click Next and Finished, and exit from the wizard. Your email client should now be configured for use.