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Setting Up Mail in Microsoft Outlook Express

Setting Up Mail in Microsoft Outlook Express

1.Select Accounts from the Tools menu.

          
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2.On the Mail tab, click Add, then select Mail. The program will then take you through a series of screens entitled the Internet Connection Wizard.

          
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3.In the Display Name box on the first screen, type your real name the way you would like it displayed in your outgoing messages. This is not your e-mail address - simply your ordinary name e.g. John Smith

          
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4.The next screen will prompt you to enter your full email address (for example, username@oceanfree.net).

          
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5.On the next screen, select POP3 from the pull-down menu. Enter your POP3 host (for example, mail.oceanfree.net) into the Incoming Mail Server box, and your SMTP server (smtp.oceanfree.net) in the Outgoing Mail Server box.

          
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6.On the next screen, type in the account name for your email address and your password. Your account name is that part of your email address before the "@" symbol. For example, if your email address were john.smith@oceanfree.net then your acccount name is john.smith.

          
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7. You are now ready to receive and send mail using Microsoft Outlook.

          
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