First Published - August 17, 2011
Setting Up Outlook Express
To setup Outlook Express to work with your WN6 Creative Design Internet mail account please follow these instructions.
- Start Outlook Express and select the Tools menu. From here select ‘Accounts’
- In the window that appears press the ‘Add’ button and then select ‘Mail…’
- Enter your name as you would like it to appear to people who receive emails from you. Then click ‘Next’.
- Enter the email address that you want to use and that you have setup with WN6 Creative Design Internet. Then click ‘Next’.
- 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 you should enter mail.’yourdomain.com’ as before. Then click Next.
- To finish you need to enter your username (which is your full email address) and password for your mail account. Once entered please click Next and then Finish.
- 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.
You need to click the tick-box that says ‘My server requires authentication’ or ‘This server requires me to log on’ and then click ‘OK’ and ‘Close’: - You can now send and receive emails!