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| Tech Support: Outlook Configuration (Windows) |
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set up your desk top email client, you will need to follow the instructions that are provided in your software's manual or in the help function. Each email client has their own ways of doing things, but most of them provide simple to use set up wizards. The below example follows the wizard provided in Microsoft Outlook XP/2002 and serves as an example. It may provide some guidance also if you use another email client. |
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Open Outlook. |
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Go to the Tools menu, and then to E-mail Accounts. |
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In
the Email Accounts window, select the Add a new email account option and click Next.
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In
the next Email Accounts window, select the POP3 option and click Next.
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In
the next Email Accounts window, fill in:
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| Your Name: |
As you want it to appear on emails that you send out. |
| E-mail Address: |
In accordance the confirmation you received from YourNameEmail.com. |
| User Name: |
Add your complete email address, even if only the account portion of it appears in the text field. |
| Password: |
Your exact account password as provided by YourNameEmail.com. |
| Incoming mail server: |
Add mail. in front of the email domain that you have selected. Example: If your domain is cooldude.com, your incoming mail server is mail.cooldude.com. |
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Add smtp. in front of the email domain that you have selected. Example: If your domain is cooldude.com, your outgoing mail server is smtp.cooldude.com. (Some Internet Service Providers block access to third party SMTP. In that case, use their server name.) |
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Click More Settings.
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In the Internet E-mail Settings window, under the General tab, name your account in the Mail Account text field. (This name is for you to recognize this account among other accounts that you may have. It is not related to to the emails that you will be sending out.) |
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Select the Outgoing Server tab |
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In the Internet E-mail Settings window, under the Outgoing Server tab, check off My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication and select Use same settings as my incoming mail server. |
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Click OK. |
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Back in the E-mail Accounts window, click Next. |
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When the following window appears, click Finish. Your account setup is complete and you are ready to go! |
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