Start up Outlook Express.
Click Tools.
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Under Tools,
click Accounts
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In Accounts window,
Click the Mail tab.
The large white area should show your accounts.
(If it shows old accounts you don't want,
highlight them and click the "Remove" button.)
Click on the mail account you want to update to highlight it, then click the "Propertiess" button on the right.
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First, you will see the General Properties.
It should look something like this.
The top item (J Smith spsp mail) is only seen by you. It's not very important unless you have lots of email addresses.
The 4 items under "User information" are sent with each email you send. (You can fill in the Orgaization if you want.)
The email address and reply address should both be filled in. They're ordinarily the same, with, obviously, your email address instead of Jerry's.
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Click the "Advanced" Tab.
Enter "587" into the Port Number for Outgoing mail.
Your "Incoming mail port " may be 143 (for IMAP) or 110 (for POP3). Leave this for now.
Note that the checkboxes for SSL are not checked.
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Click the "Servers" tab.
Your incoming server may be POP3 or IMAP. Leave it, that's not the subject here.
Your incoming and your SMTP (outgoing) server names should be set already. (See other Email FAQs.)
Your "Account name" should be your full email address.
Click the checkbox for "My server requires authentication."
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Click the "Settings" button.
Click "Use the same settings as incoming mail Server."
Click OK.
After you've saved these settings, we recommned you close Outlook Express, then restart it. |
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