To configure your Outlook Express or any other e-mail
client, you need to know your POP3 and SMTP servers. To
find them out:
- Log into H-Sphere control panel;
- Select Mail Info in the Mail Info
menu.
Your provider's mail server may use different SMTP relays for
sending mail - POP before SMTP or SMTP AUTH. In POP
before SMTP, the relay system collects your IP address when you
authenticate yourself with the POP server, and then permits SMTP
relaying from that IP address for a short period of time. In other
words, if your server uses POP before SMTP, you need to check your
mail first, only then you can send your messages. If your mail
servers uses SMTP AUTH, you must configure your Outlook
Express to send a login and password not only when you receive mail,
but also when you send it. Ask your provider which relay the server
uses.
- Configuring Outlook Express (POP before SMTP
relay).
- Configuring with SMTP Auth relay.
Configuring Outlook Express
To configure this email client with the POP before
SMTP relay:
- Open Outlook Express.
- In the menu bar, go to the Tools
drop-down menu and select Accounts.
- On the page that shows, click Add and
select Mail.
- On the wizard page that shows, enter your
name in the field and click Next to
proceed.
Note: this email will appear when you send out emails.
- On the page that shows, enter your Email
Address and click Next to proceed.
- In the form that shows:
- in the drop-down box, choose POP3 as
your incoming server;
- enter the Mail Server Name for both
Incoming Mail and Outgoing Mail;
- click Next to proceed.
- On the page that appears:
- make sure to enter full email address
in the Account Name field;
- enter mailbox password in the Password
field;
- check the Remember Password box to
avoid entering it every time you check or send
email;
- click Next to proceed.
- On the page that shows, click Finish
to save settings and get back to the list of
email accounts
- Now that email account is created, select Accounts
from the Tools drop-down menu in the menu bar.
- On the Internet Accounts window,
select the newly created mail account and click
Properties to edit the settings for your
email account.
- On the Properties page that appears,
choose the General tab and check the
settings of your email account.
Here you can:
- set the name that will show in your letters
- set reply email (should be the same as email )
- Click Apply and OK to save settings.
Configuring Outlook Express with SMTP Auth
Relay
You can set SMTP Auth relay right after your email
account is created (steps 1- 8) as it is described
above. To set SMTP Auth, do the following:
- Select Accounts from the Tools drop-down
menu in the menu bar.
- On the Internet Accounts window,
select the newly created mail account and
click Properties to edit the email
settings.
- On the Properties page that appears, choose the
Servers tab.
- Check My server requires authentication box and
click Settings on the right.
- On the Outgoing Mail Server window
that shows you can:
- use the same settings as incoming server;
- enter account name and input another password
for outgoing email.
Note: make sure to check Remember password if
you don't want to enter password each time
you send out email.
- Click OK.
- Back on the Properties page, click Apply and
OK to save settings and then close all dialog boxes.
Now that Outlook Express is configured, you can send and
receive emails.
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