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Customer
Guide
Settings for OutLook
Express Support
MS Outlook Express
The purpose of this example
is to explain the entries of an e-mail account. Hopefully it will
help in creating a new account or reconfiguring an existing account.
In this example, we have a preexisting fictitious user whose name
is John Smith. His user ID on the system is 'Smith'. His e-mail
address is 'smith@qwdesign.net'.
* Launch
Outlook Express.
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Choose "Accounts"
from the "Tools" menu.
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Select the "Mail"
tab in the "Internet Accounts" dialog box.
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Press "Add".
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Select "Mail &".
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Enter the name
you would like to appear in your email. This could be your real
or nickname.( John or JS)
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Press "Next" to
continue.
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Enter your Internet
"E-mail address:" This should be the alias and domain name for
your mailbox as in sales@sample-name.org.
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Press "Next" to
continue.
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"Email Server
Name"
Enter the names of your Incoming and Outgoing mail servers.
Incoming mail (POP3 or IMAP) server: server1.gcisnet.net
Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: server1.gcisnet.net
*Exceptions: for (SMTP) for some internet
carriers such as Cox, ATT, AOL, Earthlink and so on:
Example: For Cox: ----smtp.west.cox.net
- Press "Next" to continue.
- "Internet Mail Logon"
Enter the mailbox and password you have chosen or have been assigned
as in samplenam001.
Incoming Mail Server:
Account name: (ex: mybusiness001)(provided in your email address
sent by QWD)
password: xxxxxx (provided
in your email address sent by QWD)
- Check Remember Password.
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Choose "Finish".
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Choose "Close".
___________________________________________________________________________________
Enter a friendly name for this account. This should be something
you will recognize if you check more than one mailbox.
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Choose "Accounts"
from the "Tools" menu.
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Select the "Mail"
tab in the "Internet Accounts" dialog box.
- Highlight the any email account that you want to change the
Name.
- Click the Properties button.
- "Mail Account"
Put any name that you want on the first box:
Example: Family Email
- Click Ok
- Click 'Close'.
You are now ready to send and receive
mail.
_______________________________________________________________________
Tips to make your mailbox
safe ( from virus):
1) You could request a filter service
for your mailbox, so you do not receive junk. However, it would
limit you to receive Zip files.
2) Please do not open your
mail box there is any strange attachments
3) View + Preview Pane Should be OFF
4)Update your anti virus software
5)Use 1 email for sending out AND 1 to receive emails, so you would
have a better way to control your coming emails
Other helpful links for references:
How
to setup email?
How do I FTP using
WS_FTP?
Mail
lists, using and admin instructions
Our mail box
Useful Information about eMail
Errors:
Vijay N(Tech Support): The problem you are having is due to Port
25 blocking. This blocks any 3rd party outgoing mail servers from
being accessed while connected to the EarthLink network via Dialup,
DSL or Cable. This has been done to eliminate much of the spam originating
from our customers. Most of this spam is being sent from 3rd party
SMTP servers and not the EarthLink SMTP servers. All you need to
do is go into your e-mail program's settings and change the outgoing
mail server to either mail.mindspring.com or mail.earthlink.net.
One of these will work for you and allow you to send mail while
connected to your EarthLink connection without a problem.
To explain this in more "real world" terms, think of
the US Mail system. All that's going in is that you're being required
to use your current connection's post office (outgoing mail server)
to post mark your email. Every ISP has post office server to do
this for the customers connected. And just like the US Mail system,
the postmark does not change the address the mail message is coming
from.
This policy has been in effect for nearly 3 years on the MindSpring
side of the company and is now being implemented on the EarthLink
side of the company.
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