Online Business: Setting Up An Email Account in Outlook Express

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Author: amrit Hallan

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A long time back (OK, two years ago) I started my web
hosting business. Someone talked me into it, to be
frank. Someone who himself wanted to recruit me as a
reseller so that I could pay him monthly to sell his
web hosting service (very smart of him, very dumb of
me!). The idea was to provide very cheap custom
hosting packages so that people who were till them
hesitant about hosting their own websites would be
ready to host them just because the hosting cost was
so damn low. As is the fate of such low-cost-oriented
ventures, I incurred a huge loss and gained a
serpentine list of customers who couldn't
differentiate between a Word document and a web page
and who perhaps went to extra lengths to hire dumb
secretaries.

Anyway, I winded up the business in six months before
it could drive me to bankruptcy (and lunacy) and
transferred the existing clients to other servers
paying from my own pocket. Some of those customers
still think I'm supposed to solve their problems, not
only regarding their websites, but also when they
cannot set up their email accounts in Outlook Express.
Fortunately my phone numbers have changed since then
so I'm out of their reach but there are some that keep
coming back like the phantoms of an inexorable past.

A cloying secretary of one of such clients has been
trying to trace me down so that I could help her set
up an email account in Outlook Express. She
persistently called, and persistently refused to
comprehend whatever I said on the phone.

Finally I decided to write down the instructions and
then mail them to her. While writing these
instructions, it came to my mind that there must be
many people who would like to read these instructions,
for, they are simply, I wonder why to some they seem
precipitous. There are more and more people these days
who are gradually leaving their free email accounts
(Yahoo!, Hotmail, etc.) and going for their own
personal email accounts such as you@....

So without further delay, let us learn how to set up
an email account in Outlook Express.

First of all, but of course, you have to launch
Outlook Express (being lazy, from now onwards I'll
call it OE), if you haven't already launched it.

From your main OE window, click on Tools and then on
Accounts...

[1] Click on Add

[2] Click on Mail...

[3] For "Display Name" enter what you want to enter.
Click Next.

[4] For "Email Address" enter "you@...".
This is mostly what you enter but your ISP or your web
hosting provider may have something else for you to
enter. But in more than 90% cases, it is the email
that you enter.

[5] After choosing the account type as "POP3", for
"incoming mail" enter "mail.yourwebsite.com". This is
mostly what you enter but your ISP or your web hosting
provider may have something else for you to enter. But
in more than 90% cases, it is "mail.yourwebsite.com".

[6] For "outgoing mail" enter "mail.yourwebsite.com".
This is mostly what you enter but your ISP or your web
hosting provider may have something else for you to
enter. But in more than 90% cases, it is
"mail.yourwebsite.com". Click Next.

[7] For "Account Name" enter "you@...".
Again, this is mostly what you enter but your ISP or
your web hosting provider may have something else for
you to enter. But in more than 90% cases, it is
"you@...".


[8] For password enter your password

[9] Click Finish

Done.

This is the basic set up and most set ups are happy
with these settings. If you didn't close the first
most window (the one you got after clicking Tools ->
Accounts...), click on the email account you created
just now (you should be able to see it as
"mail.yourwebsite.com" or "something.yourwebsite.com")
and then click Properties.

The first tab you encounter is the General Tab. Here
you can first of all assign a name to the email
account you just created. This is going to come handy
if you plan to manage multiple email accounts using OE
installed on the same machine. After this you enter
"Name". This "Name" is the one you'll see under "From"
if I send an email to you (in my case it'd probably be
"Amrit Hallan"). So if you want people to know that
they have received an email from "Jack the Ripper",
you write "Jack the Ripper" in this box.

After this you enter "Organization". "E-mail address"
should be the one you are currently using and "Reply
address" is the one where you should get a reply if
your receiver simply clicks the "Reply" button and
send you a reply without entering any other email
address.

The next important tab is the Servers Tab. Most of the
information appearing here you must have already
entered, for instance incoming and outgoing mail
servers. There is an important check box at the bottom
that says something like, "My server requires
authentication". Some email and hosting providers
require you to check this box so that unauthorized
people cannot use your email account to spam the
others.

By the side of this check box there is a button
labelled as "Settings". If you click it, you can
decide whether you want to use the same login and
password that you use for your incoming mails for
authentication or some other. Mostly you don't have to
bother with all these intricacies but just in case.

Click the consecutive OK buttons and finally the Close
button, and you through with setting up your email
account in OE.

== Article Ends ==

About the author:

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Amrit Hallan is a freelance copywriter,
and a website content writer. He also writes
optimized content for better Search Engine
Ranking. To know more about his services,
visit his website site at
http://www.amrithallan.com/ah.asp?d=ar.

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