If you would like to add an e-mail
address to Outlook Express, follow the procedure below. You can configure
Outlook Express to check as many e-mail addresses as you like.
To quickly and automatically setup your mail
accounts:
You can setup your pop email accounts, including modifying the password in
plusmail. To do this:
1. Log into your control panel (http://www.yourdomain-here.com/cgi-bin/plusmail/)
2. Select "User Manager"
3. Select "Add User"
To add e-mail accounts in Outlook
Express:
1. Open Outlook Express
2. Move to the "Tools" drop
down menu and select "Accounts."
3. Select "Add Mail" from
the "Right" menu option.
4. In the "account name box",
enter a name for your mail account, and click
"Next."
4. In the "Email Box", enter
the email address for this account and click
"Next."
5. Set "Mail Server Names"
6. Enter the "Login and Password"
for this email account. Use the "username"
as the login name of the account you're configuring, as illustrated in the
following "example." If you setup the pop "bob@yourdomain.com",
the username/Account Name is: bob
7. Click "Finish." and
you'll see a message like this:
8. Do not exit your account settings yet! Highlight
your "New Account" and select "Properties."
as illustrated in the following example:
9. In the properties dialog box, select
"Servers", then select the "My
Server Requires Authentication" option as shown below:
That's pretty well it! Close your account settings and test out your
new address by sending a message to it. If you're able to send a
message, and receive that same message in your new account, then
congratulations! - you've successfully setup your first email account on our
servers. You can configure as many email accounts as your like in
Outlook Express using the same above process.
Potential problems with
sending mail:
Due the the mass amount of abuse from a few problem souls, an increasing
number of ISP's are disabling ability to "send mail" through someone
else's SMTP server. If you receive an error message
when attempting to use our "Outgoing SMTP" server, it probably means
your ISP has denied access to (what is otherwise known) as 'third party
relaying." To solve this problem, simply go back to your account
properties, and select the "server settings" tab. Then, there are
two things you must do:
1. Change the "SMTP
Outgoing Mail Server" settings to the same ones as you're using on
your ISP's email account. To do this, have a look at "Step 8"
just a few above this one. In this case, select the properties of your
ISP mail account, then go to properties, and select "Servers."
Copy those "SMTP Outgoing Mail Server"
settings to your new account, or write them down and enter them in manually.
2. Deselect the "My
Server Requires Authentication" option.
DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE! You can now receive
mail from your domain account, while sending mail will be accomplished through
your ISP's SMTP servers. This will in no way effect the performance or
look of your email messages coming from your domain.
Note:
PLEASE… DO NOT send large volumes of mailings through our SMTP Relay
server. It's really provided as a courtesy to our users, and not something to
be used for mass mailing list purposes. If you're sending large emails, or are
running a mailing list, PLEASE use your ISP's mail server for this purpose.
They are better setup for this sort of heavy duty usage, and you won't clog
our SMTP server, which also needs to provide resources to other users.
