Outlook Tutorial

The POP protocol was originally designed around the offline mail delivery model due to the high costs of having to stay online to retrieve mail. With POP, users connect on to their mail server, download the mail to their local computer, disconnect from the server letting them read the emails while offline. Emails are stored on the server until the user downloads the mail using a mail client such as Microsoft Outlook or Eudora.

Remember to replace "username" with your actual username, and replace "yourname.com" with your actual domain name.

Mail Account (can be any label): username@yourname.com
Email Address: username@yourname.com
Reply Address: username@yourname.com
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server: mail.yourname.com
Incoming Mail (POP) Server: mail.yourname.com
Logon using Account Name: username
Password: yourpassword

MS Outlook Setup Tutorial

1. Start Outlook. Select "Accounts" from the Tool menu.
 
2. Select the "Add" button and choose "Mail".

3. Enter your real name in the "Display name" text box.

4. Click the "Next" button to continue.

5. Enter your email address (in the form of username@yourname.com) in the "Email address" text box. Click the "Next" button to continue.

6. Enter the incoming mail server name (in the form of mail.yourname.com) in the "Incoming mail (POP3) server" text box.

7. Enter the outgoing mail server name (in the form of mail.yourname.com) in the "Outgoing mail (SMTP) server" text box. Please note that some ISPs may require that they use their SMTP servers to send mail.

8. Click the "Next button" to continue.

9. Select POP3 from the "my incoming mail server is a" drop-down menu.

10. Enter your incoming and outgoing mail server information.

11. Enter your account name (in the form of: username) in the "Account name" text box.

12. Enter your account password in the "Password" text box. Your password is hidden for security reasons.

13. Click the "Next" button to continue.

14. Enter your connection type and click the "Next" button to continue.

15. Click the "Finish" button.

by Mitch Moccia
Xpancom.com