Outlook Express: Guidelines for email account setup
This step-by-step article describes how to configure Microsoft Outlook Express to add a new Internet e-mail account.
| Website: | Microsoft Outlook Express - http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/oe/ |
| License: | Freeware |
| Download: | Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx |
Sample Configuration parameter:
User Information:
Your name: Name Surname
Email address: user [at] your-domain [dot] co [dot] za
Server Information:
Incoming (POP3) mail server: mail.your-domain.co.za (port 110)
Outgoing (SMTP) mail server: Use one that fits your internet connection type:
- Telkom (ADSL) - smtp.saix.net
- Telkom (Dialup) - smtp.saix.co.za
- IS ADSL - smtp.isdsl.net
- MTM 3G - mail.mtn.co.za
- Vodacom 3G - smtp.vodacom.co.za
- I-Burst - smtp.wbs.co.za
- Sentech - smtp.sentechsa.com
Account name: user [at] your-domain [dot] com
Password: mailbox password
(where 'your-domain.co.za' is the name of your registered domain with Syneco)
Guidelines for email account setup:
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Launch Microsoft Outlook/Express
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Select ‘Tools’ from the top menu bar
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Select ‘Accounts’
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Select the ‘Mail’ tab
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Click the ‘Add’ button; Select ‘Mail’; The Internet Connection Wizard will appear
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Enter your name (to appear in your emails)
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Enter your email address
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Enter the email server names information as per sample configuration above
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Enter you Account Name as user [at] your-domain [dot] co [dot] za and Password
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Your Outlook/Express mail program should now be set up
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