Setting Up Your E-mail in MS Outlook Express

This tutorial shows you how to set up Microsoft Outlook Express 6 to work with your e-mail account. This tutorial focuses on setting up Microsoft Outlook Express 6, but these settings are similar in other versions of Microsoft Outlook Express. You can set up previous versions of Microsoft Outlook Express by using the settings in this tutorial.

To Set Up Your E-mail Account in Microsoft Outlook Express

To setup an e-mail account click on Tools and then Accounts

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Go to the Mail tab and from the Add menu, select Mail.
In the Display Name field, enter you full name and click Next.
In the E-mail address field, enter your email address and click Next.
On the E-mail Server Names page, enter your information as follows:

My incoming mail server is a
Select POP3.
Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) server
Type mail.flymail.net.
Outgoing mail (SMTP) server
Type mail.flymail.net.

Click Next.
In the Account Name and Password fields, enter your email address and password.
Note: password may be case-sensitive (i.e. 'A' is not the same as 'a'). When finished, click Next.
On the Setup Confirmation page, click Finish.
On the Mail tab, select the account you just created and then click Properties.
Click on the Servers tab and check the Remember password
and My server requires authentication checkboxes, and then click Apply.
Click on the Advanced tab and in the Server Port Numbers section,
make sure Outgoing mail (SMTP) is set to 25 and
Incoming mail (POP3) is set to 110, and then click OK, and finally click Close.
Congratulations! Your Outlook Express account is now set up. Click Close to close
the Internet Accounts window and return to your Outlook Express.