How to configure OUTLOOK EXPRESS to send and receive emails

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Start Outlook Express and select the Tools menu. From here select ‘Accounts’

In the window that appears press the ‘Add’ button and then select ‘Mail…’

Enter your name as you would like it to appear to people who receive emails from you. Then click ‘Next’.

Enter the email address that you want to use and that you have setup with us. Then click ‘Next’.

Now you need to enter your incoming and outgoing servers. For the incoming server you should enter mail.’yourdomain.co.nz’ – substituting your own domain name for yourdomain.co.nz. For the outgoing mail server there are three options open to you (1) you can use mail.'yourdomain.co.nz' as before (2) We have access to a server called ‘outitgoes.com’ therefore you should enter smtp.outitgoes.com (3) The third option applies to some ISP's that require you to use their own SMTP address. In this situation you will need to find out from the provider the address to be used. Typically this might be smtp.xtra.co.nz. Then click Next.

To finish you need to enter your username (which is your full email address) and password for your mail account. You can view your username and password in your comtrol panel. Once entered please click Next and then Finish.

To allow you to send mail through our mail server you now need to make a small change to the properties of the account. Select ‘properties from the Accounts’ window:

You need to click the tick-box that says ‘My server requires authentication’ and then click the ‘OK’ and ‘Close’.

You can now send and receive emails!