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How to configure Outlook Express

This article provides you the different types of outlook express configurations like basic outlook express configuration, configure Outlook express for hotmail account and multiple email account configurations in outlook express. Outlook Express is used for sending and receiving emails purposes.

 


General or basic Outlook Express Configuration:

You should follow these steps for basic Outlook configuration:

  1. First step is to launch Outlook Express.
  2. Press on Accounts to go to on “Tools” menu.
  3. Press the "Add" button and then click "Mail".
  4. In display name is your name as you would like it shown on outgoing mail messages


 

 

 

5. Email address specifies.
TEACHERS: Your email address is NetID@dal.ca.
FACULTY and STAFF: Specify your email alias (Firstname.Lastname@dal.ca)
6. Specify the email server type (IMAP) as well as Incoming and Outgoing server names.
Select IMAP as My incoming mail server type.
Enter imap.dal.ca as the Incoming mail Server.
Outgoing Server.
This depends on where you use your computer.
If your computer is on the Daly campus, use "SMTP.Dal.CA"

7. Name of your account is your own username (NetID).
8. Press “Finish” to save the configuration.
9. Press “Close” on the Internet Accounts dialog box.
10. Press “Yes” to download folder names from email server.

11. Enter your password and click OK.

12. You will see a dialog box will list all folders found in your email account then press “Ok”.
13. All the above steps when you performed, this completes the configuration of Outlook Express. New email messages will be delivered to the Inbox. You can create different folders on the server for storing messages.


Begin Outlook Express Configuration to use a Hotmail account:

To use a hotmail account, following these steps that mention below:

1. Open Outlook Express at first step.
2. Press “Accounts” on the Tools menu.
3. Then press “Add” then press “Mail”.
4.
In the Display name box, type your name and then press “next”.
5. In e-mail address box, type your Hotmail address and press “Next”.
6.
Press “HTTP” in my incoming mail server is box.
7. In the My HTTP mail service provider is box. Press “Hotmail”.
8. You must confirm that "http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp" (without quotation marks) is in the Incoming mail (POP3), IMAP or HTTP server box.
9. Then in the “Account name” box, type your Hotmail account name.
10. In the “Password” box, type your password then Press “Next”.
11. Click "Finish". Your new account appears on the Mail tab of the Internet Accounts dialog box.
12. Click "Close". At the prompt to download folders from the mail server that you added.
13. At last click “Yes”.

Begin Configure the Outlook Express for Multiple E-mail Accounts:

For multiple email accounts you must follow these steps:


1. Open the Outlook Express.
2. On the “Tools” menu select “Accounts”.
3. Press on the “Mail” tab button.
4. Click “Add “on the right side of the box and choose Mail.
5. Type the display name for the account then Click “Next’.
6. If you already have the new account, click the top radio button. Enter the name of the account, Press “next”.
7. Type the mail server information you collected in the first step. Be sure to type the information as it appears in your notes. Click “Next”.
8. Type the user name as it appears on the account. The name is usually what precedes the address; for example, the account name of feedback@ehow.com is "feedback."
9.
Then type the password to access the account. If the password is incorrect or you can't remember it, contact the e-mail provider.
10. Check the Remember Password box if you don't want Outlook to prompt you for the password each time it checks the mail.
11. Then click “Finish”. Repeat as needed for all e-mail accounts.
12. Edit account properties by clicking on the name and choosing Properties from the list on the right.
13. Now you are completed all the steps for multiple email accounts is done now.

An Outlook Express user can easily configure the Outlook Express by the help of all the steps that described in this article step by step. This article provides you the basic Outlook Express configuration, multiple email account configuration and configure the Outlook Express to use a hotmail account.