How to Check and Configure Outlook
Express Account Properties
How to: Set up Outlook
Express to use multiple e-mail addresses (using a LAN)
How to Separate Incoming Mail
into Folders in Outlook Express
How to Set Up a Signature in
Outlook Express
How to Use a Signature in Outlook
Express
How to Check and Configure Outlook
Express Account Properties
Displaying Microsoft® Outlook
Express account properties
1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Click [Mail] on the Internet
Explorer toolbar
3. Choose
[Read Mail] (this launches Outlook Express)
4. Click [Tools] on the Outlook Express
toolbar
5. Click [Accounts]
(this opens the Account Management screen)
6. Select the [Mail] tab
7. Choose your Prodigy mail account (e.g.
pop.prodigy.net)
8. Click
[Properties]
Editing User Information
With the [Properties] window open:
1. Select the [General] tab
- Name: The name you to choose
to be associated with your outgoing e-mail
- Organization: Optional
- E-Mail Address: Your Prodigy
Internet E-Mail address
- Reply Address: Your Prodigy
Internet E-Mail address
2. Select "Include this
account when doing a full send and receive"
Editing Server Settings
With the [Properties] window open:
Editing Connection Settings
With the [Properties] window open:
Editing Advanced Settings
With the [Properties] window open:
After making any changes
to the account properties:
Solution:
In Outlook Express, select
the 'Tools' menu and select 'Accounts...'. Click 'Add' and select
'Mail...'. Follow the Wizard's instructions, select the 'Connect
using my local area network (LAN)' radio button, and click 'Next'.
Click 'Finish' and click 'Close'.
- 1) If necessary, open Outlook Express. (The 'Outlook Express' window
appears.)
- 2) Select the 'Tools' menu and
select 'Accounts...'. (The 'Internet Accounts' dialog box appears.)
- 3) Click 'Add' and select 'Mail...'.
- 4) If Outlook Express displays
a dialog box prompting you to set it as the default e-mail client,
click 'Yes' to make it the default. (The 'Internet Connection
Wizard' dialog box appears.)
- 5) In the 'Display name' box, type
your name and click 'Next'. (The 'Internet E-mail Address' screen
appears.)
The 'Your Name' screen
- 6) Type your e-mail address in
the 'E-mail address' box and click 'Next'. (The 'E-mail Server
Names' screen appears.)
The 'Internet E-mail Address'
screen
- 7) If your mail server is an IMAP
server, select 'IMAP' from the 'My incoming mail server is a'
drop-down list box.
- 8) Type the name of the incoming
mail server in the 'Incoming mail (POP3 or IMAP) server' box.
- 9) Type the name of the outgoing
mail server in the 'Outgoing mail (SMTP) server' box.
The 'E-mail Server Names' screen
- 10) Click 'Next'. (The 'Internet
Mail Logon' screen appears.)
- 11) Do one of the following:
- a) If you use Secure Password
Authentication (SPA) to access your e-mail account, select
the 'Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)'
radio button.
The 'Log on using Secure Password Authentication
(SPA)' radio button
- b) If you do not use Secure
Password Authentication:
- 1] Select the 'Log on using'
radio button.
- 2] Type your e-mail account
name in the '<server> account name' box, where
<server> is the type of incoming mail server.
- 3] Type your password in
the 'Password' box.
The 'Log on using' radio
button
- 12) Click 'Next'. (The 'Friendly
Name' screen appears.)
- 13) Type a name for the mail account
in the 'Internet mail account name' box and click 'Next'. (The
'Choose Connection Type' screen appears.)
- 14) Select the 'Connect using my
local area network (LAN)' radio button and click 'Next'. (The
'Congratulations' screen appears.)
- 15) Click 'Finish'.
- 16) Click 'Close' to close the 'Internet
Accounts' dialog box.
- 17) Select the 'File' menu and select
'Exit'.
- 18) (Optional) To add an account
for a different Windows user profile:
- a) Do one of the following:
- 1] If the Windows desktop
update is not installed:
- a] Click 'Start' on
the Windows taskbar.
- b] Select 'Shut Down...'.
- c] Select the 'Close
all programs and log on as a different user' radio
button and click 'Yes'.
- 2] If the Windows 95 desktop
update is installed:
- a] Click 'Start' on
the Windows taskbar.
- b] Select 'Log off
<user name>...', where <user name> is
the name of the current logged on user.
- c] Click 'Yes'.
- b) Type the profile user name
in the 'User name' box.
- c) Type the profile password
in the 'Password' box and click 'OK'.
- 19) Repeat steps 1) through 17)
to add another e-mail account.
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How to Separate Incoming Mail
into Folders in Outlook Express
Filters can be used so that incoming mail for a particular mailbox
is
automatically placed in the folder of your choice. For example,
if you
use your Additional Mailbox for business-related e-mail and you'd
like
all the e-mail sent to that mailbox to be kept in a separate folder
called
"Business," you can do so by following these steps:
1. Go to the Menu bar and click on "Tools" and then "Inbox
Assistant."
2. Select "Add" in the "Inbox
Assistant" window to bring up the
"Properties" box.
3. Click and select "Account",
then use the pull down window to select
the name of your Additional Mailbox account. (If your Additional
Mailbox is not listed, follow the instructions above: "How
to Set Up an
Additional Mailbox in Outlook Express".)
4. Next, click and select "Move to" and then "Folder."
This will bring up
a new window called "Move."
5. Click and highlight "Outlook Express" at the top of
the list of folders.
Next, click on the "New Folder" button and type in a name
for your new
folder (i.e., "Business") and click "OK."
6. This new folder will now appear in the list of folders in the
"Move"
window. Click and highlight the new folder, then click "OK."
7. The name of your new folder should now appear in the field next
to
"Move to" in the "Properties" window. Click
"OK."
8. Click "OK" in the "Inbox Assistant" window.
All incoming e-mail
addressed to your Additional Mailboxes address will now appear in
the
new folder.
How to Set Up a Signature in Outlook Express
A signature is a quote or piece of information that you want appended
to all of your outgoing e-mail. If you would like to create a signature
in
Outlook Express for the first time, you can do so by following these
steps:
1. Go to the Menu bar in Outlook Express and select "Tools"
and then
"Stationery."
2. Select the "Mail tab" and then click on "Signature."
3. Type in your signature, then hit "OK."
How to Use a Signature in Outlook Express
Outlook Express allows you to set up only ONE outgoing e-mail
signature. So, if you have more than one mailbox (for example, one
e-mail address for personal e-mail and one for business) and you
have
a personal signature set up in Outlook Express, you may not want
to
add this when you use your business address to send out
business-related e-mail.
If you do not want to use your current
signature for all your outgoing
mail and would rather add a signature on a case-by-case basis, you
can do so by following these steps:
1. Make sure your signature is not set up to appear automatically
in all
your outgoing messages.
Go to the Menu bar in Outlook Express
and select "Tools" then
"Stationery."
Select the "Mail" tab, then click on "Signature."
Be sure the "Add this signature to all outgoing messages"
box
is not checked, then hit "OK."
2. To create a new message in which
you can decide whether or not to
add your signature:
Click the "Compose Message"
button in Outlook Express to
start a new message.
Go to the "Insert" menu, then click "Signature."
Your signature
will now appear in the body of your e-mail message.
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