You’ve got your brand new computer and arranged your email address. You’re all ready to set that up and start communicating with the outside world.
One small problem! When you click the magic link. It tells you that Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Outlook Express is not yet configured for your email.
Well what that heck? You mean you have to do this yourself?
Well yes, thats why its called do it yourself computing. You need to configure your email Windows email client.
Click the start button, and go to your email program, Outlook Express or Microsoft Outlook. Most of the time its going to bring up a wizard. If it doesn’t do that, select “TOOLS” and scroll down to “accounts”
A small box will pop up showing you four tabs.
- Select the “Mail” tab to set up your email account.
- At this point, after selecting mail, select the add, and slide over to the mail.
- An email connection wizard will pop up and ask you for your “display name“. This is not your email username, but simply what you want to show up on your account. If you would like to be known as “george of the jungle”, this is the place to type it.
- Click the next button and move on to the next screen.
- into the next screen, add your email address. click next and move forward
- The wizard wants to know your “incoming mail provider” and your “outgoing mail provider“. With just a few exceptions, these will both be “mail.yourisp.com” In other words, if your internet service provider is charter.net usually your incoming and outgoing mail providers will be mail.charter.net. (if this doesn’t work for you, then assume the incoming is pop.charter.net and the outgoing is smtp.charter.net.
- you will then be asked for your user name. This is whatever you selected or they told you,such as mine, would be ladymacbeth. Usernames for email are normally all small letters. In some cases, your user name will be your entire email address. Fill in the user name and the password that you chose, move to the next screen and you’re done.
- Send out a test mail to a friend and ask for a reply, so you can be certain that your email service is functional.
Your email client is configured and you’re ready to start sending mail.
