Outlook Express is an email client that is included in some of the Windows operating systems version. This email client should not be mistaken as another version of Microsoft Outlook. However, they share the same concept: they manage a user’s email account. In order for your email account to work with Outlook Express, you should have an existing email account, be it an account from a webmail program or from your hosting client. In this tutorial, we will learn how to setup an email account that was provided by your hosting account’s webmail.

To learn how to setup an email account in Outlook Express, follow the instructions in the demo below:

1. To be able to send and receive emails from your email account to Outlook Express, start by clicking the Tools link on the Menu bar of the window screen.

2. Select Accounts from the drop-down box.

3. You will now be able to see the Internet Accounts window. This is where the list of different Internet accounts are configured and given permission to use Outlook Express. Click the Add button.

4. A couple of options will show up. From the options, select Mail.

5. The Internet Connection Wizard window will pop up. In the Display Name box, enter the name that you would like to appear in the From outgoing email field.

6. Click Next.

7. On the next window that will pop out, enter your email address in the E-mail address box.

8. Click Next.

9. The E-mail Server Names window will appear. In this area, you have to enter your Incoming (POP3) and Outgoing (SMTP) server names. These server names are provided to you in your welcome email and usually in the format of mail.yourdomain.com. Click the incoming mail options drop down box.

10. Select POP3 from the choices as your incoming mail settings on the drop down box.

11. Enter your Incoming (POP3) server name in the box.

12. Then enter your Outgoing (SMTP) server name on the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server box.

13. Then click Next.

14. On the next window that will appear, enter the email username that was provided to you by your hosting provider in the Account name box. In this case, the entire email address or just the username prefix is typically used.

15. Enter the email password.

16. Click Next.

17. Click Finish to complete the wizard.

18. We have to finish configuring the email properties first, on the Internet Accounts window, select the email account we just created.

19. Click the Properties button.

20. On the next window that will show, change the name of the email to something more recognizable. Change this in the mail account box.

21. Under the User Information area, enter an Organization name if applicable.

22. Then enter a Reply To address in the Reply address box.

23. Click the Servers tab.

24. Tick the box beside My server requires authentication for SMTP authentication. This means that we are allowing Outlook Express to have access to our email account and with this authentication; we can send and receive emails from the email account through Outlook Express.

25. Click Settings.

26. Since most SMTP servers use the same username and password as incoming POP3 servers so we can just leave the Logon information as it is. Click OK.

27. Click Apply for the changes to take effect.

28. Click OK.

29. We have successfully set up the email account in Outlook Express and we can receive and send emails from the email account through Outlook Express. Click Close. This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to setup an email account in Outlook Express.

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