It is a simple process to set up your email
program to receive and send email. We've included instructions
for the four most popular e-mail clients below. Also reference
the Control Panel Manual sections of this knowledge base
for instructions on user accounts and password setup for
those account. Please note the basic setting for any email
client are described in your activation email.
•Eudora
Lite
•Microsoft Outlook
•Netscape
NOTE: For all e-mail clients, you must use YOUR dialup SMTP information,
where you are asked for your outgoing SMTP account. You should
obtain this information from your dialup Internet Service Provider.
If for some reason you can't use your ISP's smtp please submit
a suppot request to request this feature to be activated for your account. Please
read our policies for email services.
Eudora
Lite
Setting up Eudora Light
1. Click on the Tools menu and select Options.
2. Click on the Personal Info image under the Category section.
3. For the POP account field, enter username@mail.yourdomain.com.
4. For the Real name field, enter your name.
NOTE: You can use any name you want here with both upper and lower
case letters.
5. For the Return address field, enter: username@yourdomain.com.
6. Click on the Hosts image under the Category section.
7. For the SMTP field, enter your ISP's smtp-server.
8. Click on the OK button.
Checking
Your E-mail
1. Select File --> Check Mail or click on the Check
Mail button.
A password
window will appear.
2. Enter your password
3. Click on the OK button.
When you
receive a new e-mail message, it will show up in your In
box. New e-mail messages have a bullet on the left side
that will disappear when the message has been read.
To read
the new e-mail message, double-click on the item and a new
window will appear displaying the contents of the e-mail message.
To close
the message, simply click on the X in the top-right
corner of the message window.
Sending
E-mail
1. Select Message --> New Message or click
on the New Message button.
2. Fill in the To field with the recipient's e-mail
address.
3. Fill in the Subject field with the topic of the
e-mail message.
4. Fill in the Body of the e-mail with your message.
5. Click on the Send button to deliver the e-mail.
Microsoft
Outlook E-mail Settings
1. Open
the Accounts view.
Because you
can set up as many mail accounts as you want, the Internet
Accounts dialog box displays all your account information.
To open it, choose Tools --> Accounts from the menu
bar.
2. Create a new account.
The Internet
Accounts dialog box has three tabs at the top. Click Mail to see only your mail accounts. (We'll talk about the Directory
Services later.) Choose Add to start creating a new
account.
3. Answer the Wizard's Questions.
Answer
the questions on each page of the Internet Connection Wizard,
choosing the Next button to move from one question
to the next.
4. Enter Your Server Names.
You may
have to verify some of the wizard's questions. In particular,
your POP server and SMTP server names
are. Your pop server is mail.yourdomain.com and your SMTP server will be the one your ISP uses. This information is
essential if Outlook is to properly connect to your mail account
for sending and retrieving mail.
5. Enter Your Logon Name.
In this
section you will need to enter the username and password of the account that you are trying to check.
Example: If I want to check mailto:123@mydomain.com the username
will be OneWorld and the password will be the one I set in
the Domain Manager.
6. Choose a Connection
Select
the kind of Internet connection that your computer uses. It's
often convenient to select Connect Using My Local Area
Network, even if you use a modem to connect to the Internet.
7. Set a Default Account
If you
want to make your new account the default for sending email,
select the account name and click the Set as Default button.
Netscape
E-mail Settings
Setting
up Netscape Mail
1. Click
on the Options menu and select Mail and News Preferences.
2. Click
on the Servers tab.
3. For
the Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server field, enter your ISP's
smtp-server.
4. For
the Incoming Mail (POP3) Server field, enter: mail.yourdomain.com.
5. For
the POP3 User Name field, enter your username.
6. For
the News (NNTP) Server field, enter your ISP's news-server.
7. Click
on the Identity tab.
8. In
the Your Name field, enter your name.
NOTE: You can use whatever name you want here with both upper and
lower case letters.
9. For the Your e-mail field, enter: username@youdomain.com
10. Click
on the OK button.
Checking
Your e-mail
1. Click
on the Window menu and select Netscape Mail or click
on  which appears in the bottom-right corner of the Netscape
window.
2. Click
on the File menu and select Get New Mail or click
on the Get Mail button.
A password
window will appear.
3. Enter
your password
4. Cclick
on the OK button.
When you
receive a new e-mail message, it will show up in your In
box. To read the e-mail simply select the message and it
will be displayed below for easy reading.
Sending E-Mail
1. Click
on the File menu and select New Mail Message or click on the To:Mail button.
2. Fill
in the Mail To field with the recipient's e-mail address.
3. Fill
in the Subject field with the topic of the e-mail message.
4. Fill
in the Body of the e-mail with your message.
5. Click
on the Send button to deliver the e-mail. |
