Chapter Six - Pop 3 Email Settings
 

Setting up your accounts to send and receive email is a relatively simple process. We've included instructions for the five most popular email clients below. If for some reason you feel you must have a SMTP (outgoing) server, we provide this feature to all our accounts.

Please note: Although your account exists on our server, you won't be able to receive email at yourname@yourdomain.com until InterNIC has activated you in the domain name servers.

Eudora Pro 4.0
Eudora Lite
Microsoft Explorer
Netscape
Microsoft Outlook
 

GENERAL MAIL SETTINGS:

Email Address = username@yourdomain.com (.net, .org)
Mail Server user name = username 
Outgoing SMTP Mail Server = The SMTP server of your Internet Service Provider
Incoming POP3 Mail Server = yourdomain.com (.net, .org) 

Your default email address is username@yourdomain.com, and that's where all your email will be sent to, unless other configurations take priority (such as autoresponders and redirects). 

EUDORA LITE MAIL SETTINGS:

Start Eudora and select "Settings" from the menu bar. Most of the options are self explanatory. Here are the steps you need to perform to set up Eudora: 

1) Select "Settings" from the "Special" menu
2) Select the "Getting Started" tab, then under Real Name, enter your Real Name
3) Under "POP Account" put username@yourdomain.com
4) Leave Return Address blank unless you want people to send return email to you at a different email account
5) If you use the Macintosh version, the radio button for TCP/IP connection should be highlighted
6) Click the "Personal Information" tab (also only for the Macintosh version) 
7) Under POP account put username@yourdomain.com again
8) Fill out the "Real Name" and "Return Address" as you did before
9) Under "Dial up User Name" enter your account username (do not enter .com or .net here) 
10) Click the "Hosts" tab then enter username@yourdomain.com again under POP Account, and put the SMTP server of your local Internet Service Provider (ISP) under the outgoing SMTP Server. 
11) Go to the "Checking Mail" tab and make sure "Save Password" is checked. 

When you select "Check Mail" under the File menu, a window will pop up asking for your password. Enter in your password then click on the proceed button and Eudora will check to see if you have email. You can now send a test email message to yourself and then check to see if it gets returned to you. If you checked "Save Password" as in step 11, Eudora will not prompt you again for your password after the first time. If multiple users have access to your computer, and you don't want them to have access to your email account, make sure "Save Password" is unchecked. 

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MICRSOFT INTERNET MAIL:

The sample assumes a domain name of yourname.com 

Full name = yourname 
Email = username@yourdomain.com 
Incoming POP3 Mail Server = yourdomain.com 
Account = username 
Pass = xxxxxx 
Outgoing SMTP Mail Server = The SMTP server of your Internet Service Provider 
From = username@yourdomain.com 

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NETSCAPE INTERNET MAIL:

Your Name = yourname 
Email Address = username@yourdomain.com (.net, .org) 
Reply to = username@yourdomain.com (.net, .org)
Mail Server user name = username 
Outgoing SMTP Mail Server = The SMTP server of your Internet Service Provider 
Incoming POP3 Mail Server = yourdomain.com 

To check numerous POP accounts, read the manual or help files that come with Eudora or your email client software for configuration. 

If you are familiar with the shell (Unix) programs, "pine" and "mail", you can use either of these to check and send email as well. 

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MICROSOFT OUTLOOK MAIL SETTINGS:

1. After loading Outlook, choose Tools... --> Services ...
2. Click add, and choose Internet E-Mail. Click OK.
3. In the General tab of the email Properties dialog box, fill in your personal information.
4. Click on the Servers tab, and fill in the server information. The Outgoing Mail (SMTP) should be your ISP. The incoming mail server should be yourdomain.com. Put in your mailbox username in the account name field, and the password below. Click OK.
5. Your new settings will not take effect until you choose Exit and Log off on the File menu, and then restart Microsoft Outlook.

More information about configuring Microsoft Outlook Mail
 

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