Content: Microsoft Email Clients

Please follow these instructions to configure Microsoft Outlook 2000 to send and receive e-mail using your new e-mail account.

Start Here

1. Open the Tools menu and select Accounts
2. If you see an account listed under the mail tab, please click here to skip ahead to the instructions to configure an existing account. Otherwise, please use the following instructions to create a new account. Please note: if you wish to keep the existing account, please use the instructions to create a new account instead.

Creating a new account

1. Click the Add button, then click Mail
2. Name: enter your real name here, then click Next
3. E-mail: enter your e-mail address, then click Next
4. Enter the following information, then click Next:
   • My incoming mail server is a POP3 Server
   • Incoming mail server: pop3.mail.YourDomainName.com
   • Outgoing mail server: smtp.YourISPsName.com
5. Account name: enter your e-mail account username (the first part of your e-mail address before @YourDomainName.com) here. If you wish, you can also check the "Remember Password" option and enter your password. Please note: do not check the "Log on using Secure Password Authentication" option
6. Connection method: select manual, then click Next. This will tell Outlook 2000 to use the same connection method as Internet Explorer
7. Click Finish

Configuring an existing account

1. Select the account you want to configure, then click Properties
2. General: enter the following information:
   • (Top Box): Your Email Address
   • Name: Your Real Name
   • Organization: Your Company Name (or leave this field blank)
   • E-mail address: Your e-mail address
   • Reply-to address: If you have an e-mail alias, enter it here; otherwise leave this field blank
3. Click on the Servers tab. If "My incoming mail server" is not set to POP3 Server, click cancel, remove the account with the Remove button, then click here to use the instructions to create a new account instead. Otherwise continue on with the following steps.
4. Enter the following information:
   • Incoming mail server: pop3.mail.YourDomainName.com
   • Outgoing mail server: smtp.YourISPsName.com
   • Account name: enter your e-mail account username (the first part of your e-mail address before @YourDomainName.com) here. If you wish, you can also check the "Remember Password" option and enter your password. Please note: DO NOT check  "Log on using Secure Password Authentication" or "My outgoing mail server requires authentication" options UNLESS you are using smtp.mail.YourDomainName.com
5. Click OK to save your changes, then close the Accounts window

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