This page will step you through the process of setting up
your email
program to receive email sent to your domain.
The program used in the example is Outlook Express. We highly
recommend this program as it provides all the features you need and it
comes with most computers! Outlook Express comes free with Microsoft's
Internet Explorer.
*AOL users should see this link
before proceeding*
If you set your email software to check mail every certain number of
minutes, please do not set it for any less than 15 minutes. Many
users checking mail more often than this may cause server slowness. |
Quick Reference:
Incoming Email:
mail.yourdomain.com
(i.e. mail.name-serve.net)
Outgoing Email Server:
YOUR ISP Mail Server
(i.e. mail-mindspring.com)
User Name:
Your email username@yourdomain.com
(i.e. johnsmith@hisdomain.com)
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Step 1) Open Outlook Express. To open, in Explorer, go to
TOOLS, then READ MAIL. Or an even easier way is to create a shortcut
directly to Outlook Express and place it on your desktop. That way you
don't have to have Explorer open to check your mail.
Step 2) If this is your first time using it, select
"Create a new Internet Mail Account" and press Next. If you
already use Outlook Express, go to Tools > Accounts, then click Add
> Mail.
Step 3) Enter the name you would like to appear on the From
Line of all emails, such as Jim@mydomain.com.
Step 4) Next enter the email address people should send
replies to. When you send an email and they "Reply" to it, it
will be sent to this address.
Step 5) Next enter the server names. For incoming mail
(POP3) use mail.yourdomain.com i.e. mail.name-serve.net or
mail.my-store.com.
For the outgoing or SMTP server use your ISP's mail server. If you
don't know your ISP's outgoing mail server, you should contact them or
try using either mail.isp-name.com or smtp.isp-name.com. Be sure to
replace the "isp-name.com" with your dial-up ISP's domain
name.
If you are not able to use your ISP's mail server, please see this
link.
Step 6) Now enter your login and password. The username will
be youruser@yourdomain.com i.e. john@hisdomain.com. Remember to include
the domain name in the email address and not just the username. This is
the username that was created in your Control Panel.
Step 7) Congratulations, you're done! To try it out send an
email to yourself and then press the Send/Receive Button. It may take a
few moments for the email to reach you, no more than 10 minutes.
Step 8) Lastly, to avoid using excess server space, click
Tools > Accounts > (click the Mail tab if it's not already opened)
> Properties > Advanced. At the bottom, you'll see, 'Delivery'
with three options. Make sure the 'Leave a copy of messages on server'
is Unchecked! You could check to have messages removed after a
certain amount of days, many people set it up for maybe 30 days. This
will save you unnecessarily used server space that you could use for
your site.
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