How to Configure Outlook Express to Check Your E-mail

Outlook Express is an e-mail application included with Internet Explorer 4.x.  When you installed Internet Explorer 4.x, it may have taken your current e-mail settings to be used for Outlook Express.   Therefore, Outlook Express may already be configured with your e-mail configuration!  If it isn't, or if you would like to add an e-mail address to Outlook Express, follow the procedure below. You can configure Outlook Express to check as many e-mail addresses as you like.

To add an e-mail account to Outlook Express:

1. Start Outlook Express.

2. Choose Accounts from the Tools menu.  The Internet Accounts window will open.

3. Click the Mail tab.  This will show you any e-mail accounts that are currently set up in Outlook Express.

4. Click the Add button.  A menu will pop up; choose Mail.

5. The Internet Connection wizard will appear to guide you through a series of configuration steps for the e-mail address you want to add.

6. Enter your name as you want it to appear in e-mails.   Click Next.

7. Enter the e-mail address you want to add, in the form of username@domain.com and then click Next.
   
   Replace domain with your domain name. For example, if your e-mail address ends with "genesisgroupusa.com", then your domain is "vacnet" or if your e-mail address ends with "sprynet.com" then your domain is "sprynet" and so on.*

8. Enter the following information:

   My incoming mail server is a: POP3
   
   Incoming mail (POP3 or IMAP) server: mail.tggusa.com
   
   Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: mail.tggusa.com

9. Click the first log on using radio button and enter the following information:

   POP account name: Your mailbox name (without @domain.com)
   Password: Your e-mail password.

10. Click Next.  The Friendly Name window will appear.

11. Type in a friendly name that will help you remember this e-mail address   (such as Harold's Mailbox or Mom's Mail).

12. Click Next. The Choose Connection Type window will appear.

13. Choose one of the following connection types:

• If you connect to vacnet through your modem, click the Connect using my phone line radio button.

• If you are connecting to a mail server other than vacnet via your office network (LAN), click the Connect using my local area network (LAN) radio button. Note:  You cannot use vacnet's outgoing mail server (mail.genesisgroupusa.com) if you are connecting in this fashion.  Talk to your local network administrator for an outgoing mail server you can use on your LAN.

• If you wish to connect to vacnet manually before you open Outlook Express, choose the I will establish my Internet connection manually radio button.

19. Click Finish.

If you want to add another e-mail account to Outlook Express, repeat the above procedure.  If not, click Close.

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