How Do I Manually Configure Outlook Express to Check My Email?

This will help you set up and check an email account with Outlook Express. Outlook express easily allows you to check several different email accounts on different mail servers at the same time. If you would like to check more than one email address at the same time, repeat this process once for each email account.

Start Outlook:

Step 1) Either double-click on the Outlook or Outlook express Icon located on your desktop. If you don't have the icon on your desktop, see if you have the Outlook icon on your quick launch bar. It should look like this...

If you still can't find the Outlook Express Icon then click click on the Start button () and then select Programs.

If you still can't find the Outlook Express icon, start Microsoft Internet Explorer and from the Tools menu select Mail and News / Read Mail.

If you are not connected to the Internet, Outlook may try to connect you automatically. It does not matter if you are connected to the Internet when you are setting up outlook to check mail.

If this is the first time you have run Outlook Express it may prompt you to sign up for a Hotmail Account. Click Cancel, you can sign up for a hotmail account at a later date if you want. Outlook may also ask you if you want to make Outlook the default email program. You should click yes if you plan on using Outlook to check your mail.

Step 2) Find The Tools Menu:

Step 3) Now that Outlook is open, select "Accounts" located on the "Tools" menu. There may be slight cosmetic differences between your menu and the one shown above. Don't worry. The functionality is still the same. A new window should appear that looks something like this...

The Internet Accounts Window:

TABS Vs BUTTONS:
Look at the above picture. The words "ALL", "MAIL" and "DIRECTORY SERVICE" are all labels for things called tabs. They were designed to look and act like the tabs you see on folders in your typical, real-world office file cabinet

Step 5) In the above picture, The pictures "Add" and "Remove" are both labels for buttons. Buttons look like rectangular objects and do not appear to be attached to a frame like tabs do. Click on the "Add" button to bring up the following menu items.

Click on "Mail..." A new window will appear.

Case #1: The Internet Connection Wizard

6. For "Display Name", type in your name as you would like it to appear in outgoing messages.
   
   

7. Click "Next" along the bottom.
   

8. Put a dot in the top line ("I already have an e-mail address that I'd like to use").
   
   

9. Type in your email address (in small letters) in the line below.

10. Click "Next" at the bottom.
    
    
    

11. Leave "My incoming mail server" as POP3 along the top.

12. For "Incoming mail (POP3)", type in cosmos.emailcr.com in small letters.

13. For "Outgoing mail (SMTP)", type in cosmos.emailcr.com in small letters.

14. Click "Next" at the bottom.
    
    

15. For "Account name"

    If your email address ends in @yourdomain.com like joe@yourdomain.com, then you only need to enter the first half of your email address. The first half is everything BEFORE and NOT INCLUDING the @ symbol in your email address. So joe@yourdomain.com would enter joe for the user name

    For "Password", you may enter your password, but if you do, include a check mark next to "Remember Password", or it will not save. If you leave this blank, the program will ask for your password each time you check your email.

16. DO NOT put a check mark next to "Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)".

17. Click "Next" at the bottom.
    
    
    

18. Click "Finish" at the bottom of this screen.
    

19. Select the account you just create and click properties then select the Servers tab.

20. Selec my Server requires autentification

21. Select ok