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Configuring Your E-mail Program Reconfiguring Outlook Express 4.0 1. Open Outlook Express by double-clicking the icon on your desktop. Or click on your Start button in the lower-left corner, go to Programs and to your Internet Explorer folder and click on Outlook Express
2. Next, click on Tools at the top, then click Accounts.
3. In the Internet Accounts window, make sure you are clicked under the Mail tab. Then click once on your e-mail account to highlight it, then click the Properties button on the right-hand side.
4. Under Mail account, anything typed there will change the above mail account name. If you have typed something next to Name, all of your outgoing e-mails will contain what is entered there. If nothing is entered by the Name spot, then your e-mail address will be used. Click the Servers tab at the top.
5. Outgoing and Incoming mail server names should both be mail.ispname.xxx. Your incoming mail server should be a POP3 server. The first part of your e-mail address and your e-mail password should be in the Account name field and the password field respectively. Leave the last two options unchecked and un-bulleted. Click the Connection tab at the top.
6. Make sure a dot is next to Connect using my phone line. Under Use the following Dial-Up Networking connection, make sure mercury network is listed. If not, click on the down-pointing arrow and select mercury network from a list.
7. Under Server Port Numbers, Outgoing mail (SMTP) should be 25. Incoming mail (POP3) should be 110. Under the Sending section, puting a check next to Break apart messages larger that 60 KB may help if you are having problems sending large e-mails. Under the Delivery section, puting a check next to Leave a copy of message on server will allow you to download your mail into Outlook Express and still pull it up in Webmail. When all changes are made, click OK and then close out the Internet Accounts window.
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