Configuring Your E-mail Program

New E-mail Accounts in Outlook 2000

1. Open Microsoft Outlook by double-clicking your Microsoft Outlook icon.

 

2. Cancel the dialing window if it pops up. Then click on Tools at the top Click on Accounts in the menu that pops down.

 

3. The Internet Accounts window will pop up. Then click on the Add button, and then click Mail.

4. All of your outgoing e-mails will be from whatever you type in the Display name space. Once you have typed in what you would like, click Next.

 

5. Type in your Mercury Network e-mail address and click Next. Your e-mail address would be your login_name@tm.net. E-mail addresses are lower-case and one word.

 

6. Your incoming mail server should be a POP3 server. Incoming and outgoing mail server names will both be mail.ispname.xxx in lower-case letters. Click Next.

 

7. Next to Account name, type the first part of your e-mail address. Then type in your password. Putting a check next to Remember password will allow you to check your e-mail without entering your password every time. Then click Next.

 

8. Select whether you dial up through a phone line or if you have DSL put a dot next to Connect using my local area network (LAN).

 

9. Click Finish and the close the Internet Accounts window. You're set to e-mail.




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Last updated:
February 17, 2004