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Configuring
Your E-mail Program
Reconfiguring
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. In
the Internet Accounts window that pops
up, click on the Mail tab at the top.
Then click on the e-mail account that you would like to check. After
that, click the Properties button on
the right side.

4. All
of your outgoing e-mails will be from whatever you type in the Name
field.
Be sure your Mercury Network e-mail address is entered in the E-mail
address field. You may put any e-mail address for the reply
address. Also, leave a check mark next to Include
this account when receiving mail or synchronizing. That will
allow you to send and receive mail for all of your Outlook accounts
at once.
Now click the
Servers tab at the top.

5. Your
incoming mail server should be a POP3
server. The Incoming and Outgoing
mail server names will both be mail.ispname.xxx.
Be sure your correct login name and password are listed by Account
name and Password. Puting a
check by Remember password will allow
you to check your e-mail without having to re-enter your password.
Leave all other options un-checked.
Click the Connection
tab at the top.

6. Put
a dot next to Connect using my phone line
and select ISP Name in the drop
box under Use the following Dial-Up Networking
connection. Next, click the Advanced
tab at the top.

7. Under
Server Port Numbers,
Outgoing mail (SMTP) should be 25.
Incoming mail (POP3)* should be 110.
*the picture below says (IMAP) but yours should say (POP3)
Under the Sending
section, putting a check next to Break apart
messages larger that 60 KB may help if you are having problems
sending large e-mails.
When all changes
are made, click OK and then close out the Internet
Accounts window.

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