| The first step obviously is to open Outlook 2000. Once
you have done that, bring the Inbox up and click the “Tools”
menu and click on “Accounts…”. When you get to this screen,
click “Add” and then click “Mail” as this is a mail account
that you are setting up.
When the next screen appears, it will ask for a display
name. In the box, enter in whatever you want people to see
your e-mails are from. Usually you would put in your name or
the name of your business. When you have done this, click
“Next”.
On the next screen it asks for your e-mail address. This
is usually in the format of “mailboxname@yoursite.com”. Just
change the “mailboxname” to whatever you set your email
account up to be. The “@yoursite.com” part is just whatever
your domain is. Once that is entered in, click “Next”.
This next screen is where you specify what servers to use
to retrieve your mail and to send your mail. The incoming
mail server is whatever your domain is (yoursite.com). As
for the outgoing mail server, this depends on your ISP and
to find that out you will have to visit their support and
setup pages. When you have entered in the appropriate
information, click “Next” to continue.
On the next screen, you need to enter in the username and
password for your e-mail account. Your username is the first
part of your e-mail address (whatever is before the @
symbol). The password is whatever you set it to when you set
up the mail account. Leave the two checkboxes that are there
the way they are. Click “Next” when you are done, then on
the next screen, click “Finish”.
You will be taken back to the Accounts screen with the
new e-mail account there. You need to double click the new
account. When the properties screen comes up, click the
“Servers” tab. At the bottom of this tab, you will see a
checkbox that says “My server required authentication”.
Click that box so it is ticked then click “Settings…”.
On the settings screen, click the circle next to “Log on
using”. Once you have done this, you will see that two text
boxes are revealed. In the “Account Name” box, type in the
same thing as you entered as your username in the earlier
step. In the password box, enter in the password you used as
well. Make sure “Remember my password” has a tick in it as
well. When you have done this, click “OK” then back at the
properties screen, click “OK” again.
You will be taken back to the Accounts screen. Simply
click “Close” there to return you to your Inbox. To check
for mail on this new account, all you have to do is click
“Send/Recv” and your e-mail address will be fully
functional.
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