Setting up your email

To setup your email you will need four(or five) things;

• The email address you are setting up – yourname@yourdomain.com.au
• The incoming mailserver – in most cases it will be your domain name – yourdomain.com.au
• The login name for the account as supplied
• The password for the account as supplied
• ..and in some cases you will need to know your outgoing mailserver – as supplied by your internet service provider. eg: mail.bigpond.com, mail.iinet.net.au etc

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The instructions below are for Outlook Express – Setting up Outlook and other email clients will follow similar guidelines.

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Go to the Tools menu and select Accounts(sometimes called personalities in other email clients.)

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Select the Mail tab and click on Add.

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Then click on Mail.

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In the Your Name screen put in ‘your name’ or ‘business name’ – This will appear in the FROM field of any outgoing email.

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In the Internet Email Address screen enter your new email address – This will be the email address that a reply will come to when someone replys to your email.

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In the Email Server Names screen you need to enter your incoming and outgoing mail servers.

In most cases the incoming mail server will be you domain name.

The outgoing mailserver will be the outgoing mailserver of your ISP.(You can find this in the properties of your existing email accounts)

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In the Internet Mail Login screen you need to enter your login name and the password supplied to you for your new email address/account.

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Click Finish and that’s it your done.  Now you can send and receive email from your new email address.

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These instructions are based on Outlook Express and Windows XP Pro.  Differnet versions of Outlook and Windows will have slightly different setups, but the fundamentals are the same.  If you have the information that we outlined at the top of the page you will have all the info you need.

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