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	Setting up POP3 accounts in Outlook Express

Solution In Outlook select Tools then accounts.
When the window opens click on add-mail.
Then enter a name to name this connection, then click next.
In this window give your email ID where you wish to receive messages (it may be info@yourdomainname.com or the username you use for the site mailbox.
In the next window give the Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP OR HTTP) server as yourdomainname.com (without www or mail. etc.)
Then in the outgoing mail (SMTP) server give the IP address or name server of your Internet service provider. Then give the account name and password of Your Internet Provider and close.
Then you will have to select Tools>accounts>yourdomainname.com>properties and select the servers section from the menu at the top. In the incoming server (pop3) check whether yourdomain.com is placed and for the outgoing SMTP use the Internet service Provider's logon details. Then for Incoming server, you will have to give the username and password of yourdomainname.com so that your email box can be accessed.

THE NEXT PORTION IS MOST IMPORTANT
Then at the bottom select the box for 'my server requires authentication' and in the new window select the button for 'log on using' and give the username and password of your Internet service provider. (This is because the incoming mail server has a different set of password from your Internet service provider)

This will setup an account in Outlook Express to download your mail from Your web site.

Additionally you need to configure how long you need to keep your mails on the server. This is done as follows.

1. Go to Outlook Express and click on Tools, then Accounts
2. A list of all your email addresses comes up
3. In the screen section where all the email addresses are listed, please click on the first email address that you want - it should appear selected now
4. Click on Properties, then the Advanced Tab
5. Under Delivery, tick Leave a copy of the email on the server.
6. In the next row you can specify how many days you want to keep it on our mail server before it gets deleted, but if you do not want to be deleted automatically after some time, then leave this blank. Or select delete when deleted from computer. Click OK
7. Repeat steps 1 to 6 for all the email addresses related to the domain

Alternatively, you can do the setup from the Cpanel as well.
If you have Outlook Express on your computer at home, you can download your emails directly to your PC and still have them in the mail server as well. The advantage is that you can download it and work on the emails offline, then when you connect to the internet again, all the emails will be sent automatically.
Here are the instructions on how to set this up on your PC. If you follow them step by step there should not be any problems.
Configuration - you need to do this from your computer where you want the email addresses to be on
1. Go to http://www.domainname.com/cpanel and login with username and password.
2. Go to the Email Management Section and click on Manage accounts
3. All the email addresses should appear in a list
4. For each email address, please click on the Outlook (Express) AutoConfig link next to the required account.
5. Read the message in the alert window and click on the OK button. You may need to repeat this step two or three times.
6. Click on the Open this file from its current location radio button, and click on the OK button in the File Download window.
7. Click on the Yes button in the Registry Editor window and repeat for the last window. Outlook Express has now been configured for this account. You need to repeat this process for as many accounts as you want to access through Outlook Express.
8. Then you need to configure your Outlook Express in your computer to keep mail on the server if you need that, as explained in the first section.

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10 Jun 2008 10:10 AM