When you are in web hosting or any other webmaster related biz, you get lots of questions which sometime we assumes that everyone knows. One of them is configuring outlook express to receive email. I spent lots of time telling my hosting customer via phone or yahoo messanger how to configure outlook express to send and receive email.

I decided to write a short tutorial for those, who need to configure outlook expresss to send and receive email.

Assuming email account is already created in cpanel or helm.

Step 1 : Start outlook express, click on tools->accounts->mail->Add->mail. The wizard to configure account will start.

Step 2 : In first window of wizard, type your display name after that your email address. Next step which ask for E-mail server Name. Choose My incoming mail server is a POP3 server. In the field of Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) server : type mail.yoursitename.com. Outgoing mail (SMTP) server is also mail.yoursitename.com [Please note that this setting is in most of the shared hosting environment, it is always recommended to consult your host, if above setting does not work].

Step 3: Login Details: In Internet Mail Logon windows in account name field enter your full email id you@yoursitename.com, this is the mistake which many first timer do they write username part and not full email id, since this is shared hosting full email id is required. In password field enter the password for that email id. Do not check on secure password authentication check box. Chances are remote your hosting provider uses secure password authentication. Finish the wizard. Your account is created, and you can receive email.

Step 4: However to send email, one more step is required. Again click on tools->accounts->mail. Choose the email account which you created click on properties->servers. Under Outgoing Mail Server tick checkbox My server required authentication. Under settings choose use same settings as my incoming mail server.

Now you will be able to send and receive email from your outlook express without any problem.

Please note that these setting are configuring pop3 account for shared hosting. If you configuring gmail or your ISP’s email account these settings may not work properly.

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