Follow the information below to setup Outlook 2000 or Outlook Express to access your email accounts.

You can add a new account to Microsoft Outlook using the built-in add accounts wizard. To get this started up, open Outlook and click on the "Tools" menu. In this menu, select "Accounts...". This should open a dialogue box. In this box, click on the "Add" button, and then select "Mail...". You should then be at the first step in the wizard to add accounts to Outlook.

Getting Through the Wizard

Your Name
This step is simply asking you to enter your name as you would your mail to appear being from. This will not change the email address that the mail is from, but only the name that appears in the recipient's inbox when you send email to them.

Internet Email Address
The next section is asking for your Email Address. Here, you should enter the email address of the POP account that you are setting up Outlook to check.

Email Server Names
The dialogue box for Step 3 of the wizard asks you for the server names to use to send and receive mail:

Incoming mail server type should be set to POP3
Incoming mail server should be set to 65.23.157.20
Outgoing mail (SMTP) server should also be set to 65.23.157.20

Internet Mail Logon
The Internet Mail Logon box asks you for the username and password for the POP account.

The password for your POP account is the password that was set up specifically for the POP account. Please keep in mind that all passwords are case sensitive. Please make sure that the box for SPA in this section is NOT checked.

Account Properties
After you get your account set up with Outlook, there are a few more things you should check on to make sure it will work properly. These can all be set up in the "Properties" section for the account in Outlook, which you can get to by going to the "Tools" menu, and then to "Accounts...". Simply highlight the name of the account you want to modify, and click on the "Properties" button.

General Properties
The first tab in the Properties box is General:

The very top field, the name by which you would like to refer to these servers, is simply the name that appears in the Accounts... dialogue box that you just came from. It is the name that Outlook uses to refer to the particular account you are setting up. This makes it possible to have multiple accounts set up with Outlook.

The User Information is just what it says it is - information about you. If you would like people to send mail to a different address when they reply to the messages you send them, enter it in the "Reply Address" field here. Otherwise, the mail will be sent to your POP account address.

The option at the bottom of this screen, "Include this account when receiving mail or synchronizing" should be given special attention if you have multiple accounts set up with Outlook. If this box is selected, Outlook will try to receive mail from this account every time someone clicks on the Send and Receive button in the Outlook program. Also, if there are any messages waiting to be sent from your account, they would be sent as well.

Server Properties
The next tab in the Properties box is the Servers information. Most of this information should be filled in from the servers setup step, but there is one thing you need to make sure to modify.

The thing to pay special attention to here is the option at the bottom that says "My server requires authentication". Because our mail server does require authentication, you need to make sure this is selected. Once you have checked the box, click on the "Settings" button.

In this section, make sure the top selection, "Use same setting as my incoming mail server" is chosen, as in the image shown.

Advanced Properties
In this section, you should leave the Server Port Numbers and Server Timeouts section set to the default. Perhaps of the most interest in this section are the Delivery options. If the "Leave a copy of messages on server" box is checked, your mail will not be removed from our mail server when you download your mail. Although Outlook will recognize which email have been downloaded before (and hopefully not download them again), if you should check your mail with another mail program, the other program will most likely download all of those messages again.