Start Outlook Express by clicking on the Microsoft Outlook Express icon on your desktop.

Note: If you are opening Microsoft Outlook Express for the first time, the Internet Connection Wizard displays automatically.

If you have configured Microsoft Outlook Express before, and you want to add a new email account, you must manually launch the Internet Connect Wizard.

To launch the wizard:

1. Start Microsoft Outlook Express by clicking on the Microsoft Outlook Express icon on your desktop.

2. From the menu bar, choose Tools > Accounts.

3. In the dialog box, click Add.

4. Select and click Mail.

The Internet Connection Wizard opens.

In the Display name field, enter your name as you want it to appear in the outgoing messages.

Click Next.

In the E-mail address field enter your email address. This is the address other people use to send email messages to you.(ex: "scottop@fiop.org")

Click Next.

Note: Anytime you see the phrase "yourdomain.xxx" in these instructions, you need to insert your domain name including the extension after the name. For example, Webliberator's domain name is weblieberator.com. We set up our email client to mail.webliberator.com. You will set it up with your domain name which will most often will end in .com, ..net, .org, or .edu.

In the Incoming mail server (POP3) field, enter "mail.yourdomain.xxx".

In the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server field, enter "mail.yourdomain.xxx" .

Click Next.

In the Account name field, enter your mailbox user name in the format <username@yourdomain.xxx>.

In the Password field, enter your mailbox password.

Click Next.

In the last setup window, click Finish.

This adds the new account. You can now specify your email settings.

Specifying email settings

Start Microsoft Outlook Express by clicking the Microsoft Outlook Express icon on your desktop.

Choose Tools > Accounts.

In the Internet Accounts dialog box, click the Mail tab.

Select the new account and click Properties.

In the Properties window, click the Servers tab.

In the Outgoing Mail Server area, make sure the My server needs authentication check box is selected.

Click OK.

Click OK again.