Outlook Express Verifying Email Settings |
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Verifying your Outlook Express settings is the first step to fixing email problems as most problems are caused by incorrect details being used.
Firstly you will need to login into 'MyAccount' and then 'My Settings' to retrieve the POP/SMTP settings for your account. Open Outlook Express Click on the Tools menu Click on Accounts The Internet Accounts panel will open, click on the Mail tab Highlight your default email account, for example pop.quik.co.uk Click on Properties. General tab
Name field, enter your name as you would like it to appear on
outgoing messages Organization field, if you are part of an organization enter it here E-mail Address field, enter your email address here Reply Address field, if you would like replys to your outgoing
messages going to a different email address than the above enter it here Servers tab
Incoming Mail (POP3) field, enter POP server address. Details can be
obtained from the 'MyAccount' system
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) field, enter SMTP server address. Details can be
obtained from the 'MyAccount' system Check your account username and password are correctly entered Log on using Secure Password Authenication, should be unticked My server requires Authentication, should be ticked Click OK and then Close Advanced tab Outgoing mail (SMTP), should be set to 25 This server requires a secure connection (SSL), should be unticked Incoming mail (POP3), should be set 110 This server requires a secure connection (SSL), should be unticked
Server Timeouts, default is 1 minute, extend time to resolve
mail timeout issues Sending - break apart messages larger than, default should be unticked
Delivery - leave a copy of messages on server, default should
be unticked
To save any changes click OK and then click OK.
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